NEBRASKA BLUE

Last night Scott Kleeb won a landslide victory over Tony Raimondo.
Scott carried 75 percent of the vote, verses Tony’s 25 percent.

In Lancaster County it was even more in favor of Scott, where he recieved 80 percent
of the votes cast.

There are a lot of reasons why Scott earned this landslide victory, but the biggest
one is this…

He spent time talking to his fellow Nebraskan’s, he listens to them, and shares their concerns, and he values them and included them in his campaign.

Grass roots support and boots on the ground can beat big money and the political machines and talking points of yesterday.

And last night Nebraskan’s proved that, by voting for REAL change.

OK, so first he endorses Tony Raimondo, which is pretty hard to swallow for most of us, well at least if he wants to be taken seriously.

I have no clue why he would pull this stunt, other than to keep his name in the papers.

THEN, he starts plagaraizing stuff from around the web, to post on his campaign site…

WOW… I guess since your drug test is over you can now go back to smoking the good stuff???

I am sure Lee Terry and his campaign manager are smiling big time, cause you just fell
on your own sword….. twice.

Nice going Jim….

Tony Raimondo who is long on money and short on actual support from local Democrats just wrote his campaign another check for $450,000 to be able to keep running his Obnoxious
Ads for a couple more weeks.

His ACTUAL fund raising from other folks in Nebraska is about $100,000 in total or about
25 percent of what his opponent Scott Kleeb has raised.

Considering my own unscientific local polling of Democrats in Lincoln, I still cannot find anyone that will admit to supporting Tony Raimondo, but I have found a lot of people that say his ads suck and they are tired of seeing this guy on TV 30 times per day.

The REAL truth about Tony and his money is that when he writes those checks to himself,
they are a LOAN to his campaign, and should he win (or not) he can hold fundraisers to ask people to help him retire his campaign debt, which basically means he is buying those ads with YOUR money, should you be stupid enough to give him any….

Pete Ricketts did the same thing in 2006, lucky for all of us, he lost the race, and is still sitting on millions of campaign debt, well if you count his debt as the loans he made
from his own personal fortune to his campaign.

Howie Klein on the Huffington Post has a good column up about Tony Raimondo

You can read it here….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howie-klein/why-would-anyone-support_b_100194.html

Here is a quick blurb from that post, that I think you should find important..

Raimondo was in the news this weekend because he triggered the millionaires amendment on Friday by writing himself a $450,000 check. Many Democrats in Nebraska haven’t bought into Raimondo’s “conversion” in the first place, and are now uncomfortable that just as he’s talking about laying off more Nebraska workers from his business– not Chinese workers from his business there though– he’s spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to attempt to buy himself a Senate seat.

In Columbus, Neb., orders at Behlen Manufacturing Company for its pre-engineered metal buildings have slowed. So far, the company, which employs 1,100 people, has avoided layoffs, Tony Raimondo, the chairman, said.

Behlen plans to build up inventory and perhaps shift workers into busier areas, like building grain silos, while waiting for better days, he said. But if trends continue, about 50 workers would be vulnerable.

“We’re on the bubble,” Mr. Raimondo said. “The odds are against us that we will get through the summer without layoffs.”

I would dare to say, if they admit to 50 jobs being in danger of lay offs, there are probably more than that involved, and if Tony wasn’t running for office right now, those jobs already would have dissapeared.

Getting back to the heart of Tony’s ad’s and campaign his esteemed hired gun Eric Fought
has Tony running hard to win on a platform of being a business man.

Well that’s what we already have in DC right now… mostly businessmen, that vote for and take care of businesses to the detriment of working families, our financial system
and the future of this country.

And once again here in Nebraska we have a businessman that wants to buy his way into the
Senate, writing big checks to fund himself since obviously the people of Nebraska haven’t and won’t support him with their own hard earned dollars.

A fellow Democrat I was talking to the other day, said this of Tony…

“Every time I see that guys face on TV, I expect him to pull the mask off and reveal it is really just Pete Ricketts running again".

Good Point…

Paul

The New York Times pulls back the curtain on the Pentagon
running a disinformation campaign against the American public.
They were, and probably still are, using retired Military Officers as
propogandists to support the Administration’s talking points.

FULL STORY HERE - LINK

Here is one lovely bit of information..

Many also shared with Mr. Bush’s national security team a belief that pessimistic war coverage broke the nation’s will to win in Vietnam, and there was a mutual resolve not to let that happen with this war.

This was a major theme, for example, with Paul E. Vallely, a Fox News analyst from 2001 to 2007. A retired Army general who had specialized in psychological warfare, Mr. Vallely co-authored a paper in 1980 that accused American news organizations of failing to defend the nation from “enemy” propaganda during Vietnam.

“We lost the war — not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped,” he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars — taking aim at not just foreign adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach “MindWar” — using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”

The Selling of the War

From their earliest sessions with the military analysts, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides spoke as if they were all part of the same team.

In interviews, participants described a powerfully seductive environment — the uniformed escorts to Mr. Rumsfeld’s private conference room, the best government china laid out, the embossed name cards, the blizzard of PowerPoints, the solicitations of advice and counsel, the appeals to duty and country, the warm thank you notes from the secretary himself.

“Oh, you have no idea,” Mr. Allard said, describing the effect. “You’re back. They listen to you. They listen to what you say on TV.” It was, he said, “psyops on steroids” — a nuanced exercise in influence through flattery and proximity. “It’s not like it’s, ‘We’ll pay you $500 to get our story out,’ ” he said. “It’s more subtle.”

The access came with a condition. Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon.

In the fall and winter leading up to the invasion, the Pentagon armed its analysts with talking points portraying Iraq as an urgent threat. The basic case became a familiar mantra: Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons, was developing nuclear weapons, and might one day slip some to Al Qaeda; an invasion would be a relatively quick and inexpensive “war of liberation.”

At the Pentagon, members of Ms. Clarke’s staff marveled at the way the analysts seamlessly incorporated material from talking points and briefings as if it was their own.

The next time someone in the main stream media trots out a retired General or Admiral
to talk about the war, or current events, we would all do well to remember that these men
are NOT impartial, most of them sit on the boards of, or work for the Defense industry.
As lobbyists or spokesmen.

Or as shown above, most of them are simply mouthpieces for the Psyops campaign the Department of Defense is waging on the American people.

Just thought you would like to know.

By the way there are a couple of honest men out there that spoke the truth as they saw it
regardless of what Bush or Rumsfeld wanted to hear. As soon as they departed from the
standard spin coming out of those in power in the Whitehouse and the Pentagon they were fired for it.

The names Fallon and Shinsecki should ring a bell for some of you.

Honorable men forced out because they told the truth.