The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday endorsed Sen. Mike Flood’s candidacy for Nebraska’s 1st District seat within the U.S. Home of Representatives, with the expressed expectation that he might be a part of a brand new Republican majority in 2023.
“That is early, early” for a Chamber endorsement, Ashlee Wealthy Stephenson, the group’s senior political strategist, mentioned throughout a phone name.
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“Based mostly on his file, his enterprise expertise and his imaginative and prescient, this can be a good transfer for us,” she mentioned.
“Mike Flood is such a talented legislator. He is aware of how you can get issues performed. He has the flexibility to cross the aisle. We predict he might be efficient.”
Points which might be significantly vital to the Chamber embrace taxes, job creation and power safety, Stephenson mentioned.
“We consider it’s greater than very probably that Republicans will take management of the Home” after this November’s basic election, she mentioned. Democrats at the moment maintain a slender majority.
Flood might be matched towards Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln, the Democratic nominee and a legislative colleague, in a June 28 particular election to serve the remaining six months of former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s time period.
Nebraska voters will choose a congressman or congresswoman to characterize jap Nebraska’s 1st District for the next two years within the Nov. 8 basic election, selecting from occasion nominees chosen within the main election.
Flood and Pansing Brooks are front-runners to advance from the Might 10 main.
Fortenberry resigned from the Home seat he has held since 2005 after his conviction on federal costs that he made false statements to the FBI about unlawful international contributions to his 2016 reelection marketing campaign. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles on June 28.
Flood, a former Speaker of the Legislature, returned to the nonpartisan legislative physique in 2021 after being term-limited out of workplace upon finishing two consecutive phrases in 2013.
Responding to the Chamber endorsement, Pansing Brooks mentioned: “As a small-business proprietor, enterprise lawyer and member of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce for over 35 years, we now have been serving to companies in Nebraska develop and thrive.
“I’m gratified to have robust assist from many enterprise leaders throughout this district,” she mentioned, and “I’ll proceed to be a robust chief for financial development, jobs and wages as this district’s first congresswoman.”
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