It was a Friday night in Oklahoma. While most of us were at the high school football games or at the fair, the Federation of Young Republicans (18-40 years old) held their state convention to elect new leadership for a 2 year term.  The goal of this institution is to reach out to the next generation's voters with a Republican message and solutions to address the concerns of young citizens about the direction of our nation.
  Sadly, the several dozen who registered for this meeting were unsure what direction their organization would go.
  I contacted several attendees in both factions to get a sense of what the conflict was all about. It seems the credentials committee could not get their report adopted by those who were registered and wearing official delegate badges. While waiting for the credentials report the Rules committee sought adoption of an agenda and special convention rules for conduction the business of the convention. 
  Since there are only a few active county chapters, among Oklahoma's 77 counties, several young Republicans from several unorganized counties responded to the call to convention by showing up as 'at large' delegates. The proposed convention rules were said by some dissatisfied attendees to cap their combined voting power to about 5 delegate votes. One estimate said that roughly 30 delegates were in this category. They were unwilling to accept being treated as 1/6th of a delegate.  Others said these rules were set as permanent at a previous convention and are not subject to the prerogative of the assembled delegates.

  Oklahoma's Interim Health Commissioner, Tom Bates has steadfastly refused any and all meetings with patients and medical providers concerned about the unworkable new health dept rules on medical marijuana. 
  So on Thursday afternoon, a group of attorneys representing dispensary operators and hundreds of patients, organized a 'polite protest' outside the state headquarters of the Health Dept. Their request was simply a meeting to discuss a pathway toward implementation of workable reforms of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority. The building security staff refused to even grant the attorneys and patients any access to the names and agency contact information to set up such meetings.
  The spokesman for the Oklahoma Dept of Health then refused to identify himself to the 150 visitors when they sought to journal the responses he was giving them while refusing them access to scheduling personnel for the OMMA Director, Adrienne Rollins.

 Photo: Tom Bates (left) has struggled with multiple agency corruption narratives at the health dept.

  The leadership of Epic Charter Schools have released a statement regarding the crusade narrative of Senator Ron Sharp (R- Shawnee).  In it, they demonstrate a timeline of what they say is clear & deliberate propaganda intended to undermine the integrity of Oklahoma's fastest growing and 3rd largest school district; Epic Charter. 
  The virtual charter school is one of Oklahoma's most innovative advances in delivery of education to families. It allows students to use technology to attend classes via internet connection. the school started less than 10 years ago and now has around 30,000 students. 
  Local public school districts have been furious that Epic is running circles around their outdated formats of massive bussing, institutionalizing thousands (even tens of thousands) and creating social engineering agendas to promote transgender, pro-choice, and sexual education programs. 
  Because Epic students stay at home to learn, they avoid the bullying, peer pressure, and other distractions from positive child development. the families are willing to fore go the free lunches, childcare, and institutional lifestyle. But they have the best professional teachers always ready to help. Epic's teachers earn an average of $65,000 per year in compensation, due to the merit pay and other bonuses for helping students advance.

  On the first weekly meeting of the McCortney-McIntire Interim Study on Healthcare in Oklahoma, the two co-chairs set up a presentation from the Oklahoma Dept. of Health where Oklahomans were told just how terrible their state is, when it comes to healthcare access & insurance.
   Buffy Heater led a team from the State Dept. of Health to the capitol to put on a slide show of Oklahoma's miserable failures to get the citizens signed up with companies and agencies who'll guarantee them unlimited medical services access for a monthly fee or a govt. entitlement.
 Heater said that 14% of Oklahomans have no health contract with an insurance company or govt. entitlement program.
  Senator Kim David waited until after the very detailed presentation to ask a few questions about some ambiguous statements. In the slideshow by Heater, a map of Oklahoma's counties were color-coded to show which areas have the worst gaps. When  Cherokee & Bryant County showed to be the worst, Sen. David asked; "Those counties have very large tribal memberships and some very good tribal healthcare centers & hospitals, along with the federal govt's Indian Healthcare programs."

  The battle is heating up in the Referendum petition drive to stop law abiding citizens from their constitutional self defense rights. Human Rights Attorney & Oklahoma County Commissioner, Kevin Calvey, will be one of two named  representing Oklahoma 2nd Amendment Association (OK2A) in a case before the Oklahoma Supreme Court, challenging the petition drive.
  A statement was posted this morning by Don Spencer, of the OK2A.

On the left is an example of the misrepresentations in the Referendum.  Above is the filing of the court challenge.

On Wednesday Senator Greg McCortney & Rep. Marcus McIntire began a 2nd consecutive bicameral interim study in as many years. Most insiders agree that the purpose is to soften up  conservative resistance to Federal medicaid expansion in Oklahoma. McIntire said that the goal is "to make Oklahoma healthier". He claims that it's up to Oklahoma to take responsibility for their own healthcare. Let's see if that claim matches the recommendations that come from this group?
  There is a move afloat to bring a petition to the people of Oklahoma to amend our state constitution, to enforce free healthcare as a 'constitutional right' that is due to all Oklahomans, regardless if it bankrupts the state and jeopardizes all other core public safety roles that state govt. serves.
The first meeting was titled "Healthcare 101" The governor's office is taking part in the meeting. We're including the web feed of the opening meeting, via YouTube.

