Tulsa Candidates Similarities Explored
Tulsa mayoral candidates share some similarities
BY KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Sunday, April 28, 2013
They all want to be mayor – or, in the case of Dewey Bartlett, to stay mayor – but please don’t call them politicians.
Bartlett, former Mayor Kathy Taylor and former City Councilor Bill Christiansen, it seems, would rather be called just about anything else.
That makes sense. Each has extensive business experience. Each waited until later in life to take a stab at elected office, and each sees the job of running a city as less a partisan political endeavor than a public service.
On June 11, they’ll face off in the city’s first nonpartisan mayoral primary. Should one candidate get more than 50 percent of the vote, that person will become the next mayor and will take office in December.