Washington County Republican Party

The Restoring Honor rally was held in Washington DC today, August 28, 2010 and hosted by conservative talk radio and Fox News personality Glenn Beck and former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Some crowd estimates range upwards of one million people in attendance! Many traveled from the Omaha area on buses to attend. This non-political event paid tribute to America’s service personnel and other upstanding citizens who embody our nation’s founding principles of integrity, truth and honor. The rally also stressed that our freedom is possible only if we remain virtuous and featured restoring the values that founded America.

The Lydia Brasch for Legislature campaign held a fundraiser at Fernando’s in Blair on Thursday August 19, 2010. Co-organized by 1st District Republican Chairman Tim O’Dell and Blair City Attorney/WCRP Treasurer Geoff Hall, the fundraiser’s featured guest was US Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. Other dignitaries attending were former Nebraska Governor Kay Orr and current Mayor of Blair Jim Realph. The event bolstered the already exciting and expanding Brasch for Legislature campaign. View the Brasch fundraiser photos or slideshow.

The Washington County Republican Party has a number of activities going on during the 2010 Washington County Fair. The WCRP fair booth runs during the entire fair August 6-11. On Sunday August 8th, the “Dunk the Dems” dunking tank ran from noon until 8:30 pm. The newly rebuilt parade float looked great and had over 20 people riding or walking with the float to hand out candy and fliers. Immediately following the parade, WCRP held another successful ice cream social. Find all the county fair photos or watch the county fair slideshow.

The Nebraska Republican Party held its 2010 state convention in Fremont on Saturday July 31, 2010. All 12 of the WCRP delegates and alternate delegates attended the state convention. You can find 2010 state convention photos in the 2010 State convention photo album or just watch the convention photo slideshow.
1st district Chairman Tim O’Dell addresses the 2010 Nebraska Republican state convention:

The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama signed into law earlier this week should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called for what it is: pages and pages of massively costly, counterproductive and possibly unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. Read more

The Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission is an independent agency of the State of Nebraska. The Commission administers and enforces the State’s campaign finance laws, its lobbying laws, and its conflict of interest laws. Their website contains all the campaign filings made by all Nebraska candidates required by law.

To view a candidate’s financing, contributions and expenditure details click on View campaign filings and fill in the candidates last name in the search box. Once you find a candidate, you need to click on their current campaign filings link. You will then find details on each tab; Campaign Committee, Financial Summary, Schedule “A” (individuals contributing over $250), Schedule “B” (businesses, PACS and other entities contributing over $250), Schedule “C” (loans), Schedule “D” (expenditures).