Grant Schulte: The Washington Examiner, 1/05/2012
Republican Attorney General Jon Bruning on Thursday defended his decision to award $100,000 in environmental settlement money to an industry-backed farming group, and said Democrats were only seizing the issue to thwart his U.S. Senate bid.
He denied that the grant was hurriedly approved so he could present it at a Dec. 5 Nebraska Farm Bureau convention in Kearney. Email records from his office showed a 32-minute window between the time the formal application was received and the grant approved, but Bruning said the short time frame failed to account for weeks of talks between his office and the group.
