Jari Askins, Democrat Candidate for Oklahoma Governor, Trying to Buy Yet Another Election?

Askins Trying to Buy Yet Another Election
Sep 23, 2010

(OKLAHOMA CITY) - OKGOP Chairman Matt Pinnell released the following statement today in regard to Jari Askin's campaign loans:

"According to local news reports, Jari Askins is yet again trying to buy the election for Governor of Oklahoma by placing $1 million of her own money in the race. She bought the election to beat Drew Edmondson and she's now trying do the same against Mary. Oklahomans don't want to fund the campaign of a politician who supports amnesty for illegal immigrants, voted against gun rights and won't stand up and fight Obamacare.

Mary Fallin, on the other hand, enjoys significant support from more than 5,000 donors across all 77 counties of the state. Jari Askins is hoping her personal fortune will seal the deal for her come November 2, but every Oklahoman has a stake in this fight, and only one candidate has proven she's up for the challenge- and that's Mary Fallin."
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This press release says it all -- race between Mary Fallin who has over 5,000 donors from all 77 counties versus the millionaire Askins who is going to self finance her campaign once again. One candidate Mary Fallin knows what it is like to meet a household and campaign budget while the other candidate Askins just uses her personal fortune to finance her campaign.   Askins doesn't have to worry about fundraising as she runs for office as she just self finances her own campaign and saves the Democrats from having to spend their resources on her.

No wonder Askins supports the giant Obama giveaway as she has no idea what it is like to be on a budget. Askins doesn't seem to care it is taxpayer dollars including tax dollars spent for illegals.  If you never had to work hard to get what you have, you probably don't appreciate what people are going through today to make ends meet along with the resentment a lot of us have at the misuse of our tax dollars by Obama and the Democrats.

If Askins loaned her campaign $1M we would expect her campaign ads to turn nasty with some of the people she has on her staff. Why else loan her campaign $1M? Did she ever get paid back for what she spent in her Lt Governor race or the primary for Governor?

We didn't look back to when Jari Askins ran for the Oklahoma House but we know she used her own money to run for Lt Governor. Why won't Democrats donate to her? She barely beat Drew Edmondson in the primary -- we were shocked there wasn't a recount as the vote was so close. What did Askins promise Edmondson to make him concede so fast? It was so close and he didn't even wait for all the absentee ballots to come in to be counted before he conceded. Does Askins money talk when it comes to Democrat candidates? Sure looks like it to us.

Askins barely won the Lt Governor race and what has she done since becoming Lt Governor? After two pages of searching what she has done for Oklahoma as Lt Governor, the very last article on the 2nd page says she makes one trip to the Oklahoma State Fair each year to listen to voters. One trip? That's her claim to fame plus she attended five locations for the Lt Governor's turkey shoot which was started by Mary Fallin when she was Lt Governor. Reminder that Askins is for hunting but against concealed or open carry. Two entirely different issues that her campaign cannot seem to understand.

We think that Oklahoma voters are onto Askins especially when they ask themselves 'What has Askins done new for Oklahoma as Lt Governor?' All we find is that she follows what Mary Fallin started when she was Lt Governor. Mary Fallin has always been a leader in selling Oklahoma as a great place to do business and live while Askins seems to be a follower not a leader.  Askins still has not said where she stands on fighting Obamacare.  Is she afraid to get Obama upset with her?

There is only one choice in Oklahoma and that is Mary Fallin who has the most experience we have ever seen in a candidate running for the first time for Governor and is not afraid to stand up for Oklahomans against the Federal Government mandates.


Mary Fallin on her whistle stop tour through
Western Oklahoma