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Tulsa Election 2022: City council campaign contribution reports
Yesterday, August 15, 2022, at 5 p.m., was the deadline for campaign contribution and expenditure reports for candidates in any August 23 election. This includes the City of Tulsa general election as well as runoff elections for statewide office, county office, and the legislature. The legislature has created a mess...
Purging Tulsa's map of doers and enablers of evil
FINAL UPDATE! Council votes 7-to-Patrick to change the name within the IDL to M. B. Brady Street in honor of the Civil War era photographer, thus preserving the street name while clarifying that we don't wish to honor W. Tate Brady. Not sure if I should applaud the finesse of...
Oklahoma Senate redistricting: Five senators carved out of their districts
The Oklahoma Senate redistricting plan, drawn up by political consultant Karl Ahlgren, will move five incumbent state senators -- two Democrats and three Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee -- out of their own districts, according to a BatesLine analysis of the new boundaries. A BatesLine geocommons...
The Mystery of the Muskogee Senator's Missing Name
Jamison Faught has caught the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper in an interesting omission. It's in an Associated Press story (originating in the Oklahoman) on two Democratic Oklahoma state senators, Earl Garrison and Kenneth Corn, intervening on behalf of a Muskogee highway contractor named Craig Glover. Glover had been rejected by the...
SB 1324 conferees named
SB 1324, the controversial bill that would interfere with local control of land use issues, is going to conference committee. Here is the list of conferees: Senate (from Thursday's Senate Journal: Brian Crain (R-Tulsa) Earl Garrison (D-Muskogee) Charlie Laster (D-Shawnee) House (from Friday's House Journal): Ron Peters (R-Tulsa) Bill Case...
Tom Adelson explains voter fraud bill delay
Oklahoma State Sen. Tom Adelson is a freshman Democrat who represents District 33, which covers midtown and west Tulsa, and he serves on the General Government Committee. That's the committee where State Rep. Sue Tibbs' bill, requiring voters to show photo ID, is being held up. David Sims, a BatesLine...
<em>Adyos,</em> Cardinal Sin
Via Manuel L. Quezon III, I learned of the passing of Jaime Cardinal Sin, the retired Archbishop of Manila, who died early Tuesday morning. Cardinal Sin was the de facto leader of the opposition in the Philippines during the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos, who declared martial law in 1973...
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