As the local legislative candidates have been organizing and meeting to discuss ideas of what messaging might work in our favor on specific issues, I have been able to impart some things I have learned in my dozen or so years of working on various political campaigns. One thing I have taken due note of…
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I am the Route 66 Kid! I was born and grew up within a block of Old Route 66 as it passes through what is now known as Midtown Tulsa, OK. I either walked, crossed or attended school along that segment of the Mother Road every day of the World as a youth. I served in the U.S. Navy at each end of America's Main Street at Port Hueneme, CA about an hour from its western terminus in Santa Monica and later at Great Lakes, IL about forty minutes from its eastern terminus in Chicago. I also lived along Old Route 66 while attending college in Oklahoma City. Driving the new ultramodern Interstates that parallel the Old Route, I became familiar with most of the roadside attractions of the dear old Mother Road on numerous treks back and forth from duty stations to home. I currently reside in my hometown and travel those ultramodern Interstates to work in Route 66 towns such at Vinita and Oklahoma City. With rare exception I have kept a personal daily journal since I was in high school. It will soon be in its 41st volume. This blog is an extension of that record. Thank you for stopping in!
Sweat equity and supporting local candidates
As one who has been directly involved in campaign politics for nearly a decade now, I have spent my fair share of time manning phone banks. I can empathize with those who call total strangers on behalf of political candidates to ask for things they normally would not ever ask anyone for like votes or…
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Adults reading their awkward teenage diaries
It may be a little known fact outside this most conservative corridor of Old Route 66 but there is a thriving community of aspiring story tellers, budding comedians and stand-up comic artists in my beloved home town. The Comedy Parlor in Tulsa’s Blue Dome district played host to OK, So Tulsa Storyslam Saturday evening for…
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Documentary film review: Oklahoma Shakedown
Collateral damage. Booming economy. The price we pay for doing business. These were sentiments expressed by certain parties in the course of the documentary film, Oklahoma Shakedown. Film maker Taylor Lee Mullins was on hand with one of the activists appearing in his film, Angela Spotts, at Circle Cinema on Tuesday evening for a free…
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Bill Maher packs the Brady
As I have stated before on this blog, there are many enclaves, organizations with frequent social functions and community events that make life for liberals along this most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 bearable. Saturday evening was a classic example of what underscores that sentiment. While The Big Lebowski was being shown to an open…
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The only wall we need
It is often said that this most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 is the buckle of the Bible Belt and I will personally vouch for that description. Yes, evangelical Christians comprise a majority of citizens in the Sooner State and as a voting block they are largely the ones responsible for electing the conservative…
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Electoral storm clouds on the horizon
Much is happening this election year along this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. I myself am resigned to the reality that Presidential politics matters little to us here in Oklahoma. We Sooner State voters with our seven electoral votes have never been a deciding factor in electing a U.S. President in our…
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Selecting the 2016 Oklahoma Democratic Delegation
There was much activity this past weekend along this, the most conservative stretch of the Mother Road. Between the OU Red and White game in Norman on Saturday, the Integris Foundation dinner at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Carl Albert Awards Dinner at the Cox Convention Center both of Friday evening and the…
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A huge and humbling surprise
Well my eclectic brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, it has been quite a week of many happenings along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Yours Truly was involved in a lot of them. Information of these events will be forthcoming but first things first. In the midst…
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Electing a new sheriff
A year ago the City and County of Tulsa gained national and international notoriety for all the wrong reasons when a crime suspect was shot and killed by a reserve sheriff’s deputy that mistook his firearm for his taser. The ensuing scandal resulted in a genuine field day in the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office. Tuesday’s…
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