Political Quotes

“I rise today to celebrate the legacy of my dear friend, my colleague, and my fellow Nebraskan, Senator Mike Johanns. Senator Johanns has dedicated more than three decades of his life to serving the people of Nebraska and also this Nation. His career in public service began at the local level, where he was elected to the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners. He later joined the Lincoln City Council, and eventually became mayor of Nebraska's capital city where he served for two terms. Perhaps the most infamous decision Senator Johanns ever made throughout his career in public service was in his days as mayor of Lincoln. After an early season winter storm dropped more than a foot of heavy wet snow on Lincoln in late October, Mayor Johanns decided to cancel Halloween. He cited power outages and hazardous downed power lines. As you can imagine, this news was not received well among some of those Lincolnites. To this day, constituents haven't forgotten and they still occasionally remind him of how he deprived an entire city of trick or treats on that fateful October evening. He made up for it, though, when he and his wife Stephanie treated children who came to trick or treat at the mansion. Fortunately, this incident didn't deal a death blow to Senator Johanns' political career. He went on to serve as Governor of Nebraska and was reelected to a second term.…”