Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
I don’t think he’ll be re-elected. It was a fake win since he was replacing a more legitimate (albeit still not good republican) long standing senator in a special case.
He’s objectively the worst person in the Senate. He owned a business here that was successful and had a much better reputation but has now revealed himself as a stain.
I think Oklahoma may actually swing slightly D soon-ish. We had a D governor not long ago who was well liked. Joy got 42% of the vote in 2022.
Your current governor just came out in favor of cockfighting. Don’t be surprised when this guy gets re-elected.
The fastest growing counties, which also have the largest and densest populations, all voted handily Blue the last election: 55-42, 52-45, and 49-48. I don’t think that trend will see a sudden reversal.
I get it. It’s hard to not get your hopes up, sometimes. But Oklahoma is DEEP red. I used to live in NW AR, and my in-laws live in Tulsa. I think your hope is misplaced.
I had that same feeling at one time. But now there is a marijuana dispensary on every street corner. Something is changing.
Yeah this is what people not here don’t understand.
I lived in Los Angeles for ten years and moved to OKC.
There are more dispensaries in OKC alone then I saw in all of SoCal, it’s that dense. And now the mushroom lobbying is going in full force. Alcohol laws went from strict like Utah to very liberal in the span of a decade. It’s about 5 years away from being less than 50% white people as a population. Even the abortion ban drama was short-lived–Oklahoma’s state supreme court struck down all the anti-abortion legislation less than a year after Stitt signed it. They jacked around and brought back an older law, but it will eventually get reviewed again, most likely. More than half the state is in favor of legal abortion, which will eventually be reflected.
Eh, it’s the largest weed producing state in the country and also is likely to be one of the early mushroom states. Stitt in all his idiocy just sanctioned a massive market where psilocybin spore kits were sold by the pallet load.
There is a lot more shadow wealth here that will make aggressive “progressive” choices because it’s profitable. The same is not true in any of the Deep South. The last time I was in Oxford, Mississippi, Uber was outlawed and there was 11:30pm legally enforced last call.
OKC growth rate is very high; it is the place that will tip the scale ultimately.