Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Election Preview: County Commission District 3

By David Arnett, Publisher

Analysis: In a special primary election Tuesday to fill the Tulsa County Commission District 3 seat previously held by Fred Perry, four contenders offer themselves for voter consideration; Ron Peters, Don Crall, Brandon Perkins, and John Wright. In many ways they represent the current constituent groups found within the Republican Party.

Only one Democrat filed for the office and he will meet the winner of the primary this fall. As the district is heavily Republican, this primary is critical.

The extreme right candidate is John Wright. While personally much more pleasant than his mentor Tulsa County Assessor Ken Yazel; Wright is an employee of the assessor’s office.
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Election Preview: The race for mayor

By David Arnett, Publisher

Analysis: Tuesday the City of Tulsa will vote to decide who will lead the city as mayor. The three top contenders are incumbent Mayor Dewey Bartlett, former-Mayor Kathy Taylor and former-City Councilor Bill Christiansen. All are well known and, from internal polls provided to Tulsa Today from multiple sources, voter support of each candidate is not moving much despite a barrage of direct mail and broadcast advertising.

Bartlett and Christiansen both interviewed with Tulsa Today and you may read those interviews for detail on their positions, click here for Mayor Dewey Bartlett and click here for former-Councilor Bill Christiansen.

Former-mayor Kathy Taylor, despite claims of transparency and openness, failed to respond to repeated requests for an interview. Taylor has focused on limited interviews, glittering generalities and paid public pronouncements. The joke during her term was a question of how many lawyers does a lawyer need to serve as Mayor of Tulsa? The answer for Taylor didn’t matter as the Oklahoma Supreme Court set aside Taylor’s payback of tax money to the Bank of Oklahoma for the Great Plains Airline debacle – so much for competent council.
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WOLF: Tyranny in our time

By David Arnett

Is Obama our new King George?

Worshipers of President Barack H. Obama should not read the article by Dr. Milton R. Wolf that recently appeared in The Washington Times. Leftists may pop-off in rage as facts contrary to their religious zeal for top-down control over those pesky unwashed masses is shown to be what history has always proven – tyranny.

Wolf makes a compelling case. Conservatives have been saying much the same for decades, but as the old saying goes, those (idiots of the Left) that don’t consider history are often condemned to repeat it. Of course, the beloved leader’s wide wife Machelle said something about Americans needing to relearn history (or was that consume propaganda) before she was promptly hushed by handlers.

Back to the awakening as Dr. Wolf wrote:

Americans are beginning to recognize the disturbing similarities between President Obama and the fallen Richard Nixon, but the comparison that may matter more is between Mr. Obama and King George III.

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” in the words of the Declaration of Independence.

King George’s assault on the Americans’ natural freedoms was oppressive, intolerable and deserving of a revolution. The truth is, the intrusion, restriction and outright harassment that our government subjects us to today is far beyond what the colonists faced from their tyrannical king. If it was tyranny in 1776, then, by God, it is tyranny today.
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Why Benghazi matters

By David Arnett

Analysis: Even loyal fans of President Barack Obama agree questions must be answered about the American response to the terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi September 11, 2012. Who ordered the military to “stand down” rather than go to the aid of embattled diplomats, staff and security? What was the thinking for such a decision? Why not save your own people? To Leftist loyalists, it is a central question.

This cuts to the core of all things Left. The “government knows best” crowd believes, as a matter of faith, that government will always provide the correct response. As President Obama has said of many things, “only government can solve this crisis” and Benghazi was a security crisis.

If the government is shown in Benghazi to have thrown away their own employee’s lives, and the life of the President’s Personal Representative in the name of domestic politics – who would ever want to work for or trust them in any crisis? Would you work for someone that would kill you to win an election? Oklahoma’s Senator Jim Inhofe will speak on this Friday at the Tulsa Republican Club.
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Who owns you?

If hacked, the hacker owns the site – it’s a question of control – the good news for Tulsa Today is that we have recaptured this site and it is back in local hands. We have moved to a higher security server and we are redesigning. Now, dear reader, let’s talk as this redesign is underway.

Those who control your information control what you think you know and your priorities. They control your vote. They control your culture. Whoever controls your information controls you. We have been your independent reporting team in Tulsa and we change to fit your needs.

Tulsa Today (est. 1996) is the oldest independent online local news source on the Internet anywhere and we have often been targeted by those who would silence our voice. For three months, leading to the 2012 national election, Tulsa Today was hacked daily. Daily we applied the patch to remove the hack. The hack was back the same day. Every day the cycle continued until the storm “Sandy” rolled onto the Northeastern seaboard then that particular attack never came again.

Think about that for a moment. If a hacker from the northeast daily launches attacks on a local news and opinion site in Oklahoma then, in regard to the First Amendment and to use NASA’s phrase – Houston, we have a problem. A presumably intelligent computer savvy operator spends regular time over a considerable period to silence a community site halfway across the country… why?

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