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Which Oklahoma Representatives Voted To Allow Non-Citizens To Have Law Enforcement Power Over Oklahoma Citizens?

non-citizens arresting citizens?

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bill – meaning that somewhere in the existing bill’s language, you’ll find language that is stricken through (repealed) or underlined (added to law).

Oklahoma conservative stalwart, Representative Rick West, authored the bill, which exists of only the repealed language on page 18 – below: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:

  1. 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:

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:

YEAS:   10 – Culver, Duel, Ford, Hardin, Harris, Kane, Kannady, Manger, Sterling, Worthen          

NAYS:    3 – Lowe (J), Rosecrants, Schreiber   

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.

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OK Senator David Bullard On Bad Bills Moving Through The Legislature So Far – Including Making Anti-Semitism Illegal

Senator David Bullard Talks Bad Bills

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.

Here, Senator Bullard talks about a bill just passed by the Senate on the 25th. It’s Kristin Thompson’s bill to stop anti-Semitism.

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.

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Usurping Local Control – Cell Phone Restrictions In Oklahoma – NO on SB1389 and HB1276

Here is the cell phone bill, by Senate Education Committee Vice-Chair, Ally Seifried; SB139. There is also a companion bill run by Representative Chad Caldwell in the House, HB1276 which has already passed its first Committee hurdle.

According to a press release sent out by Senate Media, the bill, “empower[s] schools to adopt ‘bell to bell’ cell phone policies”, yet the bill summary says, “An Act relating to schools; requiring school district boards of education to adopt a policy prohibiting use of cell phones while on campus during certain time period”. Requiring and ’empowering’ do not have the same meaning – the first includes force.

In fact, the bill goes on to say that it will require schools to set discipline policies for students who break the school’s required policy on cell phone use (the force part). Originally, it had allotted up to 2 million taxpayer dollars (“if available”, whatever that means) to be granted to middle and high schools so they can buy something to STORE cell phones during the day. Because a basket can’t hold cell phones in a classroom and we need a cabinet (or something) for THE SCHOOL to hold EVERY STUDENT’S cell phone.

Problems With The Bill

  1. What is the point of a school board? According to state law, individual local school boards have the right and ability to set policy – including policy over cell phones. This bill actively usurps local school board authority by forcing them to create a policy. On one hand, we expect parents to execute control over their minor children, yet so much of what the state does actually removes parental executive control in favor of a government policy, rule or law. How can a parent execute parental control if we keep removing their executive function?
  2. This is NEW LAW. How many laws do Oklahomans need to restrain them – or, in this case, their children? What about schools? Could an argument be made that part of the reason public schools in Oklahoma are failing is that they are constrained by state laws that may not have been needed at the local level? How many laws does Oklahoma actually need – especially when this one has no teeth, making it a suggestion.
  3. This law forces schools to create disciplinary actions to be meted out when students break cell phone policy. What happens if a school DOESN’T create a cell phone policy? What happens if they don’t create a discipline policy? How many times has state law required schools to create a policy, but then never forced the school to write the policy when they don’t? Tulsa attorney Maria Seidler has told us numerous times, for example, that public schools don’t adhere to all of Oklahoma’s Parental Rights law, but there isn’t an enforcement mechanism in the law to make them, forcing parents to use their own money to sue schools while schools use taxpayer dollars to fight them. How many times has the state forced schools to follow the policies they DO create – about bathrooms, free speech, bullying, or student safety, for example? This law, then, would be meaningless, just like so many others our legislature creates, because there isn’t a mechanism of enforcement.
  4. Our state has real problems with school employees who misuse and abuse children in their care. We have only to look at the number of multi-million dollar lawsuits being settled by schools in the last several years like Kingfisher and Ninnekah and Salina and Perry and Shawnee and Wewoka… Yet, parents who suggest CCTV for classrooms are confronted with an uproar like a tsunami from certain teachers and administrators against such a thing. Now, we want to remove the only way students have to ‘catch’ a school employee doing something they shouldn’t be doing. Just this thought should be concerning.
  5. So much learning is now done on computers but somehow the kid’s cell phones are causing distraction? How does that work? Countless studies have shown that computer learning isn’t the best thing for students, but not only do we still do it, there are real problems with students accessing porn and other sites, as former Oklahoma resident Denise Roberts told us during an interview on our podcast – but cell phones are the problem?
  6. This is a national movement. Why? Why we are attempting to do what so many other states are doing? Why do we play Follow The Leader so often in Oklahoma when we’re an individual state. What about, “I don’t care what the other kids do”. What about being an “laboratories of Democracy“?
  7. Each and every teacher could create their own class rules about cell phones, but we’re not letting them – “Put the phones in the basket on my desk until the end of class everyone”. We’re telling teachers that we don’t trust them with a policy over a cell phone, but you trust them to educate the kids in their class? How much sense does that make? This is all talk out of both sides of the mouth of the legislature – here, have more money teachers – but you can’t manage your own classroom.

