This morning we heard the news of Pat Campbell's death, after a 2-year bout with brain tumors & the complexed details he bravely faced.
 About two decade ago, a former public school teacher made a career change and became a talk radio personality. From 2004, 'til 2008, Pat hosted a show on Orlando's WFLF. Not long after that, he left Florida to take on the morning drive slot at Tulsa's hot new talk radio station, KFAQ 1170. 
  His arrival in Tulsa was timed perfectly for the impending 'tea Party movement', of which Campbell became a prominent voice and shaper of the Oklahoma conservative agenda.
  Oklahoma govt. became stridently conservative in 2010 with Republicans sweeping all statewide seats and taking strong bicameral majorities of the legislature.
​   Campbell was a fearless investigative interviewer who could cut through 'baloney' and press public officials to a raw honesty that many politicians found very uncomfortable and unnerving.
  Campbell also hosted some national media efforts and often played a key role as a top substitute host for syndicated shows like Rusty Humphries and others.

  The US Census official report shocked the Oklahoma lawmakers.  The state found out that the annual estimates of Oklahoma's population shifts were way off.  Randy Krehbiel has been following this matter for the Tulsa World. Yesterday we spoke in depth about what his research has revealed about both the U.S. congressional districts and the state legislature. 
​  Krehbiel contends that almost every metropolitan district needs another redrawing. For our perspective, Randy Krehbiel is perhaps the most respected Oklahoma journalist on govt & politics.  He says that of Tulsa County's 20-something state House districts, only HD 78 (east central Tulsa) is within the mandated accuracy of population in order to comply with the constitutional requirement for equal protection of rights(US 14th Amendment).
  The US Constitution stipulates that every 10 years these boundaries must be redrawn by the state legislatures. 
   Last year the US Census agency announced that due to Covid concerns, they were unable to  complete the official report prior to the 2021 legislative session. ​

  Al Gerhart, founder of the Sooner Tea Party, has filed a pair of lawsuits claiming a series of defamations from party leaders and staffers at the Oklahoma Republican Party headquarters.
 The lawsuits(1, 2) were filed in Oklahoma County's district court and assigned to two different judges. Sooner Politics has obtained copies of the complaints and reached out to Gerhart for further insights about what precipitated the legal action.
  Gerhart told us that he has reached out to the parties named in the suits but they have rebuffed his attempts to resolve these issues out of court. The complaints listed against the OKGOP says that a survey conducted by Gerhart, with the collaboration of other media and political consultants; was smeared by the party leadership as a 'malicious link' which could harm a computing device or load spyware of some sort. Gerhart says he notified the OKGOP Executive Director weeks ahead of the survey launch and agreed to share the survey results with Chairman Bennett's leadership team. 

  The historic KAKC radio signal has now switched to conservative talk radio, in Tulsa. It's part of the iHeart Radio network and features the Premier Radio personalities that Rush Limbaugh's business partners recruited over the decades. 

  Oklahoma conservatives have enjoyed a long tradition of conservative political talk radio ever since Rush Limbaugh singlehandedly built the new genre in the early 1990s.  Paradigm shifts have had some impact on how consumers get their information,

  KAKC 970am was long known as a rock & roll station in the 1960s & 70s. It was sold to KCFO in the 1980s and eventually rebranded, dropping the former call letters. But nostalgic business investors acquired the call letters for a classic rock revival station just up the AM dial at 1300am. 

