Unions lose "Right to Work" vote in Oklahoma

John Gulick jlgulick at sfo.com
Tue Oct 2 17:59:15 PDT 2001


Ian sez:

And to think Oklahoma used to be a hotbed of socialist and populist agitation........

Gulick sez:

For a small and eminently reasonable fee, Doug once set me a cassette of one of his WBAI shows during which he interviewed Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of _Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie_. If I'm not mistaken, in that books she traces the de-evolution of Oklahoma populist and Debsian radicalism into right-wing populism, now epitomized by fundamentalist Christian ex-football jocks squatting in Congress (like Steve Largent, former star wideout of the Seattle Seahawks and J.C. Watts of Oklahoma Sooner fame).

John G.



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