Friday, March 28th, President of Pike Off OTA, Amy Cerato and our friend Whitney Mullica with Pike Off, joined us to talk about the OTA’s new route for Norman and other items.
Amy was a joy to talk with! She has a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering and teaches at OU. Truly, this woman is extremely knowledgeable and it was so obvious from our conversation. She also has a Substack and you should definitely check that out! Also, make sure you check out the full video of the interview on both our Rumble and YouTube channels.
During our chat, both Amy and Whitney talked about how frustrating this particular session of the legislature has been – not being able to find out when bills are getting scheduled, trying to find out when bills are being heard and even when Oversight Committee meetings are being held – something we’ve complained about. In fact, here is Amy saying what I’m sure every conservative is thinking right now – we need to give the People’s House back to THE PEOPLE.
We’ve talked quite a bit on this program about OTA and the real spirit of lawlessness they seem to embody. When we had OTA’s attorney, Richard LaBarthe on last December, he talked about how OTA doesn’t follow their own trust agreements and creates bonds before the others are paid off. It’s simply their way of doing business.
In that vein, Amy talked about how the OTA is planning to build a bridge over the South Canadian river without any kind of impact studies at all. Listen as Amy describes the situation:
How is OTA allowed to get away with these kinds of things? No one can be exactly sure, but there is a whole lot of money tied up in contractors and business developers and land developers and other economic development arms with these turnpike builds that it seems more about money than about people for certain. Certainly, it seems that the OTA has very little regard for the people who own the land they virtually steal to build their roads – roads not even needed.
Every Oklahoman needs to be very aware of what goes on with the OTA and how they operate. This all needs to be stopped. There is no reason for OTA when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation can build/repair any roads. OTA is more a jobs program than a necessity for Oklahomans and we need to make our representation at the Oklahoma State Capitol fully understand that.
Friday, March 28th, Julianne Romanello was our guest on the ROPE Report podcast to talk about REAL ID and the biometric identification methods the government is using to track US citizens in the name of safety. I suggest you watch the full video on our YouTube and Rumble channels, but I’ll include a lot of information in this blog post for you to (hopefully) read and share.
The one thing I want to stress right now is that, the whole, “they’re already doing it right now what are we going to do to stop them” mentality HAS TO END. We human individuals are given BY GOD the ability to think and reason and as long as we can do that, we can effect what happens to us. It may not be easy, but in the end, it will be worth it to stop the government from surveilling our every move. Toward that end, you must be EDUCATED about what is happening and this is the beginning of our attempt to start you on the road toward education on REAL and biometric ID.
In this video clip with Julianne, she tells us that, right now, citizens are not getting the REAL ID and it’s becoming hard for the government to institute it among men (sorry…lol). This is going to be the point at which we have to stop it OR become engrossed in a global biometric digital ID system.
In the clip below, Julianne talks about the biggest problem we have right now – UNEDUCATED ELECTED OFFICIALS! If you are concerned that ‘they’re already doing this’, the best way to get our foot in the door to stop it is to TELL OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WHAT’S GOING ON AND WHY WE DON’T WANT REAL TIME/FULL TIME DIGITAL BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE. Don’t wait. Share this information with your Senator and Representative and educate and involve them. It’s the only way to get any headway on the issue.
Here is an information sheet that was put together a number of years ago in Oklahoma by a group called OK-SAFE. Though it’s an older document it’s a great primer on the topic. Please read it and share it.
This is another article – longer – but great in terms of learning about REAL ID.
One last thing. If you really want to know exactly what the government is expecting to do read the document below. If that doesn’t scare you, I’m honestly not sure what to say. Please, add this to your list of things we IMMEDIATELY need to stop now and get education today.
Apparently, at some point, our Oklahoma legislature voted to allow NON-CITIZENS TO BE OKLAHOMA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
This morning, the Oklahoma House voted NOT TO REPEAL THAT LANGUAGE.
Here is the bill – HB1190. Please note; this is an amendatory bill – meaning that somewhere in the existing bill’s language, you’ll find language that is stricken through (repealed) or underlined (added to law).
