Scott Pruitt won overwhelmingly in Tulsa County but both Todd Hiett and Jari Askins did well in rural areas. OKLAHOMA CITY -- State Sen. Scott Pruitt swamped House Speaker Todd Hiett in Tulsa County voting in Tuesday's Republican runoff for lieutenant governor but still narrowly lost in the statewide contest for the GOP nomination. Pruitt, of Broken Arrow, captured 65 percent of the Republican vote in Tulsa County -- 15,480 to 8,477 -- but lost the race by about 2,400 votes. Hiett now faces Democratic runoff winner Jari Askins and independent candidate E.Z. Million of Norman in the November general election. Hiett outpaced Pruitt in Oklahoma County by nearly 2,000 votes and received much of the rest of his support from dozens of rural counties. Hiett's advertisements repeatedly stated that he had been a dairy farmer and still farmed near Kellyville. Hiett received nearly 1,300 more votes than Pruitt in his home Creek County. Read more... Posted at 8/27/2006 02:04:00 PM