State Treasurer Ken Miller today endorsed Markwayne Mullin for Congress in the 2nd District, and said Mullin’s business record and financial discipline give Republicans their best chance for victory. 

“There’s a striking difference between the two runoff candidates in both their business track record and campaign tactics. I am supporting Markwayne Mullin for two primary reasons: he has a proven record of growing jobs and resisting debt, and his campaign has been focused on issues rather than attacking his opponent.
 
“I served in the House with George and have spent much time getting to know Markwayne. After many conversations with Markwayne, I am confident in his dedication to correcting the federal government’s massive spending problem and in his commitment to repealing ObamaCare,” Miller said. “As an employer with more than 120 employees, Markwayne understands better than most the damage that nationalized health care would do to small businesses and the national debt.
 
“With Markwayne’s proven conservative financial record in running a business debt free, he’s exactly the type of person we need in Congress at this critical time in our nation’s history. I trust he will never compromise on stopping mandates and taxes which hurt the states and kill jobs.”

Miller said that Mullin is a refreshing candidate, a plain-spoken and successful business owner. “Markwayne has worked hard, invested, and grown his company from a few service vans to more than 80. His success story sets him apart in this race, so it is clear why voters embraced his candidacy with such a large primary victory margin.”
 
Mullin said he’s honored to have Miller’s endorsement.
 
“It’s great to have the endorsement of a leader like Treasurer Miller who has set himself apart as a fiscal conservative, especially because he knows both candidates fairly well. We have clear momentum, and the support of such a well-respected statewide Republican official like Ken Miller is something we would have considered out of our reach a few months ago,” Mullin said.

"Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government," says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma).

 Coburn new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats together have brought the U.S. to the brink of fiscal calamity. 

First elected to the house in 1994 as part of the "Republican Revolution," Coburn is a staunch fiscal and social conservative, who’s been outspokenly critical of members of his own party for compromising their principles out of political expedience. Coburn has publicly taken former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to task for lacking leadership and resolve during his battles with the Clinton White House to cut spending in the mid-90s.
 
Coburn, who’s known in the senate as "Dr. No" for vetoing almost all new spending initiatives, says the federal budget is rife with "waste, fraud, and duplication." In 2006, Coburn co-sponsored legislation that created USASpending.gov, which makes publicly accessible a list of all recipients of government funds. In 2010, Coburn was instrumental in getting the Government Accountability Office to undertake researching and documenting wasteful government programs.
 
ReasonTV’s Nick Gillespie sat down with Sen. Coburn to discuss wasteful spending, cutting entitlements, the need for free-market health care, and whether he’s losing faith in the government’s ability to enforce values.
 
Click here to go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of the video.

And for those in Oklahoma that complain Congress is not doing the job we sent them to do … take heart.  Senator Tom Coburn is the exception that proves the rule. 

For his intelligent studious good work, excellent leadership and ongoing fearless presentations to call Congress and the public to foundations of principle and honor – pray daily for Senator Coburn. 

At least 12 people have been killed and up to 50 injured after a mass
shooting at a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a suburban Denver
movie theater, police say. 

At least 12 dead and 50 injured after gunman opens fire during showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ at Aurora, Colo., theater. Police say they have a suspect in custody, identified as James Holmes, 24, who witnesses say was armed with a rifle and handguns, and who wore a bullet-proof vest and gas mask.
 
The suspect, identified by federal law enforcement officials as James Holmes, 24, is in police custody. KUSA reports that Holmes kicked down an emergency door at the theater, threw in some type of a smoke bomb and began shooting when moviegoers started to run.
 
Witnesses say they heard a series of explosions and up to 20 gunshots after the scene grew chaotic. About 100 witnesses were taken to a local high school to be questioned by police.
 
Police, ambulances and emergency crews swarmed on the Aurora, Colo., theater after frantic 911 calls around 12:30 a.m. local time, officials said.
 
Holmes reportedly fired shots inside the theater and fled to the parking lot and was confronted by police already at the theater for crowd control.
 
Holmes wore a bulletproof vest, police said, and was carrying a rifle and two handguns. The handguns may have been placed in the theater before the shooting.
 
FBI spokesman Jason Pack said there’s no indication in the investigation so far of any connection to terrorism.

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