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Parting the Red Sea for Progressives, Ingredients in Place for a ‘November to Remember’ • An Independent JournAl of CommentAry • OCTOBER 2018 • VOLUME 50 NUMBER 10 • $5.00 Parting The Red Sea For Progressives, Ingredients In Place For A ‘November To Remember’ General Election Preview SPECIAL REPORT Begins On Page 6 Observations www.okobserver.org Bad News VOLUME 50, NO. 10 The state’s largest daily, the Oklahoman, has changed hands – again. PUBLISHER Beverly Hamilton That is bad news for the state, for civic discourse and understanding. EDITOR Arnold Hamilton Don’t misunderstand. We’re not shedding any tears over the departure of Phil Anschutz as owner. He is a wealthy ideologue whose worldview ADVISORY BOARD was so far right that even Eddie Gaylord would blush. Andrew Hamilton, Matthew Hamilton, But the sale to GateHouse Media gives little reason to hope that rank- Scott J. Hamilton, Trevor James, Ryan Kiesel, George Krumme, and-file Oklahomans will be well served any time soon by a newspaper Gayla Machell, MaryAnn Martin, with the reporting staff and financial resources necessary to dig to the Bruce Prescott, Bob Rogers, bottom of important stories – in other words, to serve as the public’s Robyn Lemon Sellers, Kyle Williams watchdog. OUR MOTTO GateHouse’s slash-and-burn modus operandi pervades today’s print To Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the media, turning once solid local news operations into glorified shoppers Comfortable. and public relations rags. Here’s how the Austin Chronicle put it after Gatehouse purchased the OUR CREDO So then to all their chance, to all their Austin American Statesman last spring: shining golden opportunity. To all the “The GateHouse model for business is by now known and controver- right to love, to live, to work, to be sial: Find a privately-held legacy paper where the current owners have themselves, and to become whatever little interest [in the States¬man’s case, Cox Media Group], buy that thing their vision and humanity can combine to make them. This seeker, paper for a song, then slash staff levels, especially senior and tenured is the promise of America. employees who are pulling down the biggest salaries.” - Adapted from Thomas Wolfe Indeed, the day the sale was announced 37 Oklahoman staffers lost their jobs – from an already skeletal staff left from the Anschutz era’s FOUNDING PUBLISHER deep cuts. Helen B. Troy [1932-2007] Worse, the staffers were required to sit through a 35-minute presenta- tion from the new owners before being informed of their fate – via email. FOUNDING EDITOR Heartless. Frosty Troy [1933-2017] The only good news – at least in theory – is that Anschutz is gone. Could that portend a more thoughtful and progressive, less Draconi- [ISSN 0030-1795] an opinion section? Probably not. Best we can tell, GateHouse chases The Oklahoma Observer [USPS 865-720] is published on the first Wednesday of each CONTINUED ON PAGE 43 month by AHB Enterprises LLC, 13912 Plym- outh Crossing, P.O. Box 14275, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-0275. Periodicals postage paid at Edmond, OK and additional entry of- fice. Phone: 405.478.8700. POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Oklahoma Observer, P.O. Box 14275, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-0275. SUBSCRIPTIONS 1-Year [12 issues] $50. Send check to The Yes! Please send me a one-year subscription for only $50. Oklahoma Observer, P.O. Box 14275, This special offer includes my certificate for a free book courtesy Oklahoma City, OK 73113-0275. Online: Visit of Full Circle Bookstore [a $20 value]. See page 41 for details. www.okobserver.net to use a credit card. UPDATE ADDRESSES Please notify us at least two weeks before your move to ensure uninterrupted service. E-mail address changes to subscriptions@ okobserver.net or mail to P.O. Box 14275, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-0275. LETTERS TO EDITOR E-mail to [email protected] or mail to P.O. Box 14275, Oklahoma City, OK 73113- 0275. 2 • OCTOBER 2018 Observerscope Join us Oct. 11 at OKC’s Full Mark you calendars for Nov. 10 Gov. Fallin’s Feeding Oklahoma Circle Books for our Newsmakers’ for the annual Fall Peace Festival Drive hopes to provide two million Election Preview with longtime at OKC’s Civic Center Music Hall, meals to families, children and se- House Democratic Leader Scott co-sponsored by The Observer. De- niors this winter. The month-long Inman and UCO Professor John tails on back cover. Admission is campaign benefits the Regional Wood. Details on page 13. free. Food Bank of Oklahoma, Commu- nity Food Bank of Eastern Okla- Dart: To GOP gov nominee Kevin Dart: To tone-deaf Tourism and homa and their partner agencies. Stitt, skipping VOICE’s Sept. 30 ac- Recreation leadership, prioritizing For more information and/or to countability session on education. $9 million for a new