Prickly City by Scott Stantis for February 14, 2022

Just do what the republigoons did and use duplicates.

You sign-up the scorpions and I’ll sign-up the rattlesnakes.

4500 × 3 = 13,500.

Out of how many residents in the district?

Just do what many of the signature gathering services do. Copy the phone book.

Are there any area cemeteries with headstone names to copy? (—

Here they have to be registered to vote in the district. The same should apply to all campaign donations. I call it corruption quarantine; you can only by your own politicians.

As I recall, it’s 4,500 (much less than a bazillion), so 5000 ought to do it. And if you can’t get 5000 people to even say you should be allowed on the ballot, you aren’t going to come close to winning anyway.

I thought it was about 4,000 before.

What?! You need valid signatures from district residents to get on the ballot??!! VOTE SUPPRESSION! VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!

A wee bit OT, but not much. Front page, above the fold headline in the 2/14/22 Tulsa World-‘HOPE’ now a state priority

Gov Stitt has made HOPE an official priority. Chan Hellman UO-Tulsa professor and founding director of the Hope Research Center says “as a framework for action its the right path for the state”

Since the state of Oklahoma is in the bottom 10 of all categories, Stitt in his state of the state speech made up 4 ways the state is in the top 10. #1-driving hope, #2-protecting Oklahomans and our way of life #3-making Oklahoma the most business friendly state and #4-delivering taxpayers more for their money. “Hope is not a wish or a feeling. Its a proven science that can be measured and applied”

Hellman has a contract with the state to teach state employees “Hope”

Hope, as Hellman defines it is “future expectation that we can find pathways and sustain the willpower to achieve our goals” along with “Hope is about taking action to pursue these goals and therefore is more than ‘wishful thinking’”

Seriously, not even The Onion could make this shite up

In other countries you are on the ballot automatically.

If he’s using the strip as a primer for “how to run for office,” I’ll give that a thumb up. Citizen involvement!

Rule of thumb based on past experience, get AT LEAST the number needed plus forty percent.