Rasmussen has a new poll out on the Gov’s race, and a few other issues.
The poll was taken yesterday to get data on Mike Meister, so here goes:
Dave Heineman: 71%
Mike Meister: 18%
Other: 2%
Undecided: 8%
Yup, 71%.
Back in March, Rasmussen had Governor Dave at 61% and Mark Lakers at 23%.
And here’s just Democrats:
Heineman: 40%
Meister: 46%
Ouch.
Heinman leads Meister 4 to 1 among “Independents”.
On other questions, 66% of Nebraskans support repeal of Obamacare.
73% support passage of an Arizona-like law for illegal immigrants.
See more of the statewide poll results here.
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Yeow.
If I'm a Democrat donor, I'm asking myself one question right now. Send $1,000 to Meister, or flush it down the toilet and eliminate the middle man?
But on the bright side, for those who worry that there's too much money in politics, this should be an encouraging year!
Talking about toilets, Rassmussen polls are great for wiping with, but nothing else.
Rasmussen has one of the highest success rates in the last two election cycles of predicting the outcome of races.
Anon 12:02 - Find us a 'credible' firm that shows Meister (or any DEM) with half a chance and we'll talk.
FYI Sweeper - poll conducted on 19th and reported yesterday (20th).
She's Back...and she is pissed. Mary Jayne Fields is alive!!!! Call off the Amber Alert!!!
To Jane Flemming Kleeb: "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." --- Medgar Evers
"Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning." - Indira Gandhi
Well Mary Jayne emailed me from the dead. She is pushing a new blog. She must be sending out random emails. I think Bold Nebraska is in for a fun election cycle.
To be fair, Meister has barely thrown his hat into the ring while Heinneman is old political dirt. Sorry Dave. But, why is our state in such dire straits and why was Beatrice State Home left unchecked all those many years?
In other news, apparently Lee Terry is one of several John Boehner has warned to not party with female lobbyists. Sounds like Lee was doing a bit of flirting at the Capitol Hill Club and was caught by the New York Post Page Six reporter asking a female lobbyist "why did you get me so drunk". How funny! Then in other news, apparently Michael Steele has hidden and failed to report $7 Million in debt. Apparently the RNC isn't doing as well as he would like you to believe.
Was that the entire quote Anonymous above? Something is fishy??
Any Republicans care to defend Lee Terry's recent behavior?
*chirp chirp*
What behavior?
I'm sure you must have an excellent source.
Let's hear it.
And all the details.
hmmm, i posted the entire article (without the dreaded evil link) i wonder why it's now gone... now what rule did i violate?
Husker,
Right above where you're supposed to leave a "comment" it says, "Leave your comment".
Cutting and pasting something from a gossip column is not a "comment".
Thus it was deleted.
Follow the Jim Rome rules: Have a take. Don't suck.
-Ed.
well for those of you who are curious as to Mr. Terry's "behavior", if you google "lee terry drunk" there are several articles that send you where you need to go...
I'd say you just violated the "sucking" part of the rule, as you, once again, failed to make a "comment".
But we'll leave this up in the hopes that you learn to improve.
I'll defend Lee Terry, it never happened. I wonder if the entire "alleged quote" was printed. There is a rat here.
I know the Kleeb crowd wants to keep pushing the Beatrice angle, but no one is biting on it.
And Nebraska being in "such dire straits"? Ha! Look around the country. We are much better off than 90% of states.
Keep trying though!
With Street Sweeper essentially telling me that i "suck", i am now the envy of all my friends! Oh happy day!
3:47,
Once again, your failure to make a "comment" probably means you blow, as well. (Now you should get EXTRA fist-bumps!)
-Ed.
because you suck? oooh, do I envy you...
Why wouldn't a gossip columnist print the entire quote.
And what, does Lee Terry have "member of the press" radar?
I agree, something weird here.
Husker et al:
Let's talk about tomorrow's House vote on $34 billion in unemployment compensation--what's Tom White's position on it (HR 4213)?
Or is he just gonna keep trying to duck taking a stand...
Hi folks, I'm alive and well. It seems some Astroturfers are out to silence me. Evidently someone is out patting herself on the back for this and said "Boulder Nebraska pages and profiles have all be taken down because they were FAKE...mess with the bull, you get the horns"
Well Jane we in Colorado know how to deal with bad behaving Bulls...WE CASTRATE THEM!!!!
Jane we are more real than the front organization you are a part of. We sent Sweeper a link to our blog if he or she wants to post it. (we know the rules)
Oh and Jane, I'm dying to know how you are an expert on oil pipelines. That must have been a class in the Women's Studies department at Stetson University. Right????
Terry's voting against it because it is not paid for.
Not just adding $34 billion to the debt.
What's White's position--let's hear a 'for' or 'against'.
Hey--I'm sure White is for the bill. He supports the Dem. economic program that has added $3 trillion to the debt in only 17 months--what's another $34 billion....
Don't care if Lee did say that. At least he's asking why.. White just does it and walks away for others to pay for. Just like the Elite schmuck he is. Brick layer extraordinaire.
Lee wins BECAUSE of the mud slinging. Lib's just don't get it, the PEOPLE are tired of your playbook.
Is a response to a non-comment a comment? Just checking. Thanks for the info Husker!
Tom doesn't have to be "Aye" or "Nay" on any Bill. He will just refuse to vote on it until they listen to him.
Or, he'll just threaten to hit them like he did in the Legislature on the Consolidation Bill.
i don't think a response to a non-comment would be a comment but non-response to a non-comment does make a comment. Big fist pump to Anon 4:23!
I love mudslinging. It makes me feel like a pig.
Speaking of Pigs, anyone watching the Panel of Pipeline experts on Bold Nebraska tonight. I'd send the State Patrol's drug sniffing dog to NET studios for the event. They may find some other kind of Pipes there.
I'll defend Lee.
The story says someone says Boehner talked to some members, and then quotes an unidentified reporter re: Lee. It doesn't say he talked to Lee. Lee says he doesn't know what it refers to. Again, no one says Boehner spoke to Lee, or that the alleged, unsourced incident was known to Boehner, and caused him to talk to Lee specifically. It's a hit piece, not journalism.
