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After Failing Teachers, Governor Mary Fallin Compares Them to Spoiled Teenagers

Fallin Compares Teachers to a “Teenage Kid That Wants a Better Car” Governor Mary Fallin is struggling to come to grips with the scope of her failures in Oklahoma. Rather than take responsibility for the problems created by her drastic cuts to education funding, the governor had the audacity to accuse the teachers of being…

Teacher Strikes and Education Cuts: Brought to You By Republican Governors Everywhere

Teachers in KY, AZ, OK Demand More Support for Schools This week, educators in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky are attracting national attention with public demonstrations demanding more support for their schools. The states all suffer from chronically underfunded education systems that force their teachers to provide their own school supplies, take second jobs, switch to…

Fallin’s Failure: Oklahoma Education Crisis Comes to a Head

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin’s failure to adequately fund education is gaining national attention as teachers are contemplating a statewide strike. Educators in the state had not received a raise in a decade. Fallin granted the schools some emergency funds, but for many teachers, it’s too little too late. From the Associated Press report: In both…

Special Election Results in Deep Red Oklahoma Show Trouble for Wannabe Fallin Successors

Last night, in a turn that should alarm the Republicans running to succeed Governor Mary Fallin, Democrats picked up a Senate seat in deep red Oklahoma, their fourth pickup in Oklahoma so far this year. Allison Ikley-Freeman flipped a State Senate seat in the Tulsa suburbs, outperforming Secretary Clinton’s 2016 vote share there by more…

Oklahoma's Fallin Punishes Working People, Makes GOP

The headline from the Tulsa World this afternoon says it all: “Gov. Fallin signs bill curbing minimum-wage increases in Oklahoma.” Fallin’s hostility toward the working people of her state comes as no surprise – it’s core to the character of all of this year’s Republican candidates for governor. In right-wing harmony with Fallin’s action, Illinois billionaire Bruce Rauner has…

Right Wing Anti-Obamacare forces drove Gov. Mary Fallin's health care decisions, emails show

By: Zeke Campfield and Chris Casteel, NewsOK As Gov. Mary Fallin approached crucial decisions about health care reform in Oklahoma in the past two years, members of her staff routinely relied on advice from conservative political groups bent on destroying Obamacare. More than 50,000 pages of emails released by the governor’s office are notable for…

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