Politicos in Oklahoma have been looking to the proverbial horizon, for the prospects of a post-Fallin Oklahoma. Several names are being floated, but nearly as many are already trowing in the towel. Two names are rising to the top of the stack: Former Ronald Reagan appointee, federal prosecutor Gary Richardson, will be a strong candidate of the party of Trump. Gary ran in 2002 on an independent populist message. But Oklahoma was not ready for a nonpartisan administration. Gary now sees a home for him in donald Trump's Republican party. He believes the outsider message that Reagan tapped into is very much alive in the Trump movement. Reagan also saw those attributes in Richardson and saw him as a natural fit to fill a Justice Department appointment to serve as Eastern Oklahoma's federal prosecutor. Todd Lamb has quietly been building his inside game at the Oklahoma Capitol. Perhaps no one has posed for more photos in that building. Lamb's ceremonial duties are about all we've seen from him, these past 7 years. But that has given him a huge opportunity to made allies, raise money, and build name recognition. Prior to that, Lamb served as a state senator for Edmond. Before that he was an investigator for the Secret Service. He also helped Frank Keating get elected. |
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