OKC HQ over contribute, visit www.feedingokla- If he’s convinced there’s already rebuilding decaying state parks. homa.org. enough money for OK schools, he The let them eat cake philosophy, needs to make his case in person. writ large. Dart: To OSU, introducing Kevin Stitt during Folds of Honor rec- We mourn the passing of our ATTN: Oklahoma lawmakers. ognition at recent football game. friend and 40-plus-year Observer Your Indiana counterparts appear Stitt’s company now sponsors the subscriber Jim Killackey, long- poised to crack down on unsolic- brief ceremony, but it’s unconscio- time Oklahoman education and ited robocalls, many spoofing local nable for a public university to give medical writer. We already miss numbers to execute their scams. any political candidate a pre-elec- his frequent, always encouraging AG Mike Hunter warns against an- tion platform before 50k-plus. calls and emails. swering unrecognized number. Amazon founder and Washing- Laurel: To Police Chief Bill Citty, Laurel: To gutsy Oklahoma Eth- ton Post owner Jeff Bezos and wife displaying vision and determina- ics Commission, unanimously MacKenzie donated $10 million to tion to convince OKC Council to voting again to impose a two-year the With Honor Fund to help elect reduce penalties for simple mari- cooling off period before elected veterans. The super PAC has en- juana possession. There’s much officials can become lobbyists. dorsed 14 Republicans and 19 left to be done, but it’s key step to- Myopic lawmakers killed the good Democrats this year. ward being Smart on Crime. government proposal last spring. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 THE OKLAHOMA OBSERVER • 3 Letters Rodgers and Hammerstein set it to music with lyrics that includ- ed, “Country a-changing, got to change with it.” These decades later, the Oregon producers certainly reflect today’s “a-changing” times regarding sex. The effect, on the other hand, seems to be upsetting a large audi- ence of traditionalist folks. With permission granted by the current owners of Oklahoma! [the play, not the state], the new ver- sion of the homespun musical played to sell-out audiences at the 600-seat theater at Oregon Shake- speare Festival at Ashland. More, the play was performed Sept. 27 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn where chili and corn- bread were to be fed to the audi- Editor, The Observer: Now, however, the intention of ence to help convey a more home- Soon there will be a total of four “minority protection” has worked like Oklahoma feeling. justices on the SCOTUS who have marvelously in the elections of The show revised by Bill Rauch been placed there by presidents both 2000 and 2016. A partner- make Curley and Laurey into two who failed to win the popular vote ship between a sizable cluster of women who are lovers and Will in their own elections. The ever sparsely populated, mostly agri- Parker is in love with Ado Andy. more curious “Electoral College cultural states, matched with just Aunt Eller is a transgender woman count” vaulted these men into a few larger populated states, man- played by a transgender. their respective presidential chair. aged to amass the necessary elec- A review in the New York Times Our founders were persuaded to toral votes despite losing the na- by Laura Collins-Hughes carried establish the Electoral College by tional popular vote. the headline: “That Bright Golden the states with the most intense So we are about to be saddled, Haze? Change.” slave populations, states who cor- likely to mid-century, by a SCO- Joseph H. Carter Sr. rectly envisioned a time when New TUS concocted by a minority who, Norman York, New Jersey and the New Eng- by their behavior, obviously do not land states would dwarf the popu- have the interests of the majority Editor, The Observer: lation of the states who had adopt- at heart. Many of the people complaining ed agriculture and slavery rather The Electoral College looms well about Colin Kaepernick’s silent than manufacturing as their way beyond reform and is proving fatal protest of kneeling during the na- of life. Projecting that they might to our democracy. tional anthem are being extremely be perpetually less populated, they Frank Silovsky hypocritical. I have been wonder- concocted a plan to win the presi- Oklahoma City ing what their feeling would be if it dency without the absolute neces- had been, say, Tim Tebow instead, sity [and inconvenience] of hold- Editor, The Observer: taking a knee until the U.S. totally ing the most votes at the national On this 75th anniversary of the outlawed all abortions. My guess level. Broadway musical Oklahoma!, an is that people not kneeling by now Oddly enough, the singular time Oregon troupe has given the 1943 would be subjected to castigating it was used in 1888-89 it did not hit an explosive 2018 sex-change: glares, if not outright hostility.
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