http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=2338686Published Monday | March 12, 2007
What about Hagel's Senate seat
Chuck Hagel's announcement Monday leaves in limbo a number of politicians who've been eyeing the Senate race in 2008:
Democrats
• Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey, who recently met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
• Scott Kleeb, the Yale-educated Dunning ranch hand, made a favorable impression in his losing 2006 race against Republican Adrian Smith in the 3rd Congressional District.
Republicans
• Kermit Brashear, an Omaha lawyer and former speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
• Jon Bruning, who last year won a second term as Nebraska's attorney general.
• Hal Daub, former Omaha mayor and former congressman.
• Mike Johanns, former Lincoln mayor, former governor and current U.S. agriculture secretary.
• Lee Terry, who recently won his fifth term as Omaha's congressman.
• Jeff Fortenberry, Lincoln's congressman just won a second term.
• Pete Ricketts, the Omaha businessman who lost in a landslide to Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson in 2006.