OPEA mailer lands in mailboxes
It’s been a couple of weeks since we wrote about the Oklahoma Public Employees Association and its special mailing list deal set up by a state lawmaker last year.
This week, the second of OPEA’s two mailings have begun arriving the mailboxes of more than 30,000 state employees. OPEA has said that the second mailing was not sent to about 10,000 existing members. The association had its mail vendor do some database matching to separate existing members from prospective members, a process that OPEA decries as “data mining” and “privacy piracy” when others do it.
Here’s the other parts of the two-page mailer:
Do the business interests that tried to get state Rep. Mike Thompson elected to Congress now look to Kevin Calvey or James Lankford ... or sit on the sidelines? Hard to see the biz support going to Calvey for two reasons: he dissed MAPS 3 in Oklahoma City, a development effort strongly supported by the business community and he finished second tonight in a race to political novice who likely brought a bunch of new people into the process. Of course, the business establishment could hardly be considered the smart money in this race so far. Comments made by Calvey and Lankford tonight indicate that the next four weeks will have tougher rhetoric than any heard in the last year.
–Paul
P.S. For more on this issue, see our special coverage page on the public records dispute.
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