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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:29 AM Jul 2020

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative 1999, GOP governor Frank Keating

Keating, Roman Catholic, was concerned about high divorce rate in OK, devised a program

Long post revisiting this failed plan today at blog rolltodisbelieve at patheos

I remember Keating, this plan not so much

His wife wanted to run for the House from Tulsa district after he left office

IIRC he badly wanted to be W's AG. He supposedly said something W didn't like, so that was the end of that!

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