I'm Dan Osborn: That's why I want Nebraska's vote for the Senate

Across Nebraska, working people are not getting justice. The costs are too high, there is chaos at the border, and career politicians spend their time enriching themselves and serving their donors instead of doing something about it. The US Senate is just a country club of millionaires working for billionaires who have no idea what it's like to make a living and are bankrupting this country.

It's time we tried something different.

I joined the Navy after high school and then the Nebraska National Guard. For the last 20 years I have worked fifty, sixty, seventy hours a week in the factory to support my family. When corporate greed and reckless government spending drive up food prices, my family feels it in our pocketbooks – just like yours.

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Independent Dan Osborn, a challenger to two-term Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, chats with guests at a brewery in Beatrice, Nebraska, on July 30. (AP/Margery Beck)

My opponent – ​​incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fischer – doesn’t understand what we’re going through. Since arriving in Washington, Deb has become ten times richer while the national debt has more than doubled. She sold out Nebraska and lined her pockets while we paid the price.

During her time in Washington, she enabled wasteful and reckless spending that led to our $35 trillion national debt. That's why she was censured by three Republican county parties here in Nebraska. As the Hitchcock County GOP memorably put it, Fischer “violated the core tenets of their publicly proclaimed conservative principles.” Most recently, she failed to pass a farm bill, leaving Nebraska's farmers and ranchers – the backbone of our state's communities and economy – in the lurch.

Republican Senator Deb Fischer served as a two-term senator from Nebraska. (Reuters)

But it gets worse. Just this year, our Senator Deb Fischer voted with Senate Democrats to kill a Republican immigration plan that would have created 1,500 border agents and $20 billion for border security. This is simply inexcusable – if we don't have a border, we don't have a country. But Deb would rather comply with the wishes of her corporate donors who profit from the exploitation of cheap labor.

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The worst part is that my opponent is acting like she has a right to her Senate seat. When she first ran for office, she vowed to uphold a two-term limit, then shamelessly broke her promise to Nebraskans by running for a third term.

She also simply refuses to talk to the people of Nebraska. Instead of holding community meetings here in Nebraska, she spends her time with her corporate donors in Washington. She refuses to debate me because then she would be forced to explain her past to the people of our state. During this campaign, she did not hold a single public event in Nebraska where the public could ask her questions. I have now held more than 180 public events across the country.

My word means something to me. It means something to my family. And it means something to Nebraskans. Deb Fischer showed us that her word means nothing. She kept selling out Nerbaskans. She takes care of herself. She takes care of her donors. She doesn't care about us.

Dan Osborn, independent candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during a press conference announcing that he will not accept party or political endorsements on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at his home in Omaha, Nebraska. ((Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP))

Now that this is one of the closest Senate elections in the country, Deb and her company colleagues have become nervous and are now spreading lies about me. The truth is that I agree with President Trump on many of the country's most important issues, whether it's the need to drain the swamp and fight corruption or stand up to China, I agree with him. If he needs someone to help him build the wall, I'm pretty handy.

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I will always put Nebraska first in the Senate. I will not rely on big corporate interests and their checkbooks. I won't let China and Big Tech bully me. Unlike Deb, I will not put a price on Nebraskans. I will work with or take on every member of both parties to implement effective policies that actually benefit hardworking Nebraskans – supporting small family businesses, reducing inflation and putting more money in our pockets, reducing crime and our borders close.

I'm not on the ballot thanks to any political party – I'm on the ballot thanks to the people of my state. Twelve thousand Nebraskans from all 93 counties signed petitions for me to run for Senate, and I built support for my campaign through personal conversations with the people of this state. People here know that politicians in Washington are failing them. It's time for Nebraskans to have a senator who actually represents us. The people who can't buy senators.