Istook: Democrat Will Be 'Sacrificial Lamb' for Coburn Seat
Saturday, 18 Jan 2014 09:09 AM
By John Gizzi
Oklahoma Republicans are confident they can retain the seat of Sen. Tom Coburn, who announced on
Friday he will resign from office at the end of this session of Congress,
triggering a special election for his seat in 2014.
"What this means is that
Democrats in Oklahoma have to find sacrificial lambs for two Senate races next year instead of just
one," former Oklahoma Rep. and 2006
GOP gubernatorial nominee Ernest
Istook told Newsmax.
The near-unanimous forecast from
Republicans in the Sooner
State is that they will
have as easy a time winning the race for the remaining two years of Coburn's
term as they will re-electing 20-year Sen. Jim Inhofe, who will be on the same
ballot as the eventual GOP nominee for Coburn's seat.
With the filing deadline coming up
in April, Republicans are expected to make decisions rapidly on whether to run
in the June 24 special election primary. Almost all of the state's five U.S.
representatives have been mentioned as contenders for the race.
But privately, party activists
expect that the two powerful veterans in the House delegation — Agriculture
Committee Chairman Frank Lucas and Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole — will not
risk their political clout on a Senate race.
The likeliest scenario, Oklahoma sources tell
Newsmax, is a primary between the state's two most junior House members:
two-termer James Lankford, a favorite of cultural conservatives, and freshman
Jim Bridenstine, an aviator in the U.S. Navy reserve and hero of the tea party
movement.
Both are classic political
outsiders with solidly conservative records. Lankford and Bridenstine had never
held office before they upset more-established politicians to win Republican
nominations in the 4th and 1st Districts respectively.
Lankford, manager of the Fall
Creek camp for Christian youth, defeated several office-holders to win his
first nomination to Congress in 2010. Two years ago, Bridenstine came out of
nowhere to run as an unabashed tea partier and deposed five-term Rep. John
Sullivan in the primary.
One intriguing factor in the race
is geography.
Where Bridenstine comes from Tulsa, Lankford is from the area around Oklahoma City. Much of the state's business
community is in Tulsa
and it has sent several of its sons to the Senate, including incumbent Sen.
Inhofe. The last senator to come from the capital city of Oklahoma City was Democrat A.S.
"Mike" Monroney, who served from 1956-68.
Also mentioned for the Republican
nomination is state Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who won an upset in the 2010
primary with the endorsement of Mike Huckabee. Pruitt has since won high marks
on the right by launching spirited legal suits against Obamacare in court.
The only Democrat mentioned for
the special election is Brad Henry, who served as governor from 2002-10.
"He was an early backer of
Barack Obama for president," former State Corporation Commissioner Denise
Bode told Newsmax. "When you look at how low Obama's ratings are in our
state now, that should give you an idea of his chances — or those of any other
Democrat."
Ernest J. Istook Jr.
Ernest J.
Istook Jr. was the candidate for the 2006
Ernest Istook (OK) gubernatorial campaign, and is a member of Kappa Sigma.
Note: Edward R. Murrow
was a member of Kappa Sigma, a
member of the Burning Tree Club, and
a correspondent for the CBS News.
John
A. Boehner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a member of the Bohemian
Club.
George H.W. Bush talks about the New World Order; Walter
Cronkite said he is glad to sit at the Right Hand of Satan
Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club, and the anchorman for the CBS
News.
Henry A. Kissinger is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Jack
Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
member of the Burning Tree Club.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and the chairman for the President's
Export Council.
Alan
R. Mulally was the EVP for the Boeing
Company, is a member of the President's
Export Council, and a member of Kappa
Sigma.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and the Sundance
Institute.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a board
member for the International Crisis
Group.
George J. Mitchell
was the chair emeritus for the International
Crisis Group, the Mideast envoy for the Barack Obama administration, and is a member
for the Sigma Nu Fraternity.
Thomas
A. Coburn is a member for the Sigma
Nu Fraternity, the OK congressional
delegation senator, a U.S. Senate
senator, and was a guest at the Koch
Industries annual conference.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
David
H. Koch is the EVP for Koch
Industries, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Frances
Fragos Townsend is a commentator for CNN,
and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council.
Sonny
Perdue is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and a member of Kappa Sigma.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN, a co-chairman
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and a member of Kappa Sigma.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Robert
Redford is a member of Kappa Sigma,
a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and the founder & president for the Sundance Institute.
Ernest J.
Istook Jr. is a member of Kappa
Sigma, and was the candidate for the 2006
Ernest Istook (OK) gubernatorial campaign.
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