Taken from: JMBranum.com campaign website
Here’s the results from the the Oklahoma State Elections Board:
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT NO. 99 30 OF 30
ANASTASIA PITTMAN DEM 4,886 76.85%
WILLARD LINZY REP 1,166 18.34%
J. M. BRANUM IND 306 4.81%
Also I called the Oklahoma County Elections board and for my home precinct, the results were…
Pittman (D) – 105 or 89%
Branum (I/G) – 8 or 6.8%
Linzy (R) – 5 or 4.2%
(118 total votes cast)
I am quite pleased with these results. Certainly would have loved to have done better, but given the limited time and money I had to work with, I’m glad so many folks voted for me. I’m also really tickled to see the good results in my home precinct as that is an area that did a fair bit of campaigning in (i.e. getting literature out to voters, putting up signs, etc.).
As for my future political plans, I plan to support our new state representative, Anastasia Pittman in working for the betterment of this district and in protecting our basic civil and human rights (particularly in ending the death penalty). If she fights for the good in the way that Rep. Opio Toure did, then she can count one me being a stronger supporter in the future.
If on the other hand, she does not stand up for what is right and good, then I will seriously consider either recruiting someone to run against her or running myself.
Time of course will tell what will happen, but I of course am hoping that she meets the test.
I also want to say thank you to all who supported me in this, especially to my friends Huti and Jean (who came out from Muskogee several times to help me campaign), Randy (who faithfully came to many of my public appearances), to the Green Party (for their financial support and encouragement), to Lance & Ashley (for hosting my watch party), to my friend Kimberly (for encouraging me to do the campaign when it still seemed like a crazy idea), to local bloggers and press for telling folks about my campaign, and most of all to my dear friend Rachel who was my trusted campaign advisor and showed me so much encouragement and support through this campaign.
James,
Great to see the turnout in support of your campaign. Every vote counts. And given the issues you’ve spoken out on, you’ve helped bring about change that lots of voters across the country have been looking for.
Dear James,
I wish you had won. I was very glad about the anti-war candidates that won across the nation.
I worked on the Webb campaign and the Lamont campaigns; greedy interests bought the Lamont also;
it just makes me angry that people keep buying the campaigns.
Do you have time to revive my website; I thought I had emailed you the money; but I checked my
Paypal account and it was not recorded; I guess the electronic whatever messed it up.
Please let me know if you can revive it; that waterfall you put on before they took the website
off was beautiful.
Best wishes for your further endeavors.
Sincerely,
Sheila
Dear James,
I wish you had won. I was very glad about the anti-war candidates that won across the nation.
I worked on the Webb campaign and the Lamont campaigns; greedy interests bought the Lamont campaignalso;
also;it just makes me angry that people keep buying the campaigns.
Do you have time to revive my website; I thought I had emailed you the money but I checked my
Paypal account and it was not recorded; I guess the electronic whatever messed it up.
Please let me know if you can revive it; that waterfall you put on before they took the website
off was beautiful.
Best wishes for your further endeavors.
Sincerely,
Sheila
I am so proud of you JM. 🙂
Dear James,
As you may suspect, election results can be manipulated by people with selfish greed interests;
they can do it many ways. Don’t you think it is unlikely that I got the numbers that I got in Texas and Oklahoma races;people like to assign me the numbers 6,13, and 3 etc. When I ran for a statewide office in Texas it was reported thatI got 30,000 vote and 6% in the Oklahoma election; when I recently tried to help Ned Lamont in Connecticut, at the place where I was
Lamont got 322,Liebermen 313 and Schlesenger got 73. I feel that at that precinct the voting
machines or the calculator were manipulated or some people decided to arrive at those numbers.
I suspect you got many more votes than was reported because 306 seems like an unlikely number. I
am not saying the people at that precinct were unlawful; things can be manipulated electronically.
Sincerely,
Sheila