It was a wild and crazy ride in Oklahoma yesterday. We had multiple runoff elections being conducted as we move closer to the general election in November. While all of that was going on, there was something else that may have slipped under the radar of most people. As is the case with a...
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Here in Oklahoma, we like to vote on something we call state questions. Nearly every time we have an election, we are asked to approve or disapprove a particular amendment, initiative, etc., etc., in the form of a not so simple question. Most of the time, the average voter has to read and reread...
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I know I have already written about the latest $26 billion bone that is being thrown out by the Democrats. I continue to stand by my assessment that H.R. 1586 is not a good thing. It is just the latest example of a spend happy Congress doing what they do best, ie. spend our...
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I had not considered this happening in the 2010 election for Oklahoma Governor, but the race is apparently going to be a national one. There are a lot of issues that are state related, but there is one, over-ridding factor that both candidates have to take into account. That is especially true for Jari Askins....
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As The McCarville Report put it, the drama is over. Randy Brogdon met with Mary Fallin at the Fallin campaign headquarters in Oklahoma City this morning and after all was said and done, he gave his endorsement to the woman who a lot of hope will be the first woman Governor of Oklahoma. This...
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It’s been just over a year since one of the worst traffic accidents ever recorded in Oklahoma took place on I-44, near the Miami exit. Donald Leroy Creed drove his tractor-trailer rig over a hill and for some reason, failed to see a line of cars that were stopped because of a previous accident....
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It’s not often that I do this, but I just found this post by Steve Fair of Fair and Biased, via The McCarville Report and thought it to be well worth sharing. My readers know I try to fair when I write about politics and that’s one reason I was drawn to this article...
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When I wrote yesterday’s article and asked if Randy Brogdon would endorse Mary Fallin for Governor of Oklahoma, I never expected the small firestorm that resulted in the comments. I also never expected it to be reprinted on Tulsa Today, but there it is, bigger than life. One of the comments mentioned that sources...
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I have a question that I would like to have an answer to, concerning Randy Brogdon. I did support him for the Republican nomination for governor of Oklahoma, but I made it clear on this blog that if Mary Fallin won the primary, I would support her with no reservations. I felt they were...
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It has been six years since the citizens of Oklahoma overwhelmingly approved the creation of our state lottery. On October 12, 2010, it will have been five years since the lottery went into effect and began it’s operation. In the interest of disclosure, let me say that I voted against the creation of the...
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