Brett Lindstrom: 2nd Congressional District Alternative to Lee Terry

Anyone who reads our website with any regularity likely has realized, we’ve pointed out problems with 2nd Congressional District’s representative in the U.S. Congress, Lee Terry. There is an alternative available for voters in that district and we wanted to be sure and highlight that fact, even at this eleventh hour, beyond what we listed on our Election 2012 page.

What we haven’t noted in any of our articles to date, at least not in full, is the inexplicable amount of Republican Party efforts invested in ensuring that Lee Terry retains his post as the GOP candidate and Congressman for that district. We did note in our article, Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide, that the NEGOP, particularly beginning in 2009, began making party constitution and rules changes to ensure advantages to incumbent candidates. Multiple independent sources have confirmed that some of these rules changes have been done specifically to benefit Lee Terry.

Brett Lindstrom’s campaign extended no small amount of effort to dissuade Party members from supporting any further changes to advantage incumbents, but it has been an uphill slog.

That may explain for anyone who was unaware of the challenger’s, Brett Lindstrom’s, existence in the race, the lack of coverage by mainstream media, at least.

We are not endorsing Brett Lindstrom as a group – that would require significant research, etc. We are simply encouraging voters who are looking at their options today to consider them all – check him out for yourself.

We include an image here of an ad which appeared in the Omaha World-Herald. Although we have not “vetted” Mr. Lindstrom significantly, we are impressed that his campaign chose to focus on principles, which should be the first thing considered about any candidate.

To visit Lindstrom’s website, click anywhere on the ad image, below:

Brett Lindstrom Ad in the Omaha World-Herald

Click to visit Brett Lindstrom's official campaign website

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts