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Fallin Dismisses OCPA's Budget Solutions

2/28/2017

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Preston Doerflinger of the OMES said;
"..the savings are mostly cost avoidance and would not generate revenue to pay for the next budget.".

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  The McCarville Report just published a response for Governor Mary Fallin and The OMES, regarding the ideas put forward by the conservative thinktank.
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  The most obvious weakness in the OMES response  is that they show that they aren't interested in cutting spending. Instead they are insistant that a real solution must include taking more tax money in.

What the Governor & OMES are really saying is;
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"We don't want to cut costs.
​We want to spend more and tax more."
Take a look at the full analysis and post your comments in the space below.
 The whole article is posted at McCarville Report.
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A Shrinking OKC Metro GOP Will Hold Precinct Meetings Tonight

2/28/2017

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  Tulsa County is now certified as the largest and most influential county in the OKGOP state convention. For the first time, Tulsa has been awarded more delegates than Oklahoma County. This is despite the 10% overall population edge that Oklahoma County enjoys.
  The Oklahoma County GOP is in a downward tailspin. Grassroots participation has never been lower. Is it by design? That's a question many long-time GOP members are openly asking. 
  The OKGOP made even greater gains in legislative offices, EXCEPT in Oklahoma County, where the Democrat Party picked up 2 seats; due in large part by a deactivated GOP precinct effort.

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  The Oklahoma County GOP will be holding precinct meetings Tuesday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All registered Republican voters in Oklahoma County are encourage to attend in order to designate delegates to vote at the Oklahoma County and Oklahoma State GOP conventions.
  “This is a very important process and participation is crucial,” said Oklahoma County GOP Chairman Daren Ward.
“This year, we will be voting on the Party Platform, key party positions and there is now a race for the position of Oklahoma State GOP Chair..".
Daren Ward
Office 405-946-1494
Cell: 479-879-2264 (please text if possible)
Email: okcountychairman@gmail.com
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Yen Offers Vaccine Compromise

2/27/2017

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UPDATE: BILL PASSES: The Vaccine Mandate Bill (SB83) passed by a vote of 7-4, in committee. It goes to the full senate, then to the House. Senators: David, Griffin, Pugh, & Simpson; voted against. Senators; Floyd, Jech, McCortney, Perriman, Rader, Standridge, & Yen; supported passage with ammendments. Senator Silk did not cast a vote, but spoke strongly against passage.
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Senate Health Committee Chair, Ervin Yen, has amended his own bill before submitting it to a committee vote.

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Fallin Tax Hikes Face Growing Opposition

2/27/2017

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  In the two weeks since the Governor pitched her scheme to raise massive new taxes, so as to keep funding boondoggle projects, give away  more taxpayer-funded gifts to special interests, give everyone a raise, and keep building a new temple at 23rd & Lincoln; Mary Fallin proposed massive tax hikes and massively-expanded service taxes on all services rendered.
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  The House & Senate opposition is growing. George Faught posted a simple press release 10 days ago, and now nearly 30 of his colleagues from both houses are lining up with him, to condemn the Fallin Tax package.
  OCPA and AFP are just two of the conservative thinktanks calling for a legislative rejection. Republican Candidates are also making opposition to this package a keey talking point of their campaigns.

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If Politicians Had To Wear Sponsor Patches

2/26/2017

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he  Well, Nascar is back. I enjoyed watching to commercial spectacle of the Daytona prerace  activities.  These drivers and their teams are racing for a trophy and a prize; but their real payday comes from the various sponsors who negotiate the size and position of a patch on their racing suits, and the decals on the car, itself.
​Wouldn't it be great if we could know instantly, who owns the politicians that are supposed to represent us?

  The Oklahoma politicians are very similar. If you want to know why Senator Ervin Yen is pushing forced vaccinations on our kids, just look at his donor base.

  If you want to know why Senator Anthony Sykes is refusing to allow a committee vote on Asset Forfeiture reform, see whose help he needs to run for Attorney General, in 2018.

Check Up On Your Politicians

  We studied one Oklahoma senator, Ron Sharp. I entered his name in the Guardian.ok.gov search and I saw a list of quarterly and election filings. When I opened the 1st Qtr. report for 2016, I saw an extensive list of organized labor groups, medical grroups, and public education advocates had given extensively to re-elect him to the senate. Read one of his many reports, here.

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Cleveland County GOP Chair Blasts Fake Republicans

2/25/2017

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  At the Cleveland County GOP convention, today; Chairman Dave Spaulding chastized several of the party's state and local leaders for failing to govern by the principles of the party and their campaign promises.

 It was obvious that the local state senator, Anthony Sykes was a clear target of the outgoing chairman's stern rebuke. Civil Asset forfeiture was condemned from the podium, and Spaulding went further to repremand publicly, the failure of the local senator to event return the chairman's personal phone calls, requesting a private meeting to discuss the issue.

