An Omaha steamfitter and labor leader says he’s running against 2-term Republican U-S Senator Deb Fischer as an independent.
Dan Osborn, a veteran of both the U-S Navy and the Nebraska Army National Guard, must collect 4,000 signatures from registered voters by September 1st of next year to get on the ballot.
The 48-year old Osborn says Nebraskans are looking for a “leader,” not a politician, continuing their historical pattern of producing “leaders who think in terms of issues, not parties; (and) bring people together around common goals,”
He says he’s “uniquely capable” of working through the partisan gridlock plaguing the Senate and the division in the country threatening “our great democratic experiment.”
Osborn is probably best known for leading the 2021 strike at the Kellogg’s cereal plant in Omaha as president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 50G.
He says the contract deal that eventually came out of the strike shows his ability to “find solutions and move forward,” adding that “if something is broken, I roll up my sleeves and fix it,”
Osborn says he’ll “bring together workers, farmers, ranchers, and small business owners across Nebraska around bread-and-butter issues that appeal across party lines (and) show the rest of America a better way forward.”
Ah the politicians, promises promises until they meet the highest bidder that buys them out.
Happy to give him a shot. Bring on the petition.
Hmmmm……something new. Dan Osborn, we need you!
He is worth a chance. Seems down to earth.