DON WALTON / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Thursday, November 2, 2006 6:00 pm
President Bush will make his Nebraska pitch for Adrian Smith and other Republican candidates during a Sunday appearance at the Heartland Events Center in Grand Island.
The event is scheduled to begin at 3:10 p.m.
Tickets to the speech are being distributed through Republican state headquarters in Lincoln. The 6,000-seat arena is located at Fonner Park off Interstate 80 at Exit 314 (the Locust Street exit).
Bush will fly to Nebraska from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, then address a Kansas Republican rally in Topeka before returning to the ranch.
The Nebraska stop is included among a series of presidential campaign events in Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, Florida, Arkansas and Texas.
“The president is helping Republican candidates so we can keep taxes low and the economy growing,” White House spokesman Alex Conant said Thursday.
“He looks forward to helping Nebraska Republicans turn out the vote.”
The tight 3rd District House battle between Smith and Democratic nominee Scott Kleeb is the catalyst for Bush’s trip to Nebraska. His stop in Grand Island takes him to the largest city in the western and central Nebraska district.
As Kleeb and Smith campaigned Thursday, late money continued to flow into the race, mostly to fund TV advertising.
Latest reports filed with the Federal Election Commission included $118,000 from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, $55,000 from the Nebraska Democratic Party and $93,000 from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Kleeb campaigned Thursday in Gibbon, Kearney and Broken Bow. Smith was in York and Broken Bow.
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