Oklahoma conservative stalwart, Representative Rick West, authored the bill, which exists of only the repealed language on page 18 – below:
E. 1. No person shall be eligible for employment as a peace officer or reserve peace officer until the employing law enforcement agency has conducted a background investigation of such person consisting of the following:
i. such person has provided proof of United States citizenship or resident alien status, pursuant to an employment eligibility verification form from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
And this NEW language on pages 23 and 24 – below:
F. No person shall be certified as a police or peace officer by the Council or be employed by the state, a county, a city, or any political subdivision thereof, who is:
Is a permanent resident alien; provided, however, any person who has been trained and certified by the Council and is actively employed as a full-time peace officer as of November 1, 2025, shall not be subject to the provisions of this paragraph.
This morning, Representative Jay Steagall texted me the following X post:
So yesterday, Oklahoma rep. Rick West got a floor vote on HB1190, which would bar non citizens from being state law enforcement officers. Republicans have an 80-19 majority, yet only 33 of them were willing to vote for the bill.
I get it that many of them are uncomfortable
Along with the link to the X post, Rep. Steagall texted, “Imagine living in a state, where just last year the People voted to ensure that ONLY citizens could vote, yet the Oklahoma House of Representatives defiantly ensures the ability for non-citizens to enforce the law. This makes absolutely no sense to me.”
As Horowitz said in his post, “I get it that many of them are uncomfortable excluding legal permanent residents. Yes, all private sector jobs are opened to them. However, we are a nation of citizens and we should not have non citizens with law enforcement powers over citizens.”
AMEN! How in the world does allowing a non-citizen of Oklahoma – let alone AMERICA – arrest me protect my rights and my liberties? What’s the point of being a citizen of this state or nation then?
So, in case you can’t see it on the X post, I’m pasting the NO votes below because we need to know ALL the HOUSE members in the SQUISHY MIDDLE without enough guts to stand up to the PC crowd who tells us we can’t discriminate against people WHO AREN’T CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY!
FYI: This passed through the Public Safety Committee with the following votes:
YEAS: 5 – Hardin, Humphrey, Kelley, May, Turner
NAYS: 1 – Lowe (J)
It passed through the Public Safety OVERSIGHT Committee with the following votes:
Think on that a second: Culver, Duel, Ford, Harris, Kane, Manger and Sterling voted to allow the bill to pass from committee to be heard on the floor, where they voted against it. Yes, it’s great these Reps allowed the bill to be debated on the floor, but it’s very sad they didn’t have the guts to vote FOR it on the floor.
Truly, this is NOT OK, but virtually the same thing was done on the Senate side yesterday when they voted to allow anti-Semitism to become a legal offense in Oklahoma, invalidating every Oklahoman’s First Amendment Right. Here are the Senators who voted FOR that:
NOW YOU HAVE THE NAMES OF THE SQUISHY MIDDLE IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE. Let’s work to educate the newbies in the Senate (Gillespie, Grellner, McIntosh and Wingard) and toss out the rest.
Representative Rick West responded to my request for comment. Here’s the gist of what he said.
Rick said he’d run the bill twice or three times before at the request of a constituent and it had always passed out of the house before, but never got a hearing in the Senate. This time he was shocked that it went down in the House. He knew the Democrats would vote against it, but he was pretty shocked at the attitude some House members had about non-US citizens going through CLEET training.
“They can’t vote, but we’re going to allow them to go through CLEET?” he sked.
He told me he thinks that this particular law has been on the books as long as Oklahoma has had the law establishing CLEET.
I asked him if he knew whether or not we had non-citizens in any of our Oklahoma law enforcement arms since the provision has been in law so long.
“When I first ran this bill I did the research. No, I don’t know of any that are hired in law enforcement. I know the OSBI doesn’t have any, I know the other law enforcement don’t have any. Someone made a good point – you have to be a US citizen to be hired by all the US law enforcement services, so what are we doing here in Oklahoma allowing non-citizens to be CLEET certified and carry a gun and arrest US citizens?” he asked.
He said that some of the pushback he received from House members was from some in law enforcement who felt that interpreters were needed, but he made it clear that anyone wanting to be an interpreter can interpret without going through CLEET training.
The oddest thing to Rep. West was that, though the Democrats asked the same questions they always have, the mood was different with the Republicans this time. They told him things like – we need these people, we have a shortage of law enforcement – and that surprised him.
