I think its pretty clear that Oklahoma will have a Republican governor come November. The question is going to be who. Straw polls to the contrary, Mary Falin may be the favorite. I've thought she has done a passable job as a representative although there were a couple of votes I thought she was wrong on, including the TARP bill and the recent bill on the path for Puerto Rican statehood. Both of these are a couple of bone headed moves that really made me question her decision making skill and whether she is a leader or just a "rubber stamp Republican" candidate. I just don't see the leadership skills - she's a two term representative among about 450 other representatives and doesn't really stand out. Sarah Palin has endorsed her - Sorry Sarah, I think you got this one wrong. She also has the endorsement of Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer - but it seems only after she switched her position on the Arizona immigration law from saying it was a federal matter to supporting the Arizona law. Randy Brogdon is a state senator from Owasso. He calls himself a constitutional conservative and I have to say, I think his record supports that. He was against the TARP bailout and voted against the state budget that took that money - not exactly a popular position at the time, considering the economy. He has led the charge on state sovereignty and drafted legislation for a ballot initiative that would allow Oklahoma to opt-out of the Obama Healthcare bamboozle. He is strong on 2nd Amendment issues. He has proposed an interesting plan on reducing - maybe even eliminating - the state income tax on both individuals and corporations, thus attracting more jobs to the state and doing this in a way that is financially responsible. This doesn't seem to just be rhetoric - there's substance to this. But there is one other overriding thing that has separated him from Falin for me. Falin seems to be a lifelong politician. Her resume is state representative, Lt Governor and then US Representative. She started that in 1990, almost 20 years ago. I couldn't find anything on her website or at congress.org that said what she did before that. Brogdon's resume shows that before he became a state senator, he was mayor of Owasso, OK (population 18,502) and ran an air conditioner business. That did it for me. This guy is not a career politician - he has run a business most of his life. He's paid bills, met payrolls, worked to satisfy customers and dealt with the same laws and regulations the rest of us have. As he said last night - "I've signed the front of the check". His legislative resume is just yummy icing on the cake. I'm going with Brogdon.
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