Taylor or Bartlet

[BReeves]

I really do not have a dog in the fight being in Rogers county but wondering why nobody here is talking about the mayor's race. I wouldn't vote for Kathy because I think she looks funny, her mouth is too small for her face. She must have $ because she was running TV adds two to one over Bartlett. Seems to me kinda like the better or worst of two evils.

 

[Glocktogo]

I think if any Tulsa resident is stupid enough to vote for either one of them, they deserve what they get.

FWIW, I work at TUL. Both of them feel it necessary to remind us on a daily, recurring basis that they're the mayor via the PA system. I will say that Taylor's previous message was much more self-absorbed and painful to the ears than the current Bartlett announcement.

 

[hfa68]

I think if any Tulsa resident is stupid enough to vote for either one of them, they deserve what they get.

FWIW, I work at TUL. Both of them feel it necessary to remind us on a daily, recurring basis that they're the mayor via the PA system. I will say that Taylor's previous message was much more self-absorbed and painful to the ears than the current Bartlett announcement.

Yea my day is not complete without hearing Bartlett's announcement 6 or 7 times a day!

 

[sanjuro893]

I just read this on OK2A website:
http://ok2anews.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/a-vote-for-taylor-is-a-vote-for-bloomberg/


A Vote For Taylor Is A Vote For Bloomberg
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Tulsa mayoral candidate Kathy Taylor has a clear record on guns. She doesn’t like them. Of course, she says she’s for the Second Amendment. She says she has a lifetime hunting license. She says she’s a member of the NRA. Well, last time I checked, there was no litmus test to obtain a lifetime hunting license or to join the NRA. So, who cares whether she has a NRA membership card or a lifetime hunting license. What we care about is her actions.

When it comes to what really matters – her record not her rhetoric – Kathy Taylor’s claim to believe in the Second Amendment doesn’t stack up. Taylor has donated a large sum of money to countless anti-gun candidates and office holders, including President Obama, former Vice President Gore, Hillary Clinton, and the DNC.

In 2007, she joined Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. She said “she views the coalition as a law enforcement effort to protect her constituents, not as an attempt to diminish the legal right to own a gun” (New York Times, June 4, 2007). Mayors Against Illegal Guns has a track record of doing just that – attempting to diminish the legal right to own a gun. From coast to coast, Bloomberg, through his group, has sunk millions of dollars into trying to rob Americans of their God-given, Constitutionally recognized right to defend themselves against crime and tyranny. The record is clear! A vote for Taylor is a vote for Bloomberg, New York City style gun control laws in Tulsa.

Mayor Bartlett, however, has helped rectify an issue with city ordinances banning SDA permit holders from carrying in city parks. Earlier this year, no gun signs dotted the city parks all over Tulsa. When we brought this to the attention of Mayor Bartlett’s staff, they submitted a proposal to the City Council to amend their ordinance, bringing it into compliance with state law. The council refused to act. Eventually, the Mayor’s staff determined that this could be accomplished via executive order. Mayor Bartlett signed the executive order and the city began covering the “no guns” portion of the signs. Yes, the process took longer than we would have liked and we did press the Mayor about that, but the issue was eventually dealt with.

What would Taylor have done? We can say this, Taylor signed a letter in 2009 asking Senator Reid and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to oppose legislation allowing for national reciprocity of concealed carry permits.

So, if records are more important than rhetoric – and they are – the choice is obvious. A vote for Taylor is a vote for Bloomberg, New York City style gun control laws in Tulsa. OK2A recommends that Tulsans vote Bartlett for Mayor on Tuesday.

 

[KOPBET]

I'm going to have to hold my nose and vote for Dddddddewey. No way I could vote for a Bloomberg croney.

 

[TulsaGeoff]

Bartlet

 

[Raoul Duke]

Both of them are astroturf, elitist, chambercrat, douchebags, who only care about serving themselves and their ruling class cronies while protecting and expanding their culture of corruption.

I look at my vote as a vote against Taylor the Tyrant, not for Baby Bartlett.

If Doofey hadn't done the right thing to allow citizens their right to protect themselves at city parks, I doubt I'd even bother voting on the Mayor's race.

 

[ruckerduck]

I know Dewey and he is no elitis,t ruling, class *********. He is a very nice, down to earth guy. I won't say I agree with everything he has done as a mayor, but he has been much better than Taylor was.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Bartlett is better than Taylor, but not by much. Grading on the Taylor curve sets the bar pretty low, btw.

Describing either of them as satisfactorily competent or even mediocre is giving them way too much credit.

They are more alike than they are different. Both of them owe more to where they are in life to riding the long coattails of others, rather than their own competency, talent or accomplishments. If Bartlett wasn't a fortunate son of a political dynasty in Oklahoma and Taylor didn't dump her ex to become the kept wife of a very rich man that's handed his checkbook over to her to satisfy her compulsive spending sprees on her hobbies, no one would ever have heard of them.

 

[BReeves]

In 2007, she joined Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

That right there would do it for me, almost wished I could vote. Really surprised Bartlett isn't advertising the Bloomberg connection. Would think that alone would be enough to insure his reelection.