Editor’s Note: Excerpted with permission.

Analysis: The V1SUT Vantage has extensively covered the activities of Danielle Ezell (Heartland Campaigns; Mattise Group) and her efforts to shield the identities of the big spending, special interests fueling Joy Hofmeister’s (D) gubernatorial campaign. Voters must endure the seemingly endless stream of inaccurate mailers and malicious media buys attacking Hofmeister’s opponent, incumbent Kevin Stitt (R), but they are not allowed to learn whose money is making them possible.

This brief Midterm Minute:

    The Shadiest of Politics – Will the Oklahoma Ethics Commission Ever Step Up?

    An Anonymous $600K Media Buy Reported 2 Months Past the OEC Deadline

    Mystery PAC “Imagine This Oklahoma” Continues to Conceal Its Funder(s)

    Hofmeister’s Debate Rhetoric Clashes with Her Political Tactics

    Who Will Joy Hofmeister Really Serve?

Those who’ve read the How to Steal a State series in its entirety understand this to be Hofmeister’s successful, cyclical M.O., but we believe voters have a right to know who’s pulling Hofmeister’s puppet strings before they head to the polls.

Most of the approximately $20 million pushing Hofmeister is truly dark money funneled through 501 (c)(4) “social welfare” entities that allow unlimited donation amounts and total anonymity to donors. This series has already uncovered ties from portions of this dark money to the cannabis industry, Oklahoma’s Native tribes and the gaming industry, but much remains in the shadows.

Hofmeister’s Ezell Continues to Subvert Ethics Commission Reporting Rules

However, some campaign laws do exist to ensure the voter’s right to transparency inside Political Action Committees (PACs) which must report donors, amounts, media buys and expenditures regularly through the Oklahoma Ethics Commission (OEC), the state agency that oversees all such activity. Unfortunately, Hofmeister and Ezell have found a way to keep those disclosures from voters until after the election by simply not following the rules. This publication previously reported on Danielle Ezell’s reporting loss of $219,000 in dark money related to OEC reporting for The Oklahoma Project, a cannabis industry funded attack PAC formed to disparage Hofmeister’s opponent. There appear to be no consequences for failing to follow the law under OEC’s oversight.

Imagine This Oklahoma PAC’s Anonymous $600K Media Buy Reported 2 Months Past the OEC Deadline

When PACs hit the airways with media buys over $5,000, disclosures of those buys are required to be made to the OEC in advance of airing and on the next business day following the purchase of the airtime. This allows voters to link political ad messages with their senders (and funders) in real-time.

Yesterday (October 20th), Ezell’s Imagine This Oklahoma, which has yet to report any donations, donors or funding details, finally uploaded the required report (above) disclosing a $600,000 August media buy in support of “HOFMEISTER, JOY, GOVERNOR” that should have been reported no later than August 22nd. Forget just putting the cart before the horse, as the cargo is apparently leading this effort, with the cart, horse and especially the driver remaining incognito and arriving two months late.

No one yet knows who might be behind this PAC but they can be two months late reporting a huge media buy as their first official disclosure.

Is anyone awake at the OEC?

As previously reported, Ezell’s Imagine This Oklahoma PAC was filed with the OEC on July 29th, making its first full reporting of donors, amounts and expenditures due within the OEC’s online Guardian system on October 31, 2022, for the period ending July-September. The V1SUT Vantage already predicted this reporting will strategically be late (perhaps November 9th) or be woefully incomplete with an addendum or two coming in after the election with the identity of the PAC’s major funder.

Perhaps Oklahomans should contact their state representatives to demand OEC ensure Imagine This Oklahoma reports its donors by October 31st as required.

Click here for more from V1SUT on Substack.

Tulsa Today addendum:

https://fb.watch/gueSf59VQx/

,Who Will Joy Hofmeister Serve?
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Oklahoma’s 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test results show Oklahoma’s academic outcomes have plummeted, have fallen far faster than most states, and are at levels below nearly all states.

Oklahoma’s NAEP score for fourth-grade reading was on a strong upswing and above the national average in 2015, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister’s first year in office. It’s been downhill ever since. Today, only three states do worse.

Sadly, most outcomes were already bad prior to this year’s results. Allison D. Garrett, chancellor for the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, recently told lawmakers that “14 percent of our high-school graduates are coming from high school ready to study at the college level in all four areas—which means 86 percent of them are not.”

When the State Chamber of Oklahoma polled business leaders, 60 percent cited workforce challenges as the number one issue challenging their business survival. Similarly, state Sen. Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, has said companies have declined to move to Oklahoma due to the lack of an educated workforce.

Two excuses have been offered. Excuse one: Oklahoma has a high rate of children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Excuse two: Oklahoma doesn’t spend as much per-pupil as many states.

But states that normally rank below or alongside Oklahoma for per-pupil spending did better than Oklahoma on NAEP’s fourth grade reading test: Mississippi (217), Arizona (215), Idaho (215) and Utah (221).

And it’s not as if Oklahoma doesn’t spend money on education. Oklahoma has spent a combined $50 billion on schools throughout Hofmeister’s tenure, and state spending has increased significantly since 2018. But NAEP scores are now worse than they were when Oklahoma spent less.

Adverse experiences do impact children’s learning, but every state serves children with ACEs. Are we really supposed to believe children in Oklahoma consistently have much worse lives than children in Mississippi, etc.? Also, charter schools and private schools in Oklahoma and elsewhere specifically recruit and accept students with ACEs, and those students’ long-term outcomes have often increased, not declined, even with less per-pupil funding.

One recent study adjusted states’ 2022 NAEP scores based on student demographics, including poverty. That usually boosts high-poverty states like Oklahoma. But Oklahoma still ranked in the bottom tier. In fact, several states with higher rates of child poverty had higher NAEP scores than Oklahoma even without adjusting for demographics.