Bottom line. This is a bill in search of a problem that already has a solution. This isn’t even a bandaid for the horrible educational results we have in this state. This bill is vanity, not good governance.

Contact the Senate Education Committee and ask them to say NO to SB1389.

adam.pugh@oksenate.gov, ally.seifried@oksenate.gov, dusty.deevers@oksenate.gov, joanna.dossett@oksenate.gov, carri.hicks@oksenate.gov, kelly.hines@oksenate.gov, mark.mann@oksenate.gov, roland.pederson@oksenate.gov, dave.rader@oksenate.gov, aaron.reinhardt@oksenate.gov, kendal.sacchieri@oksenate.gov

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Law Enforcement Use Of ‘FLOCK’ Camera Surveillance in Oklahoma Does Not Protect Our Constitutional Rights

Friday morning at 9am on the regular ROPE Report podcast, Michael and I welcomed Oklahoma Representative Tom Gann and former Logan County Commissioner, Marven Goodman, to talk about law enforcement surveillance of Oklahoma citizens through Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs). This is a HUGE topic, as there are two bills in the legislature this session that need to be stopped – SB857 and HB1626.

During October of last year, Gann and Goodman discussed the problems with Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs – of which the brand Flock Safety – is probably the best known) at an Interim Study which Michael and I and our friend, Whitney Mullica from PikeOffOTA discussed via podcast, which you can find here. During that Interim Study, the video below was included. I am including it here, because so many people say things like, “If I’m not doing anything wrong, what does it matter?” They don’t realize exactly what can happen to them if they’re surveilled. Well, this man, who was simply traveling through Oklahoma did nothing wrong and yet he was pulled over and subjected to questioning and even a warrantless search by the law enforcement officer (LEO) that conducted the stop.

Hopefully, after that short – but painful – video, you now understand the reason why ALPRs are not a viable way of policing if citizens are to keep their Constitutional rights intact.

But it’s more than that. In Oklahoma, the use of ALPRs followed the genesis of a state law that required Oklahomans to buy uninsured motorist insurance. Rep. Gann and I discuss this fact in the clip below.

So why were Oklahomans required to buy ‘uninsured’ motorist protection? We’re 28th in Oklahoma in uninsured motorist coverage EVEN WITH the cameras, so what’s the point? Maybe a revenue stream for the Oklahoma District Attorney Council (ODAC)? According to Rep. Gann, the ODAC got ‘tired’ of coming before the legislature to seek funding and utilizing ALPRs to catch people without uninsured motorist coverage provided funding outside the legislative appropriation process – a process that also provides transparency for Oklahoma taxpayers that this group now DOESN’T HAVE.

But it gets worse – LEOs aren’t even legally allowed to use ALPR data the way it was used in the traffic stop above. How is it that a law enforcement agency is using technology illegally? Kind of smarts the sensibilities a bit, doesn’t it?

In the final video clip I’m going to add here, Rep. Gann points out that he’s asked how LEOs can be using this data illegally, but he gets no answer. In addition, even if a LEO does find a crime using this technology, NO PART OF THE DATA CAN BE USED IN COURT because we don’t have laws in Oklahoma that allow LEOs to collect the data in the first place. In fact, the man in the first video, sued Oklahoma and won because of that reason.

Rep. Gann and Michael talk about the Carpenter case – where cell phone data was collected by LEOs on a citizen and used against him. He then sued the government and won in the Supreme Court because this kind of tracking via technology is a violation of so many of our Constitutional rights to privacy.

This technology is also used to capture data that is then provided to OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT entities other than the one by which it was collected. So, for example, the City of Edmond collects data from ALPRs and stores the data, which can the be used by the ATF, or another state, or the FBI or the CIA – it’s ridiculous how many agencies can be allowed to see/use the data when it’s not even lawful to collect that data on residents in the state! Often, law enforcement entities – like Edmond – refuse to release the lists of law enforcement agencies using their ALPR data to the citizens they are surveilling!

