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Tim Gragert Wins District 40 Senate Seat

Tim Gragert Wins District 40 Senate Seat

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Tim Gragert of Creighton won the District 40 state Senate seat in this week’s election. He will be sworn in when the Unicameral begins in January.

Gragert says it took lots of miles across the district to make it happen..

Gragert says he wants to work through cooperation with other Senators..

Gragert says he knows he only has a short time to get organized before the 2019 session starts….

Gragert defeated Keith Kube of Crofton by a margin of fifty two to forty eight percent.

He will succeed Senator Tyson Larson of O’Neill who was term limited.

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