Hofmeister’s policies encouraging inappropriate local COVID responses played a role in this year’s poor results. Every state faced COVID. Not every state experienced the decline Oklahoma did. In fact, Oklahoma’s results were worse, and fell far faster, than nearly all states. And the decline in Oklahoma began before COVID.

Oklahoma’s poor academic results are not a product of spending or due to Oklahoma children being somehow uniquely unsuited for education. The bad results are the product of bad policy choices. It’s time to sound the alarm.

About the author, Jonathan Small serves as president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

,Oklahoma’s alarming academic results
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Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke are breaking news that, if true, proves an act of treason by the organization most entrusted to be lawful.

The story begins, “An FBI email previously not known to the public has revealed that the bureau planned to make Igor Danchenko—the primary source for British former spy Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier—a confidential human source (CHS) before it had even interviewed him. 

“The revelation, which was discovered as a result of special counsel John Durham’s case against Danchenko, indicates that the FBI deliberately targeted 2016 presidential candidate and later President Donald Trump with claims it already knew at the time to be false. 

“The email—of which only the subject line has been made public—was first uncovered by an internet sleuth who goes by the moniker “Walkafyre” and was included in hundreds of unused exhibits from Danchenko’s trial.

“The FBI used Danchenko—who was acquitted last week on all charges of lying to the FBI—in its investigation of Trump, despite knowing that Danchenko had helped fabricate the dossier. 

“With the benefit of this new information, a renewed examination of the timeline between the Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017, reveals that the FBI—with the help of the Obama administration and Washington establishment figures—executed a concerted campaign to oust a sitting president.“

Click here for more from these writers at the Epoch Times.

,Email reveals early plan to oust Trump
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Analysis: Ever since I refused to buckle from the pressure from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify falsely against President Donald Trump in return for vague promises of “leniency” in my sentencing after being convicted in a Soviet-style show trial for the entirely fabricated crime of “lying to Congress” about nonexistent Russian collusion, the Democrat/fake news media cabal has been out to get me.

Although I was first banned for life on Twitter in 2017, on the same day that the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld my conviction despite the epic corruption of the jury forewoman in my case, Facebook and Instagram announced that I would be banned for life on those platforms as well. A similar ban on YouTube would follow. I didn’t even last two weeks on TikTok because I had the gall to point out that although I had been convicted of “lying to Congress,” Dr. Anthony Fauci had lied under oath to the Senate about U.S. taxpayer funding of the development of the Covid-19 vaccination in a Wuhan, China lab.

Although the U.S. Department of Justice was forced by Federal Court order to release the long-hidden redacted sections of Robert Mueller’s final Report regarding me in which even he could not sugarcoat the fact that there was “no factual basis” to prosecute me for Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaborations, or any involvement in the phishing or publication of John Podesta’s e-mails; the fake news media consistently omits this information while constantly referring to me as a “convicted felon.” Strangely, the Department of Justice’s press release on this matter was put out at midnight on November 3rd, 2020 which was both election day and the busiest media day of the year…

The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, and all the other fake media news outlets who had taken advantage of the unconstitutional gag placed on me by the judge in my case and who had depicted me as both a “traitor” and a “Russian spy,” neglected to report what even BuzzFeed admitted was a “vindication.” The Gateway Pundit was among the few media outlets to report this startling development.

Roughly two weeks ago, Congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the January 6th Committee, started tipping off reporters that the committee’s final hearing would include shocking new evidence that placed me in the center of a conspiracy regarding the illegal acts at the Capitol on January 6th—odd since I was not at The Ellipse, did not march to the Capitol, and was not at the Capitol on that day.

January 6th Committee staffers tipped other reporters that their final hearing would also reveal my central involvement in the efforts to “overturn” the electoral college certification of the election of Joe Biden, as well as my activities in a “War Room” at the Willard Hotel, which I was never in nor was I aware even aware of. Although I expressed my concerns about the anomalies and irregularities in the 2020 election results and the obvious fraud, I played no formal or informal role in the effort to delay the Electoral College certification.

Sara Murray of CNN – who had illegal possession of my sealed indictment at 6:00 A.M. on the day that 29-heavily armed FBI agents swarmed my home to arrest me for the benefit of CNN cameras – actually contacted my attorney, Grant Smith, to tell him that the committee would present evidence “enmeshing” me in the January 6th events. She was wrong.

That same day, we received the good news that my wife’s cancer PET scan showed that she has now been free of the aggressive stage 4 cancer she was diagnosed with after my pardon, for 18 months. This proves the healing power of Jesus Christ.

A week prior, CNN and MSNBC both aired leaked videos from the Committee which they claimed showed that it was always President Donald Trump’s plan to dispute the 2020 election even if he “lost.” In fact, the video they aired clearly shows me saying that Trump should declare victory only if the race was “up in the air”—precisely the same solid political and public relations advice former Secretary of State and the Treasury James A. Baker III gave to George W. Bush in 2000.

More curious, however, was a video supplied by disgruntled Danish documentary filmmakers who were following me that day in which the camera bounces around wildly but in which an audio track simultaneously plays what sounds like my voice calling for violence after the election.

At the January 6th Committee hearing, however, this same audio track was matched with a video of me walking through an airport wearing a “Trump 2020” Covid mask, and therefore, I am never actually seen saying the words attributed to me. In other words, the video shown by the January 6th Committee is a fraud. These are, after all, the same people who deleted Donald Trump’s call for his supporters to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol in the video of the President that they showed at a previous hearing.

I guess none of this is surprising in view of the fact that in their previous hearing, Cassidy Hutchinson (an aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows) said that it was her “understanding” that President Donald Trump had instructed Meadows to call both me and General Michael Flynn on the afternoon of January 5th in order to “find out what was going to happen on January 6th”, and that Meadows had subsequently received a telephone briefing on a meeting at the Willard that she alleged Flynn and I had attended. In other words, Hutchinson perjured herself because no such phone calls or meeting actually ever transpired.

