72 HOURS AND COUNTING FOR TULSA CITY ELECTION

Attention all Republicans

All hands on deck
For the 72 hour push
To get out the vote!

Meet Us at Dewey Bartlett's Headquarters
1648 S. Boston
(the corner of 17th and Boston)
starting at
10:00 am Saturday
1:00 pm Sunday

You will be assigned a neighborhood to knock on doors to remind people to vote on Tuesday November 10th and please vote for Dewey Bartlett for Tulsa Mayor We need volunteers to be in the neighborhoods throughout Tulsa this weekend!

Bring your friend, child, relative or neighbor to Headquarters on Saturday and Sunday to Help us comb the neighborhoods
Thank you!

Victoria Bartlett
527-1404 (cell)

Election results for February 10, 2009

ATOKA COUNTY
Commissioner District 1: Marvin Dale 259 (54.1%); Chris Edgar 220 (45.9%)

BEAVER COUNTY
2 mill ad valorem property tax to fund and maintain the Beaver County Emergency Medical Service. Yes: 688 (83.5%); No: 136 (16.5%) Passed.
Beaver Schools
Proposition 1: $275,000 bond to replace bleachers and add a building for a concession stand, bathrooms and weight room to the school’s football/track area. Yes: 257 (82.4%); No: 55 (17.6%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $225,000 bond for two buses, one vocational agriculture pickup and two sports utility vehicles. Yes: 244 (80%); No: 61 (20%) Passed.

CADDO COUNTY
Hydro-Eakly Schools
$6.2 million for a new middle-high school with 19 to 21 classrooms. Yes: 507 (82.7%); No: 106 (17.3%) Passed.
Boone Apache Schools
Proposition 1: $2 million for a new middle school and renovations to the elementary school rest room. Yes: 274 (92.9%); No: 21 (7.1%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $170,000 for two buses. Yes: 270 (92.5%); No: 22 (7.5%) Passed.
Cyril Schools
Proposition 1: $585,000 for a new roof for the elementary school. Yes: 115 (92%); No: 10 (8%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $150,000 for two school buses. Yes: 112 (91.1%); No: 11 (8.9%) Passed.

CLEVELAND COUNTY
Moore Schools (13 or 16 precincts reporting)
Office 4: Jon Painter 281 (74.5%); Steve C. Adamo 96 (25.5%)
Norman Schools
Office 4: Kim Gaddie 364 (26.9%); Brooks Hull 781 (57.8%); Debra Stuart 205 (15.2%)

CREEK COUNTY
Town of Depew
Proposition 1: To increase the number of trustees on the municipal board from three members to five: Yes: 33 (66%); No: 17 (34%) Passed
Proposition 2: To change the status of the town clerk/treasurer from an elected official to an appointed position: Yes: 28 (60.9%); No: 18 (39.1%) Passed.

DELAWARE COUNTY
Kansas Schools
Proposition 1: $1.7 million bond to build seven or eight new classrooms in the district’s early childhood center. Yes: 332 (66.8%); No: 165 (33.2%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $1.1 million bond to build one large classroom for special services and two or three smaller classrooms. Yes: 324 (65.2%); No: 173 (34.8%) Passed.
Proposition 3: $1 million bond to build a field house. Yes: 280 (56.5%); No: 216 (43.5%) Failed.

GREER COUNTY
Granite Schools
$300,000 bond to build a new roof on the school building that houses upper elementary, middle school and high school classes. Also would pay for remodeling bathrooms and updating electrical wiring and plumbing. Yes: 147 (63.9%); No: 59 (36.1%) Passed.

HUGHES COUNTY
Calvin Schools
$590,000 bond for new buses. Yes: 78 (64.5%); No: 43 (35.5%) Passed.

JACKSON COUNTY
Duke Schools
$200,000 bond for new buses. Yes: 116 (83.5%); No: 23 (16.5%) Passed.

