Meanwhile, campaign filings by some sitting legislators from the Tulsa area forced into runoff elections show that the rising tide of campaign money this season doesn’t necessarily lift all boats.
Of the 18 remaining Congressional candidates, at least eight had an approximate net worth of $1 million or more, U.S. House of Representatives financial disclosure records show.
“He still owns the stock and is not under investigation,” said Amy Lawrence, spokeswoman for Mullin’s office. Federal prosecutors announced this week that a New York Republican Congressman had been charged with allegedly dumping his holdings of that stock.
The biggest single donor to the group opposing the ballot measure was Forward Oklahoma City, an arm of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, which donated a total of $190,000.
The former Oklahoma Department of Corrections probation and parole officer, who is now a Bartlesville police officer, has been accused by at least six women — four of whom were on probation and under his supervision at the time — of sending inappropriate text messages, pictures and requests for sexual favors, though he has yet to be arrested or charged.
New games like roulette and craps are expected to bring in millions to the state, but some officials are looking toward casinos’ main source of revenue as a way to boost state revenue — electronic gaming.
A lawsuit accuses members of the Board of Health of having conflicts of interest in voting for a set of controversial rules governing medical marijuana. For the public, finding whether members of state agencies and boards might have a conflict has become more difficult.
A Frontier investigation discovered police identified the wrong woman in documents forwarded to the district attorney, who then charged an unrelated woman with embezzlement.