Will Jane Kleeb be driving her honking big Excursion or whatever that gas guzzler is to the BS pipeline forum tonight? How does that equate with going after Big Oil anyway?
Tsk. Tsk. So Terry Lee perhaps experienced his own global warming.
There's a yawn.
Send us pictures of the False Prophet's SUV!!!
Want to see something funny? Mark Fahleson wrote a wikipedia article about himself. Look it up, it says's it's an autobiography and needs input. Somebody should edit it to include all the things he's said that have gotten him in trouble and how the city governments of Omaha and Lincoln are now controlled by Democrats within his first 4 months in office.
What a tool.
Hey!! Wait a minute! Mark Fahleson is also the very successful writer of a blog called Mark That Down. Now, if only he could convince anyone to actually read it.
RWP 11:54 If you were a democrat you would be one of those old fashioned George Wallace , Strom Thurmond type. But then all of those type democrats became republicans the last 40 years. So I guess you have the shoe it fits. So wear it.
Anonymous coward @ 7:25 p.m.: George Wallace never became a Republican. He died in 1998, still a Democrat. Man, it takes a mighty kind of stupid not to check something like that on wikipedia before you post it.
The more time I spend on L street, the more I wonder how you leftist trolls manage to dress yourselves in the morning.
I'm so bored with Right Wing Professor's pontificating and condescending attitude. He's not involved in politics, he doesn't have any good insider stuff like so many others on here. Go somewhere like the youtube comment blogs with the rest of the uninformed non-voters.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It sucks to try to argue with facts. RWP, go away and quit holding us losers accountable for our stupidity.
I like to vote uninformed.
It's nice to see that Lee Terry treats female lobbyists with more respect than he treated me when he was jaywalking.
Interesting dynamic here:
Dem trolls=mucking in gossip sleaze.
Repubs=Terry protects families from $34 billion jump in debt tomorrow.
White=too scared to take a position on the U.C. bill.
you don't deserve respect when trying to race through a busy intersection on Capitol Hill and nearly mow people over
RWP 7:44 So you take credit for being like Strom Thurmond. One of your racist idols? Your right about Wallace . He saw the light and became in favor of civil rights. When are you going to?
there is a difference between civil rights and social engineering
ANON 9:46 So when did getting the right to vote, siting in the front of the bus, Not seeing colored only signs and lots of other racial bigotry became social engineering? Or did you like the days when black people could not vote? Or had to sit at the back of a bus. Or was it really great they could not eat with white people or even use a bathroom. I bet the thing you really dislike is that Our current President is the result of a mixed race marriage. Another civil right
To all the trolls playing the race card. We realize you are incapable of honest debate of ideas so you have to call conservatives racists. Once you do this, we know you have nothing in the way of ideas. Coming from you it does not bother us and is quite predictable and boring.
Anonymous 9:53 who ever said those things were good. Oh for the good old days.
Our current President is the result of a mixed race marriage
Actually, no he isn't. Even if Barack Srs. marriage to Stanley Ann Dunham had been valid, it occurred in February, and Barack Jr. was born in August. Do the math.
But, in fact it was never a valid marriage, since Barack Sr. was at the time already married in Kenya. Even when your middle name is Hussein, bigamy is still illegal in all 57 states.
So certainly Barack Hussein Obama is the result of mixed race intercourse, but his parents were never married in any legally meaningful way.
My god you guys really do hate Obama where do you get this crap? RWP I think it is time for you to resign as a teacher at UNL you can not be trusted to be around any one much less young people. You are beneath contempt. Has for the crack about the good old days and potato eaters . You people need to go back to your caves and stay there. Why have these items not been deleted Street Sweeper? Not Liberal enough for you? To much Nebraska politics involved for you? Or just your own personal view points are allowed?
Bud:
Nothing I posted is in the least controversial. If you had any research skills, you could look it up. I find it interesting you think my posting unquestioned biographical details of the President's life is a firing offense, particularly since you're supposedly a history teacher. I wonder what distorted version of history you teach.
Creating civil rights by taking rights away from one to give to another is not civil rights. Giving people a free education and removing a spot in education for someone that is willing to save money for an education is not civil rights. Filling a race quota instead of hiring the most qualified employee is not civil rights. Forcing dual income families to pay for their home and all that is in it and letting a single parent with no job and 2 or 3 kids live next door for a tenth of the cost is not civil rights.
You have your soapbox, I have mine. Mine s just usually paid for by individual hard work and saving. Your's is not.
Who cares what Right Wing Professor Gerald Harbison thinks, the guy doesn't even vote. You all are free to check the Secretary of State's voter file to see if I'm lying if you'd like.
Anonymous coward @ 8:01 is a liar. I vote regularly.
I suspect that's hard to look up if you can't even spell my name. But wow, there are leftists so obsessed that they go all the way to the Capitol building to try (pathetically) to look up the voting habits of someone whose blog comments they don't like.
Take a lesson. Annoy the left, and they'll stalk you.
RWP, this leftist stalking is precisely why I post anonymously.
Bud, I was going to beotch-slap you but RWP beat me to it. Still, it's fair to ask whether you plan on resigning from teaching. RWP teaches chemistry. It would be more difficult to weave political ideology into teaching hard science than teaching history. And you're the one with the penchant for hurling epithets at everyone who disagrees with you politically and calling them names. I shudder to think of you inside a classroom, influencing the young and naive.
Anon@8:01
I had a copy of the voter file, I checked, you are right.
You would be amazed at the way schools will try to weave political thought into non related curriculum.
Look at Millard and their 6th grade reading resources.
Anonymous @ 8:43. I suggest you just create a pseudonym. I'd be the last person to tell you to out yourself online; some of these leftists are genuinely sick people. But having a consistent handle at least makes you responsible and accountable for what you previously posted.
I've always been 'out' online because I've been on the internet since 1985, when it was populated by a handful of nerds and nobody was concerned with stalking. It seems a bit pointless now to post pseudonymously.
Millions is so small compared to Obama's trillion. Get another thing to complain about.
Who would of thunk it. Jane Kleeb is against laying some pipe.
