Congresswoman Mary Fallin made headlines again on Friday as a result of a comment she made in a speech to the Tulsa Republican Club.

“I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been offered a job by a poor person,” Fallin said, according to Friday’s Tulsa World.
Among those criticizing her comment was Keith Olbermann who named her “worst person in the world” on his MSNBC show for the second time this year.

The comments made by Fallin alarm voters because Fallin has been an elected official for the past twenty years.

“While I agree Congresswoman Fallin’s positions don’t reflect the needs of working Oklahomans and their families, when she was elected, she was elected to serve all Oklahomans in the Fifth District, not just the wealthy,” Todd Goodman, Chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, said.

An elected official is hired by voters no matter their economic status--meaning in essence ‘poor’ people have been hiring her for almost her entire career. Goodman said this comment is reflective of Fallin’s and the GOP’s flippant attitude toward working families in Oklahoma and across the nation.

“This is not the first time an Oklahoma Republican has embarrassed us nationally,” Goodman said. “In a time when so many are struggling to get by, Oklahomans deserve a governor who cares about the working poor and other everyday Oklahomans, not one who turns them into a punchline.”