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The Eufaula Indian Journal
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The Frederick Press-Leader
Gubernatorial candidate visits Frederick
BY KATHLEEN GUILL
kathleen@press-leader.com
Gubernatorial candi-
date Drew Edmondson
stopped in Frederick Jan.
10 during his campaign
tour. Edmondson served
Oklahoma for 16 years
as the Attorney General.
Now he is running for Gov-
ernor of Oklahoma.
Edmondson is running
for Governor because,
“the Oklahoma way of
life is under attack…Okla-
homans are seeing their
paychecks cut, their busi-
nesses closing and their
schools, roads and com-
munities declining.”
Oklahoma should invest
in its future by working to
reduce its dependence on
unstable income sources
like the gross production
tax (GPT) and creating a
capital improvement fund,
according to Edmondson.
He wants to stabilize core
government services like
education, public safety
and health care and once
those are fully funded,
Edmondson said the state
should begin to remove
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GPT from general appro-
priations.
“I want to get us out of
the whole we’re in,” Ed-
mondson said. Our num-
ber one priority has got to
be to restore the budget.
Everything we talk about
in terms of education,
health, mental health,
corrections, transporta-
tion, all of those rest on
getting our budget back in
order. Step one on that in
my opinion us putting the
gross production tax back
at seven percent.”
Edmondson said Gover-
nor Mary Fallin has said
the GPT is in discussions
for the Special Session and
it could be on a ballot in
2018. If it isn’t, he said he
will see that it’s done and
the people have a chance
to vote on it if he’s elected
governor.
Education is a high pri-
ority for Edmondson.
“I think most people
agree that education has
got to be at the top of the
list. We’ve got too many
good teachers leaving the
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state for better pay, one-
fifth of our school dis-
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tricts have gone to four-
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day weeks; it’s just not a
good situation. It’s a dol-
lar question. If we want
to give teachers a pay
raise, we’ve got to have
additional revenue. Giv-
ing a teacher a pay raise,
which is good, is not go-
ing to solve the schools’
problems because they
haven’t had an increase
in their ADA in eight
years. That means
they’re operating on the
same or less budget they
had eight years ago. We
need to restore the fund-
ing to our schools.”
Edmondson said an-
other thing the state
needs to look at are Okla-
homa’s prisons.
“Our prisons are burst-
ing at the seams. Voters
took a good step in No-
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vember of ‘16 when they
voted on 780 and 781 that
made sure simple posses-
sion would be a misde-
meanor, and not be a felo-
ny even with a second or
third conviction. That’s
going to help reduce the
inflow to our prisons
rather dramatically.
“We still need to treat
the underlying prob-
lems,” Edmondson
continued. “That’s the
Department of Mental
Health’s Smart on Crime
proposal. We have an in-
crease in the number of
drug and alcohol health
treatment facilities to
attack the underlying
problem…That’s going
to be a huge reduction in
the prison population if
we can properly fund it.
The drug, alcohol, men-
tal health treatment runs
three to five thousand
dollars per-person. Put-
ting them in prison is 20
to 30 thousand dollars
a person. It just makes
good fiscal sense to me,
to attack the root of the
problem instead of just
locking people up.”
Politics goes back to
the Civil War era in Ed-
mondson’s family.
“When I was young, I
enjoyed going with my fa-
ther. He was kind enough
to take me to dinners and
pie suppers. There were
five kids in our family
and I was the one that
enjoyed that, and still do.
What I like about it [poli-
tics] now, things like this
tour where I get to meet
people, shake hands, and
talk about the issues, I
enjoy that part of it. The
getting on the phone,
asking people for money,
that’s the hard part. I
frankly don’t enjoy that
but I recognize the neces-
sity of doing it.”
Reach Kathleen Guill at 580-
379-0588, ext. 2602.
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McIntosh County Democrat

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