Posted on 06/19/2024 2:46:33 AM PDT by cotton1706
OKLAHOMA CITY – Races for the statehouse on Tuesday saw some surprises.
Sen. Greg McCortney, R-Ada, lost to Republican challenger Jonathan Wingard, of Ada.
McCortney, considered to be more moderate than some of his GOP colleagues, was the Senate Majority floor leader and was slated to become the next president pro tem.
He did not immediately return a message left seeking comment.
No Democrat, Libertarian or independent filed, so Wingard will represent Senate District 13.
House Appropriations and Budget Chairman Kevin Wallace, R-Wellston, faces a runoff with Republican Jim Shaw, of Chandler, for state representative District 32. They were the top two vote getters in a three-way race.
Wallace was a key player in budget negotiations.
Sen. Cody Rogers, of Tulsa, lost to Republican challenger Aaron Reinhardt, of Jenks, in the Senate District 37 race.
Reinhardt faces independent Andrew Nutter, of Tulsa, in the general election.
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.
Rogers recently said he was the target of a smear campaign and dozens of negative mailers had been sent out against him.
Sen. Jessica Garvin, R-Duncan, lost her primary to Kendal Sacchieri, of Blanchard, in Senate District 43. Sacchieri faces a Democrat in the general election.
Garvin said she spent four years doing good work.
“I am really thankful for that opportunity,” she said.
Garvin was not sad about the outcome and looked forward to spending more time with her family and growing her business.
Sen. Shane Jett, R-Shawnee, narrowly avoided a runoff, winning in a four-way primary that included Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, who Jett previously defeated.
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There will now be a leadership battle in the Oklahoma senate.
Moderate or RINO?
Yes.
Most “moderates” are merely progressives in RINO drag.
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” - B. Goldwater.
Yet the DC 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
I’m a Republican but with only 19% Democratic representation there is a California like imbalance but the other way.
I guess if Democrats didn’t suck so much there would be more.
“ only 19% Democratic representation”
They make up for it by causing more than their fair share of problems
...And that smell!!!
Much to the chagrin of the trolls who spread their negativity on FR relentlessly, “America First” Republicans continue to take firm control of the GOP.
JV team.
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.
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