Jane is "for" whoever and whatever gives her cash. She is currently being a whore for Tom White's campaign. I am sure this one's a freebie from her to him though.
Not even her little girls that do her work for her think she should be doing what she is doing. From the mouths of babes to their Madame.
RWP, unless your legal name is not Gerald Harbison, you are NOT registered to vote in Nebraska. Maybe you're a legal resident in another state, but it is a lie to say you vote regularly in Nebraska.
RWP, unless your legal name is not Gerald Harbison, you are NOT registered to vote in Nebraska.
My legal name is not Gerald Harbison.
And since I have no intention of helping you stalk me, I am not going to divulge any more biographical information that that. I have voted in every primary and general election since 2004. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. But then, 'leftist liar' is virtually redundant.
RWP, I'm astounded. You use a fake name, and you're a UNL professor, partially paid by my tax dollars. Doesn't sound ethical to me, but what do I know. Paranoid are we?
RWP, I'm astounded. You use a fake name, and you're a UNL professor, partially paid by my tax dollars.
Another lie.
Hasn't Lee Terry already given his answer? It was in the Post article and in the channel 3 story. "doesn't know what you are talking about." and the quotes are false seem pretty clear.
As for his wife, she is probably pretty pissed.
Hey Sweeper - what's with the double standard here? You posted all over the phony Ben Nelson pizza parlor story - one generated by a republican operative dime dropping on himself - and now you refer to the NY post story as a rumor?
For those here who don't understand how Capitol Hill operates - terry would know the reporters by face - they spend their days intermingling in the hallways and in the bar rooms. So it is completely plausible and more than likely Terry recognized and probably even knows the reporter socially and thus adjusted his behavior. What is sick is how he used his kids like that - as a cover story.
Bud:
Why so personal? Why so much hate? Can't you just disagree with someone without getting into name calling? If you are a history teacher, no wonder our public schools are in the sorry state they are in. I bet if we talked to some of your former students they would have works about your conduct and effectiveness as a teacher. I would love to sit in and see the difference on how you present the Carter presidency v. the Reagan presidency, or Soviet history v. American history. I can only imagine the propagandist crap you throw at these kids. And how do you treat kids who might be outspoken conservatives. My guess is not well because you left wing idealogues are not only intollerent of dissent, you she it as a threat that must be eliminated.
Bud, RWP is also totally dishonest in his writings. Just visit his post on Shirley Sherrod on his personal blog. Only includes the part of the story that confirms his view that she hates "whitey". Leaves out the part where she had a change of heart and helped save the guy's farm. And this was 24 years ago. Whatever faults you claim those on the left have, you guys take the cake in using lies, half-truths and other deceptions to prove your points. I guess in your world the ends justify any means as your cause is holy.
If any of my former students told you that Bud, they were lying. I never discuss politics in class; it would be completely irrelevant to what I teach. However, I'm sure it's you who are lying. Again.
But that's interesting. So you guys are checking the list of past voters, voter registration records, and claim to be questioning my former students. Anything else I should know about?
RWP, I'm confused.
RWP, I'm astounded. You use a fake name, and you're a UNL professor, partially paid by my tax dollars.
Another lie.
What's the lie? You said your legal name is not Gerald Harbison. But all over UNL you are listed as Gerald Harbison. Where's the lie? Help me out!
Bud, RWP is also totally dishonest in his writings. Just visit his post on Shirley Sherrod on his personal blog. Only includes the part of the story that confirms his view that she hates "whitey". Leaves out the part where she had a change of heart and helped save the guy's farm.
More lies. Read this? "Sherrod now claims that later in the speech she grew to wuv the farmer and help him. "
You guys can't help yourselves, can you?
What's the lie? You said your legal name is not Gerald Harbison. But all over UNL you are listed as Gerald Harbison. Where's the lie? Help me out!
OK. Here's some helpful advice.
Find a local illiteracy support group, and learn to read. Your local library may be able to help.
Look at his campaign report at all his "catering" at the Capitol Hill Club that the campaign pays for. Is that what you want your donations to go towards?
Folks,
His name is Gerard.
The crux of my post is still correct. Gerard Harbison is not your legal name. But you use that name as a UNL professor. Funny that you can't use your real name in your professional occupation.
What's your legal name, anonymous coward @ 10:54?
RWP, you aren't making much sense. You seem to find it impossible to believe that Sherrod "grew to love the farmer and help him.". Maybe you don't have this capacity, but most of us in the human race do. Considering that the farmer did not think she should have been fired, and credited her with helping to save his farm, why don't you believe her? LS readers, I challenge you to do your own research and see who's telling the truth, and the complete story.
Good morning kids.
I have limited time today to dedicate to blogging.
Know however, that unsubstantiated or inappropriate accusations or statements will get your comment deleted from this board.
For those of you looking for Lee Terry's statement regarding the current New York Post Gossip Page issue, see KMTV's coverage here:
http://www.action3news.com/Global/story.asp?S=12848935
-Ed.
I'm sorry TedK, I missed the part of your comment where you wrote "I wrote a direct falsehood about RWP, and I'd like to apologize for that."
Please preface anything you'd like me to respond to with that.
RE: Terry's response. He says Nebraskans "know him" -- uh, yeah, he probably has no idea how much many Nebraskans really DO know him and believe this story to probably be true. The rumor mill around Omaha has been going on for years about JUST how much this type of stuff is happening all the time.
Can we get an accounting from Lee's campaign on just what all those Capitol Hill bills were for?
Which part of the story does Terry deny? If he was not out with the lobbyist as the story claims then it should be easy to show that he was someplace else.
"I don't know what you are talking about" is not really denying the story - it is just feigning confusion. This is getting interesting, isn't it? Might this be the October surprise that White has been sitting on?
I am guessing that Lee will be avoiding any questions about this unless the press turns up some more facts regarding his after hours shenanigans.
I think Meister looks more like a younger, thinner Scott Lautenbaugh.
Wonder if he will lecture us on personal responsibility as well.
So, where there is smoke there's fire.
A typical response by a Republican. No, this isn't true and its an attack on my family. How dare anyone attack my morals or my beliefs.
