Eric Quandt (photo from web site)

Analysis: The most difficult selections on the ballot Tuesday are the various judicial offices. Sadly, it seems this happens by design with rules specific to the judiciary that allow candidates to avoid declaring political affiliations, receiving endorsements from the parties or speaking on any issue that may come before the court, but at least one rule demands that candidates not “knowingly, or with reckless disregard for the truth, make any false or misleading statement.”

Candidate Eric Quandt has so failed in truth with such reckless abandonment that he has been officially rebuked by the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Committee on Judicial Elections in his attacks on Judge Mary Fitzgerald.

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Willard Lenord Jones

Willard Lenord Jones, 63, of Tulsa, church pastor and former Executive Director of the Greater Cornerstone Community Development Project, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge John E. Dowdell to three counts of wire fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr., for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Jones was charged by information on August 13, 2014, and sentencing is scheduled for January 12, 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

At the change of plea hearing, Jones admitted that, from September 2007 to June 2013, he misappropriated approximately $933,000 from the Greater Cornerstone Community Development Project, a non-profit organization formed to raise money for the building and operation of a community center in South Haven, a neighborhood in West Tulsa.

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Voters in Tulsa County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the November 4th State and County General Election, City of Tulsa General Election (Council Districts 3, 6, 7 and 9 only) and Town of Sperry Special Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Patty Bryant said today. Although the County Election Board can accept applications for absentee ballots until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 29, Bryant urged voters who want to vote by absentee ballot to apply early.

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The League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa will partner with the Oklahoma Bar Association, Tulsa County Bar Association and the Tulsa Historical Society to present a Judicial Candidate Forum on October 7th. The event will be held at 6:30 pm at the Tulsa Historical Society Travis Mansion (2445 South Peoria). The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

“We are excited to present this judicial candidate forum to the public,” said Kathleen Kastelic, Tulsa League of Women Voters president. “It is the aim of the League to help educate voters before they go to the polls. Judicial offices are so important; this forum will give the District 14 judicial races the attention they deserve before the November 4th election.”

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