Bob Kerrey's Senate Campaign already dogged by "backroom deal"

Bob Kerrey's Senate Campaign already dogged by "backroom deal"

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From Politico:

Harry Reid made Democrat Bob Kerrey a special promise if he’d jump into the Nebraska race for his old Senate seat. So what was it: a chance to reclaim his senatorial seniority? A plum committee gavel? Campaign cash for his race?
Nobody will say, but one thing is certain: Questions swirling around Kerrey’s arrangement will dog the two-term former senator until he or the majority leader come clean.
Republican critics are hammering Kerrey from Washington to Lincoln for cutting a “backroom deal” with Reid. . . .

Is Bob Kerry too liberal for Nebraska?

Is Bob Kerry too liberal for Nebraska?

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It is hard for people to apparently remember that there was a reason that Bob Kerry didn't run for re-election in 2000. His many liberal political views would have made it a somewhat tough race. From the Politico today:

Bob Kerrey took a lonely position against banning gay marriage in the 1990s. He opposed a ban on flag desecration, voted against welfare reform and ran up high Americans for Democratic Action scores while serving as the senator from one of the most conservative states in the nation. . . .