School Shelter Advocacy Group Puts Forth "Last Ditch Effort" For Signatures

A group that wants storm shelters in every Oklahoma school has spent the last 90 days gathering signatures to get its initiative petition on the ballot. Take Shelter Oklahoma is still tens of thousands of signatures short of the required amount, but proponents now have more time than they originally thought. Accompanied by Danni Legg , the mother of a third grader killed when a tornado hit Moore’s Plaza Towers Elementary , Take Shelter Oklahoma’s attorney David Slane traveled across the state last week, rounding up support for the group’s campaign. “Today, we're visiting here in Lawton and asking the people in Comanche County specifically, ‘We need your help. Your children are at risk also,’” Slane said. The duo announced one final push to gather the 155,000 signatures needed to create a $500 million bond to fund safe rooms in schools across Oklahoma. They had 90 days to collect those signatures, and they thought their time ran out last week. But when Slane contacted the state, he