  Spaulding scolded Governor Mary Fallin for her propensity to grow state government and raise taxes far beyond any Democrat governor in history. He compared the one-party super majority of today with the Democrat dominance of 30 years ago.  "we have Democrats running for office as Republicans and it's up to us to identify them"

 Dr. Yen, of nearby Oklahoma County was strongly rebuked for his efforts to undermine parental authority and Religious liberties in the matter of mandating dozens of vaccines. 
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  Spaulding declined to have his name placed in nomination for another term as county chairman. He has also served on the local city council.

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Sen. Sharp Calls Education Choice A Nazi Torture Tactic

2/25/2017

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“I have told other senators I call this bill the 'Dr. Josef Mengele bill' because it is intended to kill public education,”
  Invoking holocaust inhumanities, Senator Ron Sharp attacked an education reform measure which would allow families more options in common education. (SB560)

  Jay Chilton of OCPA's Investigational journalism project reports on the incident which happened at the Senate Education Committee.

  Ron Sharp is a Republican recently elected to his last full term in the Senate. He is a former educator from Shawnee.
  He referenced the diabolical concentration camp experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele, who would test ways of killing humans through various experiments like bleeding them to find out how much blood loss they could withstand before dying.

​  Read the full report and all of Jay Chilton's investigations at OCPA. 
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Securing Meaningful Elections

2/25/2017

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As I spend a lazy Saturday morning, on the couch; I turned on C-span to watch the Democrats select a national chairmaa.... er I mean chair person.

  It might even reach the comedic level of spectacle that the Libertarian party did last Memorial weekend (look up James Weeks on youtube).  But one lefty phrase at the beginning of the process did catch my ear..
 A new buzz word for the left is "voting rights". The left wants so many voting rights that it's laughable. They are notorious for insuring the ballots of
  • bodies in the morgue,
  • bodies rotting in the cemetary,
  • fictitional characters in childrens books,
  • people who were deported multiple times, 
  • multiple personalities living in several states (i.e. Tulsa's former mayor, Kathy Taylor).

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Oklahoma's Blinded Social Justice Warriors

2/24/2017

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 Yesterday there was an alert mentioned on the news. Two children were abducted by their birth mother. She had previously lost custody and only allowed court-supervised visitation. The father, who had full custody, reported the abduction to police. 
  No Amber Alert was published. Even when the 10pm local newscast mentioned  the serious situation, they did not refer this crisis as an "Amber Alert".
  Was it because the abduction was committed by a woman? Was it more likely to be given the higher alert status of "amber" if the man had been the dangerous fugitive?
Two weeks ago I and a group of community leaders held a townhall meeting & had the Tulsa County Sheriff and jail medical staff present the new mental health treatment plan and facilities at the jail. The $15 million mental health pods were built to house themost serious of the 600 men in the jail who are diagnosed and being treated for serious mental illness. A full 1/3 of the male population is mentally ill.
  But less than 5% of the 250 women in the jail are diagnosed & treated for serious mental illness. So the men are going to be in the segregated pods built for those in that condition. The most serious mental health cases among the women will then be housed in the jail infirmary, which has about 10% of the capacity for inmates.
  After hearing the full presentation,  a prominent Tulsa social justice warrior  said something to the effect of "they built a facility for the men but not for the women... that will definitely result in a lawsuit.". Others standing by concurred. They seemed certain that women were being blatantly underserved.
  But if they were really using the good senses that most of the mental health advocates around them exercised, they'd have been asking;
"Why are men being arrested for mental breakdowns at a rate of 10 times that of women?"
  Men & women develop serious mental illness at relatively similar rates. Mania, and Psychotic Major Depression are certainly as relevant for women. But police seem to find a pretense for arrest more often when a man has a psychotic meltdown. this is dispite the fact that the mentally ill are no more violent than the population as a whole. Infact, they are more vulnerable to being a victim than the general public.
  I think this says more about our societal fears than our realistic response to actual public dangers.
  Many of the 'sociologists' on the left still believe that it is impossible for a member of a racial minority to be a racist, because they reason that a minority never attains the power to enact racist behavior.  But we have to put away our preset presumptions when we seek to attack the social ills around us. Because sometime's we fall ill to the very sickness we label others with.
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The Legality of Home Winemaking In Oklahoma

2/24/2017

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  In the last days of gov. Brad Henry's work with the legislature (May, 2010), he ended the nearly 100 years of prohibition as it pertains to home winemaking.

 In signing HB2348, Brad Henry established a basis for citizens to legally partake in the craft of making wines, ciders, and craft beers. But the state forbids anyone with a past felony record from being able to make his own wine at home.

​  Winemakers are required to send in a simple form (CWP) on an annual basis. they are forbidden to sell or distribute their homemade wines or ciders in Oklahoma.
  The best news is that this hobby has no sales or liquor tax, other than the sales tax you might incure when buying the ingredients at your local grocier.   I called the legal department of ABLE (the state agency tasked with administrating and enforcing licuor laws). They said very few forms come in each year, but occassionally a rush of 5-10 forms might suddenly come it at the start of a community winemaking class or club event.

  The kind lady at ABLE's legal department gave me these parting words of advice; "Now don't get yourself sick!". I chuckled and told her that she sounded like my old Pentecostal sunday school teacher. She said, "thank you.".

