Oklahoma Poll: Tulsa voters concerned over city council conflict

New Oklahoma Poll numbers from the News on 6 and the Tulsa World indicate voters are increasingly unhappy with the conflict on Tulsa city council. <br/><br/>A recent survey of 500 likely voters in Tulsa

Wednesday, March 30th 2005, 9:01 pm

By: News On 6

New Oklahoma Poll numbers from the News on 6 and the Tulsa World indicate voters are increasingly unhappy with the conflict on Tulsa city council.

A recent survey of 500 likely voters in Tulsa shows only 8 percent strongly approve of the way the council is doing its job. 26 percent say they 'somewhat approve'. By contrast, 36 percent say they strongly disapprove of the city council's job performance and 22 percent 'somewhat disapprove'.

We wanted to know if voters think the current conflict among members of city council is helping or hurting the city. When asked if the conflict is helping or hurting the city's growth and development, 60 percent say the conflict is hurting the city by preventing important growth and development. 22 percent say the conflict helps the city by raising questions about the city's growth and development. 9 percent say it's just business as usual. Another 9 percent had no opinion.

When asked about the job performance of individual council members. Voters were split 50/50 on councilors Chris Medlock, Jim Mautino and Roscoe Turner with many voters, 40 to 50 percent of those surveyed, saying they don't know or they're undecided. Councilors Medlock and Mautino are the subjects of a recall petition.

Other members of council received favorable job approval results that are 10 to 25-percent higher than those disapproving, again with large numbers of voters saying they don't know or are undecided.

The margin of error in this latest survey is 4-percent.