THE RACE IS ON FOR COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 3 SEAT
Date: Monday, April 01 @ 00:00:00 CST Topic: News and Views
Since former Adjutant General Stanley Heng withdrew from the race, there may not be a Democrat in the race. Republicans Paul Zoz and Deb Schorr are tooling up to engage in a vigorous race, where Zoz my have recently gained the edge.
COUNTY BOARD RACE DEVOID OF DEMOCRAT - FOR
NOW
The two filed Republican candidates for the
Lancaster County Board of Commissioners, Paul Zoz and Deb
Schorr, became the only likely candidates the District 3, seat
being vacated by Republican Cathy Campbell. When retired
Adjutant General Stanley Heng, the only filed Democrat,
withdrew from the race for health reasons, the chances became
very high that the contest will be settled in the forthcoming
Primary Election.
Here's what will happen. Heng's will
be the only name on the Democratic ballot for the office, so
folks who pay little to no attention to the news and who vote
straight party tickets will cast their votes for Heng. He will
be elected and the Lancaster County Election Commissioner
David Shively will certify Heng as having been elected as the
candidate for the Democratic Party in the race and formally
notify Heng of such. Thereafter, Heng will, if he still
chooses, have to formally decline the election and notify
Shively accordingly. Shively will then notify the Democratic
Party of the matter and the party will have a short period of
time, if it chooses, to select a replacement candidate and
notify the election commissioner of their choice. That person
will take Heng's place on the ballot.
If Heng really
wanted to screw things up, he would simply ignore
correspondence from Shively and allow his name to appear on
the General Election ballot after he has publicly withdrawn
from the race. Not likely to happen unless most of the marbles
have fallen off of the general's Chinese-checker board. Heng
is too detail oriented to let this one fall through the
cracks, unless he is ticked off at all of the Democratic money
donors who, for one reason or another, turned their backs on
his candidacy. Heng has stated he will return all donations he
has received, but reliable sources indicate he wouldn't have
to buy many postage stamps to do so.
When Heng bowed
out of the race, the Democrats began scrambling for a
replacement and the one and only name which hit the streets
was Bennet, Nebraska resident Stan Matzke. The Matzke name has
been in Nebraska probably since pioneer days. Stan would have
run a good race and would have very likely been well funded,
but I'm told there is one problem (which I admittedly have not
yet checked out), that he is, or at least was at the cut-off
time, a registered Republican.
My sources are
activated and will turn up the name of any eligible Democrat
who might step up and take Heng's place. This will be the
subject of future writings.
Republicans Deb Schorr and
Paul Zoz are squaring off in what will likely be a hard fought
and expensive primary contest. Sources reveal Mrs. Schorr, a
well-known community volunteer and wife of attorney Mark
Schorr has made and will air some pretty classy radio and
television commercials. Professionally done TV advertisements
are neither cheap to make nor cheap to run, but the Lincoln
Country Club set who appears to be her primary financial
backers, can afford it...and probably will afford it.
Paul Zoz, seasoned Lincoln businessman and co-owner of
Bizco, Inc.( a very successful computer technology company)
has or will likely accomplish financial parity with his
opponent, but is predicted to be a good deal more frugal with
campaign bucks. Paul has seasoned businesswomen Maggie Higgins
as his campaign manager, and she has organized the "Zoz Team"
into a tough hard working bunch. The Zoz Team has already
shown that the members are capable of "FUN RAISING", as
thirty-five of them visited nearly every place in town on St.
Patrick's Day evening and, we're told put around 2,000
campaign stickers on potential voters. I might add, they were
responsible and rented a bus, hence there was no question as
to who the "Designated Driver" was.
I don't at present
know the structure of Schorr's campaign team, as I was not in
the "select privileged few" who were invited to her fund
raiser. We do know that Lincoln attorney Reginald Kuhn, law
partner is her treasurer and at one time, we were informed
that real estate salesperson Darlene Starman was heading her
campaign but that was before her name was removed from the
list of resource persons for Governor Mike Johanns'
re-election campaign. Others have indicated the Schorr
campaign was being shepherded by Mary Johnson. We do know that
Reginald Kuhn, law partner of John Lyon (J.L.) Spray is the
Schorr Campaign Treasurer. J.L. is the Lancaster County
Republican Party Chairman and has, in my opinion, most
indiscretely and occasionally obnoxiously, been strong arming
party members to switch from Zoz to Schorr.
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