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Kerrey to serve as Yashirin's campaign finance chairman

BY ANNA JO BRATTON / The Associated Press
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 - 07:38:46 pm CDT
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey will serve as chairman for the campaign finance committee of Max Yashirin, a Democrat running for Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District seat.

The 25-year-old Yashirin faces Republican Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, who’s in his second term.

Yashirin spent a year in Iraq in 2004 with the Marine Reserves and now works with people with mental and physical disabilities at Region 5 Services. He’s finishing his degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Yashirin calls Kerrey an “American hero,’’ and says he’s excited to have the veteran politician’s help.

Kerrey says he believes in Yashirin’s vision for new direction in Washington.

Kerrey, a former Nebraska governor, is president of The New School university in New York.