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Three GOP runoffs highlight ballot
Three Republican runoff races – one
for the State Senate and two for the
State House – will be on the August 25
ballot in Tulsa.
The ballot will have:
• Tulsa municipal races, including
for mayor and seven city councilors
• Five proposed changes to the Tulsa
City Charter
• A Jenks City bond proposal
• A Glenpool City sales tax proposal
• School bonds in the Keystone and
Berryhill school districts
• And three legislative runoffs races.
Tulsa County Election Board
Secretary Gwen Freeman said anyone
who wants an absentee ballot mailed to
them should apply for them now. The
deadline for applications for absentee
ballots to be mailed is August 18. They
are available at the Election Board at
555 N. Denver Ave. and online at
www.elections.ok.gov.
Absentee ballots must be in the
hands of election board officials by 7
p.m. on August 25 to be counted.
Here are profiles of three GOP leg-
islative contests in Tulsa.
State Senate District 35
Republicans Cheryl Baber and
Kyden Creekpaum will face each other
in the August 25 GOP runoff. The win-
ner will face Democrat Jo Anna Dossett
on November 3. That Senate seat is
open because Sen. Gary Stanislawski,
R-Tulsa, is term limited.
Creekpaum ran TV commercials
blasting Cheryl Baber for working as
an assistant U.S. attorney under a
Democrat president (Barack Obama).
Baber countered by pointing out that
Creekpaum has donors who have
given thousands of dollars to Democrat
candidates, including Hillary Clinton,
Joe Biden and Barack Obama. She
claims that attorney Paul DeMuro from
Creekpaum’s law firm (Frederick
Dorwart Lawyers PLLC) sued to try to
discourage President Trump’s rally in
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Tulsa earlier this year. Attorney Fred
Dorwart donated $2,700 to
Creekpaum’s campaign.
• Kyden Creekpaum
Creekpaum grew up in Tulsa. A
pianist, he performed with the ORU
Symphony, the Missouri State
University Symphony and the Tulsa
Youth Symphony. He performed in the
George W. Bush White House several
times and served as a pianist-in-resi-
dence for the U.S. ambassador to
France.
Creekpaum was valedictorian of his
class at Edison High School. He is an
Eagle Scout. He has degrees in piano
and pollical science from The
University of Oklahoma, where he
attended on a National Merit
Scholarship. He has a law degree from
Georgetown University and a master’s
degree in public health from John
Hopkins. He also has a master’s degree
in international business law from
Sciences Po in France.
He wants more money for public
schools. He wants more money spent
on improving state roads and he wants
universal access to broadband Internet.
• Cher yl Baber
Baber, a Tulsa attorney, grew upon a
farm and ranch in Walters, Oklahoma.
She studied journalism at Oklahoma
City University and later transferred to
Midwestern State University. There,
she got a Rotary Foundation
International Scholarship which
helped finance her studies at the
Graduate Institute of International
Affairs in Geneva, Switzerland. Then
she got a law degree from Columbia
School of Law in New York.
Baber began her law career in
Oklahoma with Crowe & Dunlevy but
she left private practice to work as a
law clerk. She served five federal
judges.
Baber was an assistant U.S. attorney
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in the Northern District of Oklahoma. She was an
instructor for the Oklahoma State University
Special Education Center and a volunteer attor-
ney for Tulsa Lawyers for Children.
Baber was a delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 2016. She has been active
in the Tulsa Christian Business & Professional
Women’s Club. Her family attends First Baptist
Church of Tulsa.
A law-and-order advocate, Baber wants to
reduce incarceration through rehabilitation. She
wants less liberal indoctrination and progres-
sivism in public schools and consolidation of
administrators.
Baber wants regulatory help for small busi-
nesses and she is pro-life. She wants to promote
the energy industry and she prefers economic
growth over tax increases.
State House District 71
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Teacher Mike Masters faces attorney Beverly
Atteberry in House District 71 The winner will
face Rep. Denise Brewer, D-Tulsa. Masters got
49% of the primary vote and Atteberry got 44%.
• Mike Masters
Masters is a public school teacher and a
licensed real estate agent. He has taught in public
schools for 15 years. He is on the board of the
Brookside Neighborhood and Business associa-
tion. His family attends Brookside Baptist
Church.
• Beverly Atteberr y
Atteberry got her law degree from The
University of Tulsa and for the past 27 years has
practiced law with a focus on wills, probate and
criminal law. A conservative Christian, she plans
on applying the same fiscal accountability in
state government that she does in her business.
State House District 79
Clay Iiams was the top vote getter in District
GOP primary and Margie Alfonso came in sec-
ond. The winner will face Rep. Melissa
Provenzano, D-Tulsa, one of the most liberal leg-
islators in the state.
• Clay Iiams
Iiams was in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is a
welder and cigar store employee. He wants to
promote parental choice and is opposed to
mandatory vaccinations of children.
He wants to promote economic development
and better infrastructure.
• Margie Alfonso
Alfonso is a lifelong Republican. She has a
degree in bacteriology and public health from
Michigan State University. She got four letters
from President Ronald Reagan for her support
for GOP causes and campaigns.
Alfonso was the coordinator for the National
Conference on HIV/AIDS, as chosen by the
Reagan White House. She served as president of
the conservative Tulsa Eagle Forum, as a District
Committee Woman for the GOP First District and
was a two-time delegate to the Republican
National Convention.
Alfonso has appeared on numerous TV and
radio programs promoting conservative, pro-
America causes.
She wants more transparency in public educa-
tion and proper funding for police, firefighters
and teachers.
She is an advocate for children’s health and
safety and she oppose abortion. She is against
socialized medicine and she wants an end to
state sales tax on groceries. She believes in the
gun rights embedded in the Second Amendment
and she is against illegal immigration.