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Ron Peters, Money Belt candidate for Tulsa County Commissioner

Former House District 70 representative Ron Peters has announced his candidacy for the Tulsa County Commission District 3 seat being vacated by retiring Commissioner Fred Perry. In 2003, Peters was one of six Republicans to support a state lottery, breaking ranks with the vast majority of the GOP caucus. Had...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 10, 2013 9:17 PM

Clueless SOTs and their enablers

It appears that the rich old SOTs, who seek to take Tulsa back from, well, Tulsans, are attempting to marshal the resources for gathering the necessary signatures to put their aristocratic propositions on the ballot. Word is that they aren't getting the kind of support and traction they may have...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 22, 2010 9:48 PM

Tulsa's "golden rectangle"

The "Money Belt" made an appearance, under a different name, in an article in the Sunday paper about the different sections of Tulsa and where the dividing lines are. It came in an observation from southeast Tulsa resident and downtown Tulsa worker Brice Bogle: A math lover, Bogle tried to...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 11, 2010 11:24 PM

Dewey Bartlett Jr backtracks on Tulsans for Better Government

Steven Roemerman has a post up on Dewey Bartlett Jr's belated denials that he was a member of Tulsans for Better Government, the group that in 2005 unsuccessfully circulated a petition to change the Tulsa City Charter to reduce the number of City Council districts to six and add three...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 27, 2009 12:10 PM