Just as interesting as the videos that were shown by the January 6th Committee hearing on October 13th are the videos that weren’t shown.

Discredited Danish documentary filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen told CNN that a speech that I gave at Freedom Plaza on January 5th “heavily incited violence.”

Guldbrandsen’s comments are interesting in view of the fact that he wasn’t there and didn’t film my speech, which has subsequently been wiped from the internet. By watching my January 5th speech here you can see that there is not only no incitement of violence but my remarks are entirely consistent with both my apocalyptic view of the struggle that America faces and fall well within my free speech rights. Click here for the video and more.

Editor’s note: Censorship anywhere is censorship everywhere.

First published in The Gateway Pundit.

,Nothing-burger with a side of lies
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Since its inception in 1934, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulatory to oversee drug and medical products manufacturing processes and quality control to protect the public from unsafe products.

Recent research revelations from career pharma insider whistleblowers, Alexandra Latypova and Hedley Rees, provide chilling information on catastrophic safety and manufacturing oversight failures for the still experimental COVID-19 injections that are linked to the skyrocketing deaths and complications happening to people around the world. 

Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Pfizer Chief Scientist Worldwide for Respiratory Pharmacology, has reported that Pfizer documents showed the FDA knew of the death risks.

Making the mRNA for the product is a complex, multistage process. Each step entails potential errors that can be amplified at later stages. Scaling up any process is problematic. To make millions of doses required scaling up at breakneck speed. One batch may contain up to 900 liters; problems were encountered at 37 liters, and it appears nothing has been done to resolve them.

Theoretically, every vial of vaccine is supposed to have uniform content. But independent analysis reveals more than 10,000% variability in potency from batch to batch. Other violations of safety and quality control include the following:

Not a single vial tested had ingredients or doses that conformed to FDA labeling requirements.

• Some vials contained NO mRNA, others contained massive doses far exceeding stated amounts. Is this a cause of “sudden death” soon after vaccination?
• Some vials contain high concentrations of DNA and protein impurities in quantities far exceeding allowed limits specified by the manufacturer. Numerous other contaminants have been described.
• Some batch numbers of Pfizer and Moderna are associated with more than 5000 adverse event reports in the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Yet other batch numbers show zero to only a small number of adverse events. Such variance should not be happening if consistency and quality manufacturing standards were followed.
• Almost all vials examined contain high contamination levels of various metals that are toxic to the human body. 

Additionally, frozen vaccines are delivered to vaccination centers in an UNFINISHED state. This means multi-step “finishing” procedures have to be carried out on sites that are not equipped or qualified to do such procedures safely and properly.

Any of these problems should have stopped production lines. Shockingly, the normal Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards and pharmacovigilance oversight have been flagrantly ignored by all of the COVID injection manufacturers. The U.S. and European oversight agencies (FDA, EMA) have turned a blind eye to the fact that GMP standards are not being followed. This is unprecedented in the history of the FDA and is an outrageous violation of public trust.

The implausible scale of Pfizer mRNA manufacturing, based on documents received from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests to experts that Pfizer is either combining batches, diluting to an unprecedented degree, relabeling older products, or something even more fraudulent. There simply is no way with current production capability to reach that scale of production and maintain reliable safety or quality.

Another stunning revelation from pharma insider Hedley Rees from the UK is that “over a period of 40 years, Big Pharma has outsourced every physical activity it possibly could, until it has lost its ability to develop new drugs—drug development, manufacture and distribution is now in the hands of third party organisations.”

In his INSIDE PHARMA article, “The One Thing Big Pharma Can’t Outsource—Culpability,” Rees explains: “Outsourcing manufacture can work so long as the development process and control are in the hands of the developer and the developer allows detailed instructions and specifications to be handed down to contractors and suppliers.” However, Big Pharma has lost control, and out-sourcing has brought it to the brink of failure, he states. “The only way to deliver blockbuster revenues in an acceptable timescale, was to cheat. To deceive and falsify in the most cynical way possible, hang the consequences.”

Disregarding the many questions raised about the safety of the mRNA technology itself, the dangerous violations of regulatory oversight of manufacturing and distribution revealed by courageous whistleblowers should alone halt the program.

Your shot may contain virtually no active ingredient—perhaps helping to explain apparent lack of efficacy. Or it may contain a massive overdose—perhaps explaining the high frequency of “sudden death syndrome.” You have no way to know which you get when you take “the jab” or get a “booster.”

For those who suffer adverse side effects and prolonged complications of the experimental COVID shots, there are integrated treatment approaches to help patients restore health. Combinations of anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant prescription medications, nutraceuticals, vitamins and minerals ,and lifestyle strategies help alleviate the inflammation, micro-blood clotting, oxidative stress and immune system damage.

COVID injection manufacturers—Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and AstraZeneca—should all be held accountable for their negligence, but we must not stop there. Americans and people around that world must hold our taxpayer-funded regulatory agencies accountable for their gross failures to protect a trusting public.

About the author: Dr. Vliet is the President and CEO of Truth for Health Foundation, a faith-based human rights 501(c)(3) public charity, and the creator of the Foundation’s innovative six initiatives that advocate for early outpatient COVID treatment, treatment and resources for vaccine-injured patients including the Citizens Vaccine Injury Reporting System (CVIRS), legal defense grants for military service members and others denied medical and religious freedom, medical and legal help for families of hospitalized patients denied effective treatment, and the Health and Resilience Initiative to empower people with steps to improve health and avoid the restrictions on freedom with Big Medicine, Big Pharma and Big Government. The Foundation provides international educational and training programs focused on effective strategies for COVID and many other medical conditions, and on the interconnections of health, faith and lifestyle approaches for restoring resilience and quality of life.