He told me that he’s had bills getting voted down, that wasn’t the issue. It was the mood of the legislature this time on this issue that struck him more than anything and that, I think, should concern ALL conservative Oklahomans.
Wednesday, March 26th on the regular podcast, I interviewed Oklahoma Senator David Bullard about bills in the Oklahoma Senate. Of course, the discussion delved into a bit more, but we talked about a couple of really bad bills that need to go away. You can find the full version of the interview on our Rumble and YouTube channels.
This is nonsense. Simply a whole lot of grandstanding and virtue signaling by your Oklahoma Senate. Truly, if a person is injured by another person – for any reason – or if property is damaged – for any reason, there are laws that bring perpetrators to justice and our law enforcement divisions are empowered to do that. It shouldn’t matter if someone used a racial/ethnic slur or not. THAT IS THE POINT. When the government begins to tell the people what they can and can NOT say – for any reason – we have descended into a tyranny. And, as Senator Bullard says here, if it’s anti-Semitic to say that Jesus was killed by Jews, all of Christianity is now called into question. No. Just no.
Just so you know, here are the VOTES on these bills (SB991, SB942):
These bills will go on to the House and they need to be stopped there.
We also talked about a House Bill that will be coming to the Senate that is exceedingly bad – HB2298 which will allow nurses prescribing power, “independent of supervision” by a physician. Although this will apply to Certified Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Certified Nurse-Midwives, these are still positions disallowed from prescriptive privileges without physician oversight currently.
There are several things wrong with this bill and Dr. Randy Grellnar also talked about this particular issue at the beginning of our interview with him when he was on several weeks ago, if you’d like to check out his perspective.
Here, Senator Bullard is talking about some of the issues that he’s concerned about with the bill – and mind you, this bill was run LAST YEAR and VETOED by the Governor.
Hopefully, between Dr. Grellnar and Senator Bullard, you get the idea. THIS IS A BAD BILL because it’s – again – government overstepping the bounds of its job – to protect our liberty – and trampling on issues that are best left to the oversight boards and the doctors themselves.
During the interview, we expanded on that topic – the topic of government trampling the liberty of citizens – and gave numerous examples of wherein the government is ruling us from the top down instead of allowing ourselves to govern ourselves from the bottom up – at the local levels of government where we have the most control. Essentially ‘top down’ systems DON’T WORK and that is what we talk about in the clip below. THIS is the concept ALL our legislators must be made to understand!
Please make a note of these bills and contact your Senator and Representative and tell them to be on the lookout for these bills and to vote NO when they see them.
Our friend, author ‘Mary’ of the V1SUT Vantage Substack joined the podcast at a SPECIAL TIME – at 1pm on Friday, March 21st to talk about some very unsettling things going on in the world of Oklahoma Education Reform. This is another one of those videos (I know…I write that all the time!) for which you’ll want to watch the full video and you can do that here on our YouTube and Rumble channels.
Mary talked about a number of bills, but the one we talked about arguably the most was HB1937, the bill that would change the law passed last year authored by Sherrie Conley, that prevented Oklahoma public school employees from communicating with students without a parent on the call/text/email/etc. HB1937 – a bill by two former public school employees – now allows parents to opt out of the law. Mary talks about what a bad idea that is in the clip below.
We also talked about HB1491 – a horrible bill that I can’t imagine wasn’t a request bill from the Governor. Don’t forget, back in February, Governor Stitt fired three Oklahoma State Department of Education Board members because of ‘political drama’. We found out later that Stitt fired them because he didn’t want anyone counting the number of illegal alien students here in Oklahoma (then we produced evidence that that information is collected for the Oklahoma State Longitudinal Database called The Wave, anyway).
And so the newest installment in the story is that, suddenly, and out of thin air, Representative Ronny Johns and Senator Aaron Rheinhardt gutted HB1491 – already a bad bill because it essentially watered down the requirements for removing teaching certifications from Oklahoma teachers – and inserted language that would allow State Board of Education members to add items to the agenda. Below, Mary explains why this is a very, very bad idea.
Who knows how poorly the state is really doing in educating our youth. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has us as 48th in reading and 45th in math for 8th graders. What’s going on at the state capitol right now is not helping. Let your Senators know that you don’t like EITHER of these bills and you want a big fat NO vote when they reach the Senate. Stay tuned and watch Mary’s substack for more!
