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Capitol follies: Simonson and sales tax; Wright and Reynolds rap

Peter Rudy of Oklahoma Watchdog has a couple of intriguing items: Whatever happened to former mayoral chief of staff Terry Simonson? House Speaker Kris Steele appointed him to a municipal sales tax collection task force, and an interesting question came up at today's meeting of the task force: The former...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 16, 2012 6:11 PM

What's the emergency?

A follow-up to the previous entry about State Rep. Mike Reynolds (R-Oklahoma City): A CapitolBeatOK piece from April 20, 2011, by Pat McGuigan, argues that Mike Reynolds and several Republican colleagues (Mike Ritze, Randy Terrill, Mike Christian, John Bennett) should be more like Sally Kern, who regularly votes in favor...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 11, 2011 11:40 PM