Most initial State Committee meetings are still held in a 'honeymoon' atmosphere. Today's was different.
John Bennett signaled some radical changes in his agenda and he was very open about his resolve.  But the unfinished business of the April state convention will remain undone.  
  Most controversial of all the agenda items is the open rebuke resolution of US Senator James Lankford.  It was defeated by a 16% margin, and it would have been an even bigger defeat if some of the current lawmakers on the state committee had not abstained.  The legislators were able to see the 'vote no' line being significantly longer, during roll call, showing they were not required to add their voice to the censure issue which has greatly divided the party.
  But Bennett's open support and campaign rally speeches for Lankford's primary opponent are even more controversial. Bennett's effort to call a special convention was defeated while former Chairman Pam Pollard's reform initiative passed overwhelmingly. The reform institutes a 'gubernatorial' state convention with limited specific agenda directives.
  It's now clear that Bennett will have to carry out a party agenda that he didn't champion, nor support (prior to today).

  On Tuesday night Gov. Kevin Stitt led a forum of public servants tasked with protecting public safety in Oklahoma. the event was in Tulsa's downtown civic center complex.
  But many of last year's BLM activists were the same faces disrupting the forum on problems created by the landmark US Supreme Court ruling that Eastern Oklahoma still has North American Indian reservations.
  Specifically, the ruling cites a failure of the 1907 US Congress, to formally dissolve the reservations.  Most historians assumed the  5 tribes had conceded the point when they led the effort to attain statehood, twice!
  But now the leftist organizers are starting to spread a victim narrative in the land they historically have led and prospered in.  The only slavery ever condoned in Oklahoma was that which the tribes brought to Oklahoma.  Even after tribal soldiers fought in the Civil War to aid the Confederacy; tribes kept ownership of slaves until nearly 2 years after they were freed in the Confederacy. 
 Cherokee Brigadier General, Stand Waitee, was the last general to surrender the Civil War. He led the Tribal Army of the Indian Territory.​

  A Tulsa town hall meeting of several law enforcement and the Oklahoma governor, was continually disrupted by several leftists and agitators.
  It had all the markings of a coordinated effort to prevent the governor and community leaders from giving important legal information to victims who are fearful that their perpetrators may be let go without due process or answering for the harms created.
 Many of the disruptions were nothing more than personal insults. 
  This event clearly shows that the next 18 months will be very contentious and perhaps worse.
  The panelists showed remarkable restraint and forbearance with the rude members of the crowd. Hopefully our state officials will hold a future event in a studio format and allow for web, radio, and television viewers to submit questions.

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  Active Republicans in Oklahoma are expressing some discontent with US Senators, largely because of the January 6th actions in a joint session of congress.

  The intrigue continues to build in Oklahoma's 2022 US Senate race. Incumbent James Lankford has drawn one declared primary opponent, Jackson Lahmeyer, of Tulsa. 
​  The text-based inquiry was sent to devices on July 1st. The question was; "If the election for US Senate was today, would you support:

1. Jackson Lahmeyer
2. James Lankford
3. Nathan Dahm

  On July 7th, we received this follow-up text, thanking us for participating.
​  Poll results:

• Nathan Dahm 37%
• James Lankford 33%
• Jackson Lahmeyer 30%

  But a new 'polling company' just released their polling results from a survey of 'likely Republican voters'.  No sampling numbers were disclosed. We replied with inquiries for more survey data, but no response was given. 
  On Sunday I asked a source close to Sen. Dahm. I was told that nothing was known about this poll, nor any plans to enter the US Senate race.

  With the new administration of the OKGOP still setting up it's team, a few conservative journalists, including SoonerPolitics founder, David Van Risseghem; put together a research team to begin a series of surveys. We sought the expertise and advice of some former lawmakers and party leaders, to help us.
  The surveys are scheduled to run over a few months and will give a more clear understanding of the values & priorities of the grassroots participants who attend party conventions as representatives of their precincts. 

  When Bob Dani was announced as Chairman Bennett's Executive Director, Dani asked that all correspondence with Bennett "goes through me, and that's just how it's gunna be.". So one of the journalists with the "Unite With Trump" research project talked with Dani late in May, in great detail about the surveys and committed to share the findings with the OKGOP leadership.  Chairman Bennett later said the info will be very helpful to him. No objections were expressed at any time. Bennett was told last October that some of those supporting his run for OKGOP Chairman, were forming a policy group under the name of Unite With Trump.