A back-benching Congressman is featured in NY Post's Page Six column??? Hard to believe unless there is smoke, the gossip columnist is totally lying. Would it not be better served to attack Boehner, Cantor or Mike Pence?
Can we see a complete expense of what his expenditures are at the Capitol Hill Club?? If there is nothing to these rumors, then he should not have any issues with releasing these. I'm sure that Nebraskan's would like to know about his multiple 100 dollar bottle of scotch and his wine collection that he is spending their contributions on for his own personal gain.
RWP, tell me what specifically I said was a falsehood. Lots of comments on this thread. I've had no problem apologizing for mistakes I've made, but I'm having trouble figuring out what you want me to apologize for.
Clever quote from Lee in the release. Just denies "saying" that he got drunk. Doesn't deny that this female lobbyist got him drunk. Might she have some pictures/video? Curious who she lobbies for?
RWP 11:02 you tell me yours and I'll tell U mine.
Yeah, good question. Just who WAS this lobbyist he was cozying up to?
It's hilarious to see so many leftists put so much faith in what they read on a Rupert Murdoch owned media outlet.
The reporter obviously knew she was a lobbyist as opposed to just a random LT-groupie - so they probably know her name. Perhaps NE Watchdog or a crack cub reporter in NE can do some checking.
How come the page six person didn't give the lobbyist name so everyone could inquire?
And, who is the writer of the column? I didn't see a name anywhere.
For all you right wingers out there yes I am a history teacher. No I do not discuss my personal political views in the classroom unless asked. Kids very rarely ask. They don't care about politics in Junior high. Since most of my students are republican and since when I have had mock elections for the President and the republicans always win. So I don't think I must do a good job of getting kids to vote my way. Unlike the other two history teachers in the school who have FOX news on all the time. Who had political posters of Bush and McCain and Sara Palin in their classrooms. Has for RWP. I can't say what I really think of him and other hate filled right wingers.
Jean 10:27 I wish you would talk to some of my former students. Since many of them keep in contact with me. I go to their weddings. I am on their face book pages. I get phone calls and emails from them all the time. I think they would say good things about me. How about the one I went to jail every day to teach because he wanted to graduate. Yes he was in jail. But he did not have the money to pay his fine. Maybe you should talk to him. Being a veteran of the Cold war era I am not a big fan of the Soviet Union or communism. I love America and I have nothing to prove to people like you.
Bud scrawled: I can't say what I really think of him and other hate filled right wingers.
You mean other than the scurrilous lies you've already posted about me?
RWP you seem to have no problem writing lies about me.Or any other person you disagree with . And then say those people lie about you. I just did not want to use a bunch of cuss words. I have told no lies about you. It is not my fault that some of your students don't think much of you. I am sure you could find some about me. The difference yours are adults mine are young teens.
Funny how RWP keeps talking about lies posted about him but won't say what they are.
For those of you who missed it: Bud posted a comment, which Sweeper has since removed, to the effect that I am an atrocious teacher, that I continually address politics in class, and that I discriminate against my black students. Needless to say, none of this is true, but it makes you wonder, how would a junior high history teacher in the tri-cities area claim to know so much about students in small, senior level and graduate level chemistry and biochemistry courses at UNL.
Then he moans about people being 'hate-filled'.
"Perhaps NE Watchdog or a crack cub reporter in NE can do some checking."
Ha! Joe Jordan is not digging into Lee Terry. That is not what he is paid for. He is paid for by Ricketts to teardown Democratic State Senators and a Democratic Mayor. That is it. He sold his journalist integrity.
I get my news from a person that Majored in Women's Studies and is paid by Shadowy progressive organizations. What Jane writes, I believe.
Be careful Bud, if us liberal trolls keep it up we may end up getting the right wing base so fired up that Gerard might actually go out and vote for the first time.
It's funny to me how the Lee Terry campaign likes to make fun of and disparage Tom White, Jim Esch, on down the line of opponents, for their transgressions and make mention of their drinking, etc., and they sure don't worry if they are hurting their families. But when the tables are turned they cry foul how everyone's hurting his family blah, blah, blah. Seems like they need to do some internal reflecting and decide if what's good for the goose is also good for the gander. Why is Lee Terry above examining his personal life? Especially since he put himself on some "family values" pedestal.
Random comments.....
RWP, if your name isn't Gerard, it's interesting it's the name you use for your phone listing and professional work, and no Gerard Harbison, or any other Harbison matching your claims, is registered in Nebraska.
Bud, you want to go after RWP and you want us to check with some of your students. I knows some teachers who've had dealings with you and your reputation is not a good one. They report you're not a respected teacher. I'm sure you'll deny that, but there you go.
Re Lee Terry: Why is it a lie? Because you disagree? Page Six is part of the NYPost - owned by Fox's Rupert Murdoch. Someone asked why anyone would even write about Terry if he's a back bencher, so it must be a lie. Well, how about this apple - they would write about Lee Terry because they overheard the conversation and it was good for their Page Six column, and had no other motive than to provide a juicy tidbit. Why would the need to go to all the trouble of making up a lie on a reporter? I do know that the identity of who exactly the Page Six reporter is changes and is kept anonymous so that they can go around getting these tidbits, while still working on their main news articles. Tells us what would be the reason to make this up about an NE politician?
Jane Kleeb's an idiot and a fake.
Wishing Chuck Hagel was back in the Senate.
Bud:
If you don't have anything to prove to me, then why respond in the first place? Your self-congratulatory diatribe isn't fooling me. I'm sure your former student is in jail because he did not have good teacher mentors. I think you are just jealous of RWP because you couldn't bring yourself to get more than a bachelor's degree and are stuck teaching Beavis and Butthead-types somewhere on the rural plaines.
RWP I have not lived in the tri city area (Hastings) since my college days. 27 years ago Yes I see Street sweeper deleted what I said. Do you want me to repeat it? . I saw he deleted most but not all of the racial stuff that some people said. He even deleted the stuff that I defended you and other Irish immigrants. I don't believe in bigotry. I believe you do. I have had students( one is a doctor now) who have taken your classes tell me you are a bigot and a poor teacher who rants and raves. With what you write on this and other blogs , I see no reason not to believe them. I know them and their families. I only know your writings.
