Mary Fallin Sells Out Oklahoman’s Health Once Again

DC Mary voted against legislation that made several changes to food safety laws, including establishing a risk-based inspection schedule for food facilities and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations.  

The bill required facilities that serve U.S. customers to register with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and pay a registration fee. Farms, grocery stores and restaurants were exempt.  

The legislation aimed to hold big corporations accountable and keep the people healthy.
The bill mandated inspections ranging from every six months to every five years, depending on the level of risk at the facility. Individuals who knowingly violated food safety laws could face up to 10 years in prison. The bill also authorized the FDA to impose mandatory food quarantines and require facilities to implement written food safety plans.

It’s no wonder that Mary has received $66,000 in contributions from food service companies.  Once again Mary sells out Oklahoma to special interests who line her campaign pocket books.

Mary Fallin: Keeping Prescription Drug Companies Rich, While Oklahoma Gets Sick

Mary Fallin voted against prescription drug price negotiation and against prescription drug reimportation.  Mary is one of her normal moments of brillance voted against legislation that required the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department to negotiate with drug companies on behalf of beneficiaries in the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

She also voted against legislation that allowed individuals, wholesalers and pharmacists to import FDA-approved prescription drugs.

Mary said on the House floor that “one of the groups which is suffering under the tough economic times is seniors. Some are still working to earn enough money just to make ends meet. Some are on fixed incomes, and every slight increase in expenses can cause them to experience difficult times.”

Now we here at Fallin Fail know as well as anyone that Mary’s logic is hard to follow so let us break it down for you.

According to Mary having the government negotiate to bring down the costs of prescription drugs would indeed increase the cost of the drugs themselves therefore only hurting people more.
Now since she is a Congresswoman she surely knows what she is talking about right?
Wrong.

Mary Fallin once again turns her back on the people of Oklahoma and gives her buds at the Corporations what they want.  By voting against bringing down drug costs Mary has insured that the big prescription drug companies will continue to grow richer, and as a result Oklahoman’s will have to keep paying high prices for their prescriptions with no cost breaks in sight.

Don’t worry folks Mary got something out fo her vote.  Fallin received $2,700 from drug companies, I guess she will sell out Oklahoma for any price.

Lining Mary’s Pockets

While in DC Mary Fallin voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which authorized up to $700 billion to be given in installments to the Treasury Department to establish a program to buy certain mortgage-backed securities and other assets relating to mortgages.

Then Mary voted against a bill that required the Treasury to establish standards of excessive compensation for companies that received funds from the program and for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Bank System. The legislation prohibited the company’s from paying compensation deemed excessive, including certain bonuses and payments not related to performance standards set by bank regulators.

Since voting for TARP Mary Fallin has received $17,000 in contributions from the PACs and employees of companies that have received funding from TARP.

Mary Fallin not only gives away tax payer money to irresponsible spenders on Wall Street, she has gotten a nice little kick back from them no doubt so that she will continue to put their interests over those of the Country and Oklahoma’s. 

Mary Fallin, bought and paid for by Wall Street.

Fallin to Poor Voters: “Thanks But No Thanks”

From the Editorial Writers in today’s Tulsa World:

Candidates for political offices often must tell their audiences what they want to hear. It’s one way they get votes. Candidates of both parties do it. That seemed to be the only excuse possible for U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin’s speech to the Tulsa Republican Club recently.
Fallin, who is running for governor of Oklahoma, and 1st District Rep. John Sullivan, who is seeking re-election, took their turns preaching to the choir. 

Both expounded on their notions that the state and federal governments need to tighten their belts; that taxes are a bad thing; that ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would be economic disaster. 

And Fallin added this oh-so-trite, worn-out Republican bon mot concerning tax breaks for the rich: “I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been offered a job by a poor person.” 

Really? Well, for the past 20 years Fallin’s job has been holding public office. She was elected to the Oklahoma House in 1990, she was elected lieutenant governor three times beginning in 1995 and she has served in Congress since 2006. With the exception of the few years she worked in the hotel business she has been serving, we thought, all the people of the state and her districts. 