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Marriage Freedom Bill: Dying In Judiciary Committee

2/23/2017

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  Unless the reforms in the Marriage Freedom Bill are acted upon, the ministers of Oklahoma risk a federal civil rights lawsuit for not preforming homosexual wedding ceremonies.  That's the concern of Rep. Todd Russ (R-Cordell). He reports that his Marriage Freedom Bill (HB1418) is being refused a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. Rep Chris Kannady (R-OKC) is the chairman.
  This is current bill by the licensed Pentecostal minister from Western Oklahoma did pass the House 2 years ago with broad support, but was held up in the senate, pending the US Supreme Court ruling on Oklahoma's Marriage Amendment. Sadly, the last senate never resumed the process of bringing the bill (HB 1123, of 2015) to the senate floor for a final vote.
  Rep. Russ's bill would spare any minister from potential civil or statutory action for refusing to participate in morally objectionable ceremonies. The reforms allow a couple to attain the same outcome through a signed affidavit at the courthouse, simply making the officiant an optional witness to the covenant. This way religious couples can solemnize a sacramental marriage rite in their own faith community, but the Reverend would not face legal vulnerabilities for refraining from performing ceremonies for anyone who doesn't meet the ecclesiastical standards set by the minister.

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OKGOP Matriarch, Bunny Chambers, Receives Lifetime Achievement Recognitions

2/22/2017

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PictureBunny Chambers receives the inaugural Joan Johnson Citizenship Award, presented by Tulsa Republican Assembly, with the help of Jeff Johnson, son of the late founder of Oklahoma Eagle Forum.
​by ​Donny Tiemann 
The TARA Event honoring Bunny Chambers a huge success !! Last evening the Tulsa Area Republican Assembly hosted a night of awards and political celebrities as they honored past Eagle Forum President & National Committee Woman, Bunny Chambers ! U.S. Congressman Jim Bridenstine was on hand to present a Congressional Citation to Bunny for her almost 50 years of service to the Republican Party.
   Pam Pollard, OK GOP Chair, gave a moving talk on how Bunny served as a mentor to her as she was coming up in the party. Shelley Brumbaugh honored Bunny with a Oklahoma House of Representatives Citation that her husband Rep. David Brumbaugh secured for the event. Charlotte Rutledge Harer presented a wonderful citation from the Ok Federation of Republican Women. Sandy Hodges, current Eagle Forum President, read a letter from Carolyn McLarty, that provided a little of the history that she and Bunny had shared over the years.
The last award came from the TARA organization, as President David Van Risseghem presented Bunny with the inaugural Joan Johnson Award. Joan Inhofe Johnson's son, Jeff Johnson, spoke on what it was like having an activist for a mom growing up. Bunny was moved by the amount of recognition for her service, humbly stating that the things she did was no more than the things that members of the event were doing everyday. Attendees listened intently as Bunny questioned her recent retirement and thanked her husband for being with her through it all.


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Did A Supreme Court Nominee Violate The Constitution?

2/20/2017

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  Patrick Wyrick, A native of Atoka, Oklahoma, has been working and living in Oklahoma City. He is, in fact; the Solicitor General for the state of Oklahoma. 
  But the Oklahoma Constitution mandates that the 9 justices should collectively represent all areas of the state.

  In fact, when Steven Taylor, perhaps the most "strict-constructionist" of the justices, retired; the founding text mandates that a qualified attorney or judge from that same 2nd court district should replace Taylor.
Article VII - Section 2 says;
Each Justice, at the time of his election or appointment, shall have attained the age of thirty years, shall
  • have been a qualified elector in the district for at least one year immediately prior to the date of filing or appointment, and
  • shall have been a licensed practicing attorney or judge of a court of record, or both, in Oklahoma for five years preceding his election or appointment and
  • shall continue to be a duly licensed attorney while in office to be eligible to hold the office.

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Mike Hunter Named Attorney General

2/20/2017

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Matthew Vermillion of FortySix News, reports that Gov. Mary Fallin has tapped her Secretary of state, Mike Hunter, to be the next Oklahoma Attorney General.

With Scott Pruitt's confirmation as the Director of the Envirponmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma lost the services of the 6-year veteran AG and former state senator.

  Hunter will be able to complete the nearly 2 years remaining on the term, and also run for up to 2 more 4-year terms (under current state constitutional limits).
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Tulsa Sheriff Continues Outreach Efforts

2/20/2017

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By Donny Tiemann
  Sheriff Vic Regalado and a group of community leaders with the Sheriff's Foundation announced it's official formation and commitment to raise $300,000 for the purchase of body cams for it's patrol force. The funds will also go towards the establishment of a citizen advisory board that will go through some of the same training that the officers have to go through. Any time the Sheriff's department can work together with the private sector to find solutions to their problems, it is a win - win for everyone. Was proud to be on hand for such an important announcement.
Editor's note:
  This is another step in the sheriff's campaign to address serious needs for the whole county. The willingness to reach out to community groups for the sake of a better county is yet another step toward elevating the service of the office. There is much potential good that can come.
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  Just 10 days ago, the sheriff, along with his jail medical staff; met with community mental health advocates and clinicians, to unveil the new level of care for those in the jail who suffer severe mental illnesses.
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