Omaha's Ed Norton is having a matching fundraiser weekend

[Mr Mannn]

I'm just waiting to see what happens when he runs afoul of election and financial laws.

Cause ya know there are people out there who will gladly inform the authorities, newspapers, and opponents...
  just saying...  Better be on the up and up, Steve.

[Freeper]

I can't wait to see this moron's big issue that he plans to unveil in April. 
I'm almost tempted to donate that last $10 to him.

 

[Airwolf]

I wonder if OmahaSteve will end up changing his SN to StatePrisonSteve or FederalPrsionSteve if it's found out that he has violated the election laws by getting funding from people that shouldn't have donated to his little cause? No platform and nothing more then putting in paperwork to run doesn't sound like he's serious about getting into office and showing the people what he is about. Never mind the fact that from what we have seen of his post at DU that any of it is a losing proposition in Bellevue, Nebraska.

[BlueStateSaint]

Gang, IIRC, he himself has said that, being a socialist in deep-red Nebraska, he has to be somewhat deceptive.  He's entirely in character for the primitives.  Not so for deep-red Nebraska, but this is all he knows how to do.  Definitely not this.

[formerlurker]

I wonder if OmahaSteve will end up changing his SN to StatePrisonSteve or FederalPrsionSteve if it's found out that he has violated the election laws by getting funding from people that shouldn't have donated to his little cause? No platform and nothing more then putting in paperwork to run doesn't sound like he's serious about getting into office and showing the people what he is about. Never mind the fact that from what we have seen of his post at DU that any of it is a losing proposition in Bellevue, Nebraska.

You mean like felons?   foreigners? 

You will note the generous chap who offered to match $250 in donations - anything more than that would require full disclosure on the donor. 

His opponent has a great deal to question here.   

[Tucker]

I'm just waiting to see what happens when he runs afoul of election and financial laws.

Nothing. He's a democrat.

[obumazombie]

Nothing. He's a democrat.

I wouldn't say nothing. He would be lionized by the libs.

[Skul]

In a totally related way.
The weeper blubbers over his new found wealth.

Go look. Young campfire.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002329651

[Tucker]

Omaha Steve

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DU has raised $598 & $250 match in 6 days for Omaha Steve for Bellevue, Ne City Council!!!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

Here is the post for the matching funds yesterday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002325590

This is some much needed seed money. I am humbled at the generosity of the DU on a leap of faith like this.

My local account has a balance of $473.43. My only expense so far has been the $110 filing fee. This is some much appreciated seed money.

A few people have sent private mail that come pay day they would be in.

The cemetery donation link will be permanent: http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/bellevue/bellevue_1.htm

Eleven different states. A few with multiple donations. NY, TX, CA, IN, NE, IA, FL, GA, IL, MI, and AK.

I never expected this kind of support.

Warmest regards,

Omaha Steve

It seems Frank was correct. Omaha Ed Norton had the DUmmies pay his filling fee.

Dunmy math

Donations: 598 +250= 848

Expenses: 110

Balance: 473.43

[franksolich]

Gang, IIRC, he himself has said that, being a socialist in deep-red Nebraska, he has to be somewhat deceptive.  He's entirely in character for the primitives.  Not so for deep-red Nebraska, but this is all he knows how to do.  Definitely not this.

For the big guy to have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning in red Bellevue, he has to support:

(a) smaller government
(b) lower taxes
(c) the Second Amendment
(d) reining in the public-sector labor unions

It's going to be interesting to watch how he does that.

[franksolich]

By the way, the one Democrat running without (thus far) any Democrat or Republican opponent for the Bellevue City Council is, I believe, a former state senator.  I haven't looked it up, but I think he is.  Don somebody.

Different district from the big guy.

If memory serves me correctly, he's a Democrat the primitives wouldn't like, somewhat to the right of current U.S. Senator Ben Nelson; in other words, the only sort of Democrat who could win in Bellevue. 

[franksolich]

Well, it looks as if my fellow Nebraskan's got enough to buy a ten-second radio spot, but some of those might be pledges and not cash-in-hand yet, meaning he actually might only have enough for a roll of postage stamps.

I dunno.

Now, as long as Omaha Steve tells the voters of Bellevue the same things he's told the primitives on Skins's island, he'll have no trouble from this side, and we'd applaud his honesty.

But if the big guy has told the primitives one thing, and then tells the voters of Bellevue another thing, well, that might mess things up.....

[franksolich]

You mean like felons?   foreigners? 

You will note the generous chap who offered to match $250 in donations - anything more than that would require full disclosure on the donor. 

His opponent has a great deal to question here.   

I think the big guy should be a little, uh, cautious about giving his fund-raising totals.

As we already know, some of those dollars are real, already passed on to him, and others are just "promised" or "pledged."

Say my fellow Nebraskan says he has a hundred bucks.

We know he's got fifty in the bank, and fifty in primitive promises.

But he insists he has a hundred bucks.

Nebraska law requires that campaign financing report actual dollars gotten.  One doesn't report promised dollars, dollars one hasn't actually gotten yet.

So Omaha's Ed Norton blabs to the world that he has a hundred bucks.

But on his campaign financing report, he puts down the fifty actually gotten, as required by law.

But he said he got a hundred bucks.....

And so that's a second thing to watch here; to ensure that Chief Big Bucks reports to the state of Nebraska the same amounts he reports to the primitives.  If he tells the primitives he's got a hundred bucks, he better tell the bureaucrats in Lincoln he's got a hundred bucks, too.

He's not going to listen to franksolich, but if I were the big guy, I'd report to the primitives only the amounts he actually got, rather than including the promised pledges.

[franksolich]

Nothing. He's a democrat.

Damn.  I just checked my calendar.

I was hoping the big guy would do some "live blogging" from the bar the night of his fund-raiser, and I could sit around home here, spectating.

Well, he might do that, but I won't be able to see it.

That afternoon, I'm scheduled to visit a friend in Murray, Nebraska, and won't get back up here in time to watch the "live blogging."

Damn.