  This morning Rep. Kevin McDugle posted a clear repudiation of the claims of Oklahoma's US Senator, James Lankford.  McDugle states that he personally & directly told the former youth minister that he will not endorse him, but Lankford appears to have publicly listed McDugle as one of several endorsements he now holds.
  Lankford is facing a strong & energetic challenge from Jackson Lahmeyer, who just hosted a large series of events in the OKC metro area. The Lahmeyer campaign says over 2000 attended a Lahmeyer rally featuring Trump's former pick for National Security Advisor, General Mike Flynn.

  Lankford drew severe 'blowback' for several actions over the past couple years, including lying about how he would vote in the crucial January 6th congressional matters.  Lankford followed up with even more damaging statements of capitulation to leftist activists, affirming the BLM narrative that minority voting rights are under attack.

  By now you'd have to be in deliberate denial, not to see how victimhood is a weapon. Last night a purported gay man in Fort Lauderdale disrupted a homosexual festival with his violent crash into fellow attendees.
  Immediately a leftist mayor, Dean Trantalis; declared the incident as a hate crime directed at the gay community.  Then a gay organizer refuted the false political narrative with a clarification that both the suspect and the injured attendees are part of his organized homosexual group.
  Several national media outlets carried the mayor's fake news narrative because it garners further sympathy for the homosexual causes, and proliferates a 'boogie man' which will be used later in political attacks on anyone who opposes the radical left agenda.
  Long gone are the days when homosexual rights groups called for libertarian policies of just being left alone.  Now the agenda is progressed to the place of stomping out (cancelling) anyone who doesn't join in the celebrations of the far left agenda.

  Former President, Donald Trump, called in Oklahoma Congressman, Kevin Hern, and the other leaders of the Republican Study Committee; to chart a campaign course the GOP's future. The meeting was held in NJ, on Thursday.
  Jim Banks (R-IN) is working with Hern and others on the RSC, "developing the consensus conservative agenda that can bring our party together, an agenda that is a winning agenda that can bring back the majority and an agenda we can focus on when we get the majority back. That agenda is the Trump agenda."

  Hern is chair of the Budget & Spending Task Force for the RSC.  In the battle for the House, they defied expectations and took a big bite out of the Democrats’ majority. They currently only need a net gain of five seats in 2022 to regain control of the chamber.

  "What are your thoughts on the upcoming US senate race?"
Bridenstine then prefaced his seemingly prepared answer by overtly "building credibility" by listing all his defiant actions in congressional politics.
 Then he said; "It's very difficult to get a better senator than Lankford." he went on to say; "There is not a person out there that has higher integrity, and is going to be more conservative".

  Given the gasps & moans that were quite audible with that statement, Bridenstine then acknowledged that he just "made half the room.. probably more than half upset".

  Even some of the world's foremost supporters of vaccine science, are sounding an alarm on the MRNA class of rushed vaccine candidates, due to a greater danger posed by the vaccine, than the infection.
​  Listen to the interview of Dr. Michael Yeadon, conducted by former president Trump's chief advisor, and the former editor of Breitbart News; Steve Bannon.

   There are many lessons our nation has to relearn because we've either suppressed or forgotten.  The deadly 1921 Tulsa racial war was just one of several.
  This past year we started digging graveyards to find uncharted graves. We're now finding some. But now we must find out when they were interned, and why we had no record?
  There are several graveyards with uncharted graves, in Oklahoma.  Bodies were buried and no one held the cemeteries accountable.  All over the world there were mass gravesites in 1919 & 1920.  But the reasons were not so much a racial issue, but a pandemic crisis.
  In Oklahoma's Eastern State mental hospital, there's a graveyard with far less headstones than bodies, & no cemetery records for hundreds of deceased Oklahomans who were wards of the state. Their families no longer even have open access to lay flowers without applying for a permit for a visit.  No one held the state accountable for properly running a cemetery. Even our Attorney General banned an effort to properly identify the 1172 unmarked graves.

  Observers of public education are witnessing a collapse of confidence in bloated public school systems. Tulsa is a noteworthy example. The enrollment is far below that of the 10 year old Epic Charters.
  Today, State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, reports a major fraud investigation which implicates Tulsa Public schools, without naming the district, specifically.
  Two years ago, while TPS was conducting an illegal teacher strike, TPS teachers were exposed in a scandal where the district paid for Las Vegas trips which were billed as training conferences.
  While the population of kids has grown in Tulsa, the TPS district has radically shrunk from over 41,000 kids just 10 years ago. On top of that, the TPS federal funding brings in another $3000 or so.  County property taxes then kick in. In all, Tulsa Public schools has about $630 Million dollars to spend each year on the 35,000 students, or.. $18,000 per student, per year. Bishop Kelley, in contrast; charges less than half that, for a private school education($8,900).

This week, Tulsans will decide if the property taxes will go up, to pay another $7500 per student, for software subscriptions and electronics.