Jett to enter 5th Congressional District contest
State Rep. Shane Jett is expected to announce today he is running for the congressional seat being vacated by Mary Fallin.
Jett, R-Tecumseh, will become the second state lawmaker and the sixth Republican to enter the race for the open 5th Congressional District seat.
Jett is passing up re-election to serve in the congressional district that covers most of Oklahoma County and Seminole and Pottawatomie counties.
Jett, elected in 2004 to House District 27, will announce his congressional bid at noon today at the state Capitol, according to his campaign.
Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, is not seeking re-election to run for governor. Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat, cannot seek a third successive term.
Republican contenders are state Rep. Mike Thompson of Oklahoma City, former state Rep. Kevin Calvey of Del City, James Lankford of Edmond, Rick Flanigan of Del City and Dr. Johnny Roy of Edmond.
Clark Duffe, an independent from Edmond, also is a contender.
No Democrat has yet announced, but a Democrat will get in the race before the June filing period, a source close to the state Democratic Party said.
- Michael McNutt, Capitol Bureau
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Jett is unacceptable.He did not support the popular official English bill which would save the state money and make English our official language.This multi-culturalist jerk has a liberal record of coddling illegal alien lawbreakers which places him far out of the Oklahoma political mainstream.
What about his support of CAIR? This is an organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial for its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America.
Jett was at CAIR’s anti-airport profiling townhall in January
Is this the moron that proposed the Eifel Tower sized oil derrick in the Canadian River. He seems sensible.
The Jetster is trying to avoid being called up by the Reserves and posted in Asia.He cannot avoid service by being in the legislature–but a member of congress cannot be posted overseas.Jett is trying to avoid serving his country and fulfilling his military obligations.This facile clown will be lucky to get 5% of the vote.
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Jett should first come clean on his international trade deals and operations and save himself major embarrassment later