Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn launches PAC and weighs future run
Nebraska’s Dan Osborn is returning to work Tuesday as a steamfitter after his unsuccessful Senate run, but his political career isn’t over.
Nebraska’s Dan Osborn is returning to work Tuesday as a steamfitter after his unsuccessful Senate run, but his political career isn’t over.
Osborn, who ran as an independent, is launching a political action committee, called the Working Class Heroes Fund, to support working-class candidates of all parties. And he isn’t ruling out another run for office after his loss to GOP Sen. Deb Fischer.
“That is definitely something we’re taking a look at,” Osborn said in a phone interview Monday when he was asked whether he is considering running for the Senate again in two years. GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts won a special election this month to serve out the final two years of former Sen. Ben Sasse’s term and is up for a full term in 2026.
Osborn previewed a possible case against Ricketts, a wealthy former governor, name-checking him as an example of how much influence the rich can have on politics.
“I think the country has an appetite for what it is we built here in Nebraska. I want to capitalize on that,” Osborn said, adding later, “Pete Ricketts has effectively been able to buy the Nebraska state Legislature, because they have — I mean, they own the Chicago Cubs, for crying out loud. That’s how much money they have.
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