LINCOLN- State Sen. Mike Flood picked up a union endorsement that gives him new foot soldiers in the door-to-door push to turn out his voters in the June 28 special election that will decide who finishes out the term of former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.

The Lincoln Fire Fighters Association endorsed Flood, a former speaker of the Legislature from Norfolk.

The roughly 300-member union picked Flood, a Republican, over his opponent, State Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln, a Democrat. Union president Adam Schrunk said 1st District voters have two good choices in June but said Flood was “the best.”

“We put politicians through a fairly involved process so that when we attach our name to them, we can be sure they’ll be the advocates for public safety that they say they will,” Schrunk said. “He’s proven to be that kind of elected official already.”

Pansing Brooks said she was disappointed by the union’s choice but said she will still “be their champion in Congress, just as I have in the Nebraska Legislature.”

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