RWP, if your name isn't Gerard, it's interesting it's the name you use for your phone listing and professional work, and no Gerard Harbison, or any other Harbison matching your claims, is registered in Nebraska.
Well, Anonymous Coward, I don't think it's interesting at all. But maybe I'm just too modest. I had no idea so many people would be so obsessed with figuring out an obscure college professor's voting record. Would some of you like some of my used underwear? I understand other common targets of stalking often also get that request.
But congratulations on figuring out that SOS website thingy. Must have been a challenge with all those boxes and pull down menus.
OK, I feel I owe you deranged obsessive wackos another clue. Here it is. I have never been married to Angelica Jolie, regardless of what she says.
Bud:
Care to name the students? Care to have them post here for themselves? Care to even specify class and year?
anon 1:29
I doubt it. Nice try though. Now if you said they did not like me. Or that I am loud and full of opinions in the teachers lounge. That I might believe . tsk, tsk, try again
Why did channel 3 remove Tom White's snarky comment about Lee Terry?
Is it possible that it didn't play well with some of his donors?
Oh yeah, that's right. Let's make this story about Tom White now. Are you hoping to try to take some of the heat off of Lee by doing that? Nice try. @@ (yep, that's me, rolling my eyes.)
Just want to know how Tom White got channel 3 to change their story. Call it an inquiring mind, that wants to know.
Did they quote him without permission? Or did they take a quote from someone else and attribute it to him? Or did Tom White never make the snarky comment in the first place?
They probably changed it because it probably wasn't true. Unlike the Lee Terry story -- if it was untrue, they'd change the story. They're not changing the story, so what does that tell us?
It seems Mary Jayne Fields is giving Jane Kleeb a little of her own medicine.
Nobody cares about Mary Jayne Fields. It's a lame joke that ran it's course.
Oh geez, Lee Terry gets caught in a not so "family friendly" way, and the Lee camp keeps trying to change the subject to Tom White, Mary Jane what's her name, etc.
I like Mary Jayne Fields and I see Sweeper has her blog listed. It seems the Bold people don't like Mary Jayne. I wonder why?....lol
I have had students( one is a doctor now) who have taken your classes tell me you are a bigot and a poor teacher who rants and raves.
Yeah, sure. It's so plausible that someone who graduated from college, went away to medical school, came back and sought the company of their junior high history teacher, and just happened to mention a chemistry teacher they once had in one of the 30 or 40 courses they took in college. You're not a very good liar, Bud.
I talk to a fair number of MDs and dentists. Most of them graduated from UNL in the last 20 years. They all mention they took organic chemistry. (Most of them hated it) and when I ask, mostly to make conversation, who taught organic the year they took it, almost none of them can ever remember. After all, why would they? Even in my major, i remember the names of maybe four of the professors.
But you all have these students, more successful than you are, who are dying to seek out and share stories with their junior high school history teacher about this fascist professor they had in college, who discriminated against African Americans (know how many African Americans there are in senior or grad level physical chemistry classes at UNL?) and constantly talked about politics.
You're not a very good liar, Bud. But hey, prove it. Name the people who claimed this, what course they took with me, and in what year.
By the way, there are about 100 good sources that substantiate that Barack Obama Sr. was already married when he went through the motions of a marriage ceremony with Stanley Ann Dunham. But if you want a pretty unimpeachable one, try David Remick's biography of Obama 'The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama', pp. 53. Remick is the editor of the New Yorker, and his biography of Obama is generally adulatory in tone.
Gerard, if you dislike Obama so much you should have voted against him.
Well ... hell!
As much as I like a good mudslinging, you're all getting lazy and throwing the same old mud pies back and forth at one another. Where's the sport in that? Why don't you ball up some good old cow-pies and sling them for a while? Maybe bring a bicycle chain to the fight and liven it up a bit!
I really could give a rat's ass what Lee Terry does in his spare time with lobbyists unless it affects the way he votes. I don't care if he drinks with them, I don't care if he boinks them, I don't care if he prefers boys or girls. But I do care if his vote is for sale. I also care when it is a Democrat doing the same damned thing.
If those of my fellow Democrats so intent on making a case against Lee Terry would observe Senator Ben Nelson, I doubt they'd find an awful lot of difference there, other than that the amount of $$$ filling Ben's coffers would be much more remarkable. Unless what a politician does in his or her spare time negatively affects the legislation they are responsible for, what difference does it make?
The fact that we pick over the foibles of everyone in the public eye is why we end up with such lackluster representation. Face it, people who have the strength to become exceptional leaders generally have some fairly questionable personal behaviors. Those people tend to gravitate towards the leadership of corporations, since that is where the REAL money and power lies. Once in charge of a corporation, hell, they can BUY all the politicians (and legislation) they want. They do this by sending out lobbyists to find the weak spots of our duly elected representatives, plying them with alcohol or sex, then twisting them into whatever shape they want them. If a politico is discovered in flagrante delicto, there are plenty of other equally weak candidates to replace them.
Pointing out the personal weaknesses of our political opponents usually backfires on us. Nebraskans obviously don't like it. Personally, I could care less; a bit of good gossip makes life more interesting. But I seriously doubt any of the merda tossed at Tom White or Lee Terry is really going to change more than a handful of votes. I'd probably vote for the scoundrel over the saint, given the choice.
Sigh! We've been through this. I did vote against Obama, and his little dog Biden too.
Now where should I mail the underwear, oh craven one?
Anon 207, are you implying that the local cbs affiliate lied in their story about what tom white said, but the gossip page of the nyp did not and would not?
that is honestly the funniest thing i've read today.
Damn, BTO, I hope you're sitting down but I agree with you 100%. Well said, brother!
Who said the local cbs affilliate lied? Who knows why they changed the story. Were you implying they were some how influenced by Tom White for some reason?
anon at 207 said that what tom white said was not true, and i addressed my question directly to him or her.
why is your nose in it now?
i want to know if they think the local mainstream media lies about their facts, but does not think a gossip page would.
pretty simple question for ian to answer.
BTO is giving Jane hell over on Bold Nebraska. WTF? I thought he was one of them!
