T.W. Shannon advocates eliminating minimum wage (the next primary after today)

tulsaworld.com ^ | 6/10/14 | Randy Krehbiel

[cotton1706]

T.W. U.S. Senate candidate T.W. Shannon told a Christian business group on Monday he believes “God is raising up ... a new generation of leaders to return to biblical principles.”

Those principles apparently include strict adherence to a free market economy, elimination of the federal minimum wage and most if not all federal health care programs, and telling people on welfare to get a job.

“One of the biggest challenges in our country, if you boil it all down, is that we have more takers than makers,” he said. “We have a whole generation of people that have been taught that dependency on government is a way of life.”

Shannon was speaking to the Young Businessmen of Tulsa, a group affiliated with the International Fellowship of Christian Businessmen, and tailored his remarks accordingly.

Describing his tenure as speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Shannon said, “We were able to achieve some things that reflect what I believe is the majority of the members’ biblical worldview.”

As examples, Shannon cited workers compensation reform, a “modest” income tax cut (disallowed on a technicality by the state Supreme Court) and welfare reform.

“The Bible says that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty,” Shannon said. “When we see liberty being imposed upon ... we need more spirit of the Lord.”

[conservative_crusader]

I think that a senator, by definition, is someone who represents the people. I look at Lankford and think “This is a guy that I disagree with on some issues, but he also agrees with me on quite a bit. It's better that I get some of my views represented by someone who votes frequently than it is for none of my views to be represented by someone that might even share more of my views who almost never votes.”

I'm not putting a lot of stock in ratings - at least not at this point. Here's another thing that bothers me: I got a phone call from a push poll back in May or April - I forget which. The lady wouldn't tell me who she was working for, and she never called it a push poll, but it was plain and clear based on the questions she was asking. All of them started with this set up: “Would you be more or less likely to vote for James Lankford if...” Now at the beginning of the poll most of the questions were innocuous and benign, but by the end of the poll they were asking questions about things that Lankford never did. In addition to disapproving Shannon's dedication to his voters, I also have to question the integrity of his campaign.

The funny thing here is, I wouldn't be all that concerned about Shannon if he hadn't decided to smear James Lankford. James Lankford is a good man - I actually just got back from the first week of Falls Creek this week, and while James doesn't work there any more, I've seen the product of what he does. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

[itsahoot]

I’m not an especially big fan of Boehner

The point was the speaker rarely votes or debates. Shannon was The Speaker of the House in Oklahoma.

[conservative_crusader]

Then why is it recorded as odd that the Oklahoma Speaker doesn’t vote? It certainly seems possible to me that there may be certain institutional differences between the Oklahoma Speaker of the House, and the U.S. Speaker of the House.