She almost certainly received some votes from “poor people.” They might not have offered her a job firsthand, but they had a hand in giving her a job. 

In case Rep. Fallin hasn’t noticed, the poor (or maybe she prefers a label such as “unwealthy” or maybe “less wealthy”) far outnumber the wealthy in Oklahoma. And the poor have the same right to vote as the wealthy. If she’s going to be employed come November, she’s going to need those poor people’s job offers again, whether she likes it not.

Thank you, Tulsa World.  We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Mary "Screw the Poor" Fallin

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Way to go team!  Thanks for all the re-tweets today, it seems we did catch Countdown’s attention, and so I present tonight’s worst person in the world, Mary “Screw the Poor” Fallin, courtesy of Mr. Olbermann himself!

DC Mary has better things to do

The Fort Sill Southwest Oklahoma Community Partnership Council hosted a candidate forum this morning, and both candidates for Governor were there.  Following the forum, Jari took a seat and participated in the meeting, because she appreciates that the important discussions happen during and even after the meeting.

Mary Fallin, on the other hand, a big important Congresswoman, had to hurry and leave, probably for a big important meeting with some big important Washington types.  Maybe if she gets elected governor she’ll find some time in her big important schedule for regular oklahomans….but I’m not holding my breath. 

Indeed.

Mary's Golden Spoon Lobbyist Fundraiser

 Gov. Haley Barbour, chair of the Republican Governors Association, was in Oklahoma last night hosting a $250 per plate fundraiser for Congresswoman Mary Fallin’s gubernatorial campaign. Barbour, a long time Washington lobbyist, is just the latest in a long line of help from Washington that Congresswoman Fallin has called in to aid her bid to be Oklahoma’s next Governor.

Barbour is the very definition of a special interest. He earned $42 million lobbying for health insurance, big tobacco and others.  He was responsible for a $50 billion tax break for tobacco companies.

With Mary Fallin reaching out to special interests such as Haley Barbour just trying to get into the Governor’s office we can be sure that if she makes it in things will be no different, and probably worse.

Mary Fallin doesn’t care about Oklahoman’s and their interests, she cares about here out of state and out of touch special interests friends.

FallinFAIL: Lights on Stillwater

Word on the street is that Mary’s presence at the Lights On Stillwater event leaves a little to be desired… two staffers in t-shirts leafletting.
[UPDATE - Fallin staffers asked to leave (apparently someone forgot to register for a booth)]

Curious Read from Gorilla Rants

You can find the original post of this here.

Fallin Votes To Put Oklahomans Out Of Work

Representative Mary Fallin stood up against Oklahomans by opposing the Jobs bill voted on in DC. The bill will save the jobs of over 2,000 teachers in Oklahoma and provide additional assistance to pay for health care cost in our state. The bill received support from Republican and Democratic Governors, and was paid for in part by closing a tax loophole for multinational corporations that ship jobs overseas, and the Congressional Budget Office even estimates this bill will reduce the deficit.

Mary Fallin claims she is against spending, we now know that she is against spending money to keep hard working Oklahoman’s employed.

Last week Mary Fallin announced she opposed the jobs bill that would bring millions of our tax dollars home from Washington, D.C. Fallin said she would not return to Washington DC to fullfil her job commitments as a Congresswoman and would instead stay in Oklahoma to attend a high dollar fundraiser with insider lobbyists.

She then changed her mind and went to Washington to vote against the jobs bill, calling the bill’s efforts to save teachers’ jobs a “wasteful spending measure.”

Really Representative Fallin?  Saving jobs of hard working Oklahomans is a “wasteful spending measure”?

If you can’t even do your job as a Congresswoman and fight for funds to come to Oklahoma, how do you expect to be able to lead the state?

If keeping Oklahomans employed is a “wasteful spending measure”, I wonder what else you will claim is waste and try to cut if elected. Maybe public safety? Maybe libraries Where does it end Mary?
It’s time for you to stop playing games with Oklahoman’s livelihoods.

Mary Fallin Campaigns Against her own State!

