Republican candidate, Ben Sasse, is running for U.S. Senator in Nebraska on the platform of moving the U.S. Capitol to Nebraska and dismantling Obamacare.
In a campaign ad released last week Sasse, a former Assistant Secretary of Health under George W. Bush, says he wants to “cure the incredible ineffectiveness and dysfunction of both parties in Washington by moving the Capitol to Nebraska where they can experience family, conservative values, living within a budget, and pulling together, not pulling apart.”
He goes on to state that:
“This election must be about saving our country from the establishment, dismantling Obama’s failed socialist policies and disrupting the current system. Then we can fight the real conservative battle: protecting our values, traditional marriage, the right to life, the Second Amendment, stopping the rampant borrowing and spending, even taking on the Supreme Court if that’s what it takes.”
On his official website, he refers to himself as the “the national anti-ObamaCare Senate candidate” and identifies himself with leading Tea Party members such as former Senator and current president of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul and Mike Lee.
He also boasts of receiving endorsements from the Tea Party groups Senate Conservatives Fund, created by Jim DeMint and the ultra-conservative organization Club for Growth which has actively sought to unseat Republicans they consider to be moderate. The Club for Growth keeps congressional scorecards on Republicans and is one of the groups House Speaker John Boehner lashed out at last month for pushing against bi-partisan agreement on the Budget Act of 2013.
As reported by Huffington Post on December 11, 2013:
“They’re using our members and they’re using the American people for their own goals. This is ridiculous,” Boehner said loudly. “Listen, if you’re for more deficit reduction, you’re for this agreement.”
You can watch his ad below:
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