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She's kind of a ditz; what has she done now?

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Oklahoma democrats are generally more republican than republicans from the north...for it would depend on their views more than the party designation at the end of their name.

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Primaries are the 24th, be sure to vote. I'm voting for Dax Ewbank. Chad Moody is also running against her, but he seems to be purely in it for the pot. I'm all for decriminalizing pot, but Ewbank seem to be the better rounded candidate.

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Oklahoma democrats are generally more republican than republicans from the north...for it would depend on their views more than the party designation at the end of their name.

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I don't agree at all, there are plenty of a$$hats with R's behind their names that don't need to be anywhere near politics.  If there's an a$$hat republican running against a democrat that's pro-2A, voting for the a$$hat just because he's a republican is why our country is jacked up. If people elected the man/woman based on their beliefs and platform instead of the party designation we would get rid of the nutballs on the left and the self serving dB's on the right and get folks in there who work for the people instead of themselves, but hey, I'm an independent because neither side impresses me consistently.  My only absolute is if you mess with constitution or pass policy that is designed to make the rich richer instead of the rest of the population richer, you are out..do not pass go or collect $200...you are a POS regardless of party affiliation.

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I would agree with you so why has the GOP consistently passed law after law after law after law that benefits major corporations bottom line? Keep in mind that in many of the cases, the companies benefiting are pharmaceutical, oil and gas production, energy related companies and etc, that these politicians previously sat as CEO, CFO and governing board members who hold/held large quantities of stock.  You could argue that in many cases the offending politician chose to abstain from the voting but, let's be honest here, abstaining while lobbying fellow lawmakers to pass the bill is hardly separating yourself from the process.  Nor is signing stock over to a wife or other family member during their service to avoid a conflict of interest.  These practices have been so common in Washington, primarily by the GOP but certainly not excluding the democrats who also use these tactics, that nobody even pays any attention anymore.

When it became a hot button issue during the BushII administration, they literally said, yes, it's true, we have passed many laws that benefits these corporations, some of who many of us have been affiliated with prior to taking political office and, yes, there are cases where "by no intention" that these changes have benefited some members of this administration but the point is not to make these company executives wealthier but to make their companies more successful.  More success at the top causes a "trickle down effect" (that's the exact phrase) that makes everyone below more successful.  Uh huh...and what happened? The economy exploded while all these companies went bottom up, millions of jobs lost, CEO's/CFO's and board members continued to receive bonuses that were higher than they ever were and when company death was imminent, these corporate guys all skated out with their "golden parachute" packages setting them for life.  All while creating one of the worst mass job losses in American history!

As some national news host said after all this had decimated the economy "they said it would all trickle down and it did, it just wasn't anything American's wanted".  Sure they cherry picked a few corporate execs and sent them to "white collar prison" and ordered them to pay fines but these couldn't pay anything with their assests frozen and no income so, of course, nothing came of that, as expected.  I, personally, lost almost my entire retirement account, going from $350,000 to under $75,000 in a matter of two months as these companies all bailed and it continued down for the next couple years.  Every bit of this was long before the election when Obama took over so there's nobody to blame but the GOP and their "help a buddy out programs".  I can't count the number of friends and family who lost their jobs during the last BushII era, good people who, like myself, were dyed in the wool republicans.  They lost their homes, many times it was too much and the divorce rate skyrocketed, families lost everything they had worked their entire lives to build up, cars, homes, boats, savings, retirement accounts.  I knew guys with 3-4 kids who lost their homes and ended up living day to day in cheap motel rooms.  Everyone seems to have forgotten just how bad the GOP screwed this nation.  

I don't support Obama, but I won't ever forget how bad our last republican administration battered our economy.   I will vote Republican this coming election but only because the democrats have focused on attacking our constitution and our 2A rights.  If the next administration (republican) repeats their last performance of cronyism and self service, we may see this all over again. So I don't need a lecture on what our government should be doing or not be doing for America, this entire nation (those who were adults with jobs at the time) experienced what happens when an administration's policy is to make major corporations and companies wealthier so that all that good stuff trickles on down to the rest of us.  As was said at the time, it trickled down alright but it sure wasn't wealth or prosperity.