Late Thursday night a political newsletter issued a special edition, detailing the claims of a female who says she was subjected to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from two legislators who are currently holding leadership positions in the House of Representatives.
  The article says she requested that her identity be protected, but the details of her ordeal are rather explicit.  The Sooner Tea Party released snippets of the transcript they journaled from an interview with the victim. The article refers to her as a married younger woman who was at a 2017 event with several lawmakers. Rep. Chris Kannady is a veteran lawmaker who later became the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Kevin McDugle would have been a freshman lawmaker at that time, and is now the chairman of the House Wildlife Committee.
  McDugle was involved in an extramarital affair at the time and divorce court testimony includes his admission of a sexual addiction. The article says that McDugle was showing the much younger woman some graphic video content of explicit pornographic acts.  The article says that Rep. Kannady was busy feeling her leg while the video was playing.

  The Associated Press reports that OKC State Senator, Stephanie Bice will be filing for the 5th District Congressional office, next spring.
  The office is held currently by Kendra Horn, the lone Democrat in  Oklahoma's DC delegation.

The Bice for Congress campaign website adds the following..

  She received the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce Rising Star award and was selected a member of the Governing Institute Women in Government Leadership Class of 2016.
  A pro-life conservative, Stephanie has been endorsed by Oklahoma Right to Life and has maintained an A-rating from the National Rifle Association.
  Bice has degrees from Oklahoma State University in Marketing & International Business.

  The Oklahoma GOP has enjoyed a 'fairy tale' turnabout of fortunes in the past 30 years. Until recent history, the Oklahoma Democrat party enjoyed nearly 9 decades of dominance in every statewide office and super-majorities in both legislative chambers.
  No one saw a lucrative career opportunity in conservative political consulting, because there was no money in it, nor opportunity for career resume-building. Tom Cole changed that narrative in 1994, when his consulting firm of Cole, Hargrave, & Snodgrass; orchestrated a major political earthquake.
  Since then, most well-financed Republican campaigns in Oklahoma have been working with campaign consulting firms.
  SoonerPolitics decided to sit down for a visit with one of the more recent additions to the consulting world. Josh Wagoner is a founding partner with Tomahawk Strategies. He's an Oral Roberts University alum.

  In our 9-part series, we look at the evolving science of politics and how a campaign consulting firm guides the candidate through the process. This is a special feature of SoonerPolitics.org, designed to help the citizen activist better understand the whole process of electoral politics.

  Congresswoman Kendra Horn Will get a lot of unwanted attention in the next 18 months. That's just one part of Chairman David McLain's detailed plan to expose the hard-left agenda of the Democrat Party, in Oklahoma.
  On Tuesday night the Tulsa Area Republican Assembly held  a gathering in South Tulsa. Chairman David McLain spent about 30 minutes detailing his objectives and answering questions from the audience, which included leaders from multiple counties in northeast Oklahoma.
  Party unity was a recurring theme of the speech. McLain is determined to resolve intraparty disharmony which reached a peak in the past few years. Divisive entities will find less interest, if McLain has his way. That doesn't mean that McLain will deter primary challenges or "put his thumb on the scale" during primary campaigns. But he emphasized the need to focus on the commonality that the party membership largely possesses. He doesn't want the few disagreements to result in a leftist winning general elections and helping enact policies which he sees as harmful to Oklahoma.

  Here's the video of McLain's speech to the Tulsa Area Republican Assembly meeting. 
​  https://youtu.be/a9cNLK6yoao

   Jonathan Williams recently published a detailed report on several fiscal comparisons of the 50 states, pertaining to tax policy & business-friendly environments.  Oklahoma ranked in the top 3 when it comes to property taxes. Texas, by comparison, scored miserably on the same criteria.
  But in other parts of the charts, Texas devastated Oklahoma's legacy by not imposing an income tax on citizens.  All in all, Texas ranked 2nd in the nation for 'Economic Performance'. Oklahoma came in 20th.
  This is part of the picture which might explain why Oklahoma's population trend is shrinking, compared to the national picture. Texas is growing robustly, despite their property tax oppressions.