Friday, March 21st, former Oklahoma Representative Jason Murphy came on with Michael and I to talk about legislation making its way through the Oklahoma legislature. I would really urge you to watch this particular FULL video (Rumble or YouTube) because we talked about a number of bills. Here, in this synopsis, I’ll touch on the ones we felt were most important.
HB2289 is the one Jason calls, “the thin-skinned congressman bill” because it sounds like one of our elected congressional whiners (that would be all of them but Josh Brecheen and Kevin Hern ) made it up and asked leadership to run it. It basically gives an entire list of things you can’t do/say about our elected federal officials. Bad. And NO. Please contact your Senators at this point and ask them to watch for this crappy bill. Here’s Jason talking about it.
Feel free to go directly to this video clip on YouTube and share to friends and Senators from there.
Another thing Jason wanted to stress, is that the grassroots is rising. More and more people in Oklahoma are paying attention to the games being played at 23rd and Lincoln and who holds power and why. This is such a great thing because it will allow us to finally get our LIBERTY back – finally control our destinies a bit as our forefathers expected us to do. So many of us – like Jason and ROPE – are creating Substacks and media channels that tell the public what is actually going on and not what the legacy media is telling us is going on. The spread of this kind of information is VITAL to an educated populace, so SUBSCRIBE to as many new media authors as you can stand, get educated, educate others and stand up against the global mindset that wants to subjugate us!
As I said, check out the full video where we talk about what happened with new Representative Jim Shaw – absolutely ZERO of his bills were heard in the House this year as payback for beating out entrenched RINO Kevin Wallace – and other bills that weren’t heard, as well as those that were heard but voted down. He even had a few GOOD ones in the mix, like HB1162 – to allow raw milk sales – and HB1515 – the one by new Rep Molly Jenkins that would have allowed absentee voting for only those Oklahomans who had a reason to vote absentee. Interestingly a number of conservatives voted against the bill.
Rep. Steagall and I have been arguing back and forth most of the day over the bill – though it’s too late for this session. My argument is that we KNOW – certainly in Edmond – that absentee ballots have changed election results. Having absentee ballots sent out in the mail indiscriminately (which has happened) allows nefarious people to use the ballots toward their end. In addition, having as many absentee ballots as are used now, over the days that they are allowed to turn them in, poses real issues for chain of custody. It used to be that, unless you had an excuse as to why you couldn’t turn up at the poll, you had to turn up at the poll.
Rep Steagall believes that it’s no one’s business why anyone votes absentee and that it’s a security risk to the family of the deployed to have to disclose that they are not in the country or otherwise deployed. We’re still arguing…LOL.
The bottom line here is that this session – certainly in the House – has been very difficult to follow with the ‘new’ (old) committee system of ‘oversight’ committees (that didn’t work the last time they were used) and that leadership still seems to have the same lock on legislation – cutting out “we the people” – that they always have. We’ll continue to ask Jason back to give us updates when he’s able. In the meantime, make sure you’re following people who are following legislation and follow Jason’s substack at OklahomaStateCapitol.substack.com! We’re only half-way through the session.
Wednesday, March 19th at a special time – 10:00am – Michael and I had the privilege of interviewing Oklahoma’s State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd. Cindy is – hands down – one of my favorite interviews because SHE KNOWS HER STUFF! After being an auditor for over 20 years, she’s got the answers to pretty much any questions you can ask. I’ve pulled several short clips from the interview, but you’ll want to watch the full interview on our Rumble or YouTube channels.
We started talking about the Tulsa Public Schools audit that she just recently finished at the request of the Governor. She talks about that – how does Cindy determine what agencies to audit? Is it up to her? Early on she tells us that she doesn’t have the power to independently audit agencies or political subdivisions. At about 14 minutes in, she tells us who has the authority to have her audit – and that includes taxpayers!
As I mentioned, we didn’t just discuss the TPS audit, there were a number of questions that came in from viewers that Cindy was kind enough to take. Additionally, she had a number of points she was interested in making herself – like this one in the clip below.
