| 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. |  Rep. Kevin McDugle & Rep. Chris Kannady (photo montage) |
| The Sooner Tea Party article depicts that this happened just months after the House held a special investigation into the sexual harassment charges against Rep. Dan Kirby and Rep. Will Fourkiller. Kirby resigned and Fourkiller was sanctioned & left at the end of his term.  During the Kirby/Fourkiller investigation, Rep. Eric Proctor (D-Tulsa) told a Tulsa radio station; "Some lawmakers form both political parties act like the session is one big frat party". |  Al Gerhart publishes the Sooner Tea Party newsletter Other current & past legislators were implicated in multiple complaints but leadership took no official action. The politicians simple chose not to seek further elective service. Rep. Scott Inman is now divorced, after his wife made a scene in the capitol rotunda, later in 2017. He was a leading Democrat candidate for governor. Sexual harassment is actionable in both criminal & civil court. Taxpayers have had to pay out massive sums in the past few years, due to lawmakers interactions with capitol staffers. But even fellow lawmakers can seek damages when subjected to such abuses. Most settlements are kept quiet and only diligent research by journalists seems to have exposed just how much our lawmakers' misbehavior is costing us. It is true that victims of sexual harassment generally avoid going public. They share the emotional trauma of feeling violated by the incident and having to talk to investigators about it is just too much for them. Many can only talk about it months or years later, when they've recovered sufficiently. But some never completely recover, and suffer lifelong impairment, affecting other relationships, even destroying marriages, due to the impairment.
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