  The executive director of Oklahomans for Health is Shelly Lynn. Ms Lynn is a former deputy for the Tulsa County Sheriff's office. She reports on her meetings with many law enforcement personnel & local administrations. Many cops are still treating possession of medication as criminal activity.
  Licensed patients are having their property searched because they smell like they've been taking their medicine. This is not probable cause of any crime. Not even if a caregiver smells like they've been in the presence of a patient, is it a probable cause.
  Asset forfeitures are still being arbitrarily enforced, taking the medicine away from licensed patients.
  Even in court actions where a patient presents the court with a valid patient license, the courts are convicting patients and setting probation terms which include complete abstinsion from all cannabis medicines, in contradiction of the physician's advice. Yes, it is still required that a patient receives their medical patient card before starting cannabis treatments.  For opioid addiction patients, the need to start immediate treatment is leading to some criminal charges.

  Rep. Jason Lowe is afraid you'll get yourself or someone else hurt if you exercise your right to bear arms (US constitution since 1790). He's working with other lawyers, politicians, and leftist activists to rush a legal action so that the law cannot be put into effect until the voters go to a statewide election (possibly sometime next year).
  Oklahoma constitutional language says that a citizen can challenge any enacted law and force it to be set aside until a statewide election can have all voters give input. Current formulas say that the 70,000 signature petition must be completed and turned in within 90 days of the end of the legislative session (Aug. 29th). The petition has been filed but can be challenged by legal action before any signatures can begin to be gathered.
  NONDOC carries more of the details and interviews the Democrats involved.

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 Imagine a brain that is shared by Ted Kaczynski & George Wallace. that might help you start to make sense of the mindset which motivated the terrorist of El Paso. He was arrested for the Saturday morning murder of 20 and the wounding of several more. He made sure to publish an manifesto for posterity. It starts out with a biographical on himself. 
  Rather self-absorbed of him to promote himself over a cause he was willing to die for, isn't it? The 21 year old from a upperclass Allen, TX neighborhood seems rather fatalist about life in his version of the United States. And he does blame it on ethnic blending. It's classic 1960s Democrat (and KKK) mindset.  His manifesto sounds like the talking points of a Richard Spencer speech.
  But then he launches on an environmental extremist rant and blames corporate interests for destroying the planet and depleting the earth of drinkable water. 
  The infamous Unibamber, Ted Kaczynski, was a devout disciple of Al Gore's dire prophecies. He targeted academia and corporate facilities to do his mass killings. For well over a decade the Unibomber was on the loose. The inconsistencies of his thoughts led to a strange pattern of his terrors.
  Within hours the El Paso terrorist's manifesto was reposted all over cyberspace. We've posted a copy at this link.

The only thing worse than government leaders disregarding public safety, is when they get defiant & expect special treatment from those who swore an oath to protect us all from such dangerous lawlessness.
  Rep. Dean Davis was swerving down Aspen Avenue, in his home city of Broken Arrow, last night. He was clocked at 54mph in a 40mph residential arterial avenue. He was on both sides of the road as he was being pursued for a couple miles southbound, by the Broken Arrow police.  When stopped, the former school teacher refused to submit to an alcohol level test. He did fail numerous observation test indicators. Then he asked the officers to contact their chief, before making any decision on whether to arrest him.

  It's grievous to see a man I've increasingly admired, let me down so deeply. Dean is a very engaging man who made a name for himself as a champion of protecting individual freedoms in this recent legislative session. He scored 2nd highest in the House Freedom Index. Davis replaced Michael Rogers, a former educator, major league baseball player, and now the Secretary of State.

  At least Three Oklahoma Lawmakers now say that some changes to a newly enacted law need to be made, lest sickly patients be subjected to a loss of privacy and potential law enforcement problems, particularly if they need to travel for further medical treatment. Rep. Scott Fetgatter & Majority Floor Leader Jon Echols have conducted further consultation with the principal author of SB1030, Sen. Lonnie Paxton. 
  Paxton stated that the intent of his new bill should have given patients added protections from false charges by confirming their legal patient status to law enforcement, if a drug dog indicates that cannabis medicines are present. However, patients and advocates insist that just the opposite may happen, if misapplied.
  As currently written, the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority MUST turnover patient licensing data to the Dept. of Public Safety, for every cop in the nation to get access to (directly or indirectly).
  We received confirmation from both Echols & Fetgatter, that this language will be further addressed.

  Oklahoma is experiencing a full blown industry explosion for cannabis medicines. Each of the past 5 months have seen a 33% increase in statewide sales tax increases over the prior month. If this continues just a few more month, Cannabis excise & sales taxes could overtake liquor tax collections in Oklahoma.

  But along with the explosive sales growth, many problems are now presenting, for law enforcement who have little training on the massive changes and how to determine who is a legal medicine distributor and who is a black market cartel operative. Sheriff Damon Devereaux of Logan County just recently had to return a large shipment of medicine to an Enid producer and drop all charges against two transport workers whom his department accused of running contraband drugs.
  The problem for law enforcement is that the legislature failed to provide a proper state certification of transport employees for company who grows, processes, or retails cannabis (marijuana).