KINGFISHER COUNTY
Proposition 1: Property tax increase of three mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all taxable property to establish an emergency medical service district for the Kingfisher, Dover, Lomega and Okarche school districts. Yes: 533 (55.9%); No: 421 (44.1%) Passed.
Cashion Schools
Proposition 1: $3.1 million bond to make general repairs and renovations at the district’s old high school, elementary school and gymnasium, including work on roofs, foundations, rest rooms, windows and gymnasium seating. Some money also will be used to buy band equipment and uniforms. Yes: 149 (78.8%); No: 40 (21.2%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $185,000 to buy an activity bus and school vehicle. Yes: 146 (76.8%); No: 44 (23.2%) Passed.

LATIMER COUNTY
Wilburton Schools
$1.5 million bond to build and equip a new high school gymnasium. Yes: 278 (73%); No: 103 (27%) Passed.

LOGAN COUNTY
Mulhall-Orlando Schools
$495,000 bond for anew band room, a new gym roof, renovation of the current band room into an above-ground safe room and new gym lockers. Yes: 172 (89.6%); No: 20 (10.4%) Passed.

MURRAY COUNTY
District 3 Commissioner, Democrats: Darrell Hudson 608 (82.1%); Bobby J. Lee 33 (4.5%); Gary D. Fullerton 78 (10.5%) Curtis Jones 22 (2.9%)

OKLAHOMA COUNTY
Oklahoma County results unavailable due to storm-related power outages. Doug and his team will count the votes today.

OSAGE COUNTY
Pawhuska
Proposition 1: Three-quarter cent sales tax for the construction and repair of roads, curbs and sidewalks and repairing/replacing water works system and sewer system. Yes: 357 (75.2%); No: 118 (24.8%) Passed.
Proposition 2: One-quarter cent sales tax for an economic development program. Yes: 318 (66.8%); No: 158 (33.2%) Passed.

PAYNE COUNTY
Cushing special election
Proposition 1: Would make permanent eight-tenths of a cent sales tax, set to expire on June 30, to provide money for capital expenditures. The first project would be building a new police/fire headquarters. Yes: 455 (79.4%); No: 118 (20.6%) Passed.
Proposition 2: Authorizes a city hotel/motel sales tax of 4 percent to finance economic development and other projects. Revenue could pay for installing utilities in 240-acre city-owned property on east edge of town. Yes: 424 (73.6%); No: 152 (26.4%) Passed.

PONTOTOC COUNTY
Pickett Center Schools
$300,000 bond for updating rest rooms and to build one classroom, two dressing rooms, and a concession area. Yes: 50 (90.9%); No: 5 (9.1%) Passed.

PUSHMATAHA COUNTY
Rattan Schools
$1.5 million bond to build a multi-function gymnasium designed to hold up to 1,000 people. Yes: 267 (33.7%) No: 525 (66.3%) Failed.

ROGERS COUNTY
Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services
Proposition 1: $1 million bond issue for the Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services to purchase emergency vehicles and equipment by collecting a special annual tax. Yes: 592 (62.3%) No: 359 (37.7%) Passed.

TULSA COUNTY
Union Schools
$20 million bond issue for remodeling Grove Elementary School and updating the Union Performing Arts Center; roof replacements at Clark Elementary, Eighth-Grade Center gym, Intermediate High School’s north classrooms and media center and Union High School’s Performing Arts Center, stage and gym; the second phase of the softball/baseball complex remodel, including reconfiguring playing fields; upgrading the eighth-grade gym and outside basketball courts; purchase of books and interactive white boards; upgrading computers and replacement of lighting. Yes: 1,829 (83.9%); No: 252 (16.1%) Passed.

WASHITA COUNTY
A five-year, five-eighths of a cent sales tax increase to provide $118,190 for Washita County Cooperative Service and 4-H; $21,510 for Washita County Free Fair and Junior Livestock Show; $31,185 for Washita County Health Services; $32,265 for Washita County Senior Citizens and $35,850 for Washita County maintenance for county jail, legal county documents, county fair facilities and courthouse. The sales tax would be limited to five years. Yes: 920 (81.4%); No: 210 (18.6%) Passed.

