Brett Lindstrom
| Brett Lindstrom | |
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| Member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 18th district |
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Assumed office 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Scott Lautenbaugh |
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| Born | March 23, 1981 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Omaha, Nebraska |
| Occupation | Financial advisor |
Brett R. Lindstrom (born March 23, 1981) is a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for a Nebraska seat in the U.S. Congress, losing to incumbent Lee Terry in the Republican primary election. In 2014, he was elected to the Nebraska Legislature, representing an Omaha district.
Lindstrom was born March 23, 1981, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was raised in Omaha, where he graduated from Millard West High School in 1999. He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, graduating in 2004 with a B.S. in history. At the university, he joined the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team as a walk-on, playing in five games as a back-up quarterback.
Lindstrom returned to Omaha, where he worked with his father, Dan Lindstrom, as a financial advisor. In 2007, he married Leigh Ancona; the couple produced two children.
In 2012, Lindstrom made his first bid for elective office, running for Nebraska's 2nd District seat in the U.S. Congress. He was one of four Republicans challenging the incumbent, Republican Lee Terry; the others were railroad worker Paul Anderson; Glenn Freeman, a onetime Douglas County Republican chairman; and Jack Heidel, chairman of the mathematics department at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
In his campaign, Lindstrom accused Terry of lacking commitment to conservative principles. He took Terry to task for voting for an increase in the United States debt ceiling without demanding a balanced budget amendment in return; and he condemned Terry's efforts to speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, calling Terry "unequivocally beholden to corporate lobbyists and special interests" and accusing him of defending "corporate special interests over the Nebraska taxpayer" In debate, Terry counterattacked, declaring that a Lindstrom press release on the pipeline "sounded like it came from the Democratic Party".
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