Oklahoma::Politics: May 2008 Archives

The McCarville Report Online: Are Cargill, Adkins Next To Quit?

Republican State Reps. Ron Peterson (Broken Arrow) and Susan Winchester (Chickasha) have announced they won't run for re-election. Tulsa State Rep. Dennis Adkins and disgraced former Speaker Lance Cargill may follow them out the door. Filing period is next week, June 2-4.

In Defense of RINO Hunting - WSJ.com

Pat Toomey defends against Okla. Rep. Tom Cole's claim that the Club for Growth is "stupid" to target liberal Republicans for defeat: "Winning for the sake of winning is an excellent short-term tactic, but a lousy long-term strategy.... A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power." Tom Coburn's 2004 defeat of Kirk Humphreys is mentioned. (Hat tip: John Eagleton.)