My letter published in Tulsa World today...

[Onlyserious]

https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/letters/letter-jan-6-capitol-riot-has-made-me-a-single-issue-voter/article_08f89d72-50b9-11ed-a173-23e24e673ecb.html

After years of resisting the idea of becoming a single-issue voter, I find I have become one.

I am resolved to consider any candidate disqualified who takes the position that the 2020 presidential election was somehow “stolen.” Further, any person having anything having to do with attempting to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power is a deal-breaker for me.

It doesn’t matter if such interference took the form of a phony vote on the floor of Congress, or the violent traitorous activity on Jan. 6, 2020, or the ongoing attempts to suppress voting.

To insist that fraud altered the outcome of the election after 61 courts have rejected such meritless claims, when the Trump administration’s top cybersecurity official declared the 2020 election “the most secure in American history,” and then fail to accumulate evidence of fraud or make such materials open to public scrutiny is outrageous.

The thing is, I don’t believe most successful politicians really believe Trump’s claims. Instead, to cynically persuade enough “true believers” to hold on to or accumulate power, politicians pretend like they are believers as well.

If a candidate actually does believe, that’s just as disqualifying. Regardless, those who support Trump’s big lie are big liars. The preservation of our democratic republic is my single issue.

[phylny]

1. K/R

[megapuzzler]

2. Kudos!

It takes some courage to publish a letter like this in a red state like Oklahoma. Short and to the point, and I hope it sways some minds and hearts that are "undecided."

[patphil]

3. The states where Republicans claim fraud occurred were fully, or partially, run by them.

Even then, they couldn't show any real evidence of fraud.
The problem was that they weren't looking in the right place...they needed to look in a mirror.

[ancianita]

4. VERY glad you put this before an Oklahoma audience. Thank you.

[Joinfortmill]

5. Amen to that

[iluvtennis]

6. Nice! Congrats. n/t

[plimsoll]

7. It really doesn't matter that they "don't believe it."

They don't condemn it, that is tacit approval. So who cares if they don't believe it, they're OK with the claim.

[McKim]

8. So Grateful to You!!!!!

We are so grateful to you for your letter and for getting it published! We can all take a lesson. Talking to the press has results.

I noticed in the Oregonian that the photos of Republican candidates were better lit and had bigger head shots than the Democratic candidates’s photos when place side by side. I called them on it and now they look equal in every story. Call them out!

[BOSSHOG]

9. I am a single issue voter

In State and National Elections.

If you are a Republican that’s an issue for me. The only issue. You are an (R), you won’t get my vote.

[wnylib]

10. Excellent letter. It is so good that I wonder

if it would be ok for others to use it, either verbatim or paraphrased, to send to other papers.

[Hortensis]

11. Excellent, Onlyserious. Good job!

[TeamProg]

12. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t