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Is this a joke?
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News 9 in Oklahoma City discusses the ‘right wing rift’ we saw coming a year and a half ago:
The more conservative Republicans want to focus on social issues that include abortion restrictions, immigration and fewer regulations on firearms. Steele has said the Legislature should concentrate on economic development and plugging holes in the state budget.
Steele says House Republicans are united — but Republican Rep. Mike Christian predicts there will be “fireworks” during the meetings and says some in the GOP have privately questioned whether Steele is too liberal to be House speaker. Some ultra-conservative groups also plan to travel to Bartlesville. Read more…
Oklahoma City Conservative Examiner: (8/5/09)
But conservative Republicans outside the house GOP caucus are wary of Steel’s liberal tendencies, and the liberal-leaning and indolent Oklahoma press has done nothing to expose those flaws.
“Republicans in Oklahoma aren’t going to know a damn thing about this race, and the ‘aw-shucks’ liberal ab out to become Speaker,” one political insider, an avowed Steele critic, says about the election. Read more…
We couldn’t help but be amused that another figure who put OKPNS on the map is back in the paper. Rep. Terrill has had a better time with the Oklahoma City daily paper: each and every time he takes on the paper he wins.
The Moore representative is back in the legislature despite a steady drumbeat of propaganda against him initiated by the paper, and the irony of Terrill and Coates being in prominent stories in the paper on the same day was simply too much to resist.
The Oklahoman:
Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said the fracture between conservative House Republicans and Speaker-elect Kris Steele is widening after he said last week he would ask fellow Republicans to focus on economic issues.
“I was offered a position but declined,” Terrill said. “I simply felt that it would be inappropriate for me to accept a position when I may not fully share Speaker-elect Steele’s vision in what needs to take place in terms of our caucus agenda.
“I reached the point in my legislative career where I don’t need a title to be relevant. Read more…
Thanks to all of you who have written and called to urge us to get back into the Oklahoma political scene. You were right: there is just to much going on/being ignored for us to stay out any longer!
First, we’re back! And what better time to get back into the mix than a day that features two of our favorite Oklahoma politicians: Sen. Harry Coates and Rep. Randy Terrill.
When OKPNS uncovered the truth about Coates and the pro-illegal immigration gang, the daily paper in Oklahoma City looked the other way. Now the paper has bitten the Seminole Senator. Right now the focus is on the alleged affair Coates had with the lobbyist, but insiders tell us at least one of the reporters for the paper may have had an enormous conflict of interest. We’ll be checking into that. Further, we’re told the paper had this story months ago, which leads us to wonder why the story came out AFTER a public body had awarded a contract on the new juvenile facility.
It’s fascinating that the liberal paper would turn on their former associate. Back when OKPNS was unmasking the lies and deception of the pro-illegal immigration crowd, Coates claimed we had gotten the documents as a result of being “hacked.” A sensational capitol press conference was held and an “investigation” was supposedly initiated. Not one single follow up inquiry was made by Coates’ friends in the press corps even though they knew then as now that there was no “hacking.”
Today Sen. Coates was probably reminded of the story of the frog and the scorpion. You may remember it: a scorpion approaches a frog to ask for a ride across a river. The frog is incredulous: “you’ll sting me to death,” the frog says. The scorpion counters that they would both drown, and the frog agrees. Mid-way across the river the scorpion viciously begins stinging the frog, and just before they go under the frog asks why the scorpion would do something so deadly to both. Replies the scorpion,”I kill things. I’m a scorpion.”
How’s that stinger feel now, Harry?