The patterns we're seeing in Washington are playing out right now in Oklahoma as well. Here are the receipts.
Story 01 / 04Oklahoma Lawmakers Wrote Transparency Laws for Everyone — Then Exempted ThemselvesThe Legislature is the only body in Oklahoma not bound by its own Open Meetings Act.
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Story 02 / 04Oklahoma Voters Demanded Ethics Enforcement in 1990. It Took 35 Years — and the Right People — to Finally See It Work.Lawmakers built ethics oversight, then starved it of funding for decades.
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Story 03 / 04Oklahoma Lawmakers Voted to Remove Financial Oversight in 2019 and By 2022, $12.4 Million in Taxpayer Money Was GoneA no-bid contract, dissolved oversight, and two sets of books cost Oklahoma taxpayers millions.
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Story 04 / 04A Democrat Won This District in 2018. By 2022, the Legislature Had Redrawn It to Make Sure That Couldn't Happen Again.181,000 Latino residents were moved out of OK-5 and replaced with one of the most Republican counties in the state.
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This is why Robert is running.
The same patterns. The same excuses. The same people deciding the rules don't apply to them.
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