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AndyA

(16,993 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 10:14 AM Mar 2013

Oklahoma Republicans keep spending money, even as state agencies are forced to cut budgets

More from the "do as I say, not as I do" GOP:

http://www.newson6.com/story/13841413/house-leaders-caught-spending-while-state-agencies-forced-to-cut-budgets

You can bet the state agencies hit hardest are those that help the working poor. It's amazing that so many here complain about the state, yet keep voting Republican year after year.

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Oklahoma Republicans keep spending money, even as state agencies are forced to cut budgets (Original Post) AndyA Mar 2013 OP
Just another day in Oklahoma politics redstatebluegirl Mar 2013 #1
Your observation about voting in OK Tagish_Charlie Mar 2013 #3
And unfortunately, it spread to Arkansas last fall. sinkingfeeling Mar 2013 #2

redstatebluegirl

(12,482 posts)
1. Just another day in Oklahoma politics
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 10:22 AM
Mar 2013

I truly believe my fellow Oklahomans would vote for Snuffy the Clown if he was on the Republican ticket. I have never met more people who vote straight ticket in my life than the Republicans here in Oklahoma. Many of them admit they don't even look at the ballot just hit "republican straight ticket".

I do notice some of the comments in the OKC newspaper online are more moderate these days, but I think it has more to do with the fact you have to log in via Facebookk to comment so people know who you are. Harder to be a nutcase when you have to sign your name to something your neighbors will see.

 

Tagish_Charlie

(85 posts)
3. Your observation about voting in OK
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 01:23 PM
Mar 2013

Is a perfect example of Hitler's observation
" It is fortunate for governments that men do not think."

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