Isn’t it interesting how the people who make the laws don’t seem to be terribly interested in the topic of how to make state agencies more transparent with taxpayer dollars? How frustrating! But it gets worse! Cindy tells us in the clip below that even if she finds that a person or entity is breaking the law, there are no laws in Oklahoma that actually hold ‘bad actors’ responsible for the gross mismanagement of tax dollars. How can that be? That’s flat crazy and something that an Oklahoma legislator needs to resolve NEXT YEAR for certain!
In this last clip, Cindy tells viewers not to give up hope! If we’ll report what we know, or think, to be wrong and if we’ll stand up and make our elected officials do what’s right – get Cindy’s office to audit – we’ll get the finances of our Oklahoma government back in order! She believes we can do it, but we have to be citizens active in the process, so stayed involved and educated!
Friday, March 14th, former FOX 25 reporter and investigator Andrew Speno, joined us to talk about Abraham Lincoln – a man who research shows isn’t the man history has painted for us. You can find the whole interview on our YouTube and Rumble channels. I suggest you do and watch the entire video. It was fascinating – and unsettling, frankly! Definitely a must watch!
Andrew has been studying Lincoln – among other topics – for several years. He explained that Lincoln was not the abolitionist history paints him to be. Old Abe didn’t really care about freeing slaves as much as he didn’t want southern states succeeding from the Union. Yick. Definitely not a good look for ‘honest’ Abe…
Not only is that a pretty gross deal, but even worse was how Lincoln treated other people during the war! He was supposed to be a Republican, but, as Speno tells us, Lincoln was the guy who started the practice of ‘lawfare’ – siccing the law on your political enemies without a legal reason to do so!
Truly, this was a fascinating interview and one we don’t see very often. One that questions current political history. Speno has been doing research on a number of OTHER historically propagandized individuals – such as Hellen Keller – and we’ll be having him back on in upcoming months to give us a chance to allow new information to change our historical worldview, so STAY TUNED!
Wednesday, March 12th, among other things, Dr. Randy Grellnar spoke with us about his thoughts on SB569 and the House companion bill (HB2298) which would allow nurses an expanded scope of practice to include prescribing medication. You can find the full video on our YouTube and Rumble channels.
Dr. Grellnar and I started speaking about the scope of practice bills at about 13 minutes. I suggest you tune in if possible. It is a very interesting topic. We neglected to mention (I think) that one of the ways we know that leadership (not the people) want a bill is that the bill is introduced as BOTH a House Bill and a Senate Bill. This is kind of a bet hedge. If the bill falls in the Senate, it could pass in the House and if it passes in the House, then Senate leadership will get the caucus on board so it’ll pass the second time around. Yes, it’s gross, but this game is played quite consistently with bills leadership wants to pass.
I wonder if the Oklahoma Medical Association is behind this bill. They are a huge lobby at the Capitol and leadership tend to push the bills lobbyists want. Who knows – but this is a bad bill. Here are just a couple reasons why:
Governor Stitt vetoed the bill last year, why bring it up again?
The authors are asking for the ability of nurses to give Schedule II drugs – which are opioids – with no oversight. Didn’t we just try to stop the opioid crisis in our state, and stop pill mills. If this bill passes, overnight there will be hundreds more prescribers.
The bill’s authors also ask for nurses to be able to prescribe schedule III-V drugs as well.
some of these can kill unborn babies
ARNP’s and certified midwives will have to carry 3 million in malpractice coverage per year at 1 million/incident because in 2019 the Supreme Court found unconstitutional the 350K cap on pain and suffering adjudicated during Oklahoma’s torte reform legislation. What nurses can afford that?
Why have a State Medical Board if the legislature is just going to pass laws for doctors to follow? This bill usurps local control of health care.
Please, tell your Senator and your Representative to vote NO on these bills.
Dr. Grellnar also gave us some great, conservative thoughts during the podcast that more legislators at the state capitol should share.
This was my favorite – check it out – “the only way to protect freedom is to choke off the government”. YES!
Here, Dr. Grellnar talks about how important it is to take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR HEALTH, but people aren’t because, well, ‘science’. Today, so many Americans treat science as if it’s a God. How many times during COVID did you hear something stupid like, “respect the science”? Here, Dr. Grellnar talks about that.
Don’t forget to call your Senator and Representative about these bills and keep watching…we’re almost halfway through the session already!
