Articles tagged with: politics
From The Tulsa World:
Read the full story »City Councilor John Eagleton filed a protest Monday in Tulsa County District Court to contest the validity of an initiative petition that seeks nonpartisan municipal elections.
Eagleton contends that the petition is “invalid on its face” because it doesn’t contain the warning clause required by law to keep it “free from the taint of duplicate, false, fraudulent and unauthorized signatures.”
Eagleton also states in the protest that City Clerk Mike Kier used the wrong election to determine the number of signatures necessary for the petition to be determined sufficient.
From NewsOK:
Read the full story »At Cole’s first town hall meeting in Duncan last week, an estimated 150 people showed up, a far larger crowd than normal.”People are very intense and interested,” Cole said. “I expect all of our town hall meetings to be very full.”
But the people, at least in Duncan, weren’t belligerent or shouting at him, a contrast from the scenes in other parts of the country where congressional town hall meetings have resembled protests and have actually posed security concerns for lawmakers.
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From The Daily Oklahoman:
Read the full story »Rep. Dan Boren, the only Democrat in Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, has been targeted by the national Republican Party, despite his electoral success in his eastern Oklahoma district and a large amount of campaign cash.
Boren, of Muskogee, appears on a list of 80 House Democrats the National Republican Congressional Committee is aiming to defeat in next year’s elections.
Gary Jones, chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, said Tuesday that six Republicans in the 2nd congressional district have said they want to run next year. He called them “very talented, well-educated individuals.”
From The Tulsa World:
Tulsa city councilors demanded Tuesday to speak directly to Mayor Kathy Taylor rather than hearing from her staff or through the media about the federal stimulus grant awarded to the city to hire 18 police officers.
“I want the mayor to sit down with us herself,” Councilor Rick Westcott said during the council’s committee meetings. “We deserve that much.”
Councilor G.T. Bynum said Taylor and Police Chief Ron Palmer — not their designees — need to be at next week’s committee meetings, and the agenda item will reflect that.
From The Journal Record:
Read the full story »The U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to resolve the controversy over a Ten Commandments monument on the Haskell County courthouse lawn, Alliance Defense Fund attorney Kevin Theriot said Friday.
“We are planning on filing a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court,” said Theriot, of Leawood, Kan.By a 6-6 vote, the full 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Thursday to rehear the June ruling of a three-judge panel, which held that the monument violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
