Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting

ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting
"Despite ALEC trying to spin itself as a "transparent" organization, ALEC records have miraculously been disappearing from legislative offices and the organization is engaged in a box drop dodge to avoid disclosure. But while ALEC legislators are meeting behind closed doors with corporate lobbyists, citizens will be rallying in the streets raising awareness about how ALEC’s agenda favors large corporations at the expense of average Americans."

Saturday, April 13, 2013

OK Tea Party Founder Charged With Blackmailing State Senator

OK Tea Party Founder Charged With Blackmailing State Senator
"Oh dear. This patriot is being oppressed over his fight to protect our nation from U.N. conspiracies by threatening to disclose a state senator's alleged marriage problems! You'd think someone so obviously well-versed in our constitution would also know that extortion is a crime. Just imagine if teabaggers took all that energy and applied it to something useful -- like Medicare for all, or stopping the chained CPI"

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

OK Tea Partier Threatens State Lawmaker For Stalling Bill Promoting U.N. Conspiracy Theories

OK Tea Partier Threatens State Lawmaker For Stalling Bill Promoting U.N. Conspiracy Theories: An Oklahoma Tea Party group is under investigation following a warning to a State Senator that he had to bring a conspiracy-theory laden piece of legislation to the floor — or else. At issue is paranoia-induced anti-U.N. House Bill 1412 and its current status languishing in the Senate’s Energy Committee, much to the chagrin of [...]/p

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional

GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional: Still smarting over last year’s ruling upholding Obamacare, freshman Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) dismissed the idea that the Supreme Court decides whether or not laws are constitutional. “Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s constitutional,” Bridenstine said in a Daily Caller interview posted Sunday. After accusing Democrats of “stacking [...]/p