Special Interest Junkets and Freshmen Legislators Against Oklahoma Values
Freshmen Republicans Rep. Avery Frix, Rhonda Baker, and Kevin McDugle.
Muskogee area politico Jamison Faught covered a story last week by Brianna Bailey of the Frontier on a liberal group enticing several freshmen Republican legislators to attend meetings in New York City. Freshmen Republicans Rep. Avery Frix, Rhonda Baker, and Kevin McDugle were the attendees along with McDugle's latest girl friend, allegedly the one that he is accused of adultery with in his bitter divorce. The liberal group Institute for Research on Presidential Elections spent about $2000.00 per official to send them to New York City to attend the event on changing the Electoral College to a national popular vote.
Faught's story adds much to the Frontier's story as he is the one that tied in Rhonda Baker and Kevin McDugle as neither of the two had filed with the Ethics Commission within the 30 day deadline from the trip.
A national popular vote of course would eliminate all campaign visits by presidential candidates to the smaller states and concentrate on the voters on the East and West coasts. The U.S. Constitution also used the Electoral College and the appointment of Senators by the state legislatures as important checks against direct democracy. Most of our problems with federal over reach occurred in the mid 1910's after the direct popular vote election of Senators began. That finished off the idea that we were a collection of states preserving state sovereignty with senators that represented the states instead of the people.
