CFN
Gazette staff
Less than a year after St. Anthony’s mysterious “the wait is over” campaign, “5320” appeared in a bold, futuristic-style typeface on black billboards around the state.
Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Campaign
Wait for it ...
...and that was disappointing.
CFN
Gazette staff
Less than a year after St. Anthony’s mysterious “the wait is over” campaign, “5320” appeared in a bold, futuristic-style typeface on black billboards around the state.
Explanation point
At least 16 organizations that participated in the recent Oklahoma City Council election may not have complied with state reporting laws and the city charter.
News
Clifton Adcock
The recent Oklahoma City Council elections raised several questions about anonymous donors after an unprecedented amount of money was funneled through at least two nonprofit groups: one on behalf of firefighters, the other on behalf of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s Forward OKC program.
Time for full disclosure
Commentary
Bill Bleakley
Last Saturday was the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision permitting unlimited spending by individuals, corporations and labor unions to conduct independent political campaign activities.
Weighty achievement
From fattest to fittest, OKC is a million pounds lighter, thanks in part to one man’s shedding of 200 of them.
Features
Jenn Scott
When Oklahoma City landed on just about every “fattest” list imaginable, Mayor Mick Cornett did not sit idly by. He launched a million-pound challenge in 2007. Since then, the mayor has lost 38 pounds himself.
You say ‘Ohio,’ I say ‘Oklahoma’
CFN
Gazette staff
If you happen to catch Mitt Romney’s new campaign ad “Dream,” which alleges that car dealerships had to close on account of the auto industry bailout, the footage showing Lyndhurst, Ohio, might look familiar to you.
The Campaign
Enough laughs to make your chad hang.
Comedy
Rod Lott
In any other year but an election year, I’d like to think The Campaign would have been a bigger hit. It's certainly funny; it's also certainly too close to the truth: American politics is a game of money.
Game Change
Sarah, we hardly knew ye ... which is exactly the point.
Drama
Rod Lott
Nearly every scene of the made-for-HBO Game Change, I recall from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's excellent nonfiction book of the same name. But the movie directed by Jay Roach (of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises) tells only half — maybe even just one-quarter — of the story, ignoring the 2008 presidential-campaign narratives of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards for the one it finds most compelling: that of Sarah Palin and John McCain, and not the other way around.
