Voted and lost, but still exuberant.

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.