Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

The Speaker vote

By Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-1st Dist. OK)

John Boehner, Speaker of the House

John Boehner, Speaker of the House

Yesterday, the Republican nominee for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was selected in a meeting of all the Republican Members elected to serve in the 114th Congress. The debate and vote was in a Members-only meeting to allow open discussion and build consensus for the Republican nominee who will face off against the Democrat nominee in a vote on the floor of the House in early January.

John Boehner was selected as the Republican nominee. While he is well liked by many within the Republican conference, I continue to believe that Speaker Boehner has not been sufficiently strong in challenging the President — the most ideologically liberal and obstinate in our nation’s history. Additionally, there are issues on which the Speaker and I continue to disagree.

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Operation Secret Ballot: The 1966 GOP Election Reform Project

By Paul R. Hollrah

TulRepubLogo1On Tuesday evening, September 10, 1963, I attended my first meeting of the Tulsa County Young Republicans.   It was the first political meeting I’d ever attended, and as a result of attending that one meeting, and the things I learned there, my life was changed forever.

The guest speaker that evening was a man named Walter Hall, the Ballot Security Officer for the Oklahoma Republican State Committee.  In his speech Hall described in shocking detail the widespread election fraud practiced by Oklahoma Democrats in every election.  He began by saying that forty-four of Oklahoma’s seventy-seven counties had not provided a secret ballot for voters since statehood in 1907, and that local Democrats regularly used every conceivable illegal device to intimidate voters and to fraudulently control the outcome of elections.

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America pukes socialism

Analysis by David Arnett, Publisher

Congress112Forget the spin from loony Leftists and their media enablers; America rejected the jackknife jerk to socialism by Democrats and their idiot ideologue Barack Hussein Obama. They are now irrelevant – especially the deadbeat president.

Note to Democrats: No matter how charismatic the leader; when policy gets personal in rising costs and declining incomes and failures to provide security at home and abroad threaten individually then charisma inevitably collapses to ridicule and disdain.

Note to Republicans: Push specific policy to enhance free enterprise, reduce debt and protect the Rule of Law without exception as specified by Constitution and on principles outlined within the Declaration of Independence or lose the future to a third party.

The best news of all: Minorities are more than their differences.

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Democrats push heavy regulations on Internet

by David Arnett, Publisher

FreeSpeech1As traditional media prepared to vacate newsrooms for the weekend, Democrats snuck in a last minute proposal that the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) be allowed to heavily regulate political content on internet sites such as Youtube, blogs, the Drudge Report and Tulsa Today.

Obama FEC Vice Chairperson Ann M. Ravel announced late on Friday that the FEC was preparing new regulations to give itself control over videos, Internet-based political campaigns, and other content on the web. She insisted that, “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long overdue.”

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