{"id":2370720,"date":"2024-11-19T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dan-osborn-launches-pac-to-elect-working-class-heroes-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:32:53","slug":"dan-osborn-launches-pac-to-elect-working-class-heroes-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dan-osborn-launches-pac-to-elect-working-class-heroes-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Osborn launches PAC to elect &#8216;working-class&#8217; heroes &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdan-osborn-launches-pac-to-elect-working-class-heroes-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370720&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dan Osborn, an independent Senate candidate from Nebraska, has launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marriott-att-airbnbheres-the-list-of-corporations-announcing-they-wont-donate-to-gop-lawmakers-who-objected-to-electoral-votes-from-contested-states\/\" title=\"Marriott, AT&amp;T, Airbnb\u2026Here\u2019s The List Of Corporations Announcing They Won\u2019t Donate To GOP Lawmakers Who Objected To Electoral Votes From Contested States\">political action committee<\/a> (PAC) aimed\u2064 at\u2062 electing \u200dworking-class candidates. This\u200b initiative follows Osborn&#8217;s recent narrow defeat to Senator Deb Fischer. He\u200d intends to create \u200da hybrid organization that functions\u200d both\u200d as \u200ba PAC\u200b and a strike fund to support candidates from\u2063 the working class \u2062and union workers. Drawing on his background\u200c as a steamfitter, \u200cformer union president, and Navy veteran, Osborn emphasizes\u200b the need for more working-class representation \u200din politics. He argues that such candidates can unite the working class and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">drive meaningful\u200d political change<\/a>. The PAC, called @WrknClassHeroes, addresses the concern that a small\u200c percentage of elected officials come\u200c from working-class backgrounds, suggesting \u2062that\u2062 special interests overshadow \u200dthe voices of\u2062 ordinary \u200dpeople in politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Nebraska independent Dan Osborn launches PAC to elect &lsquo;working-class heroes&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1876911\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Independent Senate candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3214917\/dan-osborn-nebraska-senate-race-independent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dan Osborn\">Dan Osborn<\/a> announced a new hybrid <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pacs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dan Osborn\">political action committee<\/a> for working-class candidates Monday following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3203691\/deb-fischer-dan-osborn-nebraska-senate-race-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dan Osborn\">his narrow loss<\/a> to Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE).<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Osborn, a steamfitter by trade, is fresh from his senate campaign as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-man-trying-to-shake-up-yales-secretive-governing-body\/\" title=\"Meet the Man Trying to Shake Up Yale\u2019s Secretive Governing Body\">independent candidate<\/a>. Now, with his experience as a former union president and Navy veteran, he&rsquo;s created a part-PAC, part-strike fund to help candidates and union workers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our campaign showed that candidates who are actually from the working class can unite the working class to change our politics,&rdquo; Osborn wrote Monday on X. &ldquo;We need a hell of a lot more working class people running for office, and that&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;re launching @WrknClassHeroes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our campaign showed that candidates who are actually from the working class can unite the working class to change our politics.<\/p>\n<p>We need a hell of a lot more working class people running for office, and that&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;re launching <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrknClassHeroes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WrknClassHeroes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more:&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U4GZ8sDiKW\">https:\/\/t.co\/U4GZ8sDiKW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Osborn (@OsbornForSenate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OsbornForSenate\/status\/1858873565208072362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Less than 2% of our elected leaders are from the working class,&rdquo; the PAC&rsquo;s website reads. &ldquo;Special interests and billionaires own our politicians. That&rsquo;s why both parties have lost touch with regular people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) said the Democratic Party, which he caucuses with, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3222722\/white-house-dnc-balk-sanders-criticism-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abandoned the&nbsp;working&nbsp;class<\/a>&rdquo; in the days following the Nov. 5 election, in which the Republican Party won the White House along with the majorities in the Senate and House.<\/p>\n<p>Osborn refused to align himself with Democrats, who didn&rsquo;t run a candidate in the Nebraska Senate race themselves. The party ran a similar strategy in Utah in 2022, not running its own candidate but successfully endorsing independent candidate Evan McMullin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In both races, these independents were up against incumbents and came closer than the Democratic candidates have in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Osborn&rsquo;s PAC&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.workingclassheroes.fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>&nbsp;implies that it will pr<\/span>ioritize &ldquo;patriots who have served their country&rdquo; and will organize &ldquo;working-class voters to mobilize for working-class issues.&rdquo; It also solicits nominations for candidates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1876911\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1876911\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska independent Dan Osborn starts PAC for working-class candidates after his close loss to Sen. 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