Political Experience ofDrew Edmondson
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Lost, 2018 Oklahoma Governor, General election, November 6, 2018
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Won, 2018 Oklahoma Governor, Primary election, June 26, 2018
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Attorney general of Oklahoma (1994 - 2010)
- Edmondson helped negotiate a settlement with tobacco companies in 1998 to pay several states millions of dollars annually. The Oklahoma Tobacco Trust Fund became the first constitutionally protected tobacco trust in 2000 and its endowment was nearly $1 billion in 2014.
- Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2009, Edmondson joined fourteen Republican attorneys general in questioning the constitutionality of a specific provision within the Senate version of the bill and exploring potential legal challenges to the measure as well. In April 2010, he decided against challenging the law.
- Edmondson filed an amici curiae brief in support of a New Jersey case that sought to require the Boy Scouts to accept gay scout leaders. The suit, filed by James Dale and the ACLU in 2000, called for Dale be reinstated as a scoutmaster after he had been dismissed once his sexual orientation became known to them.
- In 2007, Edmondson indicted national term limits activists Paul Jacob, Susan Elizabeth Johnson, and Richard Merrill Carpenter on felony charges of conspiracy to defraud the state. Between 2005 and 2006, Jacob worked in conjunction with Carpenter and his organization in an effort to place the Stop Overspending Initiative on the ballot in time for the 2006 election. The charges were based on the state's residency law that required that petition circulators legally reside in a particular political jurisdiction if the signatures they collect are to be considered valid. In 2009, after the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that the residency requirement in Oklahoma was unconstitutional, Edmondson announced that he was dropping the charges.
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District Attorney, Muskogee County (1982 - 1994)
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Representative, Oklahoma State House of Representatives (1974 - 1976)
