Smaller venue for Tulsa @Stitt4Gov rally than last night in OKC. Official capacity 338. Masoud Moazami is getting the crowd warmed up.
@Stitt4Gov New @Stitt4Gov vox pop ad. Looks like it will be very effective. Now Eddie Huff is opening the festivities, talking about his experiences as a black American in apartheid South Africa.
@Stitt4Gov Two nights in a row the @Stitt4Gov rally has begun the National Anthem in a singable key. On behalf of bassi, baritones, and alti, thank you!
Standing room only at the @Stitt4Gov rally. Eddie Huff now introducing our next State Superintendent @ryanmwalters
@Stitt4Gov@ryanmwalters@ryanmwalters just unveiled his "We the Parents" t-shirt. Says Tulsa media carried water for the worst superintendent in Oklahoma when she refused to bring kids back to the classroom.
@Stitt4Gov@ryanmwalters@ryanmwalters doing one of his infamous selfie videos, much mocked by his Leftist detractors, with an enthusiastic crowd as his backdrop.
@Stitt4Gov@ryanmwalters Tulsa school board member E'Lena Ashley introduced to a standing ovation. Says Stitt's policies uphold the family, parental rights, and individual freedom. He is pushing for schools to be a pipeline to productivity, not prison.
. @MayorDebWimpee , mayor of the "freest city in Oklahoma," thanks @Stitt4Gov for keeping the state open and letting cities choose to stay open during the pandemic.
@MayorDebWimpee@Stitt4Gov State Rep Kevin McDugle now speaking: @Stitt4Gov believes in parental choice, one of the freedoms our soldiers fought for. The Constitution has a foundation, the Word of God.
@Stitt4Gov Now Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado with sheriffs from Rogers, Creek, and Haskell counties endorsing @Stitt4Gov
@Stitt4Gov Sheriff Regalado: We need leaders who out service over self. That's why he endorses @Stitt4Gov
@Stitt4Gov A fifth-generation farmer from Hugo now talking about why farmers are supporting @Stitt4Gov
@Stitt4Gov State Sen. candidate Ally Seifried thanking @Stitt4Gov for signing the Save Women's Sports act.
@Stitt4Gov@RepMullin Oklahoma's $3 billion savings account is 3rd highest in the nation. Oklahoma is 11th in the country in inward migration, with California the largest contributor. @Stitt4Gov's pro-freedom approach to the pandemic is a big draw.
"We don't put our constitution in the attic just because someone in Washington tells us to." -- @Stitt4Gov
.@Stitt4Gov: We love our rural communities and rural schools. We're going to stop our city schools from indoctrinating children.
@Stitt4Gov Big chant of "4 more years" -- didn't hear that in OKC last night.
@Stitt4Gov Now introducing @GlennYoungkin who flipped Virginia from blue to red by standing for parental rights.
Gov. Youngkin just threw two basketballs into the crowd. Thanks @Stitt4Gov for being his first endorsement. Quotes his favorite psalm, Psalms 121. (I will lift up my eyes unto the hills. From whence does my help come?)
Virginia was locked down tight 2 years ago, with a governor pushing a criminal-first policy. All the commentators said Republicans couldn't win in Virginia.
So, basically, OKPOP is an empty shell ("skin and bones") after $30 million ("Phase 1"), and they need another $35 million for Phase 2 -- "displays, exhibitions and programming" -- the stuff people would actually be able to come and see.
The best museum of the history of space travel in the world is @the_cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, and it started with a planetarium projector in a junior college poultry building. As artifacts were acquired, the facilities were expanded and improved.
#Tulsa leaders don't understand the idea of starting small and growing, probably because most of them inherited their wealth and have never built a business or an organization. They throw piles of tax and foundation money at a big plan and have nothing to show for it.
Maritime feeling in the #Tulsa air today. A brisk, cool breeze, moist air but not muggy, is something I associate with the seashore, not landlocked Oklahoma.
Taking a walk in McClure Park and thinking that the paths, the channelization of Mill Creek, the stormwater basins that serve as soccer, softball, and tennis courts, must be over 30 years old now. They were built when I worked nearby and would bring lunch to the park.
In the '70s we would sometimes come to McClure Park to swim in their Olympic-length pool. It was the nearest public pool to far east #Tulsa. Sometimes we'd go a bit farther to the city pool on the west side of Claremore. We swam at the Blue Whale when it was open.
Listening to @ryanmwalters talking about moving more resources into the classroom, giving student teachers the classroom management training they aren't getting in college, supporting teachers so they can give students the individualized support they need.
Every dollar being spent by the State Department of Education, both appropriated and non-appropriated, will be on the front page of the SDE website if @ryanmwalters is elected State Superintendent.
@ryanmwalters@ryanmwalters talking about a veteran teacher down the hall who mentored him, observed his classes, gave him advice. He wants to pair new teachers with mentors across the state.
At the @Stitt4Gov Red Wave rally at Crossroads Church in OKC. Event starts in about 30 minutes. Big space -- we'll see if Stitt and @tedcruz can draw a big enough crowd to fill it. #okelection
@Stitt4Gov@tedcruz Team Stitt has herded all media (friendly or otherwise) into one little area. If I stand up to take a still photo, I'll be blocking the video cameras behind me.
OKGOP chairman AJ Ferate just walked out to launch the @Stitt4Gov event.
I just purchased ($20) and downloaded the voter file for the entire state in order to investigate the claim that 200K more ballots were counted statewide than the number of voters who cast ballots. pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/Purchase…
4 tables for each county: Voters (one row per voter), Zone Types (alphanumeric codes for types of zones, e.g. school districts, precincts, legislative districts, municipalities), Zone Codes (for the zones themselves), Election Map (which field represents which election date).
There's a separate statewide table of party codes, which is hilarious. Apparently you can invent any party affiliation you please when you register, and the Pennsylvania Department of State will make a code for it. There are 518 party names in this table.
"...it is science’s own methodology that also highlights its limitations. Science cannot answer of itself—using its own empirical methodology—whether a particular medical practice is morally good." tabletmag.com/sections/histo…
"Personalism posits the ultimate unit of value of human life is the individual person herself. Society is and ought to be built around this value. tabletmag.com/sections/histo…
"In short, society is created for the person, not the person for society, and hence the dignity and integrity of the person and her freedom cannot be sacrificed for the sake of society." tabletmag.com/sections/histo…