I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

On November 2 2010 Fallin defeated Democratic nominee Jari Askins 60% to 39%. She proposed to make up the $400 million budget deficit through a combination of a 5% across-the-board agency budget cuts increased tax enforcement state agency consolidations and government modernization to overcome the budget shortfall. She also named (then) outgoing Oklahoma Senate President pro tempore Glenn Coffee (R-Tulsa) as the Transition's Co-Chairman.

She was a U. She was the first Republican and first woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. Mary Fallin (born December 9 1954) is the 27th and current Governor of the U.