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Oklahoma Primary 2022: Final thoughts

It's now 7 hours until polls open, but there are a couple of things that came up in the last couple of days worth noting: In the full-term Senate race, I changed my pick from Jackson Lahmeyer to Joan Farr. My vote for Lahmeyer was a protest against incumbent James...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 28, 2022 12:04 AM

Lankford: SQ 790 corrects virus in Oklahoma Constitution

In a November 1, 2016, speech to pastors in Tulsa, U. S. Senator James Lankford likened Article II, Section 5, of the Oklahoma Constitution to a latent computer virus. Lankford warned that unless Oklahomans repeal that section by passing SQ 790, anti-religion litigants will be able to use the provision...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2016 9:42 AM

Election 2014: Random thoughts

Dear James Lankford, your scaremongering about a runoff to raise money is shameful. Unless the nominee is caught in a Minneapolis airport restroom with a wide stance, there is no way the GOP will lose Tom Coburn's seat. Your November opponent will either be a very liberal pro-abortion state senator...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 22, 2014 10:25 PM

Coburn aide: Tea Party winning, even if "Tea Party candidates" aren't

John Hart, Sen. Tom Coburn's communications director, attempts to help the mainstream media understand what's happening with the Tea Party movement, and in the process encourages Tea Partiers to be of good cheer, notwithstanding the renomination of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: For those keeping score, it is now roughly...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 22, 2014 11:38 PM

Coburn, Lankford ask governors not to establish state exchanges

A group of 75 U. S. Senators and U. S. House members, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, and Rep. Jim Jordan, have written a letter to the National Governors Association urging against the implementation of state health care exchanges. Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and Rep. James Lankford...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 2, 2012 7:06 PM

What did Lankford do right that Brogdon did wrong?

I'm asking; I don't have an answer, as I wasn't following the 5th Congressional District race. I invite my Oklahoma City readers to share their observations. In James Lankford you have a political novice who puts together a conservative grassroots campaign to finish ahead of several more heavily financed candidates....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 30, 2010 2:42 PM