Claim: Nebraska Sen. Bolz to run for 1st Congressional District.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Kate Bolz
text: Kate Bolz Kate Bolz is a Democratic member of the Nebraska Legislature, representing the 29th district. Bolz graduated from Palmyra High School in 1997 and from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2001. She earned a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan in 2005. Bolz was an Emerson National Hunger Fellow, and also worked with the Lutheran Services of America. She later became a policy analyst with Nebraska Appleseed, focusing on a low-income self-sufficiency program. Bolz was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 2012. Bolz is particularly interested in education issues, tax fairness, opportunities for working families, aging

title: Kate Bolz
text: issues, and economic growth. Kate Bolz Kate Bolz is a Democratic member of the Nebraska Legislature, representing the 29th district. Bolz graduated from Palmyra High School in 1997 and from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2001. She earned a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan in 2005. Bolz was an Emerson National Hunger Fellow, and also worked with the Lutheran Services of America. She later became a policy analyst with Nebraska Appleseed, focusing on a low-income self-sufficiency program. Bolz was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 2012. Bolz is particularly interested in education issues, tax fairness, opportunities

title: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: 1st district encompasses most of the eastern quarter of the state and almost completely envelops the 2nd district. It includes the state capital, Lincoln, as well as the cities of Fremont, Columbus, Norfolk, Beatrice and South Sioux City. The incumbent is Republican Jeff Fortenberry, who has represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2012 and the district has a PVI of R+10. Fortenberry considered running for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Republican Mike Johanns, but ultimately announced that he would not do so and would instead seek re-election. He faced

title: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: Jeff Fortenberry, who has represented Nebraska's 1st congressional district since 2005, did not run for the U.S. Senate, and is running for re-election. Dennis Parker, a former professional musician who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 3rd district in 2010, and Jessica Turek, unsuccessfully challenged Fortenberry in the Republican primary. Korey Reiman, an attorney, sought and won the Democratic nomination to challenge Fortenberry unopposed. Robert Way, an Army combat medic, had planned to run but dropped out of the race in March 2012. (Way's name still appeared on the Democratic primary ballot.) Republican Lee Terry, who has represented Nebraska's

title: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: 2nd district. It included the state capital, Lincoln, as well as the cities of Fremont, Columbus, Norfolk, Beatrice and South Sioux City. The incumbent was Republican Jeff Fortenberry, who had represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of R+10. Daniel Wik, a physician who specializes in pain management, was the Democratic nominee. The 2nd district was based in the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area and included all of Douglas County and the urbanized areas of Sarpy County. The incumbent was Democrat Brad Ashford, who had represented the district

title: Jeff Fortenberry
text: district decided to retire. Fortenberry decided to run and won the 7-candidate Republican primary with 39% of the vote. He defeated Curt Bromm (33%), the Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature, and Club for Growth-endorsed businessman Greg Ruehle (21%). In the general election, he defeated State Senator Matt Connealy 54%–43%. He won all but two counties: Thurston and Burt. Fortenberry won re-election to a second term, defeating former Lieutenant Governor Maxine Moul, 58%–42%, winning all but Burt County. He won re-election to a third term, defeating Marine veteran Max Yashirin 70–30%. He was challenged in the Republican primary for the first

title: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: Dennis L. Parker and Jessica L. Turek in the Republican primary. Dennis Crawford, a Lincoln attorney and 2nd Associate Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The 2nd district is based in the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area and includes all of Douglas County and the urbanized areas of Sarpy County. The incumbent was Republican Lee Terry, who had represented the district since 1999. He was re-elected in 2012 with 51% of the vote in the district that has a PVI of R+4. Terry faced a competitive primary challenge from businessman Dan Frei, who ran to

title: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: since 2015. He was elected with 49% of the vote in 2014, defeating Republican incumbent Lee Terry. The district had a PVI of R+4. Scott Kleeb, a businessman who was the nominee for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district in 2006 and for the U.S. Senate in 2008, was speculated to challenge Ashford, a centrist Democrat, from the political left. Former State Senator and Douglas County Commissioner Chip Maxwell, who considered running as an independent against Terry in 2012, and retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Don Bacon ran in the Republican Party primary election. Salesmen Dirk Arneson from Omaha was

title: 2014 Nebraska elections
text: election. District 2 incumbent Democrat Anne C. Boyle, who was first elected in 1996, retired rather than run for re-election to a fourth term. The district is based in Omaha. Incumbent Republican Senator Mike Johanns did not run for re-election to a second term. Republicans Sid Dinsdale, Clifton Johnson, Bart McLeay, Shane Osborn and Ben Sasse; Democrats David Domina and Larry Marvin and Independents Jim Jenkins and Todd Watson ran. Republican Ben Sasse defeated Democrat David Domina to win the seat. All of Nebraska's three seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2014. 2014

title: Patrick Borchers
text: Creighton University authored a report, funded by the United States Agency for International Development on a possible resolution of the outstanding expropriation claims against Cuba in the event of a shift in U.S.-Cuba relations. The report recommended the creation of a Cuba-U.S. Tribunal to resolve the claims and suggested that since Cuba lacked sufficient hard currency to resolve the claims, claimants accept other forms of compensation, e.g. tax-free zones or development rights. In 2016, Borchers ran for the Nebraska legislature from the 39th District, a heavily Republican district consisting of the western portion of Douglas County. Under Nebraska's term-limits law,

