ROPE Report

Oklahoma Representative, Kevin Wallace is doing EVERYTHING he can to win re-election to a seat that makes $47,500/year with a generous $168/day per diem. Why? Does it have anything to do with the fact that he controls the purse strings for multi-MILLIONS of dollars of taxpayer funds as the House Appropriations and Budget Chair? Who would want access to those millions of dollars forced from hard working citizens each year? Special interests? Businesses?

Wallace drew two challengers for the November 2024 general election – Jim Shaw and Jason Shilling. Both men ran on similar platforms; concern about biosludge application to farmland (Wallace has admitted publicly to dumping humanure/biosludge on his farm twice) and the takeover of private land by solar and wind technology firms, among other issues.

In what could only be called a ‘dark horse’ race, Jim Shaw, beat Wallace by 212 votes in the primary, forcing a run-off election scheduled for Tuesday, August 27th.

[NOTE; only 5117 voters participated in the primary. That’s ONE FIFTH of the REGISTERED voters in HD32 according to Oklahoma County Election Board statistics for January 2024. Get a load of the census data and you’ll see that the percentage of REGISTERED voters is a fraction of the TOTAL of the over 18 citizens in the district. It’s gross. We’re a representative REPUBLIC, but not if YOU DON’T VOTE! If doing anything else is more important than becoming educated about your representatives in government and then voting, MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY! You’re the reason we’re losing this one!]

Jim Shaw moved to Chandler from Arcadia with his wife and two small girls several years ago. He’s never been involved in politics before, and didn’t even have running for an office on his radar, until he became concerned about the assaults being made on the land occupied by Oklahoma’s small farmers and ranchers – solar, wind, biosludge, Chinese land ownership (which has skyrocketed since medical marijuana was legalized) and a swath of land to be usurped for a giant electricity transmission corridor, just to name a few.

Though Wallace has been in office since 2014, the Primary clearly unsettled the incumbent.

Since that time, Kevin Wallace been on a PAC/lobbyist/attorney/business spending spree that has resulted in a reported $380,714.02 spent just for his political consultant, Campaign Advocacy Management Professionals (CAMP) alone. In fact, he has raised a total of $368,738.95 and spent $438,572.96 just since the Primary! What’s interesting, is that there are so few INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT CITIZENS donating to his campaign, I could barely spot them on his report – can you? But that’s not new, don’t forget – we showed in our May 19th video – that less than 1% of all Wallace’s donations came from citizens in his district!

[NOTE; Apparently Wallace LOVES getting taxpayer dollars as much as he LOVES spending taxpayer dollars. He’s taken $67,603 from the federal government in disaster and commodities subsidies since 2015!]

Truly, since the Primary, the HD32 race has been disgusting on the part of Wallace – and his supporter Governor Kevin Stitt! In the video below, Shaw explains that a video recorded by the Governor in support of Wallace – in which the Governor calls Shaw supporters “Political Animals” and then basically calls Shaw a liar by saying that Wallace helped him author a bill to stop Chinese land ownership – is wrong. Shaw shows in the video below that – NO! – the bill that BOTH the Governor and Wallace are talking about HAS NO TEETH. It’s completely unenforceable, rendering it null and void essentially.

But this is nothing new. This is the Kabuki Theater that IS Oklahoma government. If you watch the FULL live video (Rumble, YouTube) you’ll see me go into a rant about how the Common Core legislation was the same – yes, it was repealed from law, but no one could ACT on it to keep it out of schools.

Hopefully, you read a recent article on this blog about Governor Stitt’s TOOTHLESS immigration bill. The Kabuki theater goes like this; you put a title on a bill that the leftist news media will pick up on – never reading the bill – and it goes viral because the lefties are all screaming against it. This automagically makes all those on the right start shouting about how great the bill is to counter their narrative and voila! A bill passes that would be fine except that it will be meaningless once the Task Force the Governor will implement comes back with a way to get the illegals here illegally to stay legally. It’s all nonsense and yet SO MANY people buy it because they won’t research what is actually going on instead of listening to all the media hype.

And then, of course, there’s the post made by Wallace to one of his three Facebook pages (the one from which I’ve been blocked, apparently!), where he has someone from his campaign go onto Jim Shaw’s property to take photos and then puts his address on a PUBLIC POST in an effort to show that Shaw has solar panels on his property, thereby making him a “liar” and a “fraud”.

I’d have been embarrassed to post something like this, but when he was confronted with the FACT that he doxed his opponent, he would simply respond, “It’s called Google”. This person should represent others in his district? I’d also have been embarrassed to conflate a solar panel array on personal property for personal use, with a 10 thousand acre solar installation, but hey, maybe Wallace is just so interested in winning that he’s vacated all rational thought.

Wallace – and his ilk; career politicians who serve special interests above their constituents – are exactly the people we need to remove from public office. Jim Shaw is exactly the person our Founders talked about when they spoke of the importance of Citizen Legislators.