Since February 2020, Dr. Vliet has been part of the team of frontline physicians treating COVID early at home to reduce hospitalizations and death. She is the lead author of the Foundation’s Vaccine Injury Treatment Guide – Your Road Map to Recovery.  She is the co-author/editor of the Guide to COVID Early Treatment: Options to Stay Out of Hospital and Save Your Life, with Dr. Peter McCullough, that is available to download as a PDF here: (https://www.truthforhealth.org/patientguide/patient-treatment-guide/). 

Dr. Vliet is a 2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient for her national and international educational efforts in health, wellness, and endocrine aging in men and women. She is also the 2007 recipient of the Voice of Women from the Arizona Foundation for Women, a past director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and a member of the AAPS Editorial Writing Team since 2009. Dr. Vliet received her M.D. degree and internship in Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed specialty training at Johns Hopkins.  She earned her B.S. and master’s degrees from the College of William and Mary. 

Dr. Vliet has been a leader in patient centered, individualized medical care. Since 1986, she has practiced medicine independent of insurance contracts that interfere with patient-physician relationships and decision-making. Dr. Vliet is the founder of Vive Life Center with medical practices in Tucson AZ and Dallas TX, specializing in preventive and climacteric medicine with an integrated approach to evaluation and treatment of women and men with complex medical-endocrine problems from puberty to late life.   Dr. Vliet’s consumer health books include: It’s My Ovaries, Stupid; Screaming To Be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect– And Doctors STILL  Ignore; Women, Weight and Hormones; The Savvy Woman’s Guide to PCOS,  The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Great Sex, Strength, and Stamina.  Dr. Vliet has presented hundreds of professional CME programs for physicians and allied health professionals on many medical topics; consumer seminars and radio shows on integrated approaches to Men’s Health and Women’s Health; and Town Halls addressing the economic and medical impact of government intrusion into medicine.

Dr. Vliet speaks as an independent physician, not as a spokesperson for health systems, pharmaceutical companies, insurance plans, or political parties. Her allegiance and advocacy is to and for patients. Dr. Vliet’s public charity website is www.TruthForHealth.org  and her medical practice is www.ViveLifeCenter.com.

,FDA’s catastrophic failures on COVID Vaccines
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Legal Overwatch for Parents’ School Rights filed a complaint with the Oklahoma Board of Education calling for an investigation and revocation of the teaching certificate of Summer Boismier, the Norman teacher who resigned after she made her classroom into “a physical manifestation of an HB 1775 violation” (her own words); disparaged “the bigots in our state government;” told her new students on their first day: “they say I’m an indoctrinator, well by the end of this year, you’ll believe lasagna is a sandwich,” and then encouraged them to download a QR code that gave them access to pornographic books as part of a Banned Book Program of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Chief Counsel of Legal Overwatch Maria Seidler stated “Summer Boismier violated the first rule of teaching – no politics in the public school classroom.” Case law for decades have been clear that public school teachers have no free speech rights in the classroom. Teachers are a hired voice by the State and must instruct consistent with curriculum guidelines set by the employer, particularly when compulsory attendance laws make students a captive audience.

Seidler said, “This is not a partisan policy but applies whether a liberal or conservative opinion is the offensive speech. A teacher who brings personal politics into the classroom and facilitates the distribution of material that is harmful to minors under Oklahoma criminal code is guilty of insubordination and can be subject to disciplinary actions, including termination.”

Legal Overwatch’s complaint lays out Summer Boismier purposeful scenario on the first day of class that would allow her to be a central figure in a very public political controversy. After an abrupt resignation, she used her resignation supposedly over HB 1775, to launch a media campaign that was self-promotional. It worked. She has recently announced she is leaving Oklahoma for the Brooklyn Public Library, but she has vowed to return and to renew her certificate when it expires in 2024.

OSDE should revoke her teaching certificate for cause, especially when she has also vowed that she “would do it again in a heartbeat. No regrets. Would do it again. Will do it again.”

Her actions and her words demonstrate disregard for Oklahoma law and violation of Oklahoma teaching standards, constituting probable cause for the State Board to revoke her certificate.

About Legal Overwatch for Parents’ School Rights is a nonprofit law firm recently founded to support parents’ rights in their engagement with public school administrations. The School Board, the Superintendent, teachers, and contractors with the school board are well-represented, often using taxpayers’ funds for their legal expenses. Underrepresented are parents, perhaps the most important interest that needs to be represented. Legal Overwatch gives parents a fighting chance for their children in official proceedings.

,Legal Overwatch files teacher complaint
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Analysis: A few days ago, the OKGOP tweeted the following polling summary from the Stitt campaign’s super-confident pollsters, “WPA Intelligence,” suggesting Governor Stitt is leading Joy Hofmeister by 15 points. I couldn’t disagree with them more.

I guess I’ll risk invoking the wrath (and ruler) of “the Lying Nun” (Temporary OKGOP Chairman AJ Farate) and just say, I think Governor Stitt is in trouble, and it seems to me that if his campaign is working hard, it’s to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This makes me nervous as a Republican. 

To be clear, this summary COULD be accurate. BUT, this is quite a confident summary for any poll with a 5% margin or error, 8% undecided, a 3-5% over-representation of a whopping 9% who are supposedly voting 3rd party. They’re suggesting 22% are “in flux.” I believe that’s at least 10% too low, and that this race is much more likely a toss-up. 

Here are my notes after reviewing the WPA Intelligence summary:

• I’m assuming this is just a big, fancy, expensive push poll that’s part of the campaign strategy to artificially boost public opinion. I hate to suggest so, but I found the statement at the end a troubling red flag. They’re basically saying, “It’s hard to imagine any credible poll disagreeing with us.” Wow. 

