Dave Heineman
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David Heineman (born May 12, 1948, in Falls City, Nebraska) is a Republican politician who currently serves as the Governor of Nebraska. He became Governor on January 20, 2005 following Mike Johanns' resignation to become United States Secretary of Agriculture in President George W. Bush's Cabinet.
On April 11, 2005, Heineman announced that he would be seeking election to a full four-year term. He had the backing of Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, though he faced a difficult challenge in the Republican primary from Omaha businessman Dave Nabity and former Nebraska Cornhuskers football coach and U.S. Representative Tom Osborne. Heineman took 49 percent of the more than 197,000 votes cast, and Osborne 45 percent [link].
The Lincoln Journal Star analyzed the race:
While Osborne captured populous Omaha and Lincoln, Heineman sealed his victory in rural counties and key population centers in western and central Nebraska’s critical Republican battleground....
...it was the political impact of two gubernatorial vetoes that appeared to lift [Heineman ] into a late surge, especially in Osborne’s congressional district.
Heineman’s opposition to Class I rural school reorganization and the granting of resident college tuition rates to the children of illegal immigrants cut into Osborne’s support.
Osborne declined to sign referendum petitions seeking voter repeal of the rural school legislation and said he would have signed the resident tuition bill." [link]
Heineman, who graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1970, was appointed on October 1, 2001 to the office of Lieutenant Governor, and was elected to his first full term in 2002. Previously, Heineman served two terms as the Nebraska State Treasurer from 1994 to 2001.
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