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Sen Bullard Files Bill To Make Cannabis Medicines 'In the Shape of A Marijuana Leaf'

1/7/2022

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  Sen. David Bullard wants Cannabis Butter to only be sold in units shaped in the form of a cannabis leaf. Never mind that the products already have extensively regulated packaging rules requiring specific labels with a long list of required information.
  The new bill would change all that and have every item sold in completely clear packaging.  For many cannabis medicines, the labels are much larger than the product. 

  Of the thousands of medical marijuana innovations, the infused food products may be the most interesting to observe. One of the most popular ways for some patients to take meds is cannabis butter. But cannabis meds are also sold in ice cream products, chocolates, and the convenient gummy squares. 
  It allows patients suffering epilepsy, anxiety, PTSD, cancer, osteo-arthritis, and other chronic disorders to avoid smoking their meds. More importantly, the squares allow patients to more accurately measure their meds to avoid over-medicating. the sleep aids are especially common to be sold in chocolate or gummy form.  Insomnia sufferers have to carefully measure and cut the squares into doses that enhance a good night's sleep, without overmedicating.
  
  The laws and agency rules have added huge costs to consumers, for a medicine that has been a 'godsend' to those who've successfully weaned off opioids with the help of cannabis. While the govt. or insurance routinely paid for the opioids, not one insurance company provides any benefit for the cannabis alternatives.
  In the file below, Bullard's new language is underlined, as amendments to the existing language.
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Sen. David Bullard (R-Durant)

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Sen. Standridge Files Private School Voucher Bill

1/7/2022

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  A Major new legislative initiative was recently filed by Sen. Rob Standridge. It creates a scholarship specifically for Oklahoma public school students who attest that their religious liberties are offended by their local public school.
  • The new law provides a scholarship for the parents to put toward the approved private school of their choice. The parents assume all other financial obligations of the private school enrollment. 
  • The scholarship is comparable to the current state funding levels for public schools. 
  • Local funding of public schools is not affected by this new law.
  • Only students currently enrolled in Oklahoma public schools for 1 year or more, are eligible.
  • The deadline for transfers is Dec. 1st.
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Rep. Ty Burns' Bill To Mandate King James Bible In Public Schools

1/7/2022

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It's filing time for the 2022 legislature, and thousands of ideas are coming in, in the guise of making Oklahoma a better place for all of us.
  Rep. Ty Burns(R-Pawnee) just filed an amendatory bill with an emergency clause for a more immediate implementation. It includes the following changes to current laws authorizing religious studies in public high schools.
  •  A licensed minister may teach the elective class as a non-paid volunteer.
  • The King James Bible shall be the primary text of any bible classes.
  • The school library must have a King James Bible.
  The framework for high school bible electives is already law in Oklahoma. Burns merely adds some changes. One benefit of Burns' bill is that the King James is not subject to copyright royalty payments. It's a cheap text that the Gideon Bible Society often donates to students and schools.
  One ambiguity of Burns' amendment is whether the clergy would have to be also a qualified social studies teacher with a valid Oklahoma teaching certificate? That can easily be amended in committee by adding the word 'and' or 'or' at the beginning of the 2nd sentence of Section 11-103.11. E.
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Rep. Ty Burns is expected to elaborate more about his King James Bill.
  For many Christians, one concern might be whether Burns is one of those whose motivation is a belief that the King James is the only 'anointed' translation to English. While that's not a bias toward a particular sect or denomination, it is essentially it's own sectarian mindset.
  If Burns is merely eliminating petty objections of school administrators to implementation of Religious electives in public schools (such as copyright law & qualified instructors), then he ought to be commended for this.
  My guess is that he'll be conveniently assumed to be a 'King James Only' advocate. But regardless of Burns' own convictions, the amendments could serve effective purposes and allow students a better liberal arts education in public schools.

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Lawmaker Proposes 'Bigfoot Hunting Season'

1/22/2021

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Rep. Justin (JJ) Humphrey offers a bit of comic relief to the Oklahoma legislature while filing a legitimate tourism strategy for the absolutely gorgeous area of Southeastern Oklahoma.

  The Annual Bigfoot Festival draws people who are absolutely serious about Bigfoot and they are confident of finding the creature eventually.  
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 The Winding Staircase Mountain ridges of the Ouachita's is the gateway to the heart of 'Little Dixie'.  The folky culture of the people makes the area a great destination for hunting and outdoor activities. What the folks desperately need is economic development. 

  So JJ wants to have the state wildlife agency issue licenses to hunt (actually trap) the big hairy beast of the Choctaw Nation.

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Jett Wants To Pay More Govt. Employees For Not Working

1/22/2021

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  When a lawmaker spends 'our money', he's often more liberal than when he spends 'his' money.

  Senator Shane Jett is starting his first term in the Oklahoma Senate. About a decade ago he was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. And boy, does he have lots of legislation pent up! 35 bills are now filed under his name. Many of them are solid concepts and worth consideration. But some are way below any reasonable measure for a legislative branch to even entertain in committee.
  SB701 will further drain school budgets because laid off employees will get full pay even when they are working at another place of employment.  So all those bus drivers who are now either collecting state & federal unemployment checks, will instead be drawing full pay from the local school district.
  Worse yet,  bus drivers who now work for a different employer or temp agency, will get full pay at both jobs!
  Only in govt. jobs can you get these kind of wasteful deals! Why, because that's how the wrong politicians get reelected! By giving away taxpayer funds to govt. workers!
  The text is posted below. Keep in mind that this is an amendatory measure, so only the stricken and underlined text is being offered by Jett.
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Senator Shane Jett

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New Bill Strips First Amendment Rights If Words 'Have No Legitimate Purpose'

1/21/2021

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But who decides what's a 'legitimate purpose'?