First of all, if you have to tell everyone you’re the best, you probably aren’t. Almost as if they’re trying to artificially boost confidence in a GOP candidate with very little energy behind him, and one who isn’t being exceptionally competitive with campaigning, and to also preempt contradicting news just days before the other polls came out suggesting Hofmeister was leading by 4%.

• In my time with Oklahoma politics, I’ve never seen anything like the current political environment here this year. I don’t see anyone taking into account the fact there’s literally no Republican candidates on any ballot in any of the 5 congressional districts, nor are there any statewide candidates on the ballot this year, who OKGOP rank & file voters are collectively, genuinely excited to go vote for. Not one. 

That’s a huge and unprecedented factor we can’t ignore. That means the downticket is also more vulnerable in close races, as well. This lack of energy at the top of the ticket could easily cost Governor Stitt (and the downticket) 1-5% in lost turnout. 

• The Republican campaign machine here in Oklahoma is fragmented and decentralized, compared to any previous GOTV season in recent history. They’ve already been lackluster for several years to begin with, as the OKGOP hasn’t had the funds, leadership or a comprehensive GOTV plan in several years. If we factor in low campaign energy, GOP voter overconfidence & GOP volunteer apathy, in a one-party red state like ours, it could cost Republicans another 1-5% in lost turnout. 

• The democrats have ground-game superiority this year. Something we never used to see in OK. The teachers union is organized behind Hofmeister, and democrats have been bringing in national consultants and out-working/out-hustling the OKGOP on the ground for a few years now, and we’re definitely seeing it again in 2022. 

A superior ground game can give any candidate a turnout edge ranging between 5-10%. Dems might have a little more trouble than that in Oklahoma, but realistically, it could cost us 1-5% in turnout advantage, at the bare minimum. Even here in the “red state.” That’s how we flipped Oklahoma Red long before we had the numbers. 

• Since the OKGOP leadership doesn’t take 2020 voter fraud seriously, we can’t expect them to take it seriously now. We should be watching heavily blue precincts in OKC & Tulsa, especially college districts, as well as the Tribes’ activity, very carefully for irregularities. I don’t believe there’s currently a plan or interest to do so. If the democrats wanted to run up the score with fraudulent mail ballots in one or more counties, they very easily could, if they’re not being watched. 

We know the Tribes in NV likely threw the election for Biden in 2020, as democrats were busted trading gas cards for votes. The Tribes’ stance on McGirt proves they don’t care about non-tribal members, and tribal elections “on the Res” have long been the source of controversy. After all, they’re a perfect microcosm of why unrepented socialism doesn’t work. Should we be surprised they’re going with the socialists this year?

• Hofmeister’s consultants and her dark money PAC consultants are heavily funded and have a reputation for going absolutely toxic in the end, and have decades of experience moving the dial with negative bombing runs in the past. They’ll likely both have an 11th hour “October surprise,” and the truth will be irrelevant. It won’t get better or slow down. It will get worse. If the Stitt campaign continues to keep their powder dry while Hofmeister keeps coming out with new lines of attack and accusations, it could cost him another 1-5%.

• The Stitt campaign learned nothing from Drummond Vs O’Connor, when it comes to one-sided campaign spending and advertising. Burying your opponent with mailers and negative ads wins elections. Even if you’re a turncoat. 

• The Governor having no serious competition in the GOP Primary may have possibly contributed to the overconfidence and apathy we’re seeing.

• Governor Stitt is also running against a woman, which unfortunately creates problems for him he didn’t have in the 2022 GOP Primaries or in 2018. Suburban Women always disappoint GOP pollsters. They never learn. 

We can expect at least a 1-3% migration of Republican Women to cross over and support Hofmeister, who will never tell a pollster or their husbands any different than the expected party lines. We can expect  “Independent” and 3rd party Women will break twice as hard. Probably an extra 1-5% turnout advantage for Hofmeister that won’t necessarily show up in a poll. 

• Governor Stitt is also surrendering the early vote by allowing Hofmeister to “dominate the air” as mail ballots are already going out and returning. Any last minute campaign ads from the Governor will be too late for mail voters, and therefore irrelevant. GOP candidates traditionally trail democrats in this category, already. That’s a hidden 1-3% we can’t get back.  

Election Day begins on the first day mail ballots go out. It’s not in November anymore. We will eventually have to evolve past the tired old “Karl Rove” mindset of end-cycle campaigning as a Party. 

• The WPA poll summary has Stitt at 48% to Joy at 33%. I can’t point out the obvious enough, that 48% isn’t enough to win an election in Oklahoma, and isn’t good news for any incumbent with a month to go. You can’t have any confidence in a poll where an incumbent is below 50% with a 22% fluctuation (or more) inside a month. Especially if it’s also telling you he’s “ahead by 15%.” That’s a large lead for someone who can’t break 50 in any poll. I just don’t see it. For all we know, Joy could be up by 4%, or they can both be hovering around 45% with a 10% fluctuation. That’s much more likely. 

• I also have serious doubts about their (and everyone else’s) methodology.  With blended polls of text/phone responses & also trends with voter tags from previous polls (which is creepy as hell), the proverbial pond keeps getting smaller, with more “fish” opting out. Rapidly disappearing land lines means less seniors in the mix, and less consistent baseline trends they recently offered as a predominant voter block. It’s harder than ever to track year over year trends, especially with participants becoming increasingly guarded and less candid with their answers. 

The over-representation of 3rd party voters is noteworthy, and I’m also curious if they’re using an over representation of Independent voters as well. We had the same problem in 2018, which really screwed the RNC polling. The turnout was larger, and they trended more “MAGA” in presidential years, for starters. The spike in these voters in 2016 & 2020 weren’t as weighty a factor in 2018, and likely won’t be in 2022 for the same reason: “Trump isn’t on the ballot.” With so many trend changes, an expanding electorate and a shrinking universe, this low margin of error is suspect as well.

