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« Reply #120 on: May 21, 2015, 03:58:39 pm » |
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Well, guess the OK Pop museum failed to pass in the house. Reason apparently....
Opponents say "the museum is not a core function of state government".
Well neither is fixing an old dilapidated building because it's historic and has art in it when it would have cost less to build a new, modern office building within which to "do the core functions of state government'. Oh wait.....
Tulsa doesn't get a museum to preserve and showcase its history and art, but if your arse is sitting in a building that does that, well it of course makes sense for the people of Tulsa and the rest of the state to spend a lot of their money to fix that.
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"When you only have two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."-Chinese proverb. "Arts a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Mans spirit grows hungry for art in the same way h
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« Reply #121 on: May 22, 2015, 08:00:09 am » |
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Well, guess the OK Pop museum failed to pass in the house. Reason apparently....
Opponents say "the museum is not a core function of state government".
Well neither is fixing an old dilapidated building because it's historic and has art in it when it would have cost less to build a new, modern office building within which to "do the core functions of state government'. Oh wait.....
Tulsa doesn't get a museum to preserve and showcase its history and art, but if your arse is sitting in a building that does that, well it of course makes sense for the people of Tulsa and the rest of the state to spend a lot of their money to fix that.
Yeah. It's disappointing but not surprising at all. I hate to always shrug my shoulders but Oklahoma has managed to elect a bunch of short sighted morons to be our leaders. |
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« Reply #122 on: May 22, 2015, 08:44:59 am » |
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Yeah. It's disappointing but not surprising at all.
I hate to always shrug my shoulders but Oklahoma has managed to elect a bunch of short sighted morons to be our leaders.
As with most things, if Tulsa wants it done Tulsa is going to have to do it on its own. The troglodytes in elected office will never do much to help Tulsa or the rest of the state outside of OKC. |
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« Reply #123 on: May 22, 2015, 09:13:55 am » |
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Considering how long it took for the state to bail out the American Indian Cultural Center, which is just sitting there unfinished and at one time had high hopes of being one of the premier cultural museums in the country, I didn't expect this to actually happen. Maybe next year..
Honestly I'd rather have a really impressive science center downtown than a museum dedicated to Oklahoma pop culture. Not that it wouldn't be a good addition but there are better options IMHO.
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« Reply #124 on: May 22, 2015, 10:36:59 am » |
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Honestly I'd rather have a really impressive science center downtown than a museum dedicated to Oklahoma pop culture. Not that it wouldn't be a good addition but there are better options IMHO.
Yeah I'm definitely disappointed in our legislature voting this down, but I also thought that an OK pop culture museum could be better suited as something else. However, I don't know of anyone proposing something different. And one legislator mentioned Woody Guthrie's ties to communism? Is that seriously a reason against OKPOP? We have national halls of fame to the abject hedonism that is common in rock stardom... |
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« Reply #125 on: May 22, 2015, 11:28:08 am » |
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« Reply #126 on: May 22, 2015, 11:40:18 am » |
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« Reply #127 on: May 22, 2015, 11:43:41 am » |
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« Reply #128 on: May 22, 2015, 11:45:20 am » |
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« Reply #129 on: May 22, 2015, 11:54:19 am » |
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« Reply #130 on: May 22, 2015, 01:09:39 pm » |
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Well, guess the OK Pop museum failed to pass in the house. Reason apparently....
Opponents say "the museum is not a core function of state government".
Well neither is fixing an old dilapidated building because it's historic and has art in it when it would have cost less to build a new, modern office building within which to "do the core functions of state government'. Oh wait.....
Tulsa doesn't get a museum to preserve and showcase its history and art, but if your arse is sitting in a building that does that, well it of course makes sense for the people of Tulsa and the rest of the state to spend a lot of their money to fix that.
Amen. |
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« Reply #131 on: May 22, 2015, 01:33:23 pm » |
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Wow, some Tulsa reps must have some blackmail worthy photos of someone. Good outcome however it came about.
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« Reply #132 on: May 22, 2015, 02:13:00 pm » |
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Here is breakdown on today's vote - with some local reps voting against it even knowing that the additional money for the Indian museum had already passed.
YEAS: 51
Banz Fourkiller Montgomery Shoemake
Billy Griffith Morrissette Stone
Brown Henke Mulready Thomsen
Cannaday Hoskin Murdock Virgin
Christian Inman Nelson Walker
Cleveland Joyner Nollan Wallace
Condit Kirby Peterson Watson
Coody, A. Kouplen Proctor Williams
Coody, J. Leewright Pruett Wood
Cooksey Lepak Rousselot Wright
Cox Lockhart Scott Young
Denney Loring Shelton Mr. Speaker
Dunnington McPeak Sherrer
NAYS: 40
Bennett Faught McCall Perryman
Biggs Fisher McCullough Pfeiffer
Brumbaugh Grau McDaniel, R. Ritze
Caldwell Hall Moore Roberts, D.
Calvey Hardin Murphey Rogers
Casey Johnson Newell Sanders
Cockroft Jordan Ortega Sears
Derby Kannady Osborn Strohm
Dunlap Kern Ownbey Vaughan
Echols Martin Park Wesselhoft
EXCUSED: 8
Enns McDaniel, J. Renegar Russ
McBride O'Donnell Roberts, S. Tadlock
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« Reply #133 on: May 22, 2015, 07:36:14 pm » |
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I was looking to see if the native american center had passed the house yet and couldn't find it.
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« Reply #134 on: May 22, 2015, 08:33:24 pm » |
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I was looking to see if the native american center had passed the house yet and couldn't find it.
That's why I was pissed. That passed but not OK Pop. Now...we're good! |
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