Quote of the Day | October 30, 2019

“Sometimes folks in these rural counties are having to choose between feeding their kids, buying medicine, putting gas in their car or making their payments to avoid going to jail.”

-Tim Laughlin of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System. [Journal Record]

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Quote of the Day | October 30, 2018

“I think the main moment that made me realize I want to vote…we need to do more for our kids, more for our youth, more for our community.”

-Jamie Nelson, a Pawnee and Choctaw-Navajo who is planning to vote in state elections for the first time this year after previously only voting in tribal elections [KOSU]

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