• Stitt should’ve put Hofmeister away by now, considering she’s the most target-rich democrat we’ve seen in recent decades. We’ll never get another chance like this to set the tone and run away with it. Her failing job statistics and radical, woke, “groomer culture” is being underutilized with voting parents. 

Hofmeister is represented by one of her self-admitted “anarchist” teachers, who has been caught exposing kids to restricted, adult material and telling them “f**k your parents, I’m your parents now.” He’s being reinstated and defended by one of Hofmeister’s administrators, who says OEA members “have to stick together” to protect him – instead of our kids. 

• Multiple examples of Hofmeister’s anti-Trump stance are available to establish a MAGA base behind the Stitt campaign as well. 

• Her new pro-abortion stance is another wedge issue not being utilized against her. 

• While the WPA polling is only showing a 22% fluctuation, the observations I’m making lead me to believe the actual fluctuation is more likely to be somewhere between 25-35%. 

I hope I’m wrong, because this puts Joy Hofmeister in striking distance – if not ahead. He can still

close the gap. But if the election were held today, I believe this race would be be too close to call by 9pm. 

I definitely don’t see a 15% lead, or anything close. I’ve told candidates the same thing for decades, “always campaign like you’re behind. You just might be.” That’s definitely the case with Governor Stitt. He should campaign like he’s down 15%.

Now, let the haters hate. Comments are welcome below.

About the author: Mike Ford is a former Chairman of the Republican Party of Tulsa County and remains active as a political consultant. His views are his own. Your comments are welcome below.

,Stitt campaign trouble if WPA wrong
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Killer Recording and Corrected Trustee

Previous editions (Part 1, Part 2) reported Gertrude Marshall Blakey (73 years) was murdered at the front door of her Tulsa home October 13, 1981. Forty-one years later, it remains an unsolved homicide. Wealthy, but reclusive Gertrude was well known to never open her door for people she did not know. So, who did she know that struck her head 4 times with a blunt object?

Gertrude was found with her feet partially extending out of the door as she had fallen straight back, lying in blood pooled large enough for her little dog to track blood throughout the entryway. There was no apparent robbery. This was a targeted killing. Gertrude’s only daughter Ann Elder is the prime suspect, and you can hear Ann talk about the murder with her eldest daughter in a recording featured later in this story.

At the time of Gertrude’s attack: No one called police, not those who found her, not emergency personnel who transported her, not nurses or doctors who treated her for eight days before Gertrude died at St. Johns Health Center in Tulsa nor family. From the autopsy report, police were notified of the crime. They told Marshall Johnson, Gertrude’s grandson who has investigated the case his entire adult life, that as officers first arrived, relatives had hired a truck with Gertrude’s money (according to probate records), and were removing Gertrude’s personal property after apparently cleaning the crime scene.

Gertrude was attacked the week before she was to testify against her daughter, Ann, and son-in-law, Richard, over the abuse of her grandchildren. Ann and Richard Elder’s criminal attorney at the time was Allen Smallwood, who was also mentioned by Attorney Sam P. Daniel III and Judge Millie Otey’s in a protective order request in 2021 (Justice for Gertrude, Part 1) against Johnson.

Otey’s statement dated June 27, 2021, said that she and Daniel bought Gertrude’s house with approval from the Tulsa County Probate Court also noting, “There was some kind of Trust involved; I later learned that well-respected attorney Allen Smallwood, had been the Trustee. Although I knew Mr. Smallwood, I did not know anything about his clients or any of his legal business.”

Smallwood said, “I represented [Ann Elder] in some criminal accusations, yes. I was the Trustee of the [Mable Marshall] Trust and that was the first time I met Ann, in 1981, and she had some criminal issues after that in which I represented her.

“I foolishly agreed to take over as Trustee and did that until 2008 – 2009. For the grand sum of $2,500 a year I put up with a lot – hundreds of phone calls from Ann Elder. She was just bad and why I stayed in the thing I don’t know, but I did. She had all kinds of problems. She was probably a lousy parent and, in my view, was just not a good person. I couldn’t affect that. I would try, but I couldn’t affect that.

“The major problem that Marshall [Johnson] and I had,” Smallwood said, “He considered himself to be a beneficiary and that he and his siblings had a right to a portion of anywhere between $45,000 and $100,000 a year in proceeds, which were distributed semi-annually. We had two judges construe that Trust agreement. I see Ann Elder as the only direct beneficiary during her lifetime and her children as contingent beneficiaries. Correct me if I am wrong. Both Judges Edward Hicks and David Winslow said [Ann] is the only beneficiary during her lifetime.

Marshall would never accept that and he said he was going to sic all kinds of lawyers and accountants on me, and I said bring them on, but bring a checkbook because you are going to end up paying attorney’s fees if you do this. He even went to the U.S. Attorney’s office as late as a year ago – nine months or so trying to get them to indict me for something… Those findings are in the Trust file if you want to go find that thing. I assume that is still available. I think Marshall ended up being the Trustee after everybody died.”

Taking seriously Attorney Smallwood’s advice, this writer checked the Mable Marshall Trust which states in Article IV (c) “From and after the death of Mabel R. Marshall and my daughter, Gertrude M. Blakey, the Trustee shall, preferably monthly, pay or credit such portion on the income of this Trust to and among my said granddaughter, Ann Lee Blakey and her then living issue so long as my said granddaughter shall live, as in the exclusive discretion of the Trustee is necessary or proper for the care, comfort, support, medical attention, maintenance and education of said beneficiary or beneficiaries; provided, however, if Ann shall have additional issue all such issue shall become a beneficiary hereunder in the same manner and to the same extent as the other issue of Ann. “

Apparently Smallwood, as Trustee, missed that section and now stands corrected.

