Fallin kicks off campaign event today
Mary Fallin launched a campaign effort today that she says will allow her to rub elbows with Oklahoma’s workers in her bid to be the state’s next governor.
Fallin, a Republican from Oklahoma City, is giving up her seat in Congress representing central Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District.
She announced her candidacy a year ago. The filing period is in June.
She launched her campaign kickoff with a brief speech this morning in her hometown of Tecumseh. She held a public rally a couple hours later at the Oklahoma History Center, just east of the state Capitol, where she served as a state representative and lieutenant governor before being elected in 2006 to Congress. Between 150 to 200, including several Republican state House members, attended the rally.
Fallin plans to spend the next 15 days of the congressional recess working in various jobs across the state. She also will be talking to civic groups, Republican clubs and grassroots organizations across the state.
Among the jobs she will be doing is teaching a political science class this afternoon at Oklahoma State University, and working later this week as a nurse’s aide in Muskogee and working as a ranch hand in Texas County, a radio disc jockey in Weatherford and an aerospace technician in Tulsa.
“I’m looking forward to not only meeting workers and business leaders across the state, but to putting my nose to the grindstone with them on their assembly lines, in their offices and out in the field,” Fallin said in a statement.
Other gubernatorial candidates are Republicans state Sen. Randy Brogdon of Owasso, Yukon businessman Robert Hubbard and retired businessman Roger L. Jackson of Oklahoma City.
Democrats are Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins.
- Michael McNutt, Capitol Bureau
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Oh how proud you made us Rep. Fallin when you waived the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag outside the US Capitol during the HCR vote. You looked so Republican and conservative, almost as if you did NOT vote for the Wall Street Bailout. You’ve learned so much in DC.
But we don’t want your DC politics running this state!
Since you want to be governor, I think you ought to work a shift as a prison guard and spend a day with a child abuse investigator. Better yet, how about an aide at a mental health facility?
You want to be governor? Get in there and get a taste of the tough jobs state workers do When it comes time to cut state budgets you will have some idea of how these folks protect and help thousands of Oklahomans each day and what will happen if those workers are not there to do their jobs.
Fallin has NEVER apologised for her mistake in voting for the wall streat bailout. She claimed that she “knew better” than all of the state who did not want the bailout to pass. THIS is why conservative republicans should NOT vote for her. How long will it be before she decides that she knows what best for us better than we do? and on what issues?
Will one of her jobs include spending the night out on the street with the Homeless?