Facts Checked On Campaign Claims
Tulsa mayoral candidates’ ads put to a fact check
By ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
Tulsa’s mayoral candidates agree on one thing about their first television ads since June’s primary election: Only one candidate is being entirely truthful.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett accused former Mayor Kathy Taylor on Tuesday of “decisive, negative” campaigning with her recent ad targeting the city’s green-waste problems and his tax record, and he denounced another ad’s claims about her jobs record as “dishonest.”
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Taylor responded by calling several claims in Bartlett’s latest television ad misleading and rejected it as an “old-style political ad” that relies on attacks rather than solutions for issues.
Bartlett, a Republican, and Taylor, a Democrat, ousted former City Councilor Bill Christiansen in the June 11 nonpartisan primary vote and will face off again in the Nov. 12 general election.