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The Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Board of Education will have a new face, after an incumbent was unseated during the Feb. 9 elections.
Tuesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: elections
Means business
OKCPS school board not as exciting as state board
Don’t count out the tea party
The average Oklahoman aligns more with the tea party philosophy of limited government and lower taxes.
Commentary
Kyle D. Loveless
In the recent Oklahoma City Council elections, all of the candidates aligned with the tea party movement lost. Critics, news pieces and bloggers across the metro and state were using these losses as a setback or high-water mark of how much influence the tea party folks have in Oklahoma.
Overcoming Momentum’s legacy
Commentary
Doug Loudenback
The Committee for Oklahoma City Momentum, a recently formed nonprofit organization, spent $486,041 to support and oppose candidates during the recent Oklahoma City Council elections in Wards 2, 5, 6 and 8.
‘In the shadows’
After receiving last-minute advice, the Oklahoma Ethics Commission denied giving an interpretation on municipal elections.
News
Clifton Adcock
A request by Oklahoma Gazette to the Oklahoma Ethics Commission for an interpretation on rules and laws governing municipal elections was denied during the commission’s Aug. 19 meeting.
Recs in effect
Legislative action is required to clarify and resolve discrepancies in the Political Subdivisions Ethics Act.
News
Clifton Adcock
The state Ethics Commission is considering requesting several major changes to the laws governing municipal elections.
The next step
State and city officials mull transparency of elections in a post-Citizens United world.
News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission has sent a recommendation to the state Legislature that it be removed from oversight of local elections and the laws governing such elections be scrapped and rewritten.
Move school board elections
Letters to the Editor
Jay Means
The need to move local school board and city council elections to November is never more apparent than now.