I'm anon 2:07 and anon 4:55 -- and nope, my name's not Ian. (I'm sure my husband is happy I'm not an Ian!!) But anyway, again, where did I say cbs was lying? Did you see the word "probably" in my post? Or did you just conveniently forget that. And I still want to know why you think cbs would be dishonest and bow to pressure from Tom White? Do you think cbs is biased towards Lee Terry?
nope, i just think it is funny that you would have doubts about a real news source and not have the same doubts about the gossip page of the nyp.
kmtv biased for lee terry? not hardly. someone from camp white speak without permission? very likely.
you never know why someone will say that another person said something that they didn't, do you.
i am sickened by people that believe the gossip page over an actual news station
BTO is Mary Jayne Fields...Think about it!!! He shows up when Mary Jayne goes down. Big Ax to grind with the Kleebs.
It's all clear now. Tom White's mouth piece is the one that made the comment. Poor Tom, not ready to play the big boy's game and speak for yourself?
Paul M. - When you're right, you're right.
A 5:08 - I would hardly categorize what I have written over on Bold Nebraska as "giving Jane hell." I'm just trying to keep 'em honest. Tough love as it were. I don't like it when my side screws up any more than you do, and I hope you don't like it when your side screws up any more than I do.
In the know - First of all, anonymous a**es are "in the know" only in their fantasies. Now I have been known to get a bit kinky from time to time, but cross dressing has never been in my repertoire.
If you had been paying attention, I called "Mary Jane" on the questionability of her identity from the get-go. Until I meet her face-to-face and verify her identity via her driver's license, I'm still going to assume that "she" is a figment of Mark Fahleson's imagination. (Mary Jane - I will be at the NDP State Convention this weekend, I'll be easy to find - most everybody knows me, even if some of them wish they didn't.)
As for the Ax (sic) I have to grind with the Kleebs ... what the hell are you smoking? I respect that both of the Kleebs have tried to get Nebraska politics to veer a bit more to the left. After all, I'm a Socialist if you recall. True, I am disappointed with some of the people they choose to hang out with (Nelson, Achelpohl and Reuben) and I think they'd be far better off if they didn't.
Who is Lee Clausen?
Lee Clauson? No one important.
Lee Clausen called me last and asked me to support him for state chair of the NDP. What a fool, what is the guy 24? It's almost an insult for him to think he's so much more talented than anyone else that he should be our leader. This guy needs his ego in check. I have a feeling reality will set in for him in Columbus this weekend.
I've come across something shocking, SHOCKING, in looking at the Sec'y of State's voter registration info.
Not only is Gerald Harbison not registered to vote in Lancaster County, but Mark Meister isn't registered to vote in Scottsbluff. Nor does it appear that Mike Lakers had been registered to vote.
Of course, neither is Dale Heineman. And, perhaps most shocking and disappointing, E. Benjamin Nielson is also not registered to vote.
This sure doesn't say much for the politically-active folks in The Neb, does it?
I don't know what voter file you're looking at. Meister and Lakers are in there. There is a Dave Heineman registered to vote at 1425 H St. Lincoln, which is the governor's mansion. I see an E Benjamin Nelson that looks like it's our Senator.
The only one I don't see is the Nutty Professor Harbison.
...real intelligent "talk of Nebraska politics" taking place here...
Based upon what's been posted by RWP himself and by others about RWP, he has been exposed.
I can add four things to that list:
1. I sure hope his grading system is blind.
2. I'm sure glad I didn't have him for Chemistry.
3. Who hired this guy?
4. I'm LMAO that RWP admits he is using an assumed name, "Gerard Harbison" that isn't his given name yet he blasts anonymous posters. Add hypocrite to the list of qualifiers to describe this loon.
BTO: Again, I totally agree with you. It is so painfully obvious that Boulder Nebraska is a creation of the NEGOP (ie: Mark Fahleson/Jordan McGrain).
What annoys me most is that the stunt isn't even funny...it's just stupid.
No Boulder Nebraska is really funny. I think Jane messed with the bull and got the horns....lol It may be fake, but isnt Bold Nebraska fake too.
Charlie Janssen's campaign website becoming a victim of "la reconquista" is funny as hell. Boulder Nebraska wasn't funny and still isn't.
To: Paul M
I'm sorry if I don't amuse you. Look for me at the Convention this weekend. I will be there!!!
Man, the dumbocrats posting here sure are dense. Do you guys get jokes?
Moronymous at 9:34, RWP never denied that his name was Gerard. He denied that it was Gerald.
Moronymous at 9:00, you may have found Dave Heineman in the voting records, but I said Dale Heineman. I can't believe you took the time to look it up. It should have been obvious I was making fun of the Gerald vs Gerard comedy of errors. Several posters have pointed out the mistake and some of you guys still haven't caught on.
Jane is whining on her FB page that people are saying mean things and being too personal in their comments.
Hey Pot, have you met Kettle?
Bold does not equal smart!!!!
10:46, you're the one that doesn't get it. There is no Gerard Harbison in the Nebraska voter file. He says that he has voted since 2004, I guess using his legal name. Or he is lying about his voting record. Get it now?
I love how the Kleeb camp is so outraged over Boulder Nebraska's comments about Jane Kleeb. We should not forget who started this mess on her Facebook page:
"What is your song idea for Lee "why did you get me so drunk" Terry's play list?"
Your a sleeze bag Jane. You have always dealt in this type of crap. So Jane, If you mess with the bull you get the horns!!!
Mary Jane - If you're going to be at the NDP Convention this weekend, please look me up. I'd like to take a photo of the two of us together that I can send to Street Sweeper. That would dispel all rumors of your being a fabricated person.
Of course, I will expect to see some personal ID, like a driver's license to verify that you are who you say you are, and I will, of course, do the same.
10:46, you're the one that doesn't get it. There is no Gerard Harbison in the Nebraska voter file. He says that he has voted since 2004, I guess using his legal name. Or he is lying about his voting record. Get it now?
I have no idea what you stalkers found in the Nebraska voters file. And I am not discussing further any of my biographical details with you; the last thing I'm going to do is help you with your obsessive and harassing behavior.
