Thanksgiving: Executive Order - Consolidate Public Schools

   Our Oklahoma public schools should be thankful to God for many blessings this Thanksgiving: We should thank God for giving Governor Fallin the courage to draw a line in the sand and stand up for our public service agencies (ODOT, state health agencies, state safety agencies such as the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the Oklahoma State Department of Education, Department of Corrections, etc...)  - against corporate interests and its cronies, the corporate legislators. We should thank God for the conservative and liberal legislators who stood up to corporate legislators in the waning days of the first special session and said "Governor Fallin, veto these state agency cuts!" Of course Governor Fallin and the conservative/liberal lawmakers with the "guts" to confront corporate interests, should not expect any early Christmas gifts in the form of campaign donations any time soon.
   Naming Names: Anyone reading my blog posts (friends, near friends, acquaintances, those who don't know me, those who can tolerate me, those who don't like me, and those who can't stand me) know that I'm often not politically correct and often name names in my posts. Most of the time, I identify the named parties accurately, since I always do my research and analyze appropriately. And so it is with this post...
   We've thanked God for Governor Fallin "standing up" for public service agencies, but several other lawmakers have displayed courage in standing against the corporate acquisition and destruction of our state agencies. We should thank God for Senator A.J. Griffin (R), Senator Jason Smalley (R), Senator Ron Sharp (R), Senator J.J. Dossett (D), Senator John Sparks (D), Senator Randy Bass (D), and many more senators - for standing up to the corporate (welfare) cronies: Senator Julie Daniels (R), Senator Mike Schulz (R), Senator Gary Stanislawski (R), and a few more. We should thank God for Representative Dennis Casey (R), Representative Leslie Osborn (R), Representative Marcus McEntire (R), Representative Donnie Condit (D), Representative Mickey Dollens (D), Representative Jason Dunnington (D), Representative David Perryman (D), Representative Cory Williams (D), and many more, for standing up to the corporate welfare cronies: Representative John (the terrorist) Bennett (R), Representative Bobby Cleveland (R), Representative Charles (the Atoka Strangler) McCall (R), Representative Tim Downing (R), and several more.
   Like Governor Fallin, those legislators who've stood up for our public service agencies should not expect any early Christmas gifts from corporate agents. Those corporate welfare cronies, however, stand to have a very, merry Christmas - courtesy of corporate donations to their campaign war chests. These Christmas gifts to the corporate minions in the state legislature may also be used for personal purposes, for those willing to risk felony charges...remember Senator Kyle Loveless (R).

(Note: Those Legislators classified as conservative, liberal, or corporate have been appropriately identified by "quotes", "votes", "felony charges", and "followthemoney.org"...)

Update! - On a related note, Governor Fallin has issued an executive order (which may be unconstitutional) which consolidates public school districts! I'll be analyzing this executive order in a future blog post... and naming names...