Randy Brogdon announced today on his website that he will challenge Governor Fallin for the Republican nomination for governor for the second time. Fallin soundly defeated Brogdon in 2010; he got 39 percent in a four-way GOP primary, in which Fallin was the outright winner with 55 percent.
Brogdon’s announcement follows the revelation on The McCarville Report on November 22nd that he had resigned his post at the Insurance Department and was considering the race.
Here’s Brogdon’s announcement, which was posted on Facebook with a comment from Fallin’s chief of staff and campaign manager, Denise Northrup, who wrote, “Santa knew just what to bring me!”
This week, I am filing the necessary paperwork to challenge Mary Fallin for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oklahoma. In the coming months, I will be making my case to Republican primary voters why I believe Constitutional Conservative leadership is needed in the Governor’s office.
Government is too big and too powerful and we all know it. It spends too much, borrows too much, taxes too much, regulates too much and snoops too much. We are in the fight of our lives for liberty, and I feel morally obligated to lead that fight on behalf of Oklahoma families.
My promise as governor is to protect Oklahoma families from the overreach of federal and state government and to restore your God given unalienable rights of life, liberty and property.
Right now, I invite you to join my team by visiting the Join the Campaign page on this website and/or by making a contribution. I need your help.
My immediate objective is to raise much-needed funds and recruit the help I’ll need to communicate with Oklahomans on the issues that are so important to all of us. After meeting our initial objectives, I hope to invite you to join me at an official announcement event some time in late January or early February.
For now, please know the battle for liberty in Oklahoma has started, and with your help, I am committed to leading this fight. I can assure you of this, as your governor, I will not allow Oklahoma to be a mere puppet of the federal government any longer.
Democratic Senator Joe Dorman and Democrat RJ Harris have filed paperwork with the Ethics Commission to raise money for their gubernatorial campaigns.
“Rep. Dorman welcomes the opportunity to discuss and debate the issues facing all Oklahomans with Sen. Brogdon as the 2014 gubernatorial campaign unfolds,” Dorman’s office said in a statement.
RJ Harris welcomed Brogdon to the race saying, “I look forward to debating the freedom and liberty issues of our time with you when we have each won our respective parties gubernatorial nominations. This will be a great opportunity for voters from both major parties to nominate candidates with Libertarian roots who are each committed to ending tyranny and defending liberty.”
Good for you Randy! Governor Fallin has been a big disappointment. She has forgotten her promise to lower taxes and limit government encroachment, along with her coziness to Chris Christie, she confirms she is not a true conservative.
Since our Supreme Court tossed the tax cuts out and the financing for the Capitol improvements, she is rethinking the tax cuts and willing to support a bond issue to finance Capitol improvements. If she tried, she could probably raise private funds for those improvements.
Denise is so great, as exemplified by that comment.
Brogdon can’t improve on his 2010 performance. How many voters think running Doak’s Army at the Insurance Department makes Randy more qualified now than in 2010…especially when compared to Mary’s successes? She’s established a conservative record while ushering in private-sector jobs and investment.
Gee Eddie, you must be on Mary’s payroll! She has NOT established a conservative record but in fact now has a record of supporting Common Core, or more commonly called Obama Core – the federal takeover of the public education system (against the will of the majority of Oklahomans).
Furthermore she wanted to set up the Obamacare exchanges against the will of Oklahomans and was finally forced to not take the money after a huge uproar by the legislature AND the voters! But not only that, she now has a record of saying she’s decreasing government when she has reigned over one of the largest increases in state government spending and overreach. Just this past week her itty bitty tax cut that was hitched to repair of the capitol was thrown out as unconstitutional. Of course we all know she pushed and pushed for bonded indebtedness to repair the capitol building and the legislature had to stop her. Now she is hinting that she wants to put the state further in debt to repair the capitol (against the will of Oklahomans AND the legislature, including the Speaker of the House).
And if that’s not enough, this past week she decided to ban electronic cigarettes on state property – not because she thinks they are harmful to the person’s health but because they aren’t taxed enough! She is looking for another tax source!!!
I am tired of elected politicians who will say one thing before the election and then do the opposite when elected. This time, tho’, she has a record that is filled with liberal policies, broken promises, and bigger government.
So I say, Go Randy Go!!! We need you as our next Governor!
I’m with you, Edmond Voter! I hate politicians who do one thing and say another. Like when Randy Brogdon said legislators shouldn’t be taking state jobs after they term out except when he takes a job at the Insurance Commission.
I ain’t saying Fallin is a conservative. I’m just saying Brogdon is just as much a hypocrite.