Okie Pundit

Rasmussen Reports has released their Oklahoma governor poll and it shows Congresswoman Mary Fallin with significant leads over both Drew Edmondson and Jari Askins. If the race were held today, Rasmussen predicts Fallin would defeat Edmondson 48% to 39%, with 10% percent undecided.  Edmondson has gained slight ground since Rasmussen’s last poll in February, which showed [...]

If you want to read the worst spin put out to date by a campaign in the race for Oklahoma governor, read this (via McCarville) from State Senator Randy Brogdon. It is mind-boggling. Sen. Brogdon needs to fire the spin doctor who put that out.  Besides the mortal sin of overusing exclamation marks like a [...]

Yesterday The McCarville Report reported on indications Oklahoma Attorney General and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Drew Edmondson planned to join a group of Republican Attorneys General in opposing the Democrat-proposed health care bill.  Last night, Edmondson made it official. The opposition centers on a constitutionally questionable provision won by Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to require the [...]

All conservatives would agree that direct democracy has been good for Oklahoma. After all that’s how we got a Constituitional limitation on all tax increases – State Question 640. But in recent years there’s been a marked decrease in the number of citizen’s ballot initiatives.

With the end of session, several legislators have set their sights on higher offices. Here’s a quick look at the announced candidates for various state offices that will be on the ballot in 2010 as well as the race for the next Republican leaders in the House and Senate.

After five years of trying, today the supporters of Oklahoma’s lemon law reforms had good reason to celebrate

As of late Monday, the conference committee report (CCR) was signed out to bring SB 812 out of conference and back to the House and Senate for a final up or down vote.

Lemon laws should be championed by Republicans, who have always stood for personal responsibility and holding responsible parties accountable, so the resistance to this bill from Senate Republicans was just a little disappointing.

Congresswoman Mary Fallin, the anointed candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, reported a pretty embarrassing fundraising total today. In the first fundraising quarter, the incumbent Congresswoman raised barely over $100,000, and only reported $94,000 on hand. To put that in perspective, Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who is considering a run for Governor on the Democratic [...]