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.
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Yesterday’s primary.
VICTORIOUS SWAMP DRAINAGE.
RINOs now circling the drains?
Good.
Was Cole one of them? State seats are minor leagues.
Doesn’t matter who they were. If they were incumbents, they were Swamp Filth.
Uniparty outed rightly so.
Unfortunately, Cole survived.
RINO season, no bag limit!
So, how do they fit with Trump? Did Trump endorse any?
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
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.
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.
Not when it comes to creating the State's election laws.
"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.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
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.
good
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
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.
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.
“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).
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