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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Mike Johanns (R, Incumbent)
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Gov. Mike Johanns won re-election by the second largest margin of any gubernatorial race in the country, defeating InfoUSA chief financial officer Stormy Dean by 42 points. He was the first Republican governor to win a second-term in Nebraska in 46 years. Johanns won endorsements from the state's leading newspapers, police groups and labor unions while the state AFL-CIO and the Nebraska State Education Association withheld endorsements that may have helped Dean, a Democrat. Johanns, a tough opponent of new taxes, vetoed a teacher pay raise in 2001 that included simultaneous increases in the state's property and sales taxes and lost a fight with lawmakers over sales and income tax hikes they approved to fill the state's revenue gap earlier this year.
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