Rachel Maddow: Storm shelter issue riles Oklahoma politics

[pacalo]

This is about the tornado victims in Moore, OK, & their need for storm shelters. The current governor, for some unknown reason, is resistant to allow federal funding that could be made available for that purpose.

There's some good news at the end:

Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman, (D), talks with Rachel Maddow about how his fight for more storm shelters has led him to consider a run for governor.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show?cid=sky (scroll at the bottom; click on "Storm shelter issue riles Oklahoma politics&quot .

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[ReRe]

1. K&R

Absolutely! How long has it been since OK had a Democrat for Governor? I mean a REAL Democrat? All politics is local. As a matter of fact, what other red state governors are up for election in the next few years? Any governor against gun control, against tornado shelters in tornado alley, against public education, against ACA-Medicaid funding, against teachers, is not on children's side and needs to be turned out.

[OKNancy]

2. How long? 2011 was the last Democratic Governor

The state has been taken over. It hasn't always been this way.
We are the state of Fred Harris, Mike Synar, Carl Albert etc.

[ReRe]

4. So the current governor is...

..., or calls himself, a Democrat? Like a DINO? I don't know OK history. All I know is Inhoffe is from there.

[OKNancy]

5. no she was elected in Nov of 2011. She is a teabagger

It's been a gradual change... I blame all the mega-churches who found a home here. LOL - and I joke too, all the Texans who moved here.

[another_liberal]

3. Tea Party votes . . .

The governor has a good reason to reject federal funding. He knows the Tea Party votes, and school children don't.