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MULLIGAN Supreme Court Gifts a Do-Over to Legislature • An Independent JournAl of CommentAry • SEPTEMBER 2017 • VOLUME 49 NUMBER 9 • $5.00 MULLIGAN Supreme Court Gifts A Do-Over To Legislature. Why It Must Not Ignore Need For Special Session. Budget Crisis: Special Report Begins Page 6 Observations www.okobserver.org Oklahoma Relic VOLUME 49, NO. 9 Remember when three strikes and you’re out was the criminal justice PUBLISHER Beverly Hamilton mantra? When tax cuts were heralded as rocket fuel for the economy and state coffers? When term limits and SQ 640 were ballyhooed as es- EDITOR Arnold Hamilton capes from Oklahoma’s public policy thicket? Each now is in disrepute, widely viewed as experiments that didn’t DIGITAL EDITOR MaryAnn Martin work out as promised. ADVISORY BOARD Which brings us to Gov. Mary Fallin’s creation of a task force whose Marvin Chiles, Andrew Hamilton, charge is to analyze the Oklahoma Corporation Commission from top- Matthew Hamilton, Scott J. Hamilton, to-bottom. Excellent idea – in theory. Trevor James, Ryan Kiesel, George Krumme, Gayla Machell, The commission is a relic of statehood days. The notion that one Bruce Prescott, Robyn Lemon Sellers, agency should oversee industries as diverse and complex as telecom Kyle Williams and oil/gas, trucking and gas/electric utilities seems quaint, if not inane in 2017. OUR MOTTO To Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Even more perplexing: the agency is led by three statewide elected Comfortable. officials whose campaign coffers typically are filled with contributions from the very industries they must regulate. OUR CREDO Still, as good an idea as the task force might be, it’s worth pondering So then to all their chance, to all their shining golden opportunity. To all the the timing. Why now? right to love, to live, to work, to be Concerns the Corporation Commission is ineffective, unmanageable themselves, and to become whatever or corrupt aren’t new. In the early 1980s, consumers infuriated by sky- thing their vision and humanity can rocketing electric and gas rates drove the debate. Today, the agency is in combine to make them. This seeker, is the promise of America. the bull’s eye because of earthquakes – and the fact it was slow to rein - Adapted from Thomas Wolfe in injection wells that triggered so much of the shaking. With Edmond’s recent swarm serving as a nerve-wracking reminder FOUNDING PUBLISHER the problem persists, Fallin said she created the five-member task force Helen B. Troy [1932-2007] to review the agency’s “mission and to make sure corporation commis- FOUNDING EDITOR sioners have the necessary tools and resources to fulfill it.” Frosty Troy [1933-2017] That includes structure, functions, staffing, funding – even whether the three commissioners should be elected or appointed. [ISSN 0030-1795] All worthy of discussion, given that other states regulate these dispa- 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 • SEPTEMBER 2017 Observerscope Scott Pruitt is most ethically It’s pathetic that five white guys News: Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb ap- challenged Oklahoman in DC since are only announced candidates to points former state Rep. Susan J.C. Watts. The Inspector General replace outgoing 1st District Rep. Winchester as his new chief of is digging into Pruitt’s champagne Jim Bridenstine. Special elections staff. Comment: He needs a chief lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense. create unique electoral opportuni- of staff? He’s been 24/7 running ties … for governor for seven years. Dart: To the Koch dummies at Oklahoma Council of Public Af- Dart: To the OK District Attor- Speaking of lieutenant governor, fairs, promoting a Tobacco Settle- neys Association, recently honor- state Auditor Gary Jones thinks ment Endowment Trust raid to ing Rep. Scott Biggs for … what it’s time to eliminate the post, roll- plug state budget holes. Clueless, exactly? Keeping Oklahoma dumb ing its title/duties into the gover- defined. on crime? Helping bankrupt the nor’s office. What say you, small state with a medieval lock ‘em up, government Republicans? It’s not your imagination: Okla- throw away the key mentality? homa roads and bridges rank in Dart: To self-styled “Patriot Pas- the bottom 10 nationally, costing Oops! Texas Sens. Lyin’ Ted Cruz tor” and ex-Rep. Dan Fisher, toss- state drivers $5 billion annually. and John Cornyn and 20 Lone Star ing his Black Robe into the race OKC drivers pay an