  A bipartisan  working group will convene Monday morning at the capitol, to hear from leading experts in criminal justice on the massive problem of jails becoming default mental health institutions.
  District Judge, Kirstin Pace, along with two county sheriffs, and multiple mental health advocacy groups are preparing to present their reports and answer lawmakers' questions.
​  Reps. Randy Randleman and Colin Walke are teaming up to collect data and testimony from across the state, in an attempt to provide more humane solutions for individuals in crisis, while finding ways to more quickly deliver essential treatment for those in psychosis due to schizophrenia, mania, major depression, and other forms of psychotic illness of the brain.
​  The Dept. of Mental health is also collaborating to provide possible solutions to make more state mental health facility capacity available to cops and courts.
  The Monday morning event will be televised on the capitol webcast network at https://okhouse.gov/Video/Default.aspx

  Citizen journalism is exploding while commercial news outlets become more outlandish and compromised.
​  Gambling problems are just one example where state & local commercial media outlets are fully dependent on gambling money and the advertising dollars. There is a clearly implied expectation that media outlets are not expected to reveal any of the thousands of families in financial ruin from the severe addiction crisis.
  Former senator Rick Brinkley is just one example. He was seen as a pillar of Oklahoma society. A pastor and the director of the Tulsa Better Business Bureau. Yet he admitted in federal court to embezzling nearly $2 million from the Tulsa BBB, because his gambling debts were both astronomical and socially embarrassing. the stigma of this type of addiction is a major reason why its not talked about. But add to that, no media outlet wants to risk a major advertising customer by exposing this severe societal problem.

  Katelyn Ogle, a veteran journalist for KFOR television news in Oklahoma City, is said to have launched a major global hoax in the disinformation about pandemic treatment.
  Her report from a few days ago went viral, even though she and most every other major global news agency, evidently never bothered to confirm the sole source of the wild narrative.
  The claims include:

1. Oklahoma has mass overdoses of a common drug used to treat several human symptoms. The drug is also approved for many common veterinary uses.
2. Hospitals across Oklahoma are over capacity due to these severe overdose cases.
3. Gunshot victims are not receiving emergency room treatment because of the overdose poisoning
4. Ambulances are unable to respond to emergency calls because their vehicles are serving as temporary hospital beds

  Ivermectin is now among the most utilized drugs in the world for treating early acute Covid-19 cases. Japan, India, Peru, and many other nations are seeing Ivermectin as a safe and effective drug, and the developer received a Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery.
  Ivermectin had previously been effective in treating other viral strains, and several developing nations began test rollouts in controlled studies. Peru and India are now making the drug available to everyone.

  The Finance Director for the Oklahoma Republican party, Darren Gantz; reports strong fiscal numbers in Chairman John Bennett's first 4 months.
  Darren Gantz has taken on the financial duties of the OKGOP since shortly after the April 10th State Convention. He has watched as party supporters responded to the new chairman with a new and broader base of support from primarily 'Trump Republicans"  Gantz says that as of this moment, all bills are paid, and  at least $30,000 of old debt from the previous administration were paid up.  
  According to Federal and state oversight agencies, the David McLain OKGOP administration(2019-2021) relied heavily on US Senator James Lankford for the party funding. One source said that about $108,000 of party funding came from Lankford's senatorial campaign & personal support. But since April 10th Lankford is not found in any list of party contributors.  Evidently, Congressmen Markwayne Mullins & Tom Cole are currently the only members of Oklahoma's Republican DC delegation that are helping the Oklahoma State Republican Party.

  Houston is now reeling in the wake of a massive nurse revolt from hospitals firing over 150 staffers who would not agree to mandated RNA alterations as a new condition of their current employment.  The Foundation for Economic Education just published a research into a Houston hospital staffing crisis caused by mass firings of staffers who refused the new vaccine mandates from the hospital administrators.

  Many Oklahoma hospital administrators are playing a strategy game which could quickly blow up.  While Republican elected officials are largely ignoring the employee cry for hospital oversight reform,  nurses and other medical professionals are now quietly organizing to consider their options in the face of an unknown health risk, and a labor precedent about permanent physical alterations as a condition of career livelihood.

  Now that multiple other news sources have published this data, we're going to share this.  Loads of circumstantial evidence points to a capitol police officer known as Michael Leroy Byrd as the trigger man who killed a young unarmed female military veteran, Ashli Babbitt. Byrd defended the murder by saying to Rep. Mullin; "They had evil in their eyes".
  It appears that a beaded bracelet on the right wrist of the gunman is the most convincing visual confirmation. Taylor Hansen published volumes of evidence.