  Rep. Carol Bush wants folks to be nice on social media platforms. So she's using her authority to make a law.  The Tulsan believes that having someone talk about her, might be an "invasion of her privacy & serve no legitimate purpose". So that's exactly what she wants to criminalize.
  I may have already violated this  language because I told you she's from Tulsa (invasion of her privacy) and I warned you that she's trying to redefine what speech is constitutionally protected (why... that kind of criticism has to be harassment! It serves no legitimate purpose to her!).
  Facebook, Twitter, and other big tech giants are increasingly interpreting their own website rules in such a way that they are only enforced harshly on conservatives, and global terrorists go unfiltered while publishing death threats openly.
   Bush, who's been recruited to run for office by well known Tulsa liberals; has consistently been working to pass laws which strip constitutional rights. This is yet another chapter of Bush Laws proposed to the legislature, to further control people whom she doesn't trust to manage their own affairs and interactions.
​ HB1007 is posted below..

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New Cannibalism Bill Makes Chewing Fingernails A Felony

1/21/2021

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- 14 Year Prison Sentence

  Freshman Senator Shane Jett decided Oklahoma needs a new law to stop the cannibalism in the state.  So he ran for office and wrote a bill.  
  Jett, whose district stretched from Edmond to Luther, to Shawnee,  Has campaigned on a lot of issues, but no one seems to remember him emphasizing Oklahoma's cannibalism outbreak?
  The language of the bill is short & simple, but very vague. Are collagen injections now a felony?  The bill does not exempt a person who swallows his own blood during dental procedures, a bloody nose, or after flossing?
  Two years ago we spoke with then freshman lawmaker, Denise Crosswhite Hader. She said that she's holding off on filing any of her own bills until she's better prepared.  That sort of prudence and sober-minded humility is a laudable virtue and scarce commodity in the halls of the legislature.  But if a matter is so pressing that freshman feels compelled to act, it's best to ask for help. 
  Our state has a wealth of former lawmakers and staff members who can help a novice to understand what it takes to write good laws. And sometimes it's prudent to ask if current laws already sufficiently address a behavior which might destroy our civilization.
  The language of SB740 simply says..
"Any person who willingly ingests the flesh, blood or tissue of a
human being is guilty of cannibalism. Any person convicted of
cannibalism shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment
in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to
exceed fourteen (14) years.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021."
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   Who's going to become the champion lawmaker who starts clearing out the massive library of statutes, and deleting the archaic, unenforceable, and unconstitutional laws on our books?

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Rep Rick West Files Bill To Ban Foreigners From Oklahoma Police Forces

1/18/2021

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  Republican Rick West returns to the legislature this year, having taken 2 years off.  One of his first filed bills is HB1118. It removes authorization for foreigners to enforce our constitutional & statutory law, until they have first attained their own US Citizenship.
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  Until such foreigners take their oath of US Citizenship, they are presumed to be citizens of whatever nation(s) they previously held citizenship with.

   It seems like something which should have always been state policy for admission in CLEET academy training, or attaining state certification to become a Peace Officer for any municipal, county, or state law enforcement entity.

  The bill does contain a 'grandfather clause' for those few Peace Officers who may currently be legal residents but still awaiting their citizenship credentials.  They and their commissioning agency may continue and be unaffected after this bill become law (Nov. 1st).
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Rep. Rick West (R-3 Heavener, OK)

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Dems Lose Big In OK Legislature

11/5/2020

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  The House Democrat caucus shrank last night as 4 more House seats went over to the Republican majority, with another seat still too close to call.
  Rural Oklahoma Democrats remain in freefall as David Perryman's vacated seat goes Republican, in the Chickasaw area. Matt Meredith lost decisively to Bob Culver in eastern Oklahoma, near the Tahlequah area.  Former House Dem. Leader, Steve Kouplen lost his rematch against the unfunded Republican incumbent, Logan Phillips.
  Even in the new Democrat stronghold of the OKC area, Kelly Albright was turned out of office in the Midwest City area. Eric Roberts also took away an OKC area Democrat seat when he defeated incumbent Chelsea Branham.
Ben Loring of Miami did not file for another term Republican Steve Bashore was unopposed for that seat.
  Dem. incumbent, Jacob Rosecrants, may win a razor-thin victory in a Norman race where he holds a 79-vote margin among over 20,000 cast votes. The mail-in ballots gave him a huge margin. It would seem an ideal place to investigate ballot integrity in the way mass mailings are processed in the Cleveland County Election Board.
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Newhouse & Pugh Lead Senate Lawmakers In 2020 Freedom Index

7/5/2020

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  The 2020 Senate Freedom Index is now published, to compare the lawmakers' commitment to restoring and protecting individual liberties in their powers to create and rescind laws.
  This year a pair of freshmen who are also former military officers, are tied for the top spot in the senate. Adam Pugh & Joe Newhouse both voted to restore & protect citizen freedoms in 9 of 10 floor votes. They also gained bonus points for authoring bills the Sooner Politics selection committee deemed essential and/or scored in the index.
 The young Republicans from OKC & Tulsa metro districts, led all scores with a +85, on a spectrum of 100 to +100.
  A person scoring a zero on this index is deemed to vote against freedom in half the scored floor votes.  A score of +50 on this index is equivalent to a +75 on many other indices that do not issue negative index scores.
  8 Republicans were close behind with scores of 80. they were:
Mark Allen
Michael Bergstrom
Larry Boggs
Julie Daniels
James Leewright
Casey Murdock
Paul Rosino
Gary Stanislawski
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Joe Newhouse & Adam Pugh led all Senate Scores

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