Hahn announces plan for Nebraska's future
Entrepreneur candidate will use salary for child welfare advocate
September 12, 2006
Candidate for governor and entrepreneur David Hahn announced his plan to get Nebraska's future on the right track in a press conference this morning in Gering.
Hahn also promised to use his salary as governor to hire a full-time child welfare worker who answers directly to the governor.
Hahn's three-step plan is to 1) Unite the State, 2) Plug the Brain Drain and 3) Fix the Economy. Hahn will create a western governor's office and an e-democracy program to unite the state. Hahn will create 375 scholarships for Nebraska's state colleges for veterans of the War on Terror and 375 "Imagination Scholarships" for essay contest winners who stay in Nebraska for at least five years after Nebraska to plug the brain drain. Hahn will also fix Nebraska's economy by creating a new renewable energy industry in Nebraska and dramatically restructuring Nebraska's property tax system, which will significantly cut property taxes for working families, farmers, and ranchers.
"I believe that honest, self-reliant, hard-working, middle-class people have always been the soul of our state," Hahn said. Nebraskans are "becoming aware that a tax system which amounts to corporate welfare and takes more from individuals and families, is not in the best interest of Nebraska, our citizens, or our future generations," Hahn said.
"I want to be governor because I believe Nebraskans deserve better. Over the next weeks I will roll out significant initiatives; property tax reform, a forward-moving technology and energy program, and still control state spending," Hahn said.
"These initiatives will reshape Nebraska's policies to work in favor of the good, working, middle-class people of Nebraska instead of favoring a corporate few as a result of the expensive lobbying of the political elite in backrooms in Lincoln," Hahn said.
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