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The Lincoln mayoral campaign of former Nebraska state senator Chris Beutler still hasn’t hooked me up with any campaign swag, but congratulations are still due to my surnamesake for winning yesterday’s primary:

Democrat Chris Beutler was the top vote-getter in the mayor’s race in unofficial final results from Tuesday’s primary election. The former state senator walked away with 48 percent of the votes, compared to Republican City Councilman Ken Svoboda’s 35 percent. They were trailed by independent candidate Roger Yant with 14 percent, and Nebraska Party candidate Mike Deal at 3 percent. Beutler and Svoboda now advance to the May 1 general election. The winner will replace Coleen Seng, who announced last fall that she would not seek re-election. While the point of the primary was to narrow the field of four to two, Beutler is likely to benefit from his primary win by seeing more campaign donations come his way in the next month. Beutler said the 13-point lead was better than he expected. “It’s a good night,” he said. “The signs have been good, but we didn’t know what would happen for sure. I’m pleasantly surprised.”

My previous offer to stop running his opponent’s press releases in exchange for a yard sign or bumper sticker appears to have been dismissed out of hand, perhaps because I only ran one, and not even in the main body of the post. I now recognize going with the stick may not have been the right approach.

So here’s the carrot: I have in my possession another news report, originally published April 3, titled

“City overpaid Beutler for fundraising work”

Note that I have not linked to it. Why? Maybe because I categorically reject the notion that a Beutler could be overpaid. But also because I hereby denounce it as an election-day smear by the biased (who isn’t?) Journal-Star, which will stop at nothing (it would follow) to carry out its rapacious anti-Beutler agenda (I presume).

We Beutlers must hang together, or we will hang separately (or something like that).

Maybe a campaign button?