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Three weeks ago, Dennis Frank Macek decided he’d like to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska.

He talked to his wife about it, and he talked to his fiddle teacher about it, and he talked to me about it.

“I don’t have any illusions I’m going to win,” said Macek, a Texan who landed in Nebraska when his wife, Judith Wilson, accepted a job at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012.

“I just want to stir things up a little.”

Stir away, Mr. Macek.

It’s an uphill battle in the fundraising department, although friends have kicked in enough to take him to four figures.

And he has yet to get his website up and running, although he is looking for someone to take on the job.

Name recognition? That would be Ma-Chek, pronounced the Bohemian way, he says.

But first things first, which would be the need for 4,000 petition signatures to put his name on the ballot in November alongside Ben Sasse (R) and Dave Domina (D).