I have never looked at the Nebraska voters file. However, I very much suspect it does not say I have not voted since 2004.
Anonymous coward @ 9:34.
1. I sure hope his grading system is blind.
FWIW, it usually is; it always is in undergraduate courses. And in larger chemistry courses at UNL a TA does the grading anyway.
2. I'm sure glad I didn't have him for Chemistry.
Given your apparent absence of reasoning skills, I'm glad too. But I doubt you ever had the prerequisites. Actually, given you don't know how we grade, I doubt you've ever had any chemistry.
3. Who hired this guy?
The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.
4. I'm LMAO that RWP admits he is using an assumed name, "Gerard Harbison" that isn't his given name yet he blasts anonymous posters. Add hypocrite to the list of qualifiers to describe this loon.
I have admitted no such thing. To do so would be to give you biographical information, which I will not do.
Here's an irrefutable fact. There is currently no Gerard Harbison registered to vote in the state of Nebraska. That leaves only these possibilities. 1) RWP voted since 2004 but has now dropped his registration; 2) Gerard Harbison is not RWP's legal name; 3) RWP is lying about his voting record.
Anonymous coward @ 12:14. The main thing is, are you having fun obsessing over my voting record? Because I'd hate to think this wasn't as good for you as it is for me.
I heard that Kris Pierce is running for Neb Dem Chair....
RWP, just pointing out inconsistencies. You love to harass the left over various flaws they have. Just pointing out a trait often found on the right of making things up, or at least shading the truth to make a point.
Jane has a thin skin. Is she really so dense as to believe that people wouldn't give her a taste of what she dishes out? Despite her whining I think she really thrives on the "any publicity is good publicity" theme. If she wasn't so outrageous she wouldn't be getting all of this attention and she knows it.
Just how old are Mark Fahleson and Jordan McGrain? I hope they're still college students -- or even high school students. Any older than that and I am just embarrassed for them.
RWP, just pointing out inconsistencies. You love to harass the left over various flaws they have. Just pointing out a trait often found on the right of making things up, or at least shading the truth to make a point.
Anonymous coward @ 12:26. I owe you absolutely nothing when it comes to providing you with private, personal information. In fact, your attempting to procure such information is harassing and hostile, and frankly what it says about the mindset of the left is deeply disturbing. I am not a politician, I am a private citizen who has the impertinence to have different political views from you, and expresses them publicly. In fact, I would be fully within my rights to lie to you about anything and everything. But in fact there is nothing inconsistent or false in anything I've posted. That's because I respect myself, not because I respect you.
Frankly, the lot of you remind of a bunch of two bit, petty commissars, of the sort that ran Chinese villages during the Cultural Revolution. All you've really done is remind me of the importance of keeping your kind out of any position of power.
I used to be able to respect the left personally, while disagreeing with their politics. The harassment and the malicious and libelous public attacks I've received over the last few years have made that no longer possible. Those of you who don't actually engage in this sort of behavior yourselves certainly facilitate it.
And this is the last I will say on any of this, except to defend myself from the sort of personal libels that Bud has been posting. This blog is supposed to be about Nebraska politics.
Gerard, think fast, where is your polling location?
It's strange that Warren Buffett, Tom Osborn, and Bo Pelini are all in the voter file but you're not.
Are you calling John Gale a liar?
You're totally busted.
RWP, typical right-wing bluster when caught in a lie. Instead of addressing the issue you try to shift the target to the "evil left". I have no problem with your different views. I do have problems with dishonesty as it speaks of your character and makes political discourse impossible.
RWP – I realize you need no assistance in illustrating the absurdity of the accusations leveled against you, but I simply couldn’t resist. As a contrarian, I toyed with the idea of properly arguing their case no matter how baseless, since there are some serious errors of logic. Instead I’ll point out just a few…
Anon:12:14 – in addition to your likely not having had a Chemistry class; it is doubtful you’ve had any courses in logic either. There are several other possibilities here for RWP (not an exhaustive list).
1) His ‘registered’ name is some variant of his online name. I DID check the voter file and this is a possibility (no RWP I’m not stalking you just amazed at some of the poor deductive reasoning skills being exercised here).
2) He is a legal voting resident of another state [if he spent time in the military or owns a primary residence he is entitled to do so].
Anon 9:34 – Regardless of a blind grading system, you should be more concerned about whether grading is based upon ‘objective’ or ‘subjective’ evaluation. Chemistry, as a ‘hard’ science tends toward objectivity (you do a lab; you come up with a proper result; you receive the credit). Other disciplines that are ‘soft’ science tend to be more ‘subjective’. Take, for the sake of argument political science or history. I wrote many an essay or short answer response to a test in college arguing why taxes are wonderful, FDR was the greatest President of all time, or Truman shouldn’t have dropped the A-bomb. These were all in response to the teachings / leanings of the faculty member. Try that crap in a ‘hard’ science and see where it gets you.
Anon 12:57 – You have failed to provide any ‘evidence’ of RWPs “dishonesty”. In my reading of his posts he has made NO such claims. It is simply posters like yourselves who have jumped to conclusions (through faulty reasoning).
The amalgam of these attacks only illustrates RWPs point in his 12:42 post of why individuals such as you should never be entrusted with political power in Nebraska (or anywhere for that matter).
RWP – I realize you need no assistance in illustrating the absurdity of the accusations leveled against you, but I simply couldn’t resist. As a contrarian, I toyed with the idea of properly arguing their case no matter how baseless, since there are some serious errors of logic. Instead I’ll point out just a few…
Anon:12:14 – in addition to your likely not having had a Chemistry class; it is doubtful you’ve had any courses in logic either. There are several other possibilities here for RWP (not an exhaustive list).
1) His ‘registered’ name is some variant of his online name. I DID check the voter file and this is a possibility (no RWP I’m not stalking you just amazed at some of the poor deductive reasoning skills being exercised here).
2) He is a legal voting resident of another state [if he spent time in the military or owns a primary residence he is entitled to do so].
