July 5th 2020 Newsletter
Election Wrap Up
SQ 802, passed
This is a disaster for the education system that takes over half of the state tax money in the state and the other agencies that share what is left. On top the billion dollar shortfall on this last budge that drained the rainy day fund and one time funds of available cash we will now have to come up with over a third of a billion dollars to fund this Medicaid expansion.
The Democrats used the same tactic they used in 2018 to win the Fifth Congressional seat, mail in ballots sent out by the tens of thousands and teams of liberals using vans to canvass low income areas of the major cities to get people that rarely vote to turn in an absentee ballot. The measure passed by 6,553 votes. The actual precinct voting went against the proposal by about 55,000 votes but this was overwhelmed by a lopsided absentee ballot of 57,000 +. In Oklahoma County the margin was much higher than the state average, the measure passed by around 63% of the vote and in Tulsa it passed by 60% of the vote. Rural counties generally defeated the state question.
What is strange about the results is that when you add up the number of total votes for Republican and Democrat U.S. Senate you get 28,189 fewer votes than voted for the state question. So a voter cast a vote for Medicaid expansion but didn't care to vote for the U.S. Senate race. There very likely was some mail in ballot fraud going on.
U.S. Senate
Inhofe won with around 74% of the vote, no surprise there.
U.S. House
The five Congressional seats went to incumbents as expected
- District 2 Mark Wayne Mullin won with nearly 80% of the vote. Joe Silk, the abolitionist candidate, showed a very poor approval rate, less than 13%.
- District 4 Incumbent Tom Cole won with around 76% of the vote.
- District 5, turns into a runoff in August between Stephanie Bice and Terry Neese, with Neese getting 36% of the votes and Mice got 25%. The winner faces Democrat Kendra Horn who won with 86% of the liberal vote.
The radical abolitionist candidates did great from our perspective and were soundly rejected at the polls with one exception that did get into a run off.
U.S. Congress
Joseph Silk (Congressional District 2)
Silk showed the strength of the abolitionists movement among voters with less than 13% of the votes.
Senate
- Warren Hamilton (Senate District 7) was the one lucky abolitionist that got as far as a run off. Boggs won around 46% of the votes, Hamilton won around 42%, with a third party splitting off enough votes to force a primary. Boggs scored a 50 on the trump Index which is a moderate Republican ranking.
- Christian Ford (Senate District 28) won a tiny amount of votes, around 7% and Zack Taylor won in a landslide of almost 60%.
- Carissa Roberson (Senate District 13) lost miserably with McCourtney winning almost 86% of the votes.
House Seats
- Kenny Bob Tapp (House District 61) lost yet another race, with incumbent Patzkowsky winning around 56% of the vote.
- Brenda Angel (House District 18) managed to lose with incumbent David Smith winning around 62% of the votes.
- Shannon Rowell (House District 17) lost to incumbent Jim Greggo who scored around 62% of the vote.
- Karmin Grider (House District 31) lost in a landslide for Gary Mize with nearly 67% of the vote.
- Eric Ensley (House District 1) lost to Eddy Dempsey who won over 60% of the votes.
- Angie Brinlee (House District 15) lost to Randy Randelman in a landslide vote of 73%.
All in all the abolitionists need to stay home for a bit and lick their nuts. The state rejects the idea of a religious litmus test.
There were a few good outcomes. Former state rep Kevin West was returned to power. Uber liberal Senator Ron Sharp was forced into a run off with another perennial candidate Shane Jet who won 44% of the vote to Sharp's 33% of the vote.
And a few not so good outcomes. The despicable Kevin McDugle won by around 3%. The even more despicable Chris Kannady won with 80% of the vote mainly because his opponent had little money. We didn't get involved in either race as McDugle had straightened out his voting record this last year and then with the pandemic affecting all things from money to available volunteers, well McDugle might be a bitch but he thinks he is the Tea Party's bitch.
And Kannady is pretty much neutered and if the rumors are true, under investigation by the feds. Kannady still has his attorney supporters but he struggled to raise money and was unable to back candidates in this election cycle. Consider our lack of interest as a gauge of how far he has fallen.
