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Nebraska Democrats' goal: Compete across state
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| Last Edited | COSDem Aug 10, 2005 02:52pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Determined to rebuild their party after a decade of decline, Nebraska Democrats are embarking this week on an ambitious 93-county grassroots strategy.
A regional training session for Democratic activists and candidates in North Platte this weekend is the marker jump-starting a determined bid to create a two-party state.
"This will be a concerted effort to build a structure in all 93 counties (and) compete in areas that now may be considered hostile," said Barry Rubin, the Nebraska Democratic Party's executive director.
Not since the party-building days of Jim Exon in the 1960s and during his governorship in the 1970s has there been "a commitment to compete everywhere in the state," said Heath Mello, the party's deputy director.
The party plans to create a permanent "political force that still is operating the morning after the election," said Ian Russell, who will travel the state as field director, building upon what the party calls its "Democratic community" in every county.
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