WOODS COUNTY
Alva Schools
Proposition 1: $2.8 million bond issue for renovation of Alva High School track, replacement of air-conditioning units at several sites, replacement of high school auditorium seats, installing new windows at Lincoln Elementary School, buying intercom system and surveillance equipment for high school. Yes: 470 (79.3%); No: 123 (20.7%) Passed.
Proposition 2: $150,000 for buses. Yes: 465 (78.3%); No: 129 (21.7%) Passed.

Oklahoma vote Today !

ATOKA COUNTY
Commissioner District 1 race
Marvin Dale, Democrat, and Chris Edgar, Republican

BEAVER COUNTY
2 mill ad valorem property tax to maintain the Beaver County Emergency Medical Service. The tax will be levied for the fiscal year 2009-2010 and remain in effect unless county residents vote to repeal it.
Beaver Schools
→Proposition 1: $275,000 bond to replace bleachers and add a building that would house a concession stand, bathrooms and weight room to the school’s football/track area.
→Proposition 2: $225,000 bond for two buses, one vocational agriculture pickup and two sports utility vehicles.

CADDO COUNTY
Hydro-Eakly Schools
Proposition 1: $6.2 million for a new middle-high school with 19 to 21 classrooms.
Boone Apache Schools
→Proposition 1: $2 million for a new middle school and renovations to the elementary school restroom.
→Proposition 2: $170,000 for two buses.
Cyril Schools
→Proposition 1: $585,000 for a new roof for the elementary school.
→Proposition 2: $150,000 for two school buses.

CLEVELAND COUNTY
Norman Schools, Office 4
Kim Gaddie, Brooks Hull and Debra Stuart

CREEK COUNTY
Town of Depew
→Propostion 1: To increase the number of trustees on the municipal board from three members to five.
→Proposition 2: To change the status of the town clerk/treasurer from an elected official to an appointed position.

DELAWARE COUNTY
Kansas Schools
→Proposition 1: $1.7 million bond to build seven or eight new classrooms in the district’s early childhood center.
→Proposition 2: $1.1 million bond to build one large classroom for special services and two or three smaller classrooms.
→Proposition 3: $1 million bond to build a field house.

GREER COUNTY
Granite Schools
$300,000 bond to build a new roof on the school building that houses upper elementary, middle school and high school classes. Also would pay for remodeling bathrooms and updating electrical wiring and plumbing.

HUGHES COUNTY
Calvin Schools
$590,000 bond for new buses.

JACKSON COUNTY
Duke Schools
$200,000 bond for new buses.

KINGFISHER COUNTY
Proposition 1: Property tax increase of three mills on the dollar of the assessed value of all taxable property to establish an emergency medical service district for the Kingfisher, Dover, Lomega and Okarche school districts.
Cashion Schools
→Proposition 1: $3.1 million bond to make repairs and renovations at the district’s old high school, elementary school and gymnasium. Some money also will be used to buy band equipment and uniforms.
→Proposition 2: $185,000 to buy an activity bus and school vehicle.

LATIMER COUNTY
Wilburton Schools
Proposition 1: $1.5 million bond to build and equip a new high school gymnasium.

LOGAN COUNTY
Mulhall-Orlando Schools
$495,000 bond for a new band room, a new gym roof, renovation of the current band room into an above-ground safe room and new gym lockers.

MURRAY COUNTY
District 3 Commissioner, Democrats
Darrell Hudson, Bobby J. Lee, Gary D. Fullerton, and Curtis Jones

OKLAHOMA COUNTY
Deer Creek Schools
Office 4
Danny Barnes (i), Suzanne McGraw, and Rob Talbot
Edmond Schools, Office 4
George Cohlmia (i), Susan Adams, and Dorothy Ray
Oklahoma City schools
School board chairman
Kirk Humphreys (i), and Angela Monson
District 1
Sherry Barton, Cordell Jordan, and Lyn Watson
Putnam City
Office 2
Mark Bledsoe (i), Bob Coursey, and Kevin Fleharty

OSAGE COUNTY
Pawhuska
→Proposition 1: Three-quarter cent sales tax for the construction and repair of roads, curbs and sidewalks and repairing/replacing water works system and sewer system.
→Proposition 2: One-quarter cent sales tax for an economic development program.

