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Voter registration deadlines approach

David Arnett, Founder

Friday, October 12, 2012, is the last day to apply for voter registration or make changes to voter registrations including changes of political affiliation for voters in Tulsa County to be eligible to vote in the State and County General Election, the Tulsa County Special Election, the City of Tulsa General Election for Council Districts 1 and 7, the City of Sand Springs Special Election, the Town of Skiatook Special Election and the Berryhill Fire Protection (Office No. 5) Election to be held November 6, 2012, Patty Bryant, Secretary of the Tulsa County Election Board said today.

Bryant said that persons who are United States citizens, residents of Oklahoma and at least 18 years old may apply to become registered voters.

Persons who have never been registered to vote before or who are not currently registered in the county of their residence and persons who are registered but who need to change their registration information may apply by filling out and mailing an Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form in time for it to be postmarked no later than midnight Friday, October 12, 2012.    

Bryant said that applications postmarked after October 12 still will be accepted and processed, but the application will not be approved nor will the voter be eligible to vote until after the November 6 election.

The County Election Board will respond in writing to each person who submits an application for voter registration.  The response is either a Voter Identification Card listing the new voter’s precinct number and polling place location, or a letter that explains the reason or reasons the application for voter registration was not approved.  Bryant said that any person who has submitted a voter registration application and who has not received a response within 30 days should contact the County Election Board office.

Oklahoma Voter Registration Application forms are available at the County Election Board office located at 555 North Denver Avenue, in Tulsa, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  The Tulsa County Election Board will remain open until 12:00 p.m. Friday, October 12.

Bryant said that applications are also available at most post offices, most public libraries, and all tag agencies, and are also available on the Internet at www.elections.ok.gov.  However, applications found on the Internet must be downloaded, printed, filled out, signed and mailed or hand delivered to the Tulsa County Election Board or Oklahoma State Election Board.

CNN Poll: Most say Romney debate winner

Staff Report

Two-thirds of people who watched the first presidential debate think that Republican nominee Mitt Romney won the showdown, according to a nationwide poll conducted Wednesday night as reported by CNN.

According to a CNN/ORC International survey conducted right after the debate, 67% of debate watchers questioned said that the Republican nominee won the faceoff, with one in four saying that President Barack Obama was victorious.

"No presidential candidate has topped 60% in that question since it was first asked in 1984," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

While nearly half of debate watchers said the showdown didn’t make them more likely to vote for either candidate, 35% said the debate made them more likely to vote for Romney while only 18% said the faceoff made them more likely to vote to re-elect the president.

More than six in ten said that president did worse than expected, with one in five saying that Obama performed better than expected. Compare that to the 82% who said that Romney performed better than expected. Only one in ten felt that the former Massachusetts governor performed worse than expected.

"This poll does not and cannot reflect the views of all Americans. It only represents the views of people who watched the debate and by definition cannot be an indication of how the entire American public will react to Wednesday’s debate in the coming days," cautions Holland.

The sample of debate-watchers in the poll was 37% Democratic and 33% Republican.

Click here for more from CNN.

Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers

Staff Report

The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.

“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.

“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.”

Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”

That operation was Fast and Furious.

The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report.

“Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the Univision report reads.

Click here to read more and view the video at the Daily Caller. 

Reasor’s collects for food bank

Staff Report

Reasor’s is helping the environment and helping local children in need with their reusable bag savings program, which kicked off one year ago and has since collected a total of $22,052.65 for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. 

The program is called Recycle Hope and it was created by Reasor’s to give customers the option of donating their reusable bag savings to the Food Bank.

All Reasor’s shoppers who use reusable bags for their groceries at checkout automatically save 6¢ off their total purchase per reusable bag used. Recycle Hope is a convenient way to pass along those savings to those in need.

“Our customers have really stepped up in a big way to support this program. At Reasor’s we want to be involved in opportunities like this when it benefits others in our community. We are committed to be involved in some capacity to help meet all of the needs of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma,” said Steve Lehto, vice president and chief operations officer of Reasor’s and CFBEO board member.

