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March Saturday, March 3 March Spring Paint Party
Orr Family Farm Thursday, March 8 at 6:00 p.m. Class Length: 35 hours
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Dr. Stephen Weber Potter…..The Event That Must Not Be Named
March Composition Concert invites you to join us at the Heritage Place March Cost: $195.00
Tuesday, March 6 from 7:30 10th and 11th. Come celebrate the magical world
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Daily: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
March Edmondson Every Saturday Mar. 10-31
Tuesday, March 6, at 7:00-8:30 An Interpretive History of the
6 p.m.
As part of the Nita R. Giles Refuge Bus Tour.
Public Policy Program, candi-
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tation over their politics and policies, followed by a Q Domino Tournament -
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and Arts of Oklahoma Ballroom (1727 W Alabama Wednesday, March 14 from
Ave, Chickasha) Used Book Sale Junk’n with 2 Hip Chicks
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm March
Firelake Arena at 18145 March Friday & Saturday, Mar 23 at 9am, Mar 24 at
March 16 & 17 4pm, Friday, 12-7pm,Satur-
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3rd Annual Women’s
March History Month Symposium
Thursday, March 8 from 6:00
Rangeline Rd
Shawnee, OK 16-17 Elgin Community
Library
day 9-4pm
We are bringing you over 100
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settlement money and ensured it can their corporate donors and their cor-
EDMONDSON only be spent on public health. He
negotiated a settlement in 2001 with
porate lobbyists and do what'r right,
I'm prepared as governor to put a
FROM PAGE A1 then Southwestern Bell to establish plan before the people and let them
the Oklahoma Educational Technol- vote to secure these critical services
from Muskogee Central High School. ogy Trust. The trust has invested and put Oklahoma back on track,” he
After high school, he attended North- more than $12 million in technology said.
eastern State College on scholarship. and training into Oklahoma schools. Edmondson said certain tax incen-
He then enlisted in the United States Edmondson also established the tives need to be closed and the state
Navy, attaining the rank of Petty Of- first Victims Services Unit in the needs to reduce its dependence on
ficer Second Class and served a tour state attorney general's office and unstable income sources like the
of duty in Vietnam. worked to streamline the death pen- gross production tax and create a
After the war, Edmondson be- alty appeals process with victims in capital improvement fund. He be-
came a speech and debate teacher at mind. Edmondson sued more than a lieves the state should begin to re-
Muskogee High School. He was elect- dozen corporations in 2006 for pol- move the gross production tax from
ed to the state legislature in 1974 luting the Illinois River Watershed. general appropriations and directed
and graduated from the University He attributed that work to the poul- to a special fund for capital improve-
of Tulsa School of Law in 1978. try industry changing its practices, ments and infrastructure needs for
In 1982, he was named the chief trucking out tons of waste that was items like roads and bridges. He also
prosecutor for the Muskogee County previously applied to the land in the favored taking the gross production
District Attorney's office, and was watershed. tax back to 7 percent.
elected District Attorney that same Edmondson has devised what he Edmondson has been quoted as
year, where he ended up serving 10 calls the “Take Back Oklahoma” plan, saying, “We have to stabilize our
years. Edmondson was elected At- saying that Oklahoma needs revenue state and then begin changing the
torney General in 1994 and again in and part of the reason the state has way we operate from a fiscal stand-
1998 without opposition. He left of- a revenue shortfall is tax break. “We point. Step one is to stop digging the
fice in 2011 and has been in private need revenue,” he said. hole we're in. Step two is to make
practice of law since. He said the legislature had a chance sure we don't end up back here
While serving as Attorney Gen- to set Oklahoma back on solid finan- again.”
eral, Edmondson was one of eight cial footing to fund education, health Edmondson recently attended the
attorneys general to negotiate a care, infrastructure and services for Sequoyah County Democrat Wom-
settlement with tobacco companies. seniors, but the state has been hit en's Christmas Party and continued
He then led efforts to establish the with its fourth straight year of rev- his tour to Roland Wednesday.
Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement En- enue shortfall. “It feels good to be back in eastern
dowment Trust, which protected the “If they aren't willing to stand up to Oklahoma,” he said.
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Candidate Forum
Oklahoma gubernatorial candidates
will discuss issues facing the state during a
public forum March 8 in Durant at South-
eastern Oklahoma State University. The
SE Region forum will take place from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. in Montgomery Auditorium
(Morrison Hall).
This will be the second of seven sched-
uled Gubernatorial Issues Forums that
will be held across the state and sponsored
by The Oklahoma Academy for State
Goals. The forum is open to the public.
The following candidates are attending:
Former Attorney General and former gu-
bernatorial candidate Drew Edmondson;
Senator Connie Johnson; State Auditor
Gary Jones; Broken Arrow businessman
Rex Lawhorn; Bethany businessman and
former chair of the Oklahoma Libertarian
Party Chris Powell; Tulsa businessman
Gary Richardson; and Tulsa business-
man Kevin Stitt. Candidates Mick Cornett,
Todd Lamb, Norman Brown, Dan Fisher
and Joe Maldonado have been invited.
“The forums are geared to provide op-
portunity for citizens to hear the candi-
dates express their views and ideas on
issues that are critical to Oklahoma’s fu-
ture,’’ said David Stewart, 2018 Chairman
of The Oklahoma Academy. “The Acad-
emy has provided questions to the can-
didates prior to the forum so they can do
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ma State University presi-
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emy has provided these work with The Oklahoma lo
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sure that citizens can hear sues Forum in Durant,’’ T
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will be asked questions and allow citizens the op- o
on policy issues covering portunity to learn more
forecasts for the 2019 state about the candidates who
budget, economic growth,
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