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Public Radio Tulsa provides up-to-the-minute coverage of local election news from veteran Tulsa reporters John Durkee and Marshall Stewart. Listen to their stories during Morning Edition and All Things Considered.Here's the latest National Elections Coverage from NPR.

A Conversation with Congressional Candidate Tom Atkinson

One of the more closely watched electoral races coming up in the June 28th primary is the surprising campaign for the Republican nomination in Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District. In this race, incumbent Congressman Jim Bridenstine seeks what he says is his "final term." But Tulsa oilman Tom Atkinson has challenged the incumbent in a very competitive race. 

Tom Atkinson is our guest today. He is the founder and president of Okie Crude Company, a Tulsa-based energy company. Atkinson is a native Tulsan, a former Air Force officer, a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, and a federal bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma. This is his first attempt at elective office.

Note: StudioTulsa made numerous offers to Congressman Bridenstine's office for an interview. His office, citing the pressing U.S. House schedule and previously scheduled campaign appearances, declined our requests.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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