I'm a native Kansan and am back in the state, but I was in Oklahoma for over a decade so try to keep up with the news there. What did I miss?

TlalocW

so much done today to sway peoples minds in politics and all. Someone could have done that possibly to shift the vote. That said, I agree with another poster that someone just might have run into it drunk, maybe. Also, someone might have just done it purely on purpose with no CT at all.

In the early 1970s, Donald Segretti was employed the the Rethugs to arrange odious stunts which appeared to be perpetrated by the Dems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti

From that linked story, all I see is a car ran into it. Is there some reason to assume intent, as opposed to, say, drunkenness?

It probably was just a drunk idiot, but honestly, I wouldn't put it past the republicans to hire a guy to destroy it so they could have a campaign issue to rally the faithful with.

And I may have misspoke with the, "on purpose," part.

TlalocW

Ok, I just thought maybe there were multiple stories, and you'd only linked one.

"They" are that fearful of anything that disrupts the status quo, up to and including taking down one of their statues.

Nothing nefarious, just plain ordinary fear of the unknown.

to an eyesore

There was no further explanation, but I'd expect that supporters of the monument will insist on full restoration.

By the transitive property that anti-abortion forces use*, none of the money used to restore or replace the monument can be tax deductible. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, no?

*In the forced birther tribe, any money spent anywhere for abortion or birth control translates into having some effect somewhere on the federal treasury, and as such means that they are paying for abortion, which causes them to go into conniptions and run to the Supreme Court for whackadoo rulings such as corporations having religious beliefs.

Even more than usual.