extra $832 and House Republicans voted against for governor. He’s an unabashed Tulsans $859 for damages from Superstorm Sandy aid. Just imag- theocrat who wants to wed church- rough roads. – TRIP research ine their tap-dancing when Harvey state and views AP History classes aid is up for consideration. as un-American. Laurel: To Sierra Club, challeng- ing excessive new registration fee Laurel: To Gov. Mary Fallin, Nearly 13% of Americans ages on electric and hybrid vehicles naming ex-Speaker Kris Steele to 12-plus admit using antidepres- – another legislative sop to the the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole sants in the previous month, ac- state’s carbon barons. As matter Board. Few are better equipped cording to a 2011-14 government of public policy, lawmakers should – and better hearted – to decide study – up from 11% in 2005-08. be encouraging renewables. those cases. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 THE OKLAHOMA OBSERVER • 3 Letters served in the Oklahoma House from 1986-1994. Editor, The Observer: Let’s give Donald Trump and the Oklahoma congressional delega- tion a break. These politicians were not elect- ed to be harmless as a dove, wise as a serpent and urbane and tact- ful with all mankind. Robert Williams, Oklahoma’s third governor, is the only Okie of- ficeholder to confess, “I could nev- er meet those qualifications.” We expect our preachers to act like saints, not the politicians who become corrupt the first 10 min- utes they have power. I don’t want or expect our politi- cians to be my moral authority. My parents and Jesus Christ handle that. So, let’s leave soul saving to the Editor, The Observer: cent University of Virginia violence preachers and get off the backs of Re: Trump Merges Brand With [I can’t stand to hear his voice any Donald Trump, senators and Con- Ultimate Symbol of Power: The longer] Caligula used the word gress members. White House [August/Observer] “egregious” in regard to the ac- We hire politicians for lawmak- For those who do not get to read tions of the now liberated white ing, not to tell us how to live and the book No Is Not Enough by Nao- supremacists, aka Trump’s base. get to heaven. mi Klein, do read the book review This word is the longest I can re- Virginia Blue Jeans Jenner by Terence McDowell. member him using in public, clear Wagoner As journalists, we find the facts evidence to me his remarks were and tell the people. We the people written by someone else because Editor, The Observer: must also learn to read between how would Trump recognize if an Never will I forget that Octo- the lines and understand what’s action was good or bad? ber day in 1962 when I sat in my under the radar. Only then can we I remember being taught in my dorm room “frozen” by the image make decisions that benefit all of public school you don’t know a of President Kennedy announcing us instead of just some of us. word unless you know how to use to the nation that he had ordered Thank you, Mr. McDowell. Well it in a sentence. Here’s my sen- our navy to stop and search every done. tence: Soviet vessel heading to Cuba for Marilyn Barton The election of Trump as presi- the possibility of finding and re- Edmond dent was an egregious use of the moving missile launchers and/or right to vote in America. nuclear explosives. Armageddon Editor, The Observer: James Nimmo seemed nigh! That had been my Five years of torture and pain Oklahoma City deepest sense of impending doom. Was suffered by hero McCain Until now. Although terminally ill Editor, The Observer: Khrushchev and Kennedy had He succeeded to chill Comment about police brutal- both experienced the horror of war Death sentences for millions to ity as latently permissible by Mr. so their steady hands averted ulti- refrain. Trump reminds me of Orwellian mate war. Tom Birbilis “double think” – namely, “war is We are presently experiencing a Tulsa peace.” very different and even stronger Jeff Hamilton possibility of nuclear war. To our Editor, The Observer: Midwest City horror, the competing nations this Reading articles about the re- Editor’s Note: Jeff Hamilton CONTINUED ON PAGE 45 4 • SEPTEMBER 2017 Arnold Hamilton Changing Of The State Senate Guard ver since the legislative session ended with a nearly $40 million in the last two years? thud last spring, the perpetual political par- If approved, the line-item budgeting bill would sure- lor game has focused on the future of House ly ramp up pressure on lawmakers.
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