Anon 9:34 – Regardless of a blind grading system, you should be more concerned about whether grading is based upon ‘objective’ or ‘subjective’ evaluation. Chemistry, as a ‘hard’ science tends toward objectivity (you do a lab; you come up with a proper result; you receive the credit). Other disciplines that are ‘soft’ science tend to be more ‘subjective’. Take, for the sake of argument political science or history. I wrote many an essay or short answer response to a test in college arguing why taxes are wonderful, FDR was the greatest President of all time, or Truman shouldn’t have dropped the A-bomb. These were all in response to the teachings / leanings of the faculty member. Try that crap in a ‘hard’ science and see where it gets you.
Anon 12:57 – You have failed to provide any ‘evidence’ of RWPs “dishonesty”. In my reading of his posts he has made NO such claims. It is simply posters like yourselves who have jumped to conclusions (through faulty reasoning).
The amalgam of these attacks only illustrates RWPs point in his 12:42 post of why individuals such as you should never be entrusted with political power in Nebraska (or anywhere for that matter).
There is no way that RWP is registered to vote in another state, I remember him saying how much he was looking forward to voting down one of the bond issues. If he has an explination that he's registered under his legal name why doesn't he come clean. It's funny he can't seem to explain where he's been voting since 2004.
RWP, you've been caught red handed, give it up.
1:08, look up Occam's razor please. You're really stretching to defend RWP. I think Anon 12:45 put it best showing all of the other "celebrities" that can be found, by name, in the voter file. I would hope that RWP, being a professor at a state-supported school, would be a resident of that state for voting purposes. And the only other "Harbison"'s in Lancaster County are far too young to be the professor. Despite your claim, there is no other name in the state that comes close to his moniker. Why RWP feels the need to not use his legal name is beyond me. First time in my life I've known of a university professor doing this.
Okay...I thought people needed permission to view the voter file...as in a person either had to work for a campaign or other political organization. If that is true,does the Nebraska Democrat Party, or other group, find RWP so threatening they are wasting their time to investigate him??? SERIOUSLY? Wasting time investigating someone who posts on a blog?!?! Is this what America is coming to?
Google "state of nebraska voter check" to see who is registered to vote, that's all the special permission you need.
I've been away a few days, and fell behind.
To : Anon about 70 comments ago, who said Meister reminds him of a thinner me: I'm sure Mike and I are both offended in some way by that.
To Sweeper: We'll discuss this further when you get home.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
You have a cute "Sweeper", Scott.
This post has long since degraded into pointless he said/she said bullshit. Its good most of you dont use real names or even identifying aliases because you all should be ashamed and embarrased. Take a step back and look at how pathetic this is please, and then stop it.
I can't believe all these people who are ragging on RWP for supposedly not voting. Well, guess what? You are all hypocrites. There is not a single Anonymous who has voted in Nebraska for decades. So go elsewhere with your lame criticisms. And BTW, move out of your parents' basement and get a real job. Your parents asked me to tell you that. You're scaring them. Or at least really disappointing them.
Macdaddy:
Nebraska politics have changed recently. It started when someone (y'all know who it was) started following Adrian Smith with a video camera. Then they did it to Johanns. And now they're doing it not just to Lee Terry, but his wife and kids.
I look at what those three campaigns have in common, and let's face it, there's an obvious link.
Stalking is obviously about gotcha politics, but IMO it's much more an exercise in intimidation. Most people value their privacy, and stalking is a direct violation of it.
Ironic that the people who inented the 'right to privacy' actually don't respect it at all.
Politics is a full contact sport. There will be more coming in the coming months. But it seems there is something hinky with the Gov and one of his appointments. Wonder where the money trail leads?
intriguing conversation. snicker.
RWP,
Nobody is stalking you, we are f#$%ing with you because we think you are an obnoxious tool who doesn't think it's worth his time to vote. We wish you'd go away. What is your explination as to why John Gale has no record of you ever voting?
So I figured out who Bud is. Took all of an hour. That might mark me as slow. I can't believe the guy is a big shot in the NDP, given his propensity for spraying vicious libel on the net. I mean, I'm not surprised he has the ethics of a weasel, just that he's gotten as high up as he has. A certain high school in...well, they get a lot of mail in mid February... must be truly desperate.
So once I've made sure it's non-actionable, I'm going to out him on my blog. Fair is fair.
RWP, I just read your posting today. Don't feel too bad. If UNL fires youm you can always do the Breaking Bad thing and enter the methamphetamine industry. (Chemistry, quantum physics, same diff)
Anyway, I was am pretty fascinated by this Bud pseudo-scandal. I thought the NEGOP was actually using Bud as a satire (like MJ Fields) of how poorly managed and unclear the agenda of the NDP actually is. You submit he's a real boy, eh?
Jamie:
It isn't hard to figure out who Bud is. If nothing else, his writing style is quite distinctive. He's posted almost enough information on this thread to figure it out; if you look at past biographical details he's posted, it's 100% obvious. I suppose someone could be faking him, but it's a damn good fake; they even have the same pattern of spelling and grammatical errors.
I'm almost flattered. But I will be asking my Chancellor to write to the NDP and point out that pseudonymous hearsay-based attacks by Nebraska Democratic Party officials on the professional competence and integrity of UNL faculty is not exactly consonant with academic freedom.
Mr. Bud?... Mr. Bud! Is it really you? I had you as a history teacher back in the 90s! I'm glad to see you politically active and pissing off people on a blog... just as you always said you wanted to do.
And still ignoring the most basic principles of the English language, are you? I am quite excited to see you on Leavenworth- I naturally am interested in talking to my middle school teachers about my college professors after I became a doctor. This reminds me of the time I met my high school English teacher and began discussing the performance of my Calc TA in college.
I just want to let you know that Right Wing Professor (if that is indeed his real name) is a huge racist poo-poo head. And he spells "Sarah Palin" accurately. I mean, who does that? Elitist racists. I mean, you even misspelled her name, and you're a history teacher. Exactly who the hell does he think he is? I remember once I failed a written test because I spelled it "Dukakis," and yet you insisted it was spelled "Dookhakis."
Well, always lovely seeing you on the blogs, Mr. Bud.
RWP,
You don't vote = you don't matter. Please explain to us why John Gale is lying about your voting record.
This feud is far past its saturation point.
Please stop now.
Thanks
-Ed.
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