Posted on 05/09/2006 8:36:12 PM PDT by LdSentinal
OKLAHOMA CITY Republicans picked up a seat in the state Senate today when Oklahoma Farm Bureau representative Mike Schulz beat Democrat Robbie Kerr in a special election in southwest Oklahoma.
Unofficial results had Schulz with 56-point-eight percent of the vote and Kerr with the other 43-point-two percent.
The two had combined to raise more than 500-thousand dollars in a campaign to replace Kerr's late husband. Senator Robert -M- Kerr died earlier this year after a long fight with cancer.
The victory gives Republicans 23 seats in the 48-member house. Democrats still maintain a majority with the remaining 25 seats.
Democrats have had a majority since statehood.
The Senate is starting to get close there huh?
All it takes is one party switch with the Lt. Governor being a Republican.
Wow! He beat the grieving widow. Usually they win. (no disrespect intended to the widow)
And is the first Republican to win that district from what I read elsewhere.
Saturday eight of us from here in Cleveland County went down to Altus to help this campaign by knocking doors and asking for votes. We had a great time and you could sense that Schultz had a good chance to pull it out -- people were in and out of his office and we saw very few go in and out of Kerr's office.
Dems had people on the ground for the last six weeks from D.C. and it didn't work.
This MUST be some kind of LIE! Why, every "expert" is telling us the rat is in the driver's. All they have to do is measure the curtains. Yeah right! Way to go Oklahoma GOP!
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