Woah... Slate just totally called out MF!

"This story about Republican gubernatorial candidate Mary Fallin's campaign scheduling is a sad little snapshot of how twisted conservative politics have become in recent years. Fallin, the representative for Oklahoma City's district, petulantly refused initially to return for the emergency congressional session called to pass legislation giving money to the states to relieve their outrageous budget woes. Her reasoning wasn't that her presence couldn't do enough for Oklahoma. Actually standing up for your constituents is just so old-school! Her reasoning was that the funding to help her state wasn't something she could stop, so she would just skip the vote and sadly watch money roll in to her state to stave off further budget crisis.

However, she did return to the session, not to stand up for Oklahoma in this time of crisis, but in order to make sure that she got to vote for a bill that amounts to anti-immigrant grandstanding. Even though many cities across the country are turning off lights and cutting employment rolls due to budget shortfalls, Congress felt they should spare $600 million to add agents and unmanned drones to the border. This, despite the fact that immigration has fallen sharply, in part because no one wants to move to a country that has embraced its downward decline so spectacularly that we're literally unpaving our roads.

This is how topsy-turvy politics have become due to right wing demagoguery—a candidate who campaigns not just on her stalwart resistance to lifting a finger to help out the state she wishes to run, but also on her willingness to make sure the money not being spent on roads and lights is instead fighting a supposed problem that's going away on its own. If Fallin were an actual mama grizzly, she'd be letting her cubs be eaten by predators while she ran off to fight a pine tree."

Mary Fallin is Confusing!

I mean what person with designs on managing a state budget would prefer coming into a climate of understaffed schools, especially when outside money is being offered?

"Earlier this week, the current front runner to be the chief executive of the state of Oklahoma was asked for her position on a house bill that would assist state’s in solving budget shortfalls related to school funding and health agency expenses.  Said bill would provide approximately $300MM to the state of Oklahoma that could theoretically relax the pressure to fire teachers.

Mary’s response was strange but calculated:  She opposed it, but even though it was her job to put that position on the record in the form of a vote, she was choosing not to return to Washington to do that.

Her position was pretty predictable.  Thanks to Randy Brogdon’s negative campaigning, Fallin is reeling a bit when it comes to her conservative credentials.  Despite being BFF’s with Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, Tea Party enthusiasts still question whether Mary will do anything to be a pain in Barack Obama’s ass.

Of course, I actually read something kind of charitable into her true motives.  My assumption was that she truly wanted the money…I mean what person with designs on managing a state budget would prefer coming into a climate of understaffed schools, especially when outside money is being offered?  So, to appease Tea Partiers she stated an unequivocal disapproval, but was intentionally avoiding the vote so as not to do anything to derail it passing.

Apparently, most Tea Baggers saw it my way.  Because this morning, her spokesperson, Alex Weintz informed the media that she was canceling yesterday’s campaign events so she could return to D.C.  The reason for her course reversal involved another bill coming up related to border security which she did not want to miss.

That’s where it gets confusing.  Initially, Fallin excused her decision to play hooky by saying that her vote could not help to overcome the Democratic majority.  (More likely, she said “Democrat majority” or “liberal majority”.)   This was true.  On the other hand, the border bill she rushed back to make her voice heard on had just passed the Senate with unanimous consent.  Unanimous consent means there was no opposition.  The House was expected to pass nearly as easily, but now she considers her vote vital."

Seriously?

Oy - and this woman wants to be our Governor?

Mary Fallin, the WORST person

Ohhh Mary Mary...

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Fallin opposes measure that would provide $300M in aid to Ok & save Teacher’s jobs.

Mary Fallin opposes a bill that could mean about $300 million in school and health care aid for Oklahoma and won’t return to Washington next week to vote on the legislation.

The measure allots $10 billion to cash-strapped states so they can avoid laying off teachers. The other $16 billion would go to help states with Medicaid obligations.

About 100 teachers are being laid off in Oklahoma City alone.

By neglecting OK’s teachers, Fallin once again fails to show up when Oklahomans need her most.
Read the whole story here.