PAYNE COUNTY
Cushing special election
→Proposition 1: Would make permanent eight-tenths of a cent sales tax, set to expire on June 30, to provide money for capital expenditures. The first project would be building a new police/fire headquarters.
→Proposition 2: Authorizes a city hotel/motel sales tax of 4 percent to finance economic development and other projects. Revenue could pay for installing utilities in 240-acre city-owned property on east edge of town.

PONTOTOC COUNTY
Pickett Center Schools
$300,000 bond for updating restrooms and plumbing and to build one classroom, two dressing rooms, and a concession area.

PUSHMATAHA COUNTY
Rattan Schools
$1.5 million bond to build a multi-function gymnasium designed to hold up to 1,000 people.

Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Services
Proposition 1: $1 millionbond issue for the Oologah-Talala Emergency Medical Servicesto purchase emergency vehicles and equipment by collecting a special annual tax.

TULSA COUNTY
Union Schools
$20 million bond issue for remodeling Grove Elementary School and updating the Union Performing Arts Center; roof replacements at Clark Elementary, Eighth-Grade Center gym, Intermediate High School’s north classrooms and media center and Union High School’s Performing Arts Center, stage and gym; the second phase of the softball/baseball complex remodel, including the reconfiguration of playing fields; upgrading the eighth-grade gym and outside basketball courts; purchase of textbooks, media books, and interactive white boards, and the upgrading of computers and replacement of standard bulbs with T8 fluorescent lighting.

WASHITA COUNTY
A five-year, five-eighths of a cent sales tax increase to provide $118,190 for Washita County Cooperative Service and 4-H; $21,510 for Washita County Free Fair and Junior Livestock Show; $31,185 for Washita County Health Services; $32,265 for Washita County Senior Citizens and $35,850 for Washita County maintenance for county jail, legal county documents, county fair facilities and courthouse. The sales tax would be limited to five years.

WOODS COUNTY
Alva schools
→Proposition 1: $2.8 million bond issue for renovation of Alva High School track, replacement of air-conditioning units at several sites, replacement of high school auditorium seats, installing new windows at Lincoln Elementary School, purchase of intercom system and surveillance equipment for high school.
→Proposition 2: $150,000 for buses

Police prepare for unrest

By Alexander Bolton

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

Public safety officials said in interviews with The Hill that the election, which will end with either the nation’s first black president or its first female vice president, demanded a stronger police presence.

Some worry that if Barack Obama loses and there is suspicion of foul play in the election, violence could ensue in cities with large black populations.

Others based the need for enhanced patrols on past riots in urban areas (following professional sports events) and also on Internet rumors.
Democratic strategists and advocates for black voters say they understand officers wanting to keep the peace, but caution that excessive police presence could intimidate voters.

Sen. Obama (Ill.), the Democratic nominee for president, has seen his lead over rival Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) grow in recent weeks, prompting speculation that there could be a violent backlash if he loses unexpectedly.

Cities that have suffered unrest before, such as Detroit, Chicago, Oakland and Philadelphia, will have extra police deployed.

In Oakland, the police will deploy extra units trained in riot control, as well as extra traffic police, and even put SWAT teams on standby.

“Are we anticipating it will be a riot situation? No. But will we be prepared if it goes awry? Yes,” said Jeff Thomason, spokesman for the Oakland Police Department.

“I think it is a big deal — you got an African-American running and [a] woman running,” he added, in reference to Obama and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. “Whoever wins it, it will be a national event. We will have more officers on the street in anticipation that things may go south.”

