[Fwd: Re: [Husker] TO to run for governor (fwd)]

[Bob Beach]

Mike Nolan wrote:

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>It is going to be difficult to keep that race from surfacing on this List,
>so let remind everyone up front that your political leanings remain very
>much off-topic here.  To the extent that the campaign has significant
>Husker or UNL related content, discussion of it will be tolerated, but
>TO has placed the Huskers in his past, and that's primarily where he belongs
>on this list as well.
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    And I agree.  I wasn't trying to expound any political leanings.   
As a politician I don't have feelings one way or another about TO.  I 
agree with him on some things and disagree on others.  I just don't see 
how in the state of Nebraska he could be beaten on anything.  He is not 
the incumbent but I can't see how that matters.  The guy that is the 
incumbent hasn't been Governor very long.  There is virtually not one 
person in the state of Nebraska who doesn't know who Tom Osborne is.  
I'll bet there are a good number of people who can't tell you who Dave 
Heineman is.  I would guess if asked the average person on the street  
what they know about TO they probably couldn't tell you where he stands 
on many issues but could recite a lengthy speech on his football 
accomplishments.   In Nebraska he still is more recognized for being the 
long term successful Husker coach than being a U. S. Representative and 
that recognition is wide sweeping.  I have always felt there is only one 
guy that possibly could beat TO but he doesn't live in Nebraska anymore.   


Bob Beach