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Four Republican Incumbents Lose Seats in Oklahoma (including next senate leader)
Newsweek ^ | 6/19/24 | Kate Plummer

Posted on 06/19/2024 2:50:49 PM PDT by cotton1706

Four Republican incumbents have lost primary battles for seats in the Oklahoma state legislature.

Voters in all 77 counties in the southern state went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in a series of primary votes for state legislature positions and four incumbent GOP figures were defeated by challengers within their party.

Oklahoma Senate floor leader Greg McCortney, who had been tapped as the next president pro tempore, lost the Republican primary to Jonathan Wingard in the Senate District 13 race. Wingard received 52 percent of the vote and McCortney received 48 percent.

Only Republican candidates entered this race so Wingard will be sworn in as the district's new representative in November.

Jessica Garvin lost her seat in the Oklahoma State Senate to McClain County assessor Kendal Sacchieri, who received 53 percent of the vote to her 47 percent. Sacchieri will run against Democratic candidate Sam Graefe in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: elections
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1 posted on 06/19/2024 2:50:49 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Yesterday’s primary.


2 posted on 06/19/2024 2:51:05 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: All

VICTORIOUS SWAMP DRAINAGE.


3 posted on 06/19/2024 2:54:38 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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RINOs now circling the drains?
Good.


4 posted on 06/19/2024 2:57:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Owen

Was Cole one of them? State seats are minor leagues.


5 posted on 06/19/2024 2:58:49 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Doesn’t matter who they were. If they were incumbents, they were Swamp Filth.


6 posted on 06/19/2024 3:04:41 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: cotton1706

Uniparty outed rightly so.


7 posted on 06/19/2024 3:07:20 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t coun)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Unfortunately, Cole survived.


8 posted on 06/19/2024 3:20:18 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: cotton1706

RINO season, no bag limit!


9 posted on 06/19/2024 3:23:59 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: cotton1706

So, how do they fit with Trump? Did Trump endorse any?


10 posted on 06/19/2024 3:25:52 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: cotton1706

The DC swamp big money ensured Obama-Biden’s rubber stamp for Ukraine gets another two years to bend us over.

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-20-republicans-who-saved-adam-schiff-censure-1806827


11 posted on 06/19/2024 3:34:49 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: cotton1706
Well, as long as we're repeating ourselves....

From the first thread you posted on this earlier today:

"Sen. Cody Rogers, of Tulsa, lost to Republican challenger Aaron Reinhardt, of Jenks, in the Senate District 37 race. Gov. Kevin Stitt recently campaigned for Rogers, telling supporters that special interest groups were out to get the incumbent, who does not always vote the way Senate leadership wants him to vote."

The ignorati on FR always assume that every Republican who is defeated in a primary MUST be a "RINO" and therefore their defeat is a wonderful and glorious thing. They have to "assume" because they've never heard of any of these people and are clueless about how they vote, and everything else about them.

In this case, Rogers was one of the mostly good ones though he may not have been perfect in every possible way (gasp!) but defying the Senate leadership was a positive thing -- so the RINOs got his scalp as a result. This happens rather frequently in hyper-Republican states where liberal Democrats disguise themselves by putting an "(R)" after their names, which allows the GOP establishment to utilize them to topple pesky conservatives, as they did here.

BTW, these threads are all about what happened at the STATE legislative level, not Congress.

No incumbent congressional RINOs lost (not Tom Cole, nor Frank Lucas), and they didn't even break a sweat while winning. The 64% Cole got was hardly impressive for a big-$$$ incumbent, but anyone who really expected Bondar to defeat him was pipe-dreaming. Woulda been nice, but he never had a ghost of a chance.

12 posted on 06/19/2024 3:50:42 PM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: cotton1706

Instead of an upbeat headline like, “GOP Challengers Unseat Four Incumbents in Primary,” instead they make the entire GOP sound like they’re losing. Typical Newsweak.


13 posted on 06/19/2024 4:26:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
"Was Cole one of them? State seats are minor leagues."

Not when it comes to creating the State's election laws.

14 posted on 06/19/2024 4:40:29 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; All
Thank you for posting DIRTYSECRET.

"State seats are minor leagues."


Respectfully DIRTYSECRET, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Constitution's drafters had left the care of the people uniquely with the states, not the federal government.

”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

The problem is that probably most state lawmakers today don't understand that the federal government steals state revenues by means of unconstitutional (imo) federal taxes facilitated by its abuse of 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes), taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.

In other words the "federal" funding that states often beg from the federal government to help keep their state programs running are arguably state revenues that should have never left the states in the first place.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Since Congress can no longer be trusted to respect the Constitution, it is up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November, supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.

15 posted on 06/19/2024 5:05:43 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: cotton1706

good


16 posted on 06/19/2024 5:53:30 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: cotton1706

I’m always interested to see these states that have so many counties. OK is 65.5K square miles and 77 counties. By contrast CA is two and a half times bigger At 156K square miles, but only has 58 counties


17 posted on 06/19/2024 8:31:28 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: PermaRag

Tell everyone how much the carpet bagging Bondar spent for his 16,000 votes. I never have been sicker of political ads than this years Bondar nonsense.


18 posted on 06/19/2024 9:01:41 PM PDT by Oklahoma
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I don’t know about other states, but when Oklahoma was divided into counties, the county seat was to be within one day’s buggy ride from anywhere in the county. There are some counties where this doesn’t seem possible but that was the idea.


19 posted on 06/19/2024 9:34:15 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: Oklahoma

“Tell everyone how much the carpet bagging Bondar spent for his 16,000 votes. I never have been sicker of political ads than this years Bondar nonsense.”

According to the latest FEC data, Bondar raised & spent about $5 million, while Cole was around $3 million. Pretty impressive outlay for a meager 25% of the vote.

Just about 100% of Bondar’s funding came from his own bank account.

While it would be great to see a RINO like Cole defeated, and it will take a ton of money for that to happen, apparently $5 wasn’t even enough this time. Like numerous other hyper-Republican states, they like their GOP squishes much more than they like conservatives.

I’ve heard a lot of complaining about Bondar’s ads, but a well-entrenched RINO isn’t going to be budged without a scorched-earth campaign (and maybe not even WITH one).


20 posted on 06/20/2024 4:25:22 AM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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