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How Shawna Myers Leveraged Osage Co.

Analysis: In Osage County, Oklahoma, the path to public office is supposed to run through the voters. But a detailed timeline of documents, meeting minutes, internal communications, and public records reviewed by this writer first on EastOklahoma.com and now on Tulsa Today; raises serious questions about whether Shawna Myers — a Republican Party insider and current county employee — has been using taxpayer resources, a county-created job, and the political machinery of Commissioner Steve Talburt to campaign for the Osage County Treasurer position from inside government.

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