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Oklahoma GOP keeps eyes on post-election prize

 
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT | Published: November 6, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Charlie Meadows didn’t want to ruin Oklahoma’s Republican victories by talking about the presidential election.

photo - Oklahoma House Speaker Chris Benge, left, and Senate Republican leader Glenn Coffee say the pledge of allegiance on Wednesday. PHOTO BY DOUG HOKE, THE OKLAHOMAN
Oklahoma House Speaker Chris Benge, left, and Senate Republican leader Glenn Coffee say the pledge of allegiance on Wednesday. PHOTO BY DOUG HOKE, THE OKLAHOMAN

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And no one among the 100 or so in attendance complained.

Meadows, chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, welcomed Oklahoma’s GOP leaders in the state Senate and House to the group’s monthly luncheon meeting a day after Republicans captured the Senate for the first time in state history.

No one brought up gains Democrats made in Congress or Democratic President-elect Barack Obama’s victory.

They kept their focus instead on Oklahoma’s GOP legislative victories.

When Oklahoma legislative members are sworn in Nov. 18, the Senate will have 26 Republicans and 22 Democrats.

House Republicans, who took over the House in 2004 for the first time in more than 80 years, expanded their majority by picking up four seats in the 101-member chamber. Republicans will outnumber Democrats, 61 to 40.

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