Commissioner Mayes was appointed to the Corporation Commission in October 2003.
Honeybucket was in trouble with the Corporation Commission following his application to incorporate and sell seventy-five billion dollars worth of stock.
In 1990, he ran for a seat on the state Corporation Commission, a utility regulatory board, and won.
In order to serve on the Corporation Commission, a candidate can not own personal interests within the companies the Commission regulates.
In 1990, Watts became the first African-American elected to a state office in Oklahoma when he won one of three seats on the state's Corporation Commission.
Article 15 establishes the Corporation Commission to regulate corporations as well as the rates of public utilities.
Paul Newman launched his campaign to run for Corporation Commission in 2008.
Three of the four Democrats running for Corporation Commission made it through the primary election.
In November 1990, Mr. Watts was elected to the Corporation Commission, which regulates Oklahoma's utilities and oil and gas industries.
"The fact they had me under observation in early March 1991 was a result of the institution, the Corporation Commission, being investigated, not me."