Posted on 08/03/2006 2:26:07 PM PDT by LouAvul
Oklahoma City (AP) - The state Senate gained a Democrat and lost a Republican today.
Senator Nancy Riley says she's switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party because the G-O-P is being taken over by the extreme right wing.
Riley says she was completely ignored by the Republican caucus during this year's legislative session. She believes her treatment is because of her moderate views and because she's a woman.
The move increases the Democrat's majority in the Senate to 26-to-22 and Riley is in the middle of her four-year term so she doesn't face re-election this year.
Democratic Senator Mike Morgan says Riley's move shows momentum is shifting back to the Democratic Party.
Riley recent finished third in a three person race for the Republican nomination lieutenant governor but surprised many by getting 23 percent of the vote.
WHAT a bunch of crap!! That woman was probably a rino anyway...good riddance!!
That's what I thought, too.
They bicker and posture, but you're assessement is just about right.
And you're not the only 1.
The GOP has moved leftward, its the Democrats that have been taken over by the kooks.
It looks like a very heavily GOP district to me. She might not last another election as a Dem.
She obviously doesn't realize we have a Freeper ready to take her place ; )
I have no female allegiance. There are more idiots than smart people.
Apparently for good reasons.
Exactly.. the pubbies have a right wing?... WHERE?..
I can see zero right wing anywhere near Washington D.C.
or anything resembling one..
The average IQ of both parties in OK just increased.
'Female allegiance' - good term. I don't have it either. I don't know that there are more idiots than smart people, but it means nothing to me that someone is a woman. Color my brown behind wholly unimpressed. I prefer male honkies. There you have it.
When Harry Reid was crying about how mean Republicans had been to decry the nomination of Harriet Miers, he said that she would be such an asset, a step in the right direction, ..... He said that we should keep the Supreme Court resembling America.
When I'm working, I have to be in neighborhoods I don't like. I can't stand that, "Piss, piss, piss, piss, piss. Mira! ....." I much prefer some chunky white guy remarking to some other construction type, "I didn't know they were having a beauty contest here today." Or some such similar nonsense. And I'm not the only one who feels that way. One professional that I call on told me that when he travels (with his wife), single females somehow latch on to him (and her). I understand intuitively why that is. That's what I want to see on the Supreme Court. Needless to say, Clarence Thomas is 1 of my 3 favorites, and I will do cartwheels if JR Brown gets on there, but I definitely have no 'female allegiance'.
Dirk Kempthorne is already doing things that please me. I loved Gail Norton in that position, but Dirk's definitely the man. That's my America.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
LMAO!!
Riley is exactly the kind of scumbag that needs to be purged from the GOP.
Good riddance to foul garbage.
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