Regardless of who the Governor is, there’s always been one consistent thing you can say about living in Oklahoma – ”Boy, our state sucks.”
Sure, some days and years are better than others – and I guess we have produced our fair share of country music stars and celebrity weathermen – but you don’t have to be a lifelong Okie to know that we’re usually running neck-and-neck with Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and our ole’ nemesis Mississippi when rounding out the bottom of just about any positive ranking of US states.
Well, except for the ones about affordable home prices. We usually score well in that because, you know, not a lot of people want to live here.
Anyway, with many of the same challenges facing Oklahoma that have always faced Oklahoma – poverty, high incarceration rate, lack of quality jobs and opportunity, violent crime, teenage pregnancy, the largest per-capita population of truck nuts in the world, etc. – Oklahoma Watch decided to round up four former Governors and see how they would screw things up today if they were still in charge of things…
Question – Is it good or bad that 75% of our former Governors resemble turtles? I bet the snacks they serve at the event will primarily consist of carrot tops and lettuce.