Race For Tulsa Mayor Begins Again
Tulsa mayoral campaigns to ramp up efforts after summer break
BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
Tulsa’s mayoral race is back on.
The two remaining candidates – Mayor Dewey Bartlett and former Mayor Kathy Taylor – will ramp up campaigning this month following a nearly three-month rest after an intense race to the June 11 primary election, their campaign managers said. The candidates will face off Nov. 12.
“The crazy thing about this election cycle is it’s so long,” Taylor Campaign Manager Monroe Nichols said. “By the time this is over, it would have almost been a year, which is an incredibly long time for a local election.”
This year marks the first nonpartisan election cycle in Tulsa’s history, courtesy of a City Charter change approved by voters in 2011.
Bartlett, 65, a Republican, and Taylor, 57, a Democrat, ousted former City Councilor Bill Christiansen in the June 11 election, when Taylor took 42 percent of the vote and Bartlett took 34 percent to Christiansen’s 23 percent.