Please contact your legislators – both Senators and Representatives – and ask them to VOTE NO on both SB857 and HB1626, which seek to put ‘guardrails’ (as explained to me by House author Representative John George) around the way in which law enforcement uses ALPR cameras.

Here is some suggested wording:

Dear ___________,

Please vote not on both SB857 and HB1626, seeking to put regulations around the use of ALPR (Flock Safety) cameras for law enforcement personnel in the state.

These cameras are only authorized for one use – to determine whether residents have uninsured motorist insurance. Oklahoma is 28th in the nation in uninsured motorist coverage. Clearly, the cameras aren’t solving that problem.

In addition, it’s a violation of my right to be forced to buy insurance I can choose to buy on my own.

The legislation allowing the use of ALPR cameras must be – at least – studied and completely revised, and – at most – completely repealed from law.

Protecting the individual rights of Oklahomans is the only reason you are elected by The People. Please protect my rights by working to stop the illegal surveillance of Oklahoma citizens via ALPR cameras.

Thank you,

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Oklahoma Legislation Affecting Homeschool Or Education Autonomy To Support Or Oppose

Below are the bills which would affect homeschooling families in one way or another. The RED are not supported by home educators and the GREEN are supported by those who educate their children at home without government assistance. This list was compiled by homeschool educator Robert Scott.

In order to help you read this list better, you can click in the document and it will take you to our SCRIBD site. You may also print out this PDF. Below is a list of just the bills.

Also, HJR1010 by Jim Shaw which would provide constitutional protection for homeschools and private schools. A Joint Resolution directing the Secretary of State to refer to the people for their approval or rejection a proposed amendment to Section 4 of Article XIII of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma; stating certain parental and legal guardian rights; limiting certain school regulations; providing ballot title; and directing filing.


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OK Representative Jay Steagall Talks DRONES

Wednesday morning during our regular podcast, Rep. Jay Steagall was with me to talk about drones.

Right before Christmas, you’ll remember, there was a flurry of reported drone activity over the East Coast. Reel after reel of video taken from various places of items identified as drones was posted to social media and the news media was having near hysterics that they could be foreign in nature. I guess when you have an enormous ‘weather’ balloon known to be Chinese flying over air force bases, anything could happen, right?.

Like most good US citizens today, Rep. Steagall wasn’t buying any nonsense. He not only flies planes, he flies drones, so he knows a little bit about the issue.

During the podcast, he told us that he is part of a group that investigates similar incidences and that their investigations indicated that all the drones flying were registered with the FAA. The only reason it looked like there were so many of them was that because many people were filming the same thing from different angles and uploading it to social media. He explained that if there had been as many drones flying as the media made out, they would have been flying into each other and falling out of the sky!

Interestingly, yesterday – just before today’s show – President Trump’s new Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt held her first press conference and the first thing she addressed was the drone ‘freak out’. She said that the drones were all authorized by the FAA – some were being flown by hobbyists, but others were performing research. Now, she didn’t delve deeply into what the ‘research’ was, but the point of the matter was that it wasn’t another ‘Chinese weather balloon’ saga.

In the clip below, Rep. Steagall gives us some background on drones before we started talking about Governor Stitt’s Executive Order to have the Department of Public Safety buy ‘drone protection equipment’ – which they did, at a cost of $30k.

We talked for quite a bit about why Oklahoma would want to have ‘drone protection equipment’ and about how the equipment that was purchased by the Department of Public Safety purchase wasn’t going to do much other than to identify where the controller to the drone was. You’ll want to watch the full live video either here on YouTube or on our Rumble channels.

Because we’d had a run-in with a drone on our property back in 2020, I asked Rep. Steagall about what to do if that ever happened again. Seriously, as tech gets better, we have to understand what great surveillance capabilities these things have – and with cameras, pictures and video can be taken and uploaded to the internet – not good things for privacy! Below is our discussion about what to do if you find a drone flying on your property without permission because, since 2022, that is a misdemeanor. It’s a short video, so watch and then put that info in your back pocket in the event you ever need it…

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America’s Digital Currency Conundrum

One of our favorites – Julianne Romanello – was on with Michael and I last Friday (1.24.25). As usual, the conversation was stimulating and thought provoking.

Technology changes rapidly and concerningly, the way we use our money is changing rapidly as well. Michael is very involved in crypto currency and as such, pays close attention to what is going on in the world of digital currency. Between he and Julianne, our audience that morning got a real education. Don’t worry, if you missed us live, you can find the full video on our YouTube and Rumble channels.

