Bridenstine, Mullin Have Different Views Of Washington
Oklahoma’s freshmen lawmakers have love-hate relationship with Washington
By Chris Casteel
WASHINGTON — Rep. Markwayne Mullin isn’t having “fun” in Washington. He doesn’t even want you to ask him about it.
Trying to pre-empt the question he already had grown tired of, the freshman Republican told a town hall gathering in August that he wasn’t cut out for life in the button-down Beltway.
“I don’t like putting a suit on,” he said.
“I don’t like choking myself with a piece of cloth because it supposedly looks good around your neck. I don’t like the crowds. I don’t like the honking horns. I don’t like the concrete everywhere. I love the country. I love the idea that the biggest crowd I used to have around me was in the dairy barn.”