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Other baloney from BISC; Part II

May 21st, 2008 by David

This is the second part of our reply to attacks on Paul Jacob by the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), which opposes the exercise of the right of initiative and referendum except insofar as it can be deployed in the service of their left-wing political agenda. (For the first part, click here.) To obstruct legitimate [...]

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Only a couple inmates killed

May 20th, 2008 by David

Big fight at Oklahoma State Reformatory. A dozen injured. Two killed. We couldn’t help noticing the rather blase official attitude conveyed in the report at NewsOK.com:
Prison officials had the prison locked down within five minutes, [Jerry] Massie [a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections] said.
“It was over with fairly quickly,” he said.
Massie categorized [...]

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Edmondson helps block term limits on himself

May 9th, 2008 by David

Oklahoma State Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s campaign to stop a bill (SB 1987) to term-limit state officials, including himself, has succeeded. The bill is currently in a conference committee but Democrats have signaled that they will kill it. The law would have limited the AG and other statewide officials to 12 years in office, the [...]

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Other baloney from BISC; Part I

May 6th, 2008 by David

FreePaulJacob.com has already tackled the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) and its dumb attacks on Paul Jacob in several previous blog entries (for example, here and here and here). Off-point, silly sallies seem to be all the BISC boys can muster, but for the record, here’s a rundown of charges in BISC’s kit bag as [...]

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