Howdy friends and neighbors. Once again here I sit with nothing to write about. Not watching the news anymore makes it hard to come up with stuff to write about. I can’t put my Sunny Point twist to the current mess of politics. So here is what I have decided to do. Are you ready for this bomb shell?
I am officially announcing my candidacy for Governor of the great state of Oklahoma! Yep, I’m going to throw my hat (that went through the combine) in the ring and challenge the professional politicians for the top seat in the state! Ok, would someone get my wife some oxygen or maybe a paper sack?
The only ones I’ve seen throw their names in for the Governor seat are career politicians. Maybe the folks of Oklahoma are ready for just a common dude with no money, no power, no strings attached, and no political experience to run for the seat? Nope, I’ve no axe to grind, no agenda to pursue, no political action groups to please, or rich buddies to appoint. Instead, I’m just a happy, optimistic farmer and rancher from Sunny Point Oklahoma who knows this state has abundant natural resources that other broke states would love to have. Well, other broke states have them too, but they have regulated themselves out of using them.
The biggest natural resource this state has is the good ol’ country folks that are content with living here. Others throughout this nation make fun of our simple ways but inside they wish they could be as happy as we are. I hear the pros that stand on marble slabs talk about how we have to get Oklahoma up with the rest of the nation. What???? Looks to me like the rest of the nation needs to back up to where we are!!!! Shoot, we are so backwards here in Oklahoma that we have a state constitution that’s doesn’t allow the pros on marble to put this state into debt (until they discovered a little thing called bonds). Look at Congress! Look at New York and California! We are so dumb here that we even have a savings account for rainy days.
I get so tired of hearing the pros on marble talk as if we are headed for bad times in this state. Once again, nope! The government agencies in this state are headed for bad times if they don’t get out of the way of converting natural resources into consumable products and selling them to other states and nations. The wealth generating citizens will be just fine.
Oh you won’t find my name under the Elephant or the Donkey. I would be just fine and dandy right there under the Independent line. Boy that makes the pros on marble really mad when you go and do something stupid like that. I have two mottos I’ll campaign with. The first is a quote, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius. I love that one! Next is a question, that if elected, I will ask everyone that wants me to sign something, “That’s really interesting, but is it important?” And then see if they can answer that.
Well, maybe I had better think about this decision a little more. Oh, I’m sure I could do as good a job as the last two Governor do-littles have done. They traded cock fighting for casinos. The reason, it was almost impossible to tax cock fighting! Next, it’s a long ride from Sunny Point to Lincoln Blvd. in a wore-out feed truck and I’m not sure OHP would know how to start her. What, you thought I would give up my cattle to run this state? The cattle would be the only thing to keep me close to sanity!
I’m Monte Tucker and my hat approves this message.
WHAT!! It costs more than $900.00 to file for Governor? Well, no thanks. I can buy a couple of bull calves for that!
Chicken!!!! They need someone with a level head in there. I remember a farmer that became governor here twice. The first republican too.