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Hi Bullbuster ...
I would recommend you write directly to your representative and senator directly. They are very responsive in this state ... the voting pool is smaller and elections could turn on the will of a few.
Our State and Federal Congressmen and women are online and you can sign up for email alerts from them. Each time I have contacted my congressmen and women by email, I generally recieve an email reply and a snail mail letter.
We are currently accepting the hard work of Tom Coburn and James Inhofe as Federal Senators. Both are extremely effective and I am sure you have seen them in their fight against the HealthCare fiasco.
Our Representatives in Washington are not all known to me, but I am familiar with Mary Fallin, Dan Boren, Tom Cole, and Frank Lucas. I believe that Mary Fallin will soon run for the gubernatorial seat.
As for the State offices, Gov. Henry has been a smooth and easy governer which I believe the state needed after the contentious terms served by Frank Keating. Gov. Henry has been most effective as an executive and given the office back some of the 'we're just folks' we lost under Keating.
I am not happy with the Leutenant Governor ... Jari Askins. She is anti-gun and hasn't been 'caught out yet,' but I remember about 8 years ago that she delivered a paper to then Gov. Frank Keating as his part of his School Board that showed that houses with guns were more likely to have students that dropped out of high schoolalong witha myriad of other issues. I am still watching her, and can say that she has not been anywhere as effective as Mary Fallin was in that position.
Again, welcome to Oklahoma and I hope you like it here. I believe you are aware of the support we have with Representatives in the Tulsa area to get Open Carry to the floor of the House this year.
More information about this can be found in the forums of
www.oklahomashooters.com
cheers -- AnnClaire