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Tulsa Election 2022: City Council runoff

The City of Tulsa's odd and oft-changed election process comes to its 2022 conclusion Tuesday with runoffs in three of nine Tulsa City Council seats. Three incumbents, all registered to vote as Democrats, failed to reach the 50% threshold in the August general election and so face a runoff. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2022 11:37 PM

Tulsa Election 2020: Ty Walker for Mayor

What looked like a sleepy re-election run, for Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum IV as recently as the beginning of May, with one declared opponent and a perennial candidate in jail, turned into a free-for-all. As soon as he had some tough decisions to make, the smiley guy that everyone...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 23, 2020 9:57 PM

Tulsa Election 2020: Mayoral candidate questionnaire

Last Wednesday, BatesLine sent a questionnaire to the six serious candidates for Mayor of Tulsa, using the email addresses provided in their declarations of candidacy or on their websites. We sent two reminders. We received replies from three candidates: Craig Immel, Ken Reddick, and Ty Walker. The survey consists of...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 18, 2020 8:08 PM