According to the probate record, one of the last people documented (probate record) to have spoken with Gertrude was her attorney and an executor of her estate, Robert Huffman. The other executor was Bruce Kennedy. The grandchildren were dispersed with three kids going into DHS custody then soon transferred to foster families. While the grandchildren were included in Gertrude’s Last Will, no one represented them in Probate or Trust proceedings.

Johnson remembers Gertrude at her home holding his head in her hands while locking eyes to tell him, “Everything will be okay.” She knew he was being abused. Johnson’s DHS intake reports 96 fist sizes bruises on his body. Gertrude was the only tender, loving, honorable adult Johnson knew as a child and he has spent a large portion of his adult life to discover what happened to her.

Gertrude’s only daughter, Ann Elder, told Johnson she was raped by a Kennedy (one of many cousins) when she was 12 years old. Apparently, Ann was forever twisted by that criminal abuse. While Ann once ran into her burning house to rescue a newborn, once her children were able to walk, Ann lost interest and near age children raised each other.

Johnson is not untouched by the abuse he suffered. This reporter finds him highly intelligent, quick witted, but prone to belligerence if someone lies to him. Johnson has an absolute perspective on right and wrong. He believes law enforcement, officers of the court and family both close and distant have often lied to cover four different evils; Gertrude’s murder, invasion, and pillage of her estate (with two trust funds), failure of the state to represent minor grandchildren, and the cover-up.

Johnson said, “In 2008 is when I started looking into the possibility Ann and Richard were involved in Gertrude’s murder. Late that year or early in 2009, I asked Carrie, my oldest sister, to call Ann. What I have been told by Everett and Carrie (two oldest siblings) is that Ann and Carrie were two criminal buddies. Ann would not speak with me because I was beginning to piece together what had happened to Gertrude by talking to family and reviewing records. Carrie called Ann to get her talking and record whatever she said. When Carrie emailed the recording to me, I immediately provided a copy to the Tulsa Police Department (TPD).

“To me, the recording sounds like two people who knew exactly what had happened and Ann was trying to figure out what Carrie’s angle was, and Carrie was trying to get Ann to admit stuff she shouldn’t. In that conversation, Carrie foils her own plan and admits that she knew about plans for the murder prior to it happening. The two key points clear in the recording are first, that Ann says clearly, ‘we got my mother’ and second, that Richard, who was an over-the-road truck driver, ‘was in San Francisco.’ Listening to Ann talk and knowing her, you can tell she dumbs up and starts talking like a child, obviously, to play events down.

“I took the recording to TPD because I believe, flat out, that it is an admission of murder. It doesn’t name all the parties, but it is an admission of murder. That was about the time I was trying to reach out to Attorney Sam Daniel and [Judge] Millie Otey to find how Gertrude’s home came into their possession,” Johnson added.

The recording begins with the voice of Carrie talking about Johnson “not acting very well” as in being difficult, then transitions to the murder.

Carrie: I’m sorry. I can’t help it, but the Tulsa Criminal Investigation, Homicide Division, has called me and Marshall. And they have just point blank said if we do not cooperate with them, we’ll go to jail.

Johnson says police never threatened jail. Next, Carrie pushes Ann for more detail but states an untruth that “Gertrude had a hatchet in her head” and Ann agrees. Had they been told by, or had they instructed the killer to use a hatchet? Gertrude was killed by a “blunt instrument” according to the autopsy – a cutting instrument would have left a far different injury.

Ann: What now?

Carrie: They are not after you. They are after Richard. They know that you are sick. I told them that you can’t really remember from one day to the next, but they need some kind of help to get her murder solved and the main person they are looking at is you and Richard because you-all were married, but they really want Richard. They really think Richard set it all up because he even – remember when we were in Colorado when I was pregnant right before you had to go to Tulsa to fight for parental rights?

Ann: Yep.

Carrie: And you got thrown in jail and I was watching Wendy and I went into labor and Richard and Allen and Bill were all there and Richard offered Bill and Allen $5,000 apiece to kill Grandmother [Gertrude] and I talked with you about it cause I was scared, and you told me you didn’t know nothing about it. Allen and Bill came to me and told me about it. It scared the shit out of me that Richard would do something like that, and Bill said his [Richard’s] main objective was getting ahold of her money.

Ann: Okay

Carrie: Do you remember that?

Ann: Yes.

Carrie: Do you have any idea if Allen was near or around Richard about the time grandmother was murdered? Because I have a funny feeling Allen did it, momma.

Ann: Allen? I don’t think so, but I don’t know. Allen is trying to find out about me.

Carrie: What do you mean Allen -Allen Peoples? That is who I am talking about mom. Bill’s brother. Remember Richard offered him and Bill $5,000 apiece in Colorado to kill grandmother.

Here is the clip.

If, as Carrie declares on her own tape, she knew about a murder plan, then she was a part of the conspiracy regardless of the details or execution of the crime.

The TPD has not been forthcoming with any request by Johnson or any one of his several attorneys. They have not been in anyway supportive of his private investigation. However, Johnson has engaged a Federal Attorney in his state of residence and filings are expected within days according to Johnson.

When litigation is filed, it is expected as a Civil Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Case. “RICO charges rely on proving a pattern of behavior, rather than specific crimes, they are generally easier to prove in court.”

This writer has spoken to Johnson’s attorney who declined specific questions prior to filing.

To date, this writer has focused on the murder of Gertrude. Future stories will cover remaining issues. Gertrude was attacked October 13 and died October 21. Today in 2022 it has been 41 years ago. What happened to Gertrude? What happened to the wealth? Why were minors not represented in court and by whom and to what extent did an apparent coverup prevent this case from being solved? Will we find #justiceforgertrude.

Your comments on this series are welcome below.

To read Justice for Gertrude, Part 1 click here and for Part 2 click here.

