When it was made public that recipients of Paycheck Protection Programs might not be released, people were outraged. When the names of PPP recipients were released to the public last week, there was even more outrage. In a joke so bad that professional comedians would not have dared write it into a script, the Ayn […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Whiter whites
One of President Donald Trump’s most recent Twitter rants, which media outlets cannot help but call “racially charged” comments, targeted four congresswomen of color. Unfortunately, Trump’s racist battery seems to always be at full charge. Trump told “progressive Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which […]
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Strong foundation
Freshman congresswoman Kendra Horn completed her first 100 days in Congress boasting support for bipartisan legislation and community outreach. Though she has raised more than $370,000 since January and outpaced fellow Oklahoma congressmen, she continues to prioritize “common sense” legislation. “That is separate from the work I have been doing as a member of Congress,” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mullin it over
Conservatives were quick to share the response from Cherokee Nation after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, an Oklahoma native, shared her DNA results in her bizarre feud with President Donald Trump. The Cherokee response, including a column written by Cherokee Phoenix editor Brandon Scott published by Vox, admonished the senator for relying on a DNA […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad company
You know what they say about congressmen: It’s all drugs, sex and rock and roll. Wait. Maybe that’s a step too far. For congressmen, we suppose, it’s more like pharmaceutical drugs and insider trading, sexual harassment and fancy-schmancy parties on the lawn of the White House where it all goes down. This week’s political scandal […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Calling ‘bullcrap!’
U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin recently told constituents in Jay that nobody pays him to work in Congress.
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Chicken-Fried News: Coburn burn
Markwayne Mullin has expressed interest in a third and fourth term in office despite promising to serve no more than three terms as a U.S. Representative.
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Payback politics?
Credit: Brad Gregg Even as recovery operations began May 20, Roll Call quoted Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, as saying disaster spending should be offset with spending cuts elsewhere, dredging up ugly memories of the earlier struggle to pass disaster relief spending for Hurricane Sandy victims. The GOP was accused of cold-heartedness after House Speaker John […]
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Hurri-can’t
Credit: Brad Gregg Or not. Oklahoma freshmen congressmen Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Westville, voted last week against a bill to provide $10 billion in emergency relief for flood victims of Hurricane Sandy, which caused an estimated $70 billion in damage in New York and New Jersey. Fortunately for the victims of Sandy, the […]