Of the several economic comparisons, Oklahoma scores an aggregate 20th. Texas ranks 2nd. For this and other reasons, Oklahomans are still leaving the state at levels comparable to California.

Updated 4/13 - tabulations audited
  SoonerPolitics recently asked our readers to to give input to a poll about marijuana possession. 67% agreed with the move to make it a citation fine, rather than an arrestable misdemeanor. 10% disagreed with the change and want all unlawful possession subjectable to arrest, 1 year in jail, and $1000 fine (maximums). 23% chose a 3rd option(other) and commented that a full repeal of the marijuana prohibition is the only action they can even applaud.

  On Thursday the Senate Health & Human Services Committee passed HB2614 by a 12-0 bipartisan vote. Among other things, it changes Oklahoma statutes regarding possession of Marijuana without a valid license. It would no longer be a misdemeanor with a potential sentence of 1 year in jail and $1000 fine.

Evidently, Sheila Riley of Tulsa's Nathan Hale High School, is offering her favorite teachers some really fun trips, and she's planning several more.
  During last April's partial teacher walkout, Tulsa Public School Administrators authorized the principal to spend tens of thousands of dollars sending several faculty members to the Las Vegas Strip. They called it "Professional Development" and justified it as free federal money that would disappear if they don't put it to use.
  Never once did they comprehend that it would be reallocated toward future funding and help make education more successful for America's school children. To them it was just free money that would dissolve if they didn't find a desirable destination.

But thankfully a retired school nurse with a conscience finally spoke up.
“I’ve never, in all my years I’ve worked for TPS, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Elizabeth Vaughan.
Vaughan is a newly-retired school nurse. She worked at Nathan Hale High School during the last school year.
“This was a surprise exception, and I don’t think it was quite the right time at all,” said Vaughan.
The timing she’s talking about is April 10-14, the tail end of the teacher walkout.

  The fundamental problem here, is that bureaucrats see federal funding as some rich uncle's free money that just has to be spent quickly.
KTUL -8 has a much more detailed report.

Just got home from the OK GOP State Convention and had to get my comfy shirt on that we each received as a “participation trophy”. ?
We elected a new State Chair and Vice Chair! Congratulations David L. McLain and Mike Turner, and adopted a state party platform of solid conservative values and principles. Read it here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/…/2019_OKGOP_Platform_Final_P…
Senator Julie Daniels did a fabulous job chairing the event. She kept order and articulated what we were voting on clearly.
Thanks to Rep. Lewis Moore for cracking me up half the time. #backrow#cutups
I was especially excited to have recruited some new delegates and hope to have more delegates to join us next time. So good to see a smoother process as the #basketofdeplorables worked well together to get stuff done! ?? ??? I might have even saw a few pigs fly as certain people agreed. ????

  Allison Christine Johnson, age 45, of Norman OK, was arrested by Norman police, on Thursday afternoon. She is the prime and only suspect in a string of vandalism incidents over the past week.
  Voter databases list an Allison Christine Johnson, age 45, as a recent registrant of the Republican party, just over 2 years ago.  
  The address given was called up on Google Street view. the driveway of the residence shows a gold sedan which matches the description of the vehicle reported as part of the vandalism.
  An Allison Christine Johnson's social media acct. was cloaked by the time we tried to gather more confirming data.
  I spoke with long time Cleveland County Republican leaders, tonight. They don't claim to know anything about the suspect, but did say that a woman by that name is listed on their most recent voter lists.
  The voter databases also list a Democrat, Lenore Johnson, age 67, at the same residence.
  Court records searching of the first & last name resulted in a few results, including a 20 year old divorce judgment in Oklahoma County,  a few more recent civil suits, and one default judgment for forcible entry and detainer; in Cleveland County.