{"id":25435,"date":"2019-03-15T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25435"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:58:01","slug":"murmans-dream-of-holding-office-deferred-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25435","title":{"rendered":"Murman\u2019s dream of holding office deferred but not forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above: Sen. Dave Murman and his son Chase after winning a football championship in 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil does not often watch the late evening news. But he was watching one night in mid-February 2018 when it was reported that his predecessor in the District 38 seat had announced that he would not seek reelection. <\/p>\n

Murman went to his wife, Kathy, who was already in bed. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018John Kuehn\u2019s not running for state senator again\u2014I was thinking I\u2019d maybe consider running,\u2019\u201d Murman told her.<\/p>\n

He expected her to give him a sharp elbow, but instead Kathy told him she knew how long he had thought about running for the Legislature and that it \u201cmight be a good thing\u201d for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that made me think, \u2018Well, maybe I could do that,\u2019\u201d Murman said.<\/p>\n

Murman\u2019s interest in politics can be traced to his parents. His father, a dairy and row crop farmer, served on the boards of several dairy organizations, as Murman later did. His mother\u2014\u201ca big fan of FDR\u201d\u2014helped with elections during his school years. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Murman majored in animal science, but he also studied political science. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought maybe I\u2019d want to do something else besides farm,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Then he met Kathy, a fellow Glenvil native. Murman decided to move home, join his father and brother on the farm, get married and start a family. The couple raised three children\u2014Kelsi, Whitney and Chase\u2014and they have five grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Murman enjoys traveling, even though life\u2019s circumstances have kept him mostly close to home. His younger daughter, Whitney, has disabilities, and Kathy is her full-time caregiver. Murman drives home each weekend to be with them.<\/p>\n

Despite the travel required, he said, Kathy is \u201ctotally supportive\u201d of his new job.<\/p>\n

The idea to run for the Legislature had been in the back of his mind since he sold his interest in the dairy operation to his brother three years ago, Murman said. Now that he has returned to Lincoln as a state senator, the routine reminds him of his younger days as a dairy farmer when \u201cabout all I had time to do was work,\u201d Murman said.<\/p>\n

In his free time, he likes to play sports, although time has imposed certain limits. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had three shoulder surgeries, and they\u2019re both torn again,\u201d Murman said. \u201cIf it wouldn\u2019t be for that, I\u2019d still be playing basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil does not often watch the late evening news. But he was watching one night in mid-February 2018 when it was reported that his predecessor in the District 38 seat had announced that he would not seek reelection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-25435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senator-features","tag-sen-dave-murman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MeetMurman_blog.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25505,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions\/25505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}