The long-drawn-out saga of “The Oklahoma Three” continues. The preliminary hearing for Rick Carpenter, Paul Jacob, and Susan Johnson has now been reset for Monday, November 17, in Oklahoma City.
This hearing was originally set for July 23, but was postponed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson only a week prior to that. The new date [...]

We knew it was just a matter of time before Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was going to seek another fix for his power-addiction. Today’s Tulsa World reports that Edmondson confirmed Wednesday “that he is getting closer to deciding to run for governor in 2010.”

“I am leaning more and more in that direction,” said Edmondson, [...]

Oklahoma’s largest newspaper blasted the Oklahoma Education Association in a Sunday editorial that called out the union for the nasty, undemocratic tactics the union used against the 2005 TABOR initiative. That’s the petition drive the Oklahoma 3—Paul, Rick Carpenter, and Susan Johnson—worked on, which riled the state’s political establishment and now provides pretext for Oklahoma [...]

Roger Clegg published a nice piece about BAMN and other leftist attacks on the initiative process at National Review Online the other day.
BAMN—which stands for By Any Means Necessary—is one of the most abrasive leftist organizations, harassing and intimidating citizens petitioning to end racial and gender preferences. The group has also filed a number of [...]