From CNN
By: Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
A leading conservative grassroots organization is taking sides in the Republican Senate primary fight in Nebraska, in the battle to try and defeat Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson next year.
CNN has learned that FreedomWorks will endorse state Treasurer Don Stenberg, one of two well established candidates making a bid for the Senate nomination. Stenberg, who launched his campaign in March, is a former Nebraska attorney general and the GOP's 2000 Senate nominee in the state. He is making his fourth run for the Senate.
"Over the past few months we have been speaking with our members and allies in Nebraska and two things are clear: they are going to work hard to beat Ben Nelson, and they want Don Stenberg to be their next Senator," says Max Pappas, Executive Director of FreedomWorks PAC, in a statement obtained by CNN.
"Nebraskans described Stenberg to us as 'tea party-minded before we had tea parties' and noted 'based on his record and life, he is a constitutionalist,'" adds Pappas.
FreedomWorks is a major DC-based conservative grassroots group that has provided much of the organization behind major tea party events, and that among other things, supports fiscal conservative candidates.
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