| | Comments by U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Coburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Coburn knows this because he was in office when it was first introduced by his fellow Republican Wes Watkins. |
 | | Coburn’s statements fly in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court and federal law, which say that Indian Nations are political entities, not race-based social clubs, and that those nations, just like any other, determine who their citizens are. |
 | | In fact, Coburn fought to keep federal funding from coming to Oklahoma tribes while he was in office, so Indian tribes here now have to stretch their federal money to meet our growing population base. |
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