Ricketts gives $2 million more (Senate race Ne vs Ben Nelson)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1673&u_sid=2261454

Published Sunday
October 15, 2006

Ricketts gives $2 million more

BY RICK RUGGLES


WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Pete Ricketts keeps putting his money where his hopes are.

Ricketts on Friday contributed $2 million more to his campaign against U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, increasing to close to $12 million the amount Ricketts has personally allocated.

The Omaha Republican has pumped a total of $4.5 million into his U.S. Senate race within the last month alone.

The Nelson-Ricketts campaign is the most expensive in Nebraska history. With Ricketts' latest donation, the candidates had raised a combined total of almost $20 million. The election is Nov. 7.

FULL story at link above.

[Ian David]

1. Didn't Nelson vote in favor of the torture bill? n/t

[Omaha Steve]

2. Yes he did

But believe me, we want Ben Nelson, not Pete Ricketts!

[cali]

4. Steve, isn't Nelson safe?

I understand that Ricketts is throwing massive amounts of his own money into his campaign, but I thought Nelson was as safe in Nebraska as Bernie Sanders is here in Vermont, where another repuke is spending huge amounts of personal money.

[Toots]

3. If Democrats can gain enough seats without Nelson I hope he loses

I would rather have a wolf plain and simple then one dressed like a sheep. I really do not like back stabbers and Nelson is just such a person..

[acmavm]

5. I always thought this race was Nelson's easily. But now Senator ES&S

is campaigning for Ricketts (no surprise there, one sleazeball helping another corporate sleazeball), I wonder what will happen. But what with Nelson's record of supporting the bush** administration being better than Hagel's it might still be in the bag.

Nebraska, a two-party state where one party just calls themselves democrats.