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  [Mike] Johanns ready to launch campaign
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Last EditedCOSDem  Sep 26, 2007 07:43pm
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News DateThursday, September 27, 2007 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionIt’s 8 a.m. at Starbucks and Mike Johanns is amped, even before the caffeine.

“I’m excited,” he says, “pumped up to be home, ready to go to work.”

Johanns is back in Lincoln constructing his Senate campaign craft and rounding up its crew. He’ll set sail into choppy 2008 election waters in about two weeks.

During an hour over coffee, Johanns outlines the basic themes of his campaign and stakes out his own positions on Iraq and immigration.

Johanns supports the Bush administration’s Iraq policy as championed by Gen. David Petraeus and proposes immigration reform that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants only if they return home and re-enter the United States legally.

Both positions differ from those held by Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, who will leave office at the end of next year.
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