Jon Echols

It's the 22nd.

Is, um, NonDoc and News 9 and News on 6 are hosting a debate between the two candidates for the attorney general, Nick Coffee and John Echols.

That debate will be held at Metro Tech here in Oklahoma City.

It'll also be streamed on their Facebooks and YouTubes.

Teagan Smith reports.

Sponsored by Tulsa Press Club, Tuesday's forum featured Cindy Munson and Nick Coffee after their opponents, Mike Mazie and John Echols, declined to attend.

Potential voters mingled in the lobby before the event, and Carla Schwadlenak shared her reason for coming.

Concern about what's going on in Oklahoma.

This should be, uh, uh, again, this was not a race that was supposed to be a race, and it, uh, it, it might be a little bit of a race.

Um, Echols is getting a, a run for his money.

I, and I'm not sure if it's, you know, necessarily Coffey himself-

Mm

... and some of the residual leaking out, uh, from, uh, Kevin Stitt's and some of the, uh, news you wanted to pivot to.

Oh, right.

Well, and I will say, I mean, I think anybody like, um, uh, John Echols, who's been in office for-

Yeah

Starling was appointed by Governor Kevin Stitt in December 2024.

The energy secretary ran for attorney general this year and lost to John Echols in the Republican primary.

Starling previously worked at Lagoon Water Midstream and at Devon Energy Corporation.

He recently oversaw the state's application for a nuclear lifecycle innovation campus.