Dorchester Times: Times Endorsement: Deb Fischer For Senate

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Times Endorsement: Deb Fischer For Senate

The Dorchester Times staff (all six of us) has endorsed state Senator Deb Fischer for U.S. Senate.

Deb Fischer is a state senator from Valentine who began her service in political office in 2004. She is not a career politician -- and we consider that a very positive quality. At the same time, she has proved herself time and again as a true leader who gets things done, even if it means ruffling a few feathers.

Currently, the United States is swimming in $15.7 trillion in debt. We can't walk away from it; we can't declare bankruptcy. The longer we wait to address it, the less your dollar is worth. It is unthinkable, we believe, to leave this burden to our kids and grand kids. To change this immoral situation, we must first change the type of person we send to Washington. Deb Fischer has the courage to do the hard, often thankless task of balancing our budgets.

The Times staff is comprised of both Democrats and Republicans. But we all agree Deb Fischer is right when she says she will work to repeal the federal health care law known as Obamacare. We agree with her that the federal government should have a very limited role in the economy -- and the best thing the feds can do is to get out of the way and allow small businesses to create jobs.

We agree Deb Fischer is right for the job. That is why after careful consideration, Deb Fischer will be getting our vote on Tuesday.

3 comments:

AnonymousMay 12, 2012 at 8:32 PM
Good choice!!!!
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AnonymousMay 14, 2012 at 10:44 AM
I am surprised you guys are up on your politics.

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Posted by admin on May 14, 2012 in Polls | 0 comments
Last week it looked like Nebraska Republican Attorney General Jon Bruning’s shrinking, but sizable lead in the U.S. Senate Primary might be enough to put him over the top. Then we noticed this article reporting that TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts had spearheaded a controversial set of TV ads questioning Bruning’s character while praising one of his main rivals, state legislator Deb Fischer. Word from ground forces hinted that the ads were gaining traction, so we deemed it a good reason to revisit the Cornhusker State again. The results:
Poll type:: Automated Date: 5/13//2012 - Participants: 1,109 Likely GOP voters - Margin of Error: ± 2.95%
Bruning Elander Fischer Flynn Stenberg Zimmerman
ALL VOTERS 34% 4% 39% 3.0% 18% 2%
(LAST WEEK) 42% 3% 26% 4% 23% 2%
It would appear that Bruning has a real problem here. While this one isn’t over, Bruning now appears to be in the fight of his life.
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AnonymousMay 14, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Who better, than a 3rd district state senator. She is getting my vote and I made that decision over 4 months ago.

JR Wolfe
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."