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FLASHBACK 2009: Speaker Steele a Liberal? “Quiet Demeanor, Aw-Shucks Speech and Ministerial Facade”

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…

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