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voicesofoklahoma.com. please welcome our candidates to the states. -- to the stage. [applause] by way of introduction, congress grant mary fallin is the candidate for governor of oklahoma with of 19 years in office. she was first elected as a state representative in 1990. if she was legislator of the year for her work in the oklahoma state legislature. she became the first woman lieutenant governor in 1995, a position she held for 12 years. in 2006 she was elected to the united states congress. please welcome congresswoman mary fallin. [applause] jari askins has been a public servant...

a voter intimidation case against members of the new black panther party. live coverage at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span-2. later in the day, a conversation with the aol chairman. live coverage from the online news association begins at 12:45 p.m. eastern. minnesota's three major governor's candidates face each other in this debate from the campus of minnesota state university. democrat mark dayton, republican tom emmer and indepenendent tom horner are running to replace governor pawlenty. the cooke political report rates this race a tossup heard >> welcome to the minnesota gubernatori...

state. that means getting money to the classroom where it belongs. it means working at any kind of duplicative administrative costs that might take away from getting money to the teachers and the classrooms. it means having high performance standards. we also need to work on making sure that each child as they move from grade to grade is proficient at great appropriate levels. there is a great saying that says from the first to the third grade a child learns how to read, but from the fourth grade on they love to read. that is where our focus needs to be. how can we raise the bar on o...