1. Jon Cumberland Bruning was born on April 30,1969 and is an American politician who served as the 32nd Attorney General of Nebraska from 2003 to 2015.
18 Facts About Jon Bruning
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Jon Bruning was a candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Nebraska, losing the Republican nomination to Deb Fischer and in the 2014 Nebraska gubernatorial election, losing the nomination to Pete Ricketts.
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Jon Bruning was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Innocents Society, a senior honor society at Nebraska that honors 13 seniors for leadership, scholarship and service.
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In 1995, Jon Bruning married Deonne Niemack; the couple has two children, Lauren and Jack.
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Jon Bruning served as general counsel for Vital Learning Corporation from 1995 to 1997.
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Jon Bruning ran to represent the 3rd district of the Nebraska Legislature in 1996.
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In 2005, Jon Bruning launched a criminal probe of University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert related to campaign finances.
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Jon Bruning served as President of the National Association of Attorneys General from 2009 to 2010.
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Jon Bruning traveled to Iraq as President of the National Association of Attorneys General and signed training agreement with Iraq Jurists Union.
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Jon Bruning said his comment might have been "inartful" but that he was trying to make a point about spending cuts being necessary.
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In 2012, Jon Bruning sued the Federal government of the United States over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a 26 state coalition.
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Jon Bruning's office led the legal challenge to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's provision regarding employer-paid health insurance requirements related to abortion.
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In 2013, Jon Bruning was fined a $19,000 civil penalty by the Federal Election Commission for campaign finance violations during his 2012 US Senate election effort.
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Jon Bruning left office as Nebraska Attorney General with the inauguration of his successor, Doug Peterson, on January 8,2015.
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In 2007, Jon Bruning entered the race for the US Senate seat then held by Chuck Hagel, and raised more than $1 million for his campaign.
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In late 2010, Jon Bruning announced that he would run in the 2012 election for the US Senate seat held by Democrat Ben Nelson, whose approval ratings in Nebraska had plummeted after he provided the 60th and final vote necessary to break a Republican filibuster and pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Jon Bruning was seen as the strong front-runner in the Republican primary race; former Attorney General and current State Treasurer Don Stenberg, favored by the conservative Tea Party movement, was seen as his strongest challenger.
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Shortly before the election, the political action committee Ending Spending, financed by Omaha businessman Joe Ricketts, ran a television ad attacking Jon Bruning for buying a lake house together with two executives of Lincoln student-loan firm Nelnet less than a year after Jon Bruning, in his capacity as attorney general, had sought to waive a $1 million penalty against the company.