Looks like Mary Fallin will continue to be our governor...
As you all know (or can infer), I didn't vote that way. To be honest, it doesn't look like much of the way I voted didn't come to pass. Am I bummed? Well, I'm not dancing to The Sound of Music but I'm not upset.
I voted.
Voting is not a decision that we make that is passive and it isn't a moment in time that ends on Wednesday. Voting is a civic duty that should not be taken lightly. It's a job that we citizens have that is really threefold. First, it gives us carte blanche to bitch for the next several years because we tried dammit. Second, it gives us a chance to pick the winners (or losers). Third, it sends a referendum to the rest of the state about how we citizens active in the process feel.
All of the races in Oklahoma were closer than the winners would have liked. Don't let the winners forget it. It's time to be active and let Fallin and the others know that we have concerns and we are barely a minority.
It's also a time to remember that democracy has spoken. We have winners. They are our public officials. They are the officials that the majority wanted and it is time to make sure that they are given the respect that their offices deserve.
It is time to start working with Mary Fallin. It's time to let her know why she didn't win by a landslide. It's time to remind her that she works for us... and we aren't giving her a perfect job review. She has a lot to work on, but she is our governor. For better or worse. Start thinking about what needs to be done to better Oklahoma and make damn sure that her office knows about it.
Thanks for voting Oklahoma. It's a trying, partisan time and we are getting through it. The results are similar to the way we would have imagined but the road to it was a little harder fought. Now we come together. Together as Americans, together as Oklahomans.
Let's make the next years better than the last.
2016 is coming.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Why I'm endorsing Joe Dorman... and you should too.
His name isn't Mary Fallin. Best blog post yet...
Sorry. All kidding aside, I am endorsing Joe Dorman. I am voting for Joe Dorman. I couldn't be happier to be voting for him. He is NOT my ideal politician. He does not share my views on where America needs to go.
He is the bridge that Oklahoma needs to let the Red and Blue Oklahomans drop some misconceptions about their party of choice. He is pro-life and pro-gun (you are welcome Oklahoma). He's a small town Oklahoman who wears the D proudly because he is pro-Main Street as opposed to Wall Street.
I'm voting for Joe Dorman because the Democratic party is the party who cares about modern family values. That's right, Republicans, let's talk about the elephant in the room (pun intended). Democrats are the family party (unless your family is white, nuclear, straight, and Christian charismatic). Modern families are so different than the 1950's ideal at this point. We have so many issues. Single parent families need access to health care and other social services to pull themselves out of poverty. Women are working more than ever before and deserve to be in charge of their own reproductive rights. Gay families need the legal support of politicians to ensure that they have the legal rights to be families.
It's not fair to say that America looks differently now than when the Republican "family value" platform arose. It is more accurate to say that we are looking at all of America now and America is looking back demanding to be seen.
Mary Fallin is an anachronism. She is a strong, modern woman wrapped in a regressive ideology. She is a marker of the past that I wish was a harbinger of the future. She hides behind political ideologies that she believes will get her a victory and keep her in power a little while longer. She is willing to think more about state's rights than individual human rights. She is willing to minimize young women's roles in their own rights, because she is old enough and established to be unaffected. She wants to see Oklahoma's businesses succeed even while her people become hopeless and look elsewhere.
Mary Fallin is politics. She is what we all hate about it. She was for it before she was against it. She desires to win, to play the game, to succeed even when it might hinder the progress of our great state.
Please guys, I know you feel hopeless sometimes and feel like your voice doesn't matter and sometimes you might be right. But if you don't go vote on Tuesday and you want to come to me and bitch in the years to come, save it. I'm tired of hearing about how bad it is. I want to hear about how you mobilized and (hopefully not) failed. I want to hear about how we are going to fix it next time. I want to hear that you emailed your Congressman about what we are doing wrong today and how to save Oklahoma's tomorrow.
Go vote. Even if you don't agree with me. Go vote. Vote. Please. However, if you care about "family values," consider going for the new family values party. Consider going with the guys who are looking after all families. Vote Democrat on Tuesday.
Sorry. All kidding aside, I am endorsing Joe Dorman. I am voting for Joe Dorman. I couldn't be happier to be voting for him. He is NOT my ideal politician. He does not share my views on where America needs to go.
He is the bridge that Oklahoma needs to let the Red and Blue Oklahomans drop some misconceptions about their party of choice. He is pro-life and pro-gun (you are welcome Oklahoma). He's a small town Oklahoman who wears the D proudly because he is pro-Main Street as opposed to Wall Street.
I'm voting for Joe Dorman because the Democratic party is the party who cares about modern family values. That's right, Republicans, let's talk about the elephant in the room (pun intended). Democrats are the family party (unless your family is white, nuclear, straight, and Christian charismatic). Modern families are so different than the 1950's ideal at this point. We have so many issues. Single parent families need access to health care and other social services to pull themselves out of poverty. Women are working more than ever before and deserve to be in charge of their own reproductive rights. Gay families need the legal support of politicians to ensure that they have the legal rights to be families.
It's not fair to say that America looks differently now than when the Republican "family value" platform arose. It is more accurate to say that we are looking at all of America now and America is looking back demanding to be seen.
Mary Fallin is an anachronism. She is a strong, modern woman wrapped in a regressive ideology. She is a marker of the past that I wish was a harbinger of the future. She hides behind political ideologies that she believes will get her a victory and keep her in power a little while longer. She is willing to think more about state's rights than individual human rights. She is willing to minimize young women's roles in their own rights, because she is old enough and established to be unaffected. She wants to see Oklahoma's businesses succeed even while her people become hopeless and look elsewhere.
Mary Fallin is politics. She is what we all hate about it. She was for it before she was against it. She desires to win, to play the game, to succeed even when it might hinder the progress of our great state.
Please guys, I know you feel hopeless sometimes and feel like your voice doesn't matter and sometimes you might be right. But if you don't go vote on Tuesday and you want to come to me and bitch in the years to come, save it. I'm tired of hearing about how bad it is. I want to hear about how you mobilized and (hopefully not) failed. I want to hear about how we are going to fix it next time. I want to hear that you emailed your Congressman about what we are doing wrong today and how to save Oklahoma's tomorrow.
Go vote. Even if you don't agree with me. Go vote. Vote. Please. However, if you care about "family values," consider going for the new family values party. Consider going with the guys who are looking after all families. Vote Democrat on Tuesday.
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