"Election Review - Show I" was first aired on Wednesday January 5th 2005. Our Guest was The Honorable Brad Henry, Governor, State of Oklahoma. Our topics included:- November election - Republicans take significant majority in the House - Speaker Hiett - what he expects - bipartisanship, is it a two-way street
- What he will do in the event of a stalemate
- Senate vulnerability - what can be done to ensure the Democrats keep control of the Senate in two years
- Oklahoma Education Lottery now law - in the fifth show of The Verdict, his prediction was correct - did he expect that kind of margin
- When the dollars will start to flow to education
- When he will make appointments to the Lottery Commission
- Whether more legislation is needed in order to get the system into operation and will that be done this Session
- How the dollars will be used by education and who will decide: salaries - facilities
- State question 712 - question involving gaming at State racetracks - the status of the Tribes' approval of the Compact
- His timetable for dollars to begin to flow under this proposition
- Whether more legislation is needed and if it will be done this Session
- How the dollars are to be used for education
- Expanded gaming at the three racetracks - will Oklahoma become the Las Vegas of the Southwest
- With this additional authorization to expand gaming, how we will compare with the States surrounding us
- Whether the expansion of gaming at the racetracks and Tribal casinos will hurt anticipated sales of lottery tickets
- Which helps education most - someone spending $10 on the gaming machine at an Oklahoma racetrack or buying $10 worth of lottery tickets
- Retrospective for 2004 - best accomplishments - greatest disappointments
 Governor Henry, Mick Cornett, Kent Meyers
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