Dorman Ad Hits Fallin On Common Core
Ad flap stirs up Oklahoma governor’s race
by Rick Green
With about six weeks left before the general election, state Rep. Joe Dorman has started running political commercials critical of his opponent, Gov. Mary Fallin, on the issues of guns and education.
Meanwhile, Fallin’s latest ad touts her fight against the Affordable Care Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, making no mention of her Democratic challenger.
She and most legislators initially supported Common Core academic standards for math and English in public schools, before she and lawmakers supported the repeal of the standards over concerns they represented federal overreach into states’ educational policies. Dorman, of Rush Springs, said he opposed the standards from the beginning.
Dorman’s commercial, the first negative one from either candidate, was critical of Fallin’s early support for the standards, and for her veto of three bills he said were supportive of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.