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Rex Berry: Anti-2nd-Amendment atheist for Tulsa County sheriff

It's ridiculous. Tomorrow we'll vote for a sheriff to fill the remaining eight months of the unexpired term of Stanley Glanz, and then a week later candidates will file to run for the full four-year term that begins on January 1, 2017. Glanz resigned effective November 1, 2015. Had he...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 4, 2016 5:27 PM

Oklahoma presidential primary 2016: Aftermath

On Monday, I walked over 17,760 steps, delivering flyers in support of Ted Cruz to my precinct and a neighboring precinct. Tuesday after work, my daughter and I stood with other Cruz supporters at 101st and Memorial, waving signs to remind homeward-bound commuters to vote. You're welcome, Ted. You're welcome,...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 2, 2016 11:05 PM

Luke Sherman for Tulsa County Sheriff

UPDATE for the primary for the full-four year term: Luke Sherman has been endorsed by four of the other candidates in the special election primary, and he continues to have my support. The race to fill the unexpired term of former Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz has been a strange...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 1, 2016 1:01 AM

Sheriff candidate Regalado backed by Rogers Co. plant employees

Why are the executives and employees of a Rogers County manufacturing company, many of whom don't live in Tulsa County, so passionate, so willing to give sacrificially in support of a candidate for Tulsa County Sheriff? An odd thing about Vic Regalado's campaign contributions report: A surprising number of max...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 25, 2016 5:51 PM

Tulsa County Sheriff special election ethics filings

Many thanks to the Tulsa County Election Board for providing scans of the campaign contribution filings for the candidates in the special election for Tulsa County Sheriff. (For a brief shining moment, campaign reports for candidates and committees in the state's largest counties were filed electronically with the Oklahoma Ethics...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 24, 2016 10:28 PM