,Justice for Gertrude, Part 3
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We all have our “hot-button issue.” Among conservatives, it might be gun rights, or property rights, or religious liberty. Accounting nerds like me can even get worked up over tax policy. But whatever we care about, if we want to win, we had better protect parental rights.

This is especially true as elite culture becomes more hostile to conservative values and religious faith. If the next generation is taught our Constitution is fundamentally flawed, nothing in the Bill of Rights will be safe.

The real battle for the Second Amendment, property rights, religious liberty, and all the rest plays out every day in our classrooms. Conservatives have three strategies.

One is to pass laws blocking bad ideas, and here Oklahoma is a leader. Last year, lawmakers passed and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed HB 1775, which prevents teaching racist ideas associated with “Critical Race Theory” in our public schools. They did the same with SB 2, which prevents men who claim to be women from competing in women’s sports.

The second strategy is to replace bad ideas with good ones. Florida is the clear leader here, with Gov. Ron DeSantis championing a multi-pronged civic education initiative. Working with experts from across the country, including OCPA Distinguished Fellow Trent England, Florida created a voluntary program for teachers to learn more about American history and government.

Florida is also revamping its civics standards and curriculum, providing more opportunities for students to participate in competitive debate, and collecting stories from immigrants who suffered real tyranny in Communist and other totalitarian nations.

The third strategy is the most important: bolster parental rights. Most parents, in Oklahoma but also in the rest of America, don’t want their kids brainwashed by liberal elites. If we put more power in the hands of parents, schools will be more likely to focus on the needs of families, not the policy preferences of left-wing activists.

Open transfer laws, which claim to allow students to attend any public school, could be helpful but turn out to have minimal effect where the need is greatest. This is in part because school administrators still have a veto over parents’ choices.

A better way is to let parents choose any school for a child with tax funding following the child. That system will lead schools to cater to the needs of families, not the preferences of far-off elites.

Some worry about accountability. Others worry about politicians attaching strings to the money. As Thomas Jefferson said, “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” Providing accountability and fighting against bureaucratic meddling will no doubt be required, but school choice is the trump card that conservatives can play to restore American education and ensure the protection of our constitutional rights long into the future.

About the author: Jonathan Small serves as president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (www.ocpathink.org).

,Parents’ rights are fundamental
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I have received numerous calls from constituents and the media regarding tragic events at McClain High School, which resulted in the killing of a TPS student.

I intended to make this statement at the next board meeting, but since other board members and I are silenced when we try to speak, I feel it is my obligation as an elected board member to make a public statement.

For two years, I have suggested to current and past board members the nature and purpose of Board Members’ Duties, Obligations, and Responsibilities.  In addition, I have warned Board Members of our fiduciary responsibilities and that we can be held accountable for what we do or fail to do.  In other words, actions or non-action put our business, home, and bank accounts at risk.  Today, I am requesting that the Bord Leadership implement the following – IMMEDIATELY.

1.     When a board member request that an item be placed on the agenda for discussion, that request be granted immediately.

2.     We return to our previous practice of having an action and consent agenda.  We waste too much time asking hypothetical questions about student outcomes and discussing a strategic plan that is NOT strategic – this provides further evidence that our Board Leadership knows nothing about Board Governance. 

Board Members did their job setting’ student achievement’ goals – now let the Superintendent do her job meeting those goals.  All the Superintendent needs to do is provide a  report for each meeting with a 5-minute discussion.  With our minuscule goals, it will take 40 years (if ever) to have acceptable student learning rates.

As a Board, by not having an action and consent agenda – we fail in doing our job of managing the entire ‘Tulsa Public School system.  We fail parents, students, and teachers by not accepting our legal obligations.

One such duty is providing for the safety and security of our students.  I know that myself, Board Member Ashley, and other Board Members have requested that a ‘Security and Safety’ discussion be placed on the agenda for board discussion.  Following the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, these requests were made again.  In fact, one member requested that the Chief of TPS security appear before the board.

Yet, the Board Leadership ignored the requests of duly elected Board members.  It is the leadership practice to ignore board member requests (without comment) and only put on the agenda ‘what they want.  Their action takes away not only the Board members’ rights – but also the rights of their constituents to be represented by their elected school board member.

The question then becomes: “Would a thorough ‘Security and Safety discussion prevented the killing of a TPS student and the wounding of others?

Questions a court might ask: If this Superintendent and each board member were charged in a wrongful death suit is:

“Was the killing of a student at a TPS foreseeable.” “What action did Board Members take to protect students.” and “Who might be civilly negligent?”

A Grand Jury might ask,

“Was anyone criminally negligent in failing to take action that a reasonable person would assume that was similarly situated?”

Those questions are for the District Attorney, a Grand Jury, and the Courts to answer.  However, unless one ignores the realities of managing a school district or does not realize that being an elected Board Member is a   serious job with consequences, the answer is “some type of shooting and killing was foreseeable.”

I have asked myself:  Am I partially culpable because I failed to push the issue?  Do I share in the responsibility for the death of a TPS student?  Will I be charged with civil or criminal negligence?  How do I tell the family I grieve with them for the loss of their child?

Now in the tragedy of the moment, the Superintendent and each board member must examine their soul –   Do they feel more than sadness at killing one of our students?

As a board, we must ask, How many more students must die before we do our job of managing all of Tulsa Public School and hold this Superintendent responsible for performing all her duties?

Respectfully – with a servant’s heart,

Dr. Jerry Griffin, Ed.D., E,JD., Member, Tulsa Board of Education – District 6

Est Modus in Rebus “Children are not vases to be filled rather flames to be lit!”(African Proverb)  Igniting the passions that lie within learners involves teachers (and parents) understanding and knowing the relevance of imagination to learning stemming from an understanding of human development. The ability of teachers (and parents) to ask the questions that spark critical thinking in their students (or children) or to build on what students bring is an art form.“

,Time to change TPS
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