GOP Senate candidate Ben Sasse proposes moving Capitol from DC to Nebraska

During a campaign ad that ran this weekend during NFL playoff games, GOP Senate candidate Ben Sasse proposed moving the Capitol from Washington D.C. to his home state of Nebraska.

The former Bush administration official suggested that the move would be a way to counter all of the influence that lobbyists and special interest groups have on Capitol Hill.

"That’s it, the way to cure the incredible ineffectiveness and dysfunction of both parties in Washington -- we move the Capitol to Nebraska where they can experience family, conservative values, living within a budget, and pulling together, not pulling apart."

Though he doesn't believe the tongue-in-cheek suggestion would be carried out, he believes it will resonate with conservatives who are feeling anger toward both parties.

"Our voters are as fed up with Republicans as they are with Democrats. They don’t think there’s an urgency in either party," Sasse told The Washington Times.

"I think that they, Nebraska work-a-day folks, think that we’re on the precipice of national decline and they don’t think Washington gets it at all."

He was able to raise a good deal of money in the third quarter on an anti-Obamacare platform.

"Look, Obamacare is arguably the worst law in our history,” Sasse said in a longer biographical video. “But it's been four years since it's been passed and Republicans still haven't offered an alternative. Of course we need to repeal it but we also need to tell people what we'll do next. We need to show Americans that we're the party of conservative solutions. That's the only way win."

[The Washington Times]