   The FBI appears to have taken taxpayer dollars to put the gunman into the witness protection program, or something very similar.  Officer Byrd's home has not been returned to, several months later. His social media 'footprint' has been thoroughly scrubbed. 
 Even though we have clear visual evidence and multiple eyewitness accounts, and even a purported confession made to an Oklahoma congressman, no police report has been fully published in this murder. 
  Oklahoma's 2nd district congressman, Markwayne Mullin told Tulsa talk radio about a conversation he had with the gunman.

  Just last Friday, the warnings from global intelligence sources said that Kabul could fall into the hands of Taliban terrorists within 5 weeks. That was Friday.
  By Sunday, Kabul was taken, and tens of thousands of US Allies in Afghanistan were rushing into the international airport, desperate for their lives.

Meanwhile Jen Psaki told us she's taking a vacation and won't be answering media questions for another week. But she did make a cameo appearance in a crossdressing staffer's video from the West Wing.

  Worse yet, Joe Biden was also AWOL during much of the weekend. He did pose for a solitary photo in a 'situation room' without any advisors or briefing papers. He has a blank stare on his face as he intently looks at a TV monitor with the images of several intelligence officers who are now on the run in Afghanistan because the Taliban and their Iranian intelligence contacts were able to identify the US assets and their locations throughout Afghanistan.
​ Read more on this from The Sun.

​News On 6 checked the other big healthcare systems in the area. As of now, Saint Francis, Hillcrest and OSU Medical Center will not require workers to get the vaccine. 

​  “At least, as far as it appears, there’s a good argument to be made than an employer can mandate vaccinations for employees,” labor and employment issues attorney Adam Childers said.

 About two weeks ago, a leftist ice cream company from Vermont announced their non-renewal of a distribution contract with an Israeli food distributor.  It's a move intended to pressure the nation to give Jerusalem (their capitol city) over to the Palestinians.
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  Now Oklahoma's junior U.S. senator, James Lankford; wants our state government to enforce a ban on the sale of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in Oklahoma. 
  But It appears Lankford is advocating an illegal act of state oppression. 

  It appears that Lankford misunderstands a bill passed in Oklahoma in May of 2020 that declared Israel “a prominent trading partner of the State of Oklahoma” and “that the state, and those companies that do business by and through the state, in the interest of the state’s economic policy, should not boycott trade with Israel.”

Here's his tweet.

  Internet technologies and innovations have led to the death of legacy broadcasting platforms such as the radio stations, newspapers, and televisions stations.
​  Legacy media outlets are shutting down or moving to formats with no local programming or news coverage.

  1170KFAQ just announced their immediate move to sports talk.  They started nearly 20 years ago when talk radio was exploding. It became Tulsa's top-rated station in the talk genre for much of the programming day.  Nearly half the weekday schedule was local programming, and a good portion of the weekend lineup was, as well.
  Michael Del Giorno, Gwen Freeman, Chris Medlock, Elvis Polo, Pat Campbell, Eddie Huff, and so many guest contributors were leading the information era which gave a bigger 'megaphone' to the Tea Party which transformed politics about a decade ago.  Oklahoma's legislature and all statewide elective offices turned Republican in the first decade of our century.

  One of the most trusted Oklahoma conservative voices on the radio for the past 15 years has been Eddie Huff. His longtime presence on KFAQ and other outlets has informed & guided the religious right, tea party, and Trump populist movements.
​  After a few years away from the radio stations, Eddie has launched his own FreshBlack.Coffee podcast.   In early June, Eddie sat down with David Van of SoonerPolitics.org, to discuss the needs of the conservatives in Oklahoma. What was supposed to be a breakfast meeting turned into a working group session that lasted until the noon hour.  When the meeting ended,  David Van had committed to joining Eddie's venture of making a weekly Sunday Morning show.
 Eddie's seasoned wisdom has made him a trusted counselor to much of Oklahoma's conservative majority. Political leaders and clergy respect Eddie's perspective and godly example.