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.

  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.

  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..

  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."

  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).

  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:

  The 2020 House 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 member of the House leadership team Terry O'Donnell of the Tulsa metro delegation, 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.
  Once again, two House freshmen tied in the 2nd spot; along with Rep. Kevin West of the OKC metro delegation. The freshmen were rural lawmakers from eastern Oklahoma, David Hardin, and David Smith.
  Former Democrat, Johnny Tadlock was one of four Republicans tied for the 4th spot, along with Jim Olsen, Sean Roberts, & Judd Strom. Olsen & Strom are in their first 2-year term.  Tadlock completed his 3rd term, Roberts finished his 5th term.
  
  Unlike last year's inaugural index, the two major parties are not as clearly separated. Democrat Merleyn Bell scored 0, but that still put her as high or higher than 26 Republicans. Dell Kerbs was the lowest scoring Republican with a -40, which is worse that the worst Democrat in the 2019 index. Last year's average score was +28.8, but this year's score is a pathetic +6.8, which isn't small govt. creed.

    House Majority Floor Leader, Jon Echols; met with Joey Magana of Americans For Prosperity (an economic policy think tank), to discuss what will happen this week. The capitol is closed to the public and only floor business will be conducted.
  He talks about;

1.  why the governor called the emergency session
2. how the legislature will meet
3. what happened to the current regular session
4. the financial impact of the crisis
5. the strategies for success
6. the Tiger King series.

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  Democrat lawmaker, Jason Dunnington, proposed a new law to strip parents of their important role of approving a 16 or 17 year old's request to get married.  He dramatically detailed one scenario of an unnamed and unverified instance where a child felt forced into a marriage she regretted.
  Dunnington's solution is to end all marriages where a spouse is under 16 years of age.
  But the real sticking point was to also end parental permissions for 16 & 17 year olds and exchange the parental right for a judge's order of emancipation.
  Reps. Gann, Olsen, Russ, Randleman, Lepak, West(K), & David Hardin; challenged the measure on various points and provided several scenarios where Dunnington continually insisted that only judges were fit to make the decision to remove the youth from the parents and make the decision without any parental consent or perhaps even knowledge of the proceedings?