Alliance For Economic Development of OKC, Inc.

The days since mid-January 2011 have been both comical and bizarre, Orwellian scary and spring-shower refreshing, all at the same time. Consider, if you will, the following: The Skut Farkus Tea Party Affair. “Scut Farkus! What a rotten name! There he stood,...

Ed Shadid Wins Ward 2

… ran a brilliant campaign. [break in the recording] A candidate is the voters — they want quality positions, not on fear, and smear, and manipulation, and innuendo. I am asking, I am asking those corporate and plutocratic interests, a very, a small number of...

Ward 2 — Why I’m For Shadid

Originally posted March 27; updated March 30 to add a campaign video from Dr. Shadid and each party’s ads in the March 29 Oklahoma Gazette; updated April 4 to link to other bloggers’ posts which I’ve found supporting either candidate. If you’ve...

March 1 City Council Election Returns & Ward 2 Runoff

Originally posted March 2, 2011; updated March 7 to include campaign financing information; updated March 9 to include a video clip by Sam Bowman, Ward 2 incumbent, and everything else I could find on-line as of March 9; updated March 10 to include Ed Shadid’s...

Dirty Politics: Committee for Oklahoma City Momentum

Initially written March 16, 2011; edited March 29 to add Momentum’s March 24 Form C-1 reflecting contributions of $415,000, and a Momentum exemplary Ward 2 direct mailer. Today’s March 16 Oklahoma Gazette carries an article that asks some of the right...