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An effort by supporters of embattled Senate leader Glenn Coffee to install his choice as the next Senate leader has failed.
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By Rep. Jason Murphey
Last week I enjoyed being in attendance at a Social Media conference which encouraged participants to engage in discussion and strategy sharing regarding their use of social media. Myself and State Representative Joe Dorman were in attendance to share our experiences of using social media as Legislators.
This forum provided me with an opportunity to explain how House Bill 2318 will empower the state’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) to develop and implement uniform social media policies by which state government can use social media.
I believe this is extremely important as social media provides the potential to establish an effective feedback mechanism in which the citizens can let state officials, and everyone else for that matter, know about the performance of state government.
In the past, when a citizen was ill-served by state government they likely had a few select channels into which they could direct their story of state government’s failure to perform. They could place a call to the bureaucracy which had performed poorly and with luck their complaint might reach up into the bureaucracy at some level. However, it is extremely unlikely that the leadership in that particular bureaucracy would ever hear about, much less remedy, the wrong. In too many cases the citizen’s voice simply goes unheard. Read more…
Capitol sources say Senate Republicans have confirmed a contentious caucus to pick the next senate leader as mandated by the constitution is underway at 23rd and Lincoln.
Supporters of Coffee’s choice for leader, Sen. Brian Bingman, are pushing to get Bingman appointed quickly. But revelations last fall and last week about questionable actions by Coffee and consigliore Fred Morgan have some senators hopping mad, and our sources tell us several Republicans want more time to sort out the whole ethical cloud surrounding Coffee and Bingman before they select their new leader.
Additionally, there is at least one report that a key member of the Coffee/Bingman camp may have missed a key ethics report deadline. We’ll be looking more into this possible blockbuster development.
Further, a key force behind Bingman, Sen. Mike Mazzei, is out of commission until at least March due to a back injury, further weakening the resolve of the embattled Coffee-Bingman team.
Meanwhile, we’re told that if the Bingman camp pushes for a vote today, it will trigger a chain of events to remove Coffee as leader as early as this afternoon or more likely tomorrow.
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It also looks like the editors and writers over at the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman are getting their news from the blogs as well. At least The Oklahoman credits blogs they lift stories from.
Okie Pundit:
We learn that the Tulsa World picked up our story on Dan Sullivan and Cliff Aldridge receiving questionable donations from an insurance company that will benefit from legislation Sullivan is carrying this year. Unfortunately, they didn’t credit us. Read more…
‘Two of them that are missing up on that board are OKPNS as well as the McCarville Report, both good at covering what’s going on at the state capitol. That increasingly has been their role as the capital press corp has been decreasing in size – and that is a bad thing.”
Last Friday’s Your Vote Counts show with host Scott Mitchell did a segment on the Oklahoma blogosphere. Congratulations to the following blogs that were mentioned on air:
We were especially honored to be mentioned in the same breath with the McCoffeville Report Online McCarville Report Online. Not bad for a discredited blog, huh Mike?