The U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City will take testimony in Yes on Term Limits v Savage on August 20, Monday, starting at 10 am. This is the case over whether the U.S. Constitution permits Oklahoma to bar out-of-state initiative petition circulators. The case number is 5:07-cv-680; the Judge is Tim Leonard.
You mean a bunch of out-of-staters think that they’ve got free speech rights when they enter Oklahoma? Don’t they know that they give up all of their rights once they cross the state line. The first amendment doesn’t apply in Oklahoma.
(Note for the humor impaired: This was sarcasm.)
IMHO, the Oklahoma political establishment is the most rigid, paranoid, insecure, entrenched and quasi-fascist in the nation. I was born here and I have been an observer since the J. Howard Edmondson administration (1959). The populist roots of the Oklahoma Constitution have been legislated and litigated to a nullity.
Example, it only took 5000 signatures to place a political on the ballot in Oklahoma until 1974. When David Boren (former St. Rep, Governor, U.S. Senator and President of the University of Oklahoma) and cronies up the ante by about 1,000 percent.
This sure ain’t my Grandpa’s Oklahoma. He came here in the 19th century and voted for the Oklahoma Constitution. It’s as dead as he is. Long live both of them!