The Nebraska Young Democrats held a protest at 10th and Cuming St. as the Presidential motorcade arrived at the Omaha Hilton earlier today. A few dozen protestors managed to make sure the local news cycle included the message that Nebraskans do not support George W. Bush. Three of the four Omaha news stations prominently featured our protest, and the Associated Press also wrote about the protest. Democracy is a great thing, and we saw it in action again today.
In other news:
Jim Esch is getting some good press for his speech on Monday outside of the Juan Diego Center. Esch's message was generally supportive of the President's immigration policy, while critical of Lee Terry's support of the House bill that would make criminals out of millions of Americans. The full speech is available at Jim Esch's website.
If you want a model of what we need to do in Nebraska, just look at Montana. Tonight, Jon Tester ran away with the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Tester is a Democrat in the mold of Brian Schweitzer. The Democratic Party in Montana is seeing a huge resurgence as of late. Sure, in Presidential elections, they'll probably still go Republican, but the Montana Democratic Party is getting stronger on a state level. Hopefully the Nebraska Democratic Party can lay the groundwork for a similar rise in the next few years.
Still not any information on the race in CA-50, but hopefully that will come soon.
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