title: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: Iraq and Afghanistan and the grandson of investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, chose not to run. David Wasserman of "The Cook Political Report" rates the race as "Likely Republican." Republican Adrian Smith, who has represented Nebraska's 3rd congressional district since 2007, is running for re-election. Bob Lingenfelter, a farmer and former NFL offensive lineman, unsuccessfully challenged Smith in the Republican primary. Mark Sullivan, a farmer, sought and received the Democratic nomination unopposed. 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 and elected

title: Chip Maxwell
text: radio show on The Answer/KOTK. Maxwell earned his BA in political science from Boston College, his MA in American history from the University of Oxford, and his JD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In 2000 when Democratic State Senator Shelley Kiel ran for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, Maxwell ran to succeed her. In the technically nonpartisan race to succeed her, he defeated fellow Republican J. Scott Knudsen by 4,663 votes (54.83%) to 3,751 (44.11%). He declined to run for re-election in 2004, instead running for the District 5 seat on the Douglas County

title: Scott Kleeb
text: ranch-hand at the McGinn Ranch in Custer County, was the Democratic candidate for Nebraska's 3rd Congressional District seat. The 3rd is extremely difficult to campaign in and has few unifying influences. It covers nearly , two time zones, and 68.5 of Nebraska’s 93 counties (one of which, Cherry County, is larger than the entire state of Connecticut). However, Kleeb raised more money than any other Democrat had raised in the district in decades. Overall, the race was the most expensive in the district since it assumed its current configuration in 1963. Just before the election, polls showed Kleeb even with

title: 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: to be at some risk for the incumbent party. The party primary elections were held May 13. This district encompassed most of the eastern quarter of the state. Republican incumbent Jeff Fortenberry (campaign website) won re-election. Max Yashirin (campaign website) was the Democratic nominee. CQ Politics forecasted the race as 'Safe Republican'. This district encompassed the core of the Omaha metropolitan area. Republican incumbent Lee Terry won against Democratic nominee Jim Esch, an Omaha businessman. "CQ Politics" forecasted the race as 'Leans Republican'. "The Cook Political Report" ranked it 'Republican Toss Up'. "The Rothenberg Political Report" rated it 'Toss-Up/Tilt Democratic'.

title: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: 2nd congressional district since 1999, did not run for the U.S. Senate, and ran for re-election. Paul Anderson, an employee of BNSF Railway; Glenn Freeman, a former chairman of the Douglas County Republican Party; Jack Heidel, the chairman of the mathematics department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; and Brett Lindstrom, a financial adviser and former Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback, unsuccessfully challenged Terry in the Republican primary. Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing won the Democratic nomination. He defeated state Senator Gwen Howard in the primary. Howard Warren Buffett, the director of the U.S. Department of Defense's agriculture development program in

title: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: Democrat Jim Esch, but Esch declined to run for Congress a third time in 2010. Instead, State Senator Tom White emerged as the Democratic nominee. Though polls indicated the race to be close and Democrats saw the 2nd district as one of their few pick-up opportunities, Congressman Terry was ultimately re-elected by a wide margin on election day. This congressional district, which constitutes nearly 85% of Nebraska's land mass, is one of the most conservative districts in the country. Though incumbent Congressman Adrian Smith, a Republican, was elected to his first term in 2006 by a shockingly small ten-point margin

title: Curt Friesen
text: the 11,979 votes cast; Friesen received 5891 votes, or 49.2%. In August 2013, Friesen announced that he would make a second bid for a seat in the Nebraska legislature. On this occasion, he ran from the 34th District, which encompassed Nance, Merrick, Hamilton, and part of Hall Counties, including the cities of Fullerton, Central City, Aurora, and part of Grand Island. The incumbent, Annette Dubas, a member of the Democratic Party, was barred by Nebraska's term-limits law from running for a third consecutive term. Friesen ran unopposed in the 2014 election. He raised over $35,000 for the campaign, and spent

title: 1976 United States Senate elections
text: chosen by the party committee.) Rather than seek a fifth term, Democratic incumbent Mike Mansfield opted to retire, creating an open seat. United States Congressman John Melcher, who had represented Montana's 2nd congressional district from 1969 to 1977, won the Democratic nomination and defeated Stanley C. Burger, the Republican nominee and former Executive Officer of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, by a wide margin in the general election. Incumbent Republican Roman Hruska retired instead of seeking another term. Democrat Edward Zorinsky, Mayor of Omaha, won the open seat over Republican John Y. McCollister, U.S. Congressman of Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.

title: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska
text: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. Representatives from the U.S. state of Nebraska; one from each of the state's three congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 15, 2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices. The incumbent is Republican Jeff Fortenberry, who has represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 69% of the vote in 2016. The incumbent is Republican Don Bacon, who

title: Patrick Borchers
text: Linehan went on to win the seat, winning 55% of the vote in the general election to Armbrust's 45%. Patrick Borchers Patrick J. Borchers is a lawyer, university administrator and politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He is a member of the faculty of the Creighton University School of Law in the city of Omaha. In 2016, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Nebraska legislature. Borchers is a member of the Republican Party. Borchers was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Boulder High School in Boulder Colorado in 1979. He received a