Think I am finally figuring out that she only cares about people if there is a disaster and she get on the national airwaves showing what a caring Governor she is but in everyday life not so much as everyone is beginning to see. If you don't fit in the wealthy hole or are hard right, you might as well take a flying leap as she and the rest of OK GOP could care less IMO.
How she was ever elected head of the Governor's Association shows IMO Republicans pushed her because she will do what she is told which is what we are seeing in Oklahoma. When she first ran for Congress, I worked for her opponent and have never regretted that for a minute because she was honest and have had my doubts about Fallin for a longtime going back to all the rumors. I didn't think the Democrats did a good job of picking someone to oppose her in 2010, but this year Democrat Rep Joe Dorman is someone I can get behind 100%. She is in for a shock in 2014 with Dorman IMHO after they got Randy Brogdan to pull out of the Governor's race to run for a Senate seat to clear the way for Fallin. Still shocked at Fallin's comments over and over again that show someone out of touch with every day Oklahomans. Her over the top anti-gay and ACA is just too much.
The very fact that she refused to take federal dollars to set up an exchange as they didn't want the Federal Government telling Oklahoma what to do makes her look like the biggest hypocrite as she now wants to tell local entities what they can and cannot do. She has become a dictator in Oklahoma where only her ideas count. Her good friend State School Superintendent Janet Barrisi is the same way. Those two women need sent to the unemployment line in November 2014.
Gov. Mary Fallin signs minimum wage hike ban in OklahomaPosted: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:40 pm | Updated: 5:39 pm, Mon Apr 14, 2014.Associated Press |
OKLAHOMA CITY — Cities in Oklahoma are prohibited from establishing mandatory minimum wage or vacation and sick-day requirements under a bill that has been signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
Fallin signed the bill Monday that supporters say would prevent a hodgepodge of minimum wages in different parts of the state that could potentially harm the business community.
Hard right Representative Michelle Bachmann who is under investigation in Iowa by the Federal Government for her campaign plus may be one of the meaner GOP women when she speaks has been chosen to be the commencement speaker at Oral Roberts University. Confirms what I thought of ORU which is not very much. The Founder's son had to be removed for spending too much unauthorized money. Don't have the same impression of St Gregory and Oklahoma Baptist in Shawnee or Oklahoma Christian in OKC as I do ORU which was founded by Oral Roberts who was a televangelist. Always seemed to be about preying on the elderly for money. Just call me a skeptic when I hear or see televangelist begging for dollars. Those other three Christian universities mentioned are on the up and up and students can get a good education at any of them.Opponents say those decisions should be left up to individual communities. They complain the bill specifically targets Oklahoma City, where an initiative is underway to a establish a citywide minimum wage higher than the current federal minimum wage.
Fallin signed three other bills Monday dealing with tax credits for banking institutions, public investments, and membership of the Alarm and Locksmith Industry Committee.
ORU grad Michelle Bachmann to give commencement address
From Staff Reports | Minnesota Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann will give the commencement address at Oral Roberts University next month.
A long-time favorite of the Tea Party movement, Bachmann in 2006 became the first Republican woman elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota.
She is a graduate of the former O.W. Coburn School of Law at ORU and served in the Minnesota State Senate from 2000 through 2006.
She was listed in Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2011.
Bachmann has announced she will not seek re-election this fall.
More than 700 ORU students will graduate at the commencement service at 1 p.m. May 3 in the Mabee Center.Little background on OW Coburn School of Law which was closed, with its 190,000 volume law library, as well as 5 professors and 23 students, moving to CBN University (now Regent University) which was not accredited at the time. What is with these these religious schools that believe they can teach whatever and have no regard for rules and regulations. The very idea they want religious freedom but want to deny the rest of us what we believe which may be different is offensive is to me.
Never forget going with my daughter who is a journalist when she had to do an interview at Oral Roberts and driving through the entrance and seeing those huge prayer hands and the prayer tower which looked like a spaceship. Must admit it made me uncomfortable and was happy when she was finished and we could leave.
Stayed in the car and watched very closely the students and it had a much different vibe then if you are on the OU campus in Norman. Hard to put your finger on but at OU you always see kids joking around and smiling -- saw few smiles at ORU as they went from class to class. It was strange.
Then you find out Bachmann went to Law School at ORU with such a small number of faculty and students. That's just strange. Were acceptance standards lower to be admitted then a long time accredited law school?
In May 1981, the American Bar Association (ABA), which provides accreditation for US law schools, denied Coburn's initial application for provisional accreditation. Oral Roberts University's requirement that students must take an oath of religious faith was considered to be contrary to ABA's Standard 211, which states:
A law school shall foster and maintain equality of opportunity in legal education, including employment of faculty and staff, without discrimination or segregation on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender or sexual orientation, age or disability.
The school sued the ABA, claiming that the denial was a violation of their First Amendment rights. A judge enjoined the ABA from denying provisional accreditation, ruling that the ABA's role in accreditation is equivalent to a "state action," and that Standard 211 denied a private institution's right to freedom of religion without any restrictions by the state.
After a "spirited debate," the ABA's House of Delegates in August 1981 voted 147 to 127 to amend Standard 211 to add a clause including the phrase:
Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent a law school from having a religious affiliation and purpose and adopting policies of admission and employment that directly relate to such affiliation and purpose so long as notice of such policies has been provided to applicants, students, faculty and employees.
Coburn was then granted provisional accreditation
If that was not enough in Oklahoma, Mustang PUBLIC Schools are going to be teaching a book in an elective history course from the head of Hobby Lobby Green. My tax dollars are now going to support his agenda in a public school? What is Mustang School Board thinking? Somehow it doesn't shock me this would happen there based on my experiences when our football team played at Mustang. You could say that Norman, OK, and Mustang, OK, are about as far apart philosophically as you can get in Oklahoma. Norman is progressive and Mustang very conservative. Was recently told there are only two progressive cities in Oklahoma -- Norman and Muskogee which I found interesting. Glad to call Norman home! Hobby Lobby's owner, Green, seems to be everywhere pushing his version of the Bible at the rest of us. I, for one, will NEVER shop Hobby Lobby or Mardel book store again.
Sometimes in Oklahoma all you can do is shake your head. Been saying it was too politically hard right when we were transferred to Oklahoma and over time I can now tell people "I Told You So" because they are proving it more and more. Democrats get a clue and fight hard to start taking back the state to common sense.
Oklahoma school district OKs ‘Bible curriculum’ created by Hobby Lobby president (via Raw Story )
According to the Religious News Service, the “Museum of the Bible Curriculum” created by Hobby Lobby’s President Steve Green (pictured above) will be beta-tested in Oklahoma’s Mustang Public School district beginning in the Fall of 2014. Green…
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