SD37 Voters To Select GOP Nominee

By Randy Krehbiel/Tulsa World ~ Oklahoma Republicans have been frothing at the mouth to oust state Sen. Nancy Riley.

On Tuesday, GOP voters in her district will decide which Republican candidate will carry their banner.

Elected in 2000 as a Republican from Senate District 37, which includes west Tulsa, Sand Springs, Jenks, Bixby and west and south Tulsa County, Riley switched to the Democratic Party in 2006.

That kept Republicans from a majority in the Senate the last two years and made Riley Public Enemy No. 1 as far as the state's top Republicans are concerned.

Most of the attention — and money — for the GOP primary has gone to Dan Newberry, a Tulsa mortgage broker. But Jan Megee, an aide to Tulsa's City Council for the past decade and a longtime public employee, is also in the race.

Read the entire story at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20080725_16_A18_hOnewi371821.

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