Bartlett Names Jarred Brejcha Chief Of Staff

Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett...will name 28-year-old Jarred Brejcha to be his new chief of staff, filling the vacancy left by Terry Simonson.

Brejcha (pronounced BRAY-ha) joined the Mayor's Office in September as the director of governmental affairs and enterprise development.

"I certainly didn't think I'd be getting a promotion three months later, but this is an opportunity and a challenge that I'm ready for," he said in an interview with the Tulsa World.

He'll be paid $125,000 per year.

Brejcha has been Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman's communications director after heading the Republican Senatorial Committee's efforts last year.

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Adelson, Bartlett Win Tulsa Mayoral Primaries

Democrat Tom Adelson and Republican Dewey Bartlett Jr. won their party primaries for mayor of Tulsa on Tuesday and now face off in the November 10th general election where they'll be joined by two independents.

Bartlett won 54 percent of the vote in his 11-way primary. His closest competitor, Chris Medlock, had 32 percent.

Adelson swamped his opponents, winning 94 percent of the vote.

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Adelson, Bartlett Lead Tulsa Mayoral Race

Republican Dewey Bartlett Jr. and Democrat Tom Adelson held wide leads in their respective mayoral primaries heading into the final week of the campaign, according to an Oklahoma Poll conducted August 29 to September 1st for the Tulsa World by SoonerPoll.com.

Three hundred likely voters from each party were surveyed, with 53 percent of Republicans choosing Bartlett from among the 11 GOP candidates and 54 percent of Democrats picking Adelson in a five-candidate field.

Republican Chris Medlock, with 15 percent of the GOP vote, was the only other candidate in either party to reach double digits.

None of Adelson's opponents in the Democratic primary received more than 2 percent.

Twenty-one percent of Republicans and 39 percent of Democrats said they didn't know who they would vote for.

"The numbers are problematic for (Bartlett and Medlock) both," said Bill Shapard of SoonerPoll.com, which conducted the survey. "Obviously, Medlock would like better numbers. But it could also be bad for Dewey Bartlett. His supporters could say, 'Oh, he's got it won,' and stay home." Bartlett leads Medlock in every demographic category, including self-identified conservatives.

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Bartlett Leads Tulsa Mayoral Dollar Race

Republican Tulsa mayoral candidate Dewey Bartlett Jr. leads the field in fundraising with a little more than $286,000.

That's above the nearly $197,000 that Democrat frontrunner Tom Adelson has collected.

Republican candidate Chris Medlock has raised $48,000 and independent Mark Perkins has raised about $29,000.

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