The Oakland police last faced big riots in 2003 when the Raiders lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl. Officials are bracing themselves in case residents of Oakland take Obama’s loss badly.

Political observers such as Hilary Shelton and James Carville fear that record voter turnout could overload polling places on Election Day and could raise tension levels.

Shelton, the director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, said inadequate voting facilities is a bigger problem in poor communities with large numbers of minorities.

“What are local election officials doing to prepare for what people think will be record turnout at the polls?” said Shelton, who added that during the 2004 election in Ohio voters in predominantly black communities had to wait in line six to eight hours to vote.

“On Election Day, if this continues, you may have some tempers flare; we should be prepared to deal with that but do it without intimidation,” said Shelton, who added that police have to be able to maintain order at polling stations without scaring voters, especially immigrants from “police states.”

Carville, who served as a senior political adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said that many Democrats would be very angry if Obama loses. He noted that many Democrats were upset by Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) loss to President Bush in the 2004 election, when some Democrats made allegations of vote manipulation in Ohio, the state that ultimately decided the race.

Experts estimated that thousands of voters did not vote in Ohio because of poor preparation and long lines.

Carville said Democratic anger in 2004 “would be very small to what would happen in 2008” if the same problems arose.

Carville said earlier this month that “it would be very, very, very dramatic out there” if Obama lost, a statement some commentators interpreted as predicting riots. In an interview Tuesday, however, Carville said he did not explicitly predict rioting

“A lot of Democrats would have a great deal of angst and anger,” said Carville, who predicted that on Election Day “the voting system all around the country is going to be very stressed because there’s going to be enormous turnout.”

Other commentators have made such bold predictions.

“If [Obama] is elected, like with sports championships, people may go out and riot,” said Bob Parks, an online columnist and black Republican candidate for state representative in Massachusetts. “If Barack Obama loses there will be another large group of people who will assume the election was stolen from him….. This will be an opportunity for people who want to commit mischief.”

Speculation about Election-Day violence has spread on the Internet, especially on right-wing websites.

This has caught the attention of police departments in cities such as Cincinnati, which saw race riots in 2001 after police shot a young black man.

“We’ve seen it on the Internet and we’ve heard that there could be civil unrest depending on the outcome of [the election,]” said Lt. Mark Briede of the Cincinnati Police Department. “We are prepared to respond in the case of some sort of unrest or some sort of incident.”

Briede, like other police officials interviewed, declined to elaborate on plans for Election Day. Many police departments have policies prohibiting public discussion of security plans.

James Tate, second deputy chief of Detroit’s police department, said extra manpower would be assigned to duty on Election Night. He said problems could flare whichever candidate wins.

“Either party will make history and we want to prepare for celebrations that will be on a larger scale than for our sports teams,” Tate said.
He noted that police had to control rioters who overturned cars after the Tigers won the 1984 World Series.

“We’re prepared for the best-case scenario, we’re prepared for the worst-case scenario,” he said. “The worst-case scenario could be a situation that requires law enforcement.”

But Tate declined to describe what the worst-case scenario might look like, speaking gingerly like other police officials who are wary of implying that black voters are more likely than other voting groups to cause trouble.

Shelton, of the NAACP, said he understands the need for police to maintain order. But he is also concerned that some political partisans may point their finger at black voters as potential troublemakers because the Democratic nominee is black.
Shelton said any racial or ethnic group would get angry if they felt disenfranchised because of voting irregularities.

Police officials in Chicago, where Obama will hold a Nov. 4 rally, and Philadelphia are also preparing for Election Day.

“The Chicago Police Department has been meeting regularly to coordinate our safety and security plans and will deploy our resources accordingly,” said Monique Bond, of the Chicago Police Department.

Frank Vanore, of the Philadelphia Police Department, said officials were planning to mobilize to control exuberant or perhaps angry demonstrations after the World Series, which pits the Phillies against the Tampa Bay Rays.

He said the boosted police activity would “spill right over to the election.”