Nebraska 2nd Congressional District part 1

I am currently living in the 2nd Congressional District in Nebraska.  The incumbent for the House of Representatives is Congressman Lee Terry.  He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1998.  While he was running in the primary to become the Republican choice for Congress in the 2nd District, he signed the U.S. Term Limits Pledge.  He pledged to serve no more than three terms in the United States of House of Representatives.  This means that he pledged to no longer run after the completion of his 2002 term.

My professor for Introduction to American National Government at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Richard Fellman was the first one to alert me to this bit of information.  In 2008, Lee Terry spoke to my class about the Bailout bill.  It's important to note that Barack Obama was not the president when the first bailout was voted on and was not the one who started the talks about having the bailout (I thought it might be important to note that).  Professor Fellman asked Jim Esch, who ran against Terry in 2006 and 2008, if Esch was going to call Terry out on this former pledge he had signed.  Esch stated that he would not.

There will be a series of posts about what Hypocrisy Now thinks about this particular Congressional Race.  I'm sure you can imagine where we stand on this issue. I just thought it should be introduced here.  Perhaps, we'll actually finish all of our series of posts.