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Tulsa Election 2022: First day of filing

Today (June 13, 2022) was the first day of the three-day filing period for the 2022 City of Tulsa election for City Council and City Auditor. All nine City Council races will be on the ballot. The filing period continues through 5 p.m. Wednesday. The City of Tulsa filing packet...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 13, 2022 10:01 PM

Tulsa Election 2020: Filing Day 2

At the end of the second of three days of candidate filing for the 2020 City of Tulsa elections, the incumbent mayor, auditor, and seven of the nine incumbent city councilors have filed for re-election, with Mayor GT Bynum IV drawing three opponents and incumbent Democratic Councilors Kara Joy McKee...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 9, 2020 5:12 PM

2020 City of Tulsa candidate filing period

Filing period for mayor, auditor, and council of the City of Tulsa runs June 8-10, 2020. If you're unhappy with city officials (and you should be), time to act and make a real difference.

Posted by Michael Bates on June 8, 2020 12:00 AM

City Auditor: <s>For Preston Doerflinger</s>

UPDATE 2009/11/08: I retract my previous retraction. I'm endorsing Preston Doerflinger for City Auditor. I am sorry that it has taken me this long to write about it here. (I don't retract my statements about his political consultants.) UPDATE 2009/09/08: I just heard City Council candidate Chris Trail's radio ad...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 8, 2009 2:25 AM

Tulsa Election 2009: Pre-primary Republican campaign contribution reports

Here is a summary of the pre-primary Form C-1 ethics reports filed with the Tulsa City Clerk's office by 5 p.m. today by Republican candidates, the deadline for the pre-primary filing for next Tuesday's Tulsa City Council races. I have listed all contributors $1,000 and over for the mayoral and...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 1, 2009 12:59 AM

It's city campaign ethics report filing day!

Children anticipate December 25 with excitement. I get excited about 5 p.m. on the 8th day before a City of Tulsa election. You can learn a lot about a candidate from his campaign contributions and expenditures, and you can often discern patterns in the giving of frequent individual contributors and...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 31, 2009 7:24 AM