The 2022 Oklahoma Gubernatorial race just got more interesting!
Earlier this week, Oklahoma State School Superintendent Joy Hofmeister informed her pals at The Tulsa World that she's switching allegiances to the Democratic party and will be running for Governor in 2022, which I guess means those rumors we asked her about on The Lost Ogle Show over a year ago were indeed true!
Give it a listen:
Back in August of 2020, we asked @joy4ok on The Lost Ogle Show about rumors she was going to run for Governor in 2022. You can hear her dodge the question here! pic.twitter.com/B85DY0hlrR
— The Lost Ogle (@TheLostOgle) October 7, 2021
Overall, this is some pretty cool news. I honestly don't know much about Hofmeister's political views or ideology, but does that even matter at this point? She seems like a sane, reasonable person who lives in reality, treated the pandemic seriously, and didn't spend her mornings and afternoon pandering to anti-maskers, Trump-lovers and hard-core meat-eaters. In today's tribal day and age, that matters to me way more than someone's uncompromising views on taxation, government policy and other divisive wedge issues.
In fact, that appears to be the main reason she's running: