Karnes and Daub dicuss their strengths
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
David Karnes sits comfortably in a
meeting room at the Comhusker
Hotel in downtown Lincoln.
He relaxes after a small press
conference Friday where three for
mer Nebraska governors announced
their support for his campaign.
Charles Thone , Robert Crosby and
Norbert Tiemann are not the only
politicians who say they stand behind
Karnes. The country ’ s y oungest sena
tor has television commercials boast
ing support from several of his col
leagues.
Karnes was appointed to the Sen
ate by Gov. Kay Orr following the
death of Edward Zorinsky in March
1987. After two years in Washington,
Karnes is now running for the repub
lican nomination to a second term in
the Senate against four-time Ne
braska Congressman Hal Daub.
Daub was at the Comhusker on
Saturday afternoon. When he came
into the hotel, he was immediately
recognized by people in the lobby —
something he is used to after eight
years in Congress.
Daub says he may not have the
“inherited” backing that Karnes is
receiving during their 1988 republi
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can U.S. Senate race, but that he has
been in republican politics for more
than 20 years and Nebraskans know
him.
“I have taken the time to learn and
listen and to gather the experience
necessary to be an effective United
States senator,” Daub said.
Daub, from Omaha, has won his
seat in Congress four times in what he
calls the ‘‘toughest political district in
Nebraska.”
Many have said the primary for the
1988 Senate election will be a tough
race. The Republican winner of the
May 10 primary will face either for
mer Nebraska Gov. Bob Kerrey or
Ken Michaelis from West Point in the
general election.
Both Daub and Karnes say the race
will be a rough one and a risky career
move. Both say their toughest oppo
nent will be each other, not their
democratic opponent.
Both Daub and Karnes say “Ne
braskans need me.”
Karnes stresses his experience on
the Senate Agricultural Committee
and his work on new farm credit leg
islation — work that got Karnes rec
ognition from President Reagan.
Karnes said he understands farm
ers and their needs because of many
summers he spent at his family farm
in Fairmont.
That experience gave him a per
spective, he said, that many city
dwellers may not understand.
“We need someone that really has
the hands-on perspective,” he said.
That perspective, he says, is one of
the differences between he and Daub,
“and a big, big difference” between
he and Kerrey.
But Daub says Karnes is “kind of a
Johnny-one-note” when it comes to
agriculture.
“It’s an understandable area of
emphasis, but it’s not the only issue.
He doesn’t want to talk about foreign
policy and diplomacy and treaty
making and ratification ... the es
sence of what really the senate’s all
about according to the constitution.”
Daub said Karnes’ experience is
limited.
“My opponent has some inherited
land. A small amount of unimproved
land, it has no buildings on it, I mean,
he’s not a farmer and neither was Ed
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