June 20th Ted Wright Editorial Add-On:
I'm not going to say anything else on any of the individual candidates above but did want to vent on the following two topics:

1) If you rely only on political attack advertising for your ballot selections you face the nearly impossible task of guessing if a candidate (for any office in any race in recent years) is either
-- A) an honest, genuis, patriot, saint
-or-
-- B) a lying, cheating, idiot, communist, devil's spawn
as consecutive commercials 30 seconds apart would like you to believe.
So please take the time to do at least some independent research from something other than an attack ad (where millions of dollars are spent by now unknown individuals and corporations ... many from outside this state).

2) Only within the last 6 months or so did I learn that there were organizations and individuals that want public education to fail. That concept seems so foreign and unbelievable that I have waited to speak on the subject. I don't know specifically if/how that has played a hand in the disaster that has hit public education in Oklahoma in the past few years ... but it certainly makes me think differently about some people's motivation. From what I have gathered the motivation is greed (i.e. how can I or my corporation siphon money now going to public education into my own pocket ... with little regard for the impact on the students or teachers in public education).
Again I need to do more research (and now can't find that link that finally made it all clear to me then) ... but will cite Dr. Ivan Holmes' campaign info below ... you can google 'ALEC".