OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters narrowly decided on Tuesday to expand Medicaid health insurance to tens of thousands low-income residents, becoming the first state to amend its Constitution to do so.
Stating the obvious…a very CONServative state approves Medicaid Expansion while the Trump Mal-Administration is arguing in the SC to take away ACA!
Ahem…
Pew research says: 59% Trump Job Disapproval
OK, land of the Tulsa COVID-Fest!
Love that movie. Greatest ending of all time!!!
It was a mighty tough question on the ballot there.
Whoda thunk folks would choose life?
Gee, it’s amazing how all of ACA is so popular with the exception of its nickname.
Well - it took 8 yrs of W to turn Indiana blue for 1 cycle.
Apparently - it’s taken less than 4 yrs of Trump turn Oklahoma into … “The People’s Republic of …”
MAybe he has succeeded at something after all.
I just KNEW that Trump Tulsa Rally would do the trick 
Good for them. Now watch their legislature try to fuck this up somehow for all those in favor of the expansion, thereby tying it up in a lawsuit if that’s the most they can do in the meantime. They’ve done that in other states, making the process to expand as difficult as possible even after such proposals pass.
Btw, Missouri is next to vote on expansion of Medicaid which will be on the ballot Aug. 4th. Go for it Missouri! Don’t let the Kochs and those TParty troglodytes weigh you down this time.
Also, this happened in OK the other day too…
But at what cost? Death and destruction in his wake.
This country has been at a crossroads.
There are things that the battle against Trump has made possible. And I know in my heart that to say that to a Trump-abused-ambushed-soldier’s parents…or to a relative of George Floyd…or to any of the people horribly abused at the Border…
would be committing the most insensitive act in my entire life.
A lot of the appeal was protecting the remaining local hospitals. Several have closed in the last few years with the blame placed on the lack of the Medicaid expansion.
Another issue was Oklahoma sending tax money to other states to pay for their Medicaid expansion, but Oklahoma not having it.
About an hour after the polls closed the New York Times said the Question failed. At that point there was 2% not yet in, so I sat at the Oklahoma state election board site watching the numbers trickle in. Finally a few hours later the number in was 100% and it passed.
This is a really big deal for the state.
Amending the Oklahoma Constitution will prevent the Republican-controlled Legislature . . . from tinkering with the program or rolling back coverage.
The GOP will send a fact finding commission to Florida to learn the details of how it subverted the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative.
16% rural poverty in OK, but it “narrowly passed” in the OK sticks.
Pathetic.
Notice that the victim WAS AT A GODDAMNED PARTY IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EPIDEMIC. There are no heroes here.
It’s an uncommon thing when a sliver of common sense takes hold in urban Oklahoma.
The Governor scheduled the vote for a date when he thought the turnout would be so low that it wouldn’t pass. It almost worked.
Because of GOVERNANCE…the importance of it.
Not Trumpist-racist chants
It didn’t pass in the sticks. It was the population centers that dragged it over the line. It was passed by 6 out of 77 counties. The big ones primarily: Oklahoma, Tulsa, and the counties with University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
Oklahoma learned that it has to be a constitutional amendment. In the last election a referendum passed and the first thing the legislature did when it went into session was pass a law (not a lag {on edit}) negating the referendum.
So, it was them libruls whut saved the po’ folk.
How dumb is dumb.
