the central progressive idea is that the people should the people should be able to use our government to accomplish together what we can t do alone. like for example building storm shelters or for that matter schools to put them in. why is that central idea such a hard sell in oklahoma? why at least have the republicans in oklahoma been so successful selling against that idea? and it s a difference between the officials inside the capitol building and those citizens outside. they had to lie and mislead and confuse the voters in oklahoma to throw in that doubt. we had so many people that were supportive of this until time and time again, these officials kept throwing doubt to the voters and i m convinced we would have accomplished this goal if they would have kept their mouth shut or they would have provided a suitable alternative. so this point the only alternative governor fallon has proposed is to let the local districts raise their own
republican legislature blocked that idea, mr. doorman decided he would ask oklahoma voters directly to approve that funding. volunteers fanned out across the state collecting signatures at comic bookstores at gun shows, football games and hockey games. they kept working after governor fallon said she would not support the proposal to build the storm shelters for oklahoma schools. they kept working even after the state reworded their ballot measure. they worked until the deadline yesterday, and ultimately they fell short by about 25%, in bright red anti-tax small government oklahoma. now the story could have ended there. you try a couple of ways to get something done, you work really hard at it, you come up short, the state says no. what did you expect in oklahoma, right? but today joe doorman announced that he s taking another run at the issue and lots of other issues aside. today he says he s taking the very first steps to run for
a very vigorous discussions about what we can do within budget tear means. in oklahoma, within budget tear means whatever your town can afford or wants to spend. whether your town is relatively wealthy or relatively poor. or whether your town was lucky me local democrat lawmaker in oklahoma decided he was going to try to do something about that vagaries. how can it be that you have to win a lottery to prepare for tornadoes, that people in rich towns will have ways for their kids to survive storms but nobody else will. how can it be when we know what works? state representative joe doorman asked the legislator to set aside $5 million to build safe rooms in the 2/3 of oklahoma schools that do not have them. 2/3. and when oklahoma s very republican legislature blocked that idea, mr. doorman decided he would ask oklahoma voters directly to approve that funding.
that discussion. and then attorney general scott pruitt challenged our ballot title. we saw republican official after official fight this and this was simply to put this issue on the ballot to let the voters decide. you could argue that acentral processive idea may be the central progressive idea is that the people should the people should be able to use our government to accomplish together what we can t do alone. like for example building storm shelters or for that matter schools to put them in. why is that central idea such a hard sell in oklahoma? why at least have the republicans in oklahoma been so successful selling against that idea? and it s a difference between the officials inside the capitol building and those citizens outside. they had to lie and mislead and confuse the voters in oklahoma to throw in that doubt. we had so many people that were
you could argue that a central processive idea may be the central progressive idea is that the people should the people should be able to use our government to accomplish together what we can t do alone. like for example building storm shelters or for that matter schools to put them in. why is that central idea such a hard sell in oklahoma? why at least have the republicans in oklahoma been so successful selling against that idea? and it s a difference between the officials inside the capitol building and those citizens outside. they had to lie and mislead and confuse the voters in oklahoma to throw in that doubt. we had so many people that were supportive of this until time and time again, these officials kept throwing doubt to the voters and i m convinced we would have accomplished this goal if they would have kept their mouth shut or they would have provided a suitable alternative. so this point the only alternative governor fallon has proposed is to let the local districts ra