And, in case you missed it, here’s a clip from the show where Michael and Julianne are talking about how Americans will get pulled into the digital currency model. This is kind of scary actually, but, we here at ROPE Report operate on the ideal that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Watch and share!

You may watch even just that section of our show with Julianne and, like me, start getting concerned that all our paper money will suddenly go away and we’re left with controllable currency. If so, watch the clip below where we talk about some ways in which Oklahomans (Americans) can fight back against the digital currency ship…

So, did you notice that one way Julianne tells us that we can help ourselves is by understanding what digital currency is in a more thorough way? Look up ‘stable coin‘. What is that? What’s the difference between that and Crypto currency? What is Tether? What is Circle? The more we know about these things, the harder it will be for a lobbyist or legislator to put one over on us! I’ve linked pages to the terms so you can go right to where you can read all about them!

Truly, the best thing we can do is stay engaged and when confronted with legislation that could change the way we use money in America or Oklahoma, we say, NO NO NO NO NO!

So, once again, we’ve put this issue right back in YOUR lap! We’re here to help educate you, but so much of the changes we need to prevent have to be done by EACH ONE OF US in order to make an impact. So…get educated, stay informed on legislation and what is happening in the state and speak out when we need to say, “NO!”

PS: You might watch the rant Michael went on about Howard Lutnik – who was being considered by President Trump for Commerce Secretary. You can find that on our YouTube channel here.

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How Oklahoma Property Taxes Are Calculated and Who/What Really Owns Your Property

The most important hour and half you will ever spend is the hour and a half I spent talking to former McClain County Auditor turned Oklahoma Senator, Kendal Sacchieri, about how property taxes are calculated and who really owns your property. You really should take the time to watch the whole live episode of the ROPE Report from yesterday, January 15th (2025). You can find it here on YouTube and on Rumble.

As a citizen of Oklahoma, I absolutely DESPISE the fact that if I don’t pay my property taxes, the county will take my home away from me, sell it and pay whatever taxes I owe. Seriously. I may have a title to my house, but it won’t matter one whit if I don’t make good on my tax bill every year.

Below is the breakdown on the property taxes for a home in northwest Oklahoma City, done by the Oklahoma County Assessor. The property tax bill below that is from the McClain County Assessor’s office. Kendal told me that if your property tax bill doesn’t look like the blue one, you should ask your county Treasurer to break down the county property taxes into mills so that homeowners can better see the distribution of their tax dollars..

Note which entity is FAR AND AWAY the largest tax? Now let me ask two questions; 1. Do you feel your property taxes are too high? and 2. Have you voted on YES on a school bond?

Keep these things in mind when you watch the video below.

Now, watch this video clip. Trust me when I say it will be THE MOST IMPORTANT 7 MINUTE VIDEO OF YOUR LIFE AS AN OKLAHOMA HOME OWNER.

If you’re not throwing things at your video screen and freaking out a bit after watching those clips, we can’t be friends.

Basically, what Senator Sacchieri said was, that you don’t own your own property because of a scam that allows public schools to get more and more and more money every year NO MATTER THEIR OUTCOMES. Can’t teach kids how to read? Get more money. Can’t teach kids how to write a paragraph that makes sense? Get more money? Can’t teach kids to count back change or figure the percentage of something? Get more money. THAT IS NUTS.

Unfortunately, we, as citizens simply haven’t understood the process of property taxation well enough to stop it in the past, evidently. Fortunately, we have the Senator to TEACH us the process. Now, that she’s educated us, we need to do several things.

