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The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has identified five people Donald Trump might tap for vice president. As a service to our readers (all half dozen), we continue one-minute biographies of these five: Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and ...

The state vegetable of Oklahoma
is the watermelon.

The 27th governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin. A life-long pol, Fallin was also lieutenant governor for 12 years before serving two terms in the U.S. House. She has said she supports Trump “100 percent” and that she’s honored to be mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice; she’d definitely consider an offer. A Kappa Alpha at OU, she is twice married, to a dentist and a lawyer, both men.

Addendum. “You know you’re going to get shit about this,” Ted said. “Yes”, I said, “I know.” “And you know why.” “Yes. But I could say I was trying to look at it from Trump’s own point of view.” “Were you?” “You could say that.”

     “But what else should you say?” “I suppose that she was the first woman to serve as both lieutenant governor and governor of Oklahoma, the second woman elected to congress from the state; that she ordered the state’s National Guard facilities to deny spousal benefits to same-sex couples, she’s signed 18 anti-abortion measures into law, and she has gone on record as saying that she will refuse to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations to reduce carbon emissions - in fact she issued an executive order prohibiting state agencies from coming up with any emissions reduction strategy under the Clean Power Plan, the first governor, male or female, to do that.”

     “Better.” “Good enough?” “Better."