Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon lost in his bid to be the Republican gubernatorial nominee today. From the National Journal:
Rep./ex-LG Mary Fallin (R-OK) won the OK GOV GOP primary in convincing fashion, easily defeating state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R). The AP called the race for Fallin with 35% of precincts reporting; she collected 59% of the vote.
OK GOV GOP Primary
- Fallin 88,350 58%
- Brogdon 53,986 36%
- Hubbard 5,229 3%
- Jackson 4,284 3%
While IPR does not normally cover major party candidates, an exception can be made for Randy Brogdon. Last year he was endorsed by Chuck Baldwin, the 2008 presidential nominee of the Constitution Party. In addition, in 2005 Brogdon sponsored a bill in the state legislature to reform Oklahoma’s excessively restrictive ballot access laws.
I met Randy and spent some time with him in OK – fantastic presence and compelling personality. He was term-limited out of his state Sen. seat but I’m sure he’ll be back on the campaign trail. Although he’d feel very comfortable with the Constitution Party (Chuck Baldwin raised $ for him this year), I think he’d rather take his seniority back to the state legislature or his legislative experience to Washington via the GOP machine. He’d be no party loyalist however. And I do think he’d be a big advocate for ballot access.
Exactly. If Brogdon had won I would expect the Oklahoma ballot access laws to have changed.
I am surprised he ran such a strong campaign in a statewide race. He is definitely in a good position to run for some future office.
Milnes,
Brogdon has been a strong supporter of ballot access reform in OK.
Yo, Yo, Yo…..republican primary?
Welllllllll, ok. We’ll give it a pass…THIS TIME.
Extra points if he DOES join the GP-OR LP!
BTP? Fuggettaboudit.
It’s time that Randy Brogdon should join the Green Party. Randy would be a great Green Party candidate and would bring the Oklahoma Green Party a brave Green Party activist and a great, experienced Green Party Conservative political machine. The Green Party of Oklahoma is on its way.
Similarly, incumbent Tom Cole beat RLC candidate R.J. Harris by a large margin in the OK-04 primary.