  1. We need to just drive our legislators crazy asking for a bill to put a state question on a general election ballot to remove the language from the state Constitution that allows counties to collect property taxes. The state has nothing to do with property taxes. Property taxes in Oklahoma are generated at the COUNTY level and go to the COUNTY entities you see in my example above. Once the language is removed, the county has no ability to FORCE property taxes.
  2. Toward the end of the full video, Kendal and I talk about the County Excise Boards. This is an important thing for you to know about. The Excise Board is a group of people who meet after the County Assessor has turned in home valuations and the county entities have decided how much in taxes they must recoup to make their budgets. The decide whether or not the budgets proposed by the entities are sound and reasonable and how much the entity will be allowed to tax your property. They must hold public hearings on the budgets submitted, allowing citizen comment. You can find your Excise Board meetings through your county office. Here is the list of Boards and Commissions for Oklahoma County. In Kingfisher, after a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a football coach for ‘hazing’ (physical abuse), the school added the lawsuit burden to their budget, expecting the taxpayers to foot the bill. The Kingfisher Excise Board members rejected the budget, forcing Kingfisher to cut their budget to pay the lawsuit. This was HUGE. This kind of thing almost never happens, but then I would imagine there are few – if any citizens – that would go to a meeting to protest a budget that would increase their property taxes. Learn about your Excise Board.
  3. Your School Board is VERY IMPORTANT. Go to these meetings. If your school proposes a school bond – PROTEST. They MUST have open meetings and they MUST allow citizen comments. If they won’t, band together and send out literature to the district warning residents of what a vote on the bond can do to their property tax rates. As my neighbors and I found out, it was much cheaper to band together to stop a school bond by creating a flier and splitting postage and copying costs and sending it out to district voters, than it was to have our property rates jacked up.

BOTTOM LINE: Citizens have the ability to stop property tax increases through the means above. We also have the ability to have our lawmakers act on our behalf by proposing legislation for a state question to remove the ability for counties to collect property tax. If we do neither, we simply can’t complain.

PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO FRIENDS, FAMILY and NEIGHBORS!

Everyone needs to know this information!

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Association of Central Oklahoma Governments Creates Liberty-Sucking New ‘Safety’ Plan

Friday, 12.20.24, ROPE Report Live published a previously-recorded video with our friends Whitney Mullica and Kelly Wilson discussing ACOG’s new Regional Safety Action Plan created for all regional municipal governments to adopt.

As the Town of Luther’s former Mayor (2017-2021), I sat on ACOG‘s Board. According to the “About Us” section of its webpage, it is comprised of one elected municipal official (and up to two alternates) from every city/town in central Oklahoma. This is not the way it was when I served on the Board. During that time, the number of elected officials who sat on the Board was determined by the number of residents of the city/town – for example, my little town had under 3000 citizens so only one person was allowed to serve on the Board. Oklahoma City had four (I think).

Nevertheless, It is presided over by municipal planners and government-grant locators/distributors who disperse federal monies and create studies that help to create plans like the Regional Safety Action Plan so they can feel as though they’re doing something for their multi-million dollar yearly budget. Originally, ACOG was to be a passthrough for federal highway transportation funds. But now look at them…my how they’ve grown! Because bureaucrats never cease to desire to spend other people’s money.

At any rate, I’m one of those people who are on the mailing list for our Town’s monthly meeting agendas and I scan them every month. In December, the Town had an agenda item to approve the ACOG Regional Safety Action Plan. Despising ACOG the way I do – I took it as my job to be the only “NO” vote on the Board as often as possible – I immediately read the plan, called as many neighbors as I could to explain the issue and ask for them to attend the meeting to express our displeasure in the fact that our Town would even conceive of considering such nonsense. I mean, our Town comprises less than 3000 citizens. What is the necessity of signing on to ANY plan from a large bureaucratic agency?

Three of us attended the meeting and gave specific reasons why we didn’t want to adopt the plan. The Mayor seemed stunned – he is listed as a member of the “Planning Team” – and, even after hearing our complaints, moved to Table the motion to adopt until January’s meeting so he could study the plan further (although he was on the planning team…).

Realizing the folly of adopting this mess, but stuck waiting until January to address the issue again, it seemed reasonable that Michael and I discuss the plan with two people very adept at planning mechanisms – Whitney Mullica and Kelly Wilson of PikeOffOTA.

Both ladies read over the plan and we convened via StreamYard recording to discuss the issues surrounding adoption of the plan – the basis of which comes from a Swedish effort called, Vision Zero, to “eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries”. Hopefully, you’re thinking, “How’s THAT going to happen?”. Well, obviously it’s not.

In the clip below we talk about the concept of ‘safety’ and whether or not “Vision Zero” is in any way realistic.

Please, take at least a bit of time to scan the plan – much of it is traffic patterns attempting to justify the creation of yet new LAWS/LOCAL ORDINANCES, so there’s not a whole lot there to read. Also, read the goofy What Is Vision Zero web page. Then,

1. Watch the full video on YouTube or Rumble to get our full conversation.

2. Contact your elected municipal representative for ACOG (you can find the list of cities/towns here) and find out if your city/town is considering adoption of this plan (spoiler, they are).

3. Show up to the meeting at which the municipal council/board is considering this plan and tell them to knock off the municipal meddling and VOTE NO.

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