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Brian Pounds for Tulsa County Commissioner, District 1
Former Tulsa County Republican Party Chairman J. B. Alexander has announced his endorsement of Brian Pounds, Republican candidate for Tulsa County Commissioner District 1. Pounds is challenging two-term incumbent John Smaligo. The district covers northern and eastern Tulsa County, including Owasso, Skiatook, Sperry, Collinsville, north and east Tulsa. In his...
Petition for jail tax points to opposition of commission majority
Consider these options for putting a county-wide tax proposition on the ballot this fall: 1. Convince at least two of the three county commissioners to support the idea. 2. Collect 18,000 petition signatures in six weeks, early enough to make the November ballot. If you could do either, which would...
Kathy Taylor and the BOK Center budget
Former Mayor Kathy Taylor should get a "pants on fire" rating for her campaign's ads claiming that she brought BOK Center in on time and within budget. During my conversation this morning with Pat Campbell on 1170 KFAQ, Pat asked me about Kathy Taylor's claims that, as mayor, she completed...
Non-resident Vision2 supporters endorse incumbent Owasso mayor
Incumbent Owasso Mayor Doug Bonebrake is being challenged for his City Council Ward 5 seat by J. B. Alexander, the outgoing Tulsa County Republican Party chairman and a leader of the Owasso Taxpayers Alliance, which has successfully elected two members to the five-member council. The non-partisan election will be held...
Vision2: @SayNotoVision2's victory speech on Twitter
One of the most active social media accounts during the Vision2 campaign was @SayNotoVision2 on Twitter. I don't know who ran the account, but he or she was active on a daily basis, rebutting vague and misleading statements from proponents, and making the argument against Tulsa County's Vision2 sales tax...
Vision2: Tulsa County's bait-and-switch habit
"I think the worst thing you could do is promise you are going to build something and then not have enough money to build it." -- then Tulsa County Commissioner Bob Dick, July 2003 I had been looking at these items in isolation, but I'm beginning to see a pattern...
Thoughts on the censure of Perry and Smaligo
I've been told that my name has been mentioned in connection with the decision of the Tulsa County Republican Party County Committee to censure County Commissioners John Smaligo and Fred Perry for their vote to put the Vision2 sales tax on the ballot for November. For the moment, a few...
Tulsa County GOP opposes Vision2, censures Smaligo, Perry
TULSA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESS RELEASE Members of the Tulsa County Republican Party County Committee met on Saturday, August 18, 2012 and adopted a resolution calling for the defeat of the Vision2 county sales tax propositions on the November ballot and opposing any use of Vision 2025 funds to...
Airport sales tax catch-up: Extra money at the county?
This past week, Talk Radio 1170 KFAQ's Pat Campbell spoke to a Tulsa County commissioner, the Tulsa County assessor, the mayor, the chairman of the City Council, a former city councilor, and a Tulsa Metro Chamber official this last week about the proposed Tulsa County tax increase to fund airport...
"Vision for Jobs" another cynical tax grab?
Just as they did in 2003, Tulsa "leaders" are preying on anxieties about job losses to justify siphoning more of your tax dollars through county government to favored businesses. Two possibilities are being discussed to raise $340 million: Either a county-wide sales tax increase of 0.4 percent or an extension...
Tulsa County GOP 2012 convention: peaceful reaffirmation of conservative values
Tulsa County Republican activists gathered today at the Union High School Performing Arts Center to decide on delegates to the congressional district and state Republican conventions and to adopt a platform that will inform the work of platform committees at the state and national conventions. The only dispute in the...
Tulsa Election 2011: Filings, day 1
The Tulsa County Election Board has the official list of Tulsa municipal candidates on its website, but here's a list for handy reference: CITY AUDITOR-2 (Two) Year Term No candidates. CITY COUNCILOR OFFICE NO. 1 -- 1 (One) Year Term Democrat Jack Ross Henderson, 2014 N. Rosedale Ave., Tulsa, OK...
Election 2010: Some happy reflections
I've got some thoughts but am too tired to articulate them in any detail right now, so here are a few bullet points: There's lots of reasons to rejoice, particularly in Oklahoma. Every statewide office in Oklahoma is in Republican hands, and they're all good hands, to boot. Given that...
Voters' guide 2010: The Oklahoma Republican primary ballot
First of all, many thanks to Gene Kaefer and Will Buthod, who responded to my question (Voters' guide? What's it worth to you?) with an affirmative response. Thanks to their generous gifts, I was able to sign up as a premium member of Rasmussen Reports. Their gifts were enough to...
Last day of filing 2010
Today at 5 pm (barring any challenges or withdrawals), we will know the line-up for the Oklahoma 2010 elections. So far a lot of incumbents are getting a free pass. You can view the filings as they happen on the Oklahoma State Election Board website. New this year: You can...
Vote against removing Liz Wright: An open letter to John Smaligo and Fred Perry
I can't attend Monday morning's Tulsa County Commission meeting, so I sent the following letter to County Commissioners John Smaligo and Fred Perry urging them to vote against removing Liz Wright from the TMAPC. (I didn't figure there was any point in sending it to Commissioner Karen Keith, the lead...
Karen Keith's <em>ex post facto</em> crusade for unfair zoning
Tulsa County Commissioner Karen Keith's bizarre and unprecedented campaign to remove Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission member Elizabeth Wright (for bogus reasons, a year before her term expires) reaches its climax on Monday, November 23, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., at a public hearing to be held as part of the...
Karen Keith trying to bully neighborhood leader off planning commission
UPDATE 11:40 a.m. 2009/11/02: Liz Wright called earlier this morning to tell me that the County Commission voted to approve the November 23 public hearing. Karen Keith based her call for a hearing on the need for geographical balance and her desire to make her own appointment, neither of which...
Squaring Bartlett Jr's statement with his record
Last Tuesday, I received an e-mail from the Tulsa County Republican Party with the title "An Open Letter to All Republicans from Dewey Bartlett Jr." The introduction says the letter is "the outcome of meetings between the [Tulsa County Republican Party] elected officials and the Bartlett [Jr] campaign officials," which...
Anna Falling launches mayoral campaign
Former City Councilor Anna Falling announced her campaign for Mayor of Tulsa at a press conference this morning at North Peoria and Latimer Pl, at the north Tulsa campus of Cornerstone Assistance Network, the ministry founded in 2000 by Falling and her husband Chris Beach. Falling will run in...
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