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Ken Haar (born March 10, 1943) is a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A resident of Malcolm, Haar occupies a seat in the Nebraska Legislature. He is a member of the Democratic Party.〔〔 Haar was born in Freeman, South Dakota. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1961, then attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he obtained a B.S. in education in 1965 and an M.S. in educational administration in 1973. He served on the Lincoln city council from 1989 to 1997.〔 ==Legislative elections== In 2008, Haar ran for the Legislature from the 21st Legislative District, which covers the northwestern corner of Lancaster County, including the northwestern portion of Lincoln;〔 incumbent Carol Hudkins was ineligible to run under Nebraska's term-limits law.〔 In the nonpartisan primary, he placed first of six candidates, receiving 28.3% of the vote; Raymond businessman James Jeffers, a Republican, came in second, with 24.9%.〔〔 Haar and Jeffers, as the top two vote-getters, moved on to the general election. In the general election, Haar was targeted for defeat by anti-abortion groups, on the grounds that his wife, Chris Funk, was the head of the Planned Parenthood organization in Nebraska and western Iowa, and that Haar had voted for funding for the organization while on the Lincoln council.〔〔 When the election was held, the margin was narrow enough to require a recount;〔 this determined that Haar had won by a margin of 20 votes, with 7806 votes to Jeffers's 7786.〔 Haar ran for re-election in 2012. In the nonpartisan primary election, he received 51.0% of the vote; Lincoln attorney Mike Hilgers took 46.2%; and Bryan C. Ifland, 2.8%.〔 Hilgers, a Republican described by the ''Lincoln Journal Star'' as "Catholic and pro-life", stated that his chief concern was jobs and the economy, although abortion-related issues were important to him as well.〔 Haar won the general election, with 50.3% of the vote to Hilgers's 49.7%.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Haar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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