Recycle Hope proceeds benefit the Food for Kids Backpack Program at the Food Bank, which provides weekly sacks of food to elementary school-aged children who would have little or no food to eat on weekends. The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma currently provides food to more than 4,100 elementary school children a week in 8 school districts across Tulsa County.

In addition, the Food for Kids Backpack Program continues to expand to communities across the remaining 23 counties of Eastern Oklahoma the Food Bank serves with the help of Partner Programs. These Partner Programs provide sacks of food at their local schools to more than 3,100 children in their communities.

“Twenty- two thousand dollars buys a lot of food, and I love the fact that it allows even those on very tight budgets to help feed the hungry in our community,” said Eileen Bradshaw, executive director of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. This program has a big impact on the hungry, but a small impact on individual donor budgets- Reasor’s has come up with a great plan.”

The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is a non-profit organization founded in 1981. The food collected comes into the Food Bank, is sorted and boxed by volunteers, and then made available to their 450 Partner Programs throughout 24 counties in Eastern Oklahoma. These Programs include food pantries, emergency shelters, after-school programs, soup kitchens and senior citizen centers.

Reasor’s was founded over 49 years ago in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It was family owned until 2007, when Reasor’s became an employee owned company. Today, Reasor’s has 16 locations and two convenience stores with an additional location planned for 2012. The company employs nearly 3,000 people in Northeastern Oklahoma. Supermarket News ranks the company #34 on its Top 50 Small Chains and Independents in the U.S. for 2011.

Reasor’s collects for food bank

Staff Report

Reasor’s is helping the environment and helping local children in need with their reusable bag savings program, which kicked off one year ago and has since collected a total of $22,052.65 for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. 

The program is called Recycle Hope and it was created by Reasor’s to give customers the option of donating their reusable bag savings to the Food Bank.

All Reasor’s shoppers who use reusable bags for their groceries at checkout automatically save 6¢ off their total purchase per reusable bag used. Recycle Hope is a convenient way to pass along those savings to those in need.

“Our customers have really stepped up in a big way to support this program. At Reasor’s we want to be involved in opportunities like this when it benefits others in our community. We are committed to be involved in some capacity to help meet all of the needs of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma,” said Steve Lehto, vice president and chief operations officer of Reasor’s and CFBEO board member.

Recycle Hope proceeds benefit the Food for Kids Backpack Program at the Food Bank, which provides weekly sacks of food to elementary school-aged children who would have little or no food to eat on weekends. The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma currently provides food to more than 4,100 elementary school children a week in 8 school districts across Tulsa County.

In addition, the Food for Kids Backpack Program continues to expand to communities across the remaining 23 counties of Eastern Oklahoma the Food Bank serves with the help of Partner Programs. These Partner Programs provide sacks of food at their local schools to more than 3,100 children in their communities.

“Twenty- two thousand dollars buys a lot of food, and I love the fact that it allows even those on very tight budgets to help feed the hungry in our community,” said Eileen Bradshaw, executive director of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. This program has a big impact on the hungry, but a small impact on individual donor budgets- Reasor’s has come up with a great plan.”

The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is a non-profit organization founded in 1981. The food collected comes into the Food Bank, is sorted and boxed by volunteers, and then made available to their 450 Partner Programs throughout 24 counties in Eastern Oklahoma. These Programs include food pantries, emergency shelters, after-school programs, soup kitchens and senior citizen centers.

Reasor’s was founded over 49 years ago in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It was family owned until 2007, when Reasor’s became an employee owned company. Today, Reasor’s has 16 locations and two convenience stores with an additional location planned for 2012. The company employs nearly 3,000 people in Northeastern Oklahoma. Supermarket News ranks the company #34 on its Top 50 Small Chains and Independents in the U.S. for 2011.