OKC Curfew Enforcement, Stephanie Bice's Senate Seat, Stopped Trains & More [5:00-10:03]

or a riot exists within any part of the state and you know that language right there you know whether or not the legislature intended intended only in response to what they are seeing in other cities in the late 1960s or not that language is pretty clear and so I don't think that judge Ogden or any other appellate judge is going to find that that is ambiguous to the point where they have to go back and look at legislative history. Governor Stitt sets a date for a vote on the state senate seat held by Stephanie Bice. The February 9th election comes after Bice beat congresswoman Kendra Horn last month and even how competitive will it be for this Oklahoma City district seat? Well I think it'll be it it'll be very competitive I mean you have a special election it's certainly as we as we've talked many times a different dynamic than in a regular election cycle so we have an election date for the primary set for February 9th we have we're going through the Christmas holiday season they're basically they're basically going to be in a 30 or 45 day drill in all practicality and you will have no doubt Republicans will feel that probably anywhere from 6 to 6 to 10 or more candidates that will jump into this race because it is a winner take all primary so someone very likely in a multi-way primary could win the nomination with let's say 20 or 25% of the vote or maybe less so I think when when we look at that and and we and we look at the just the the numbers the percentages that the makeup of the district itself you have 58% registered Republicans 24% registered Democrats rest independent so I mean it clearly is a seat that the Republicans can hold on to and will be very focused on but the primary will be the key I think from all indications right now the the probably front runner or perceived front runner and prefiling next which is next week would be Rob Johnson who held that seat prior to Stephanie winning winning the seat he's Rob Johnson's of kind of a well-known political figure in terms of having been in the house been in the Senate he would have six years left if he were successful in the endeavor his father interestingly enough had the seat before he did so there's a there's a history there obviously someone who run before to have a fundraising apparatus of a volunteer network a lot of the infrastructure things so that that type of candidate can hit the ground running not to say that there aren't many other candidates that will jump into this race many are out there certainly looking at it so there's no foregone conclusion what will happen but in a short race money and volunteers and the ability to get the message out quickly and effectively will be will be a big key to this so and I think on the Democrat side I have every expectation that they will look for a strong candidate knowing that in special elections it is a great opportunity to be competitive and maybe pick off a seat that the that the Republicans have but I think that's still going to be a tall order when you're looking at a district that's basically Northern Oklahoma County Eastern Canadian County and largely Edmund and and a little bit of a Yukon so it's it will be fascinating to watch this early next year right yeah I talked to my state senator Julia Kurt this morning who is working with senate democrats and and recruiting folks and and trying to you know as niva said take advantage of a special election cycle where I mean we saw that up in Tulsa with Senator Alice Knightley Freeman who was recently defeated in the general election but had won that state senate seat there in a in a special election and even if you just pick a seat up like this for a couple of years I mean it's helpful I mean it's not going to change the dynamics in the Senate it's it's heavily lopsided in favor of the Republican majority but every seat counts and if if you're the Democratic caucus you know having somebody there having an incumbent makes it a lot easier to try to even be competitive in a seat like this whenever the general whenever a regular election comes around but even for a couple of years would be really important and you know Senator Kurt said that there are there's at least one democrats that's announced there's another that they anticipate announcing soon they're excited about this seat you know she said that it's all about turnout and she said looking at the demographics of this district the demographics of this district have changed a lot since it was drawn in 2010 and she said there are 20,000 new residents there versus 2010 that the demographic that the demographics are a very young district a lot of voters in their 30s and so they see this as a seat where