Monday, December 30, 2019

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS STRIKE AGAIN



 SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS STRIKE AGAIN. 

DO WE REALLY WANT CRIMINALS ON
THE STREET THAT MUCH SOONER? 

WE DON’T THINK SO! 
THE WATCHMAN - 
Social Justice Warriors deserve due credit for their tireless efforts at trying to undermine the legal and penal system of not only Oklahoma, but this entire nation. This most recent effort is an affront to those good men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this state. Not only that, but it undermines the already woefully light sentences alleged non-violent offenders get for their crimes as it is. Maybe if these do gooders would open their eyes they would realize that these criminals, and they are criminals, do very little of their sentences as it is.

There is an initiative petition going around for signatures that is being, in our opinion, misrepresented to the people. That petition would be listed as State Question 805 on the November 2020 ballot. You can see the basic information on the question by going here. It would prohibit an offender’s prior felony convictions from being used to enhance their sentence. It also allows those currently incarcerated to apply for a reduction of their sentence provided their sentence was enhanced by a previous felony conviction. We have to wonder how much longer it will be before these snowflakes are going to ask us to put up signs in our yards asking to be a victim of a crime.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

KENDRA HORN: THE CONSUMMATE D.C.INSIDER AND HAND MAIDEN TO THE SWAMP MISTRESS

REPRESENTATIVE KENDRA HORN
THE CONSUMATE D.C.INSIDER
AND HAND MAIDEN TO THE SWAMP MISTRESS
For those of you who may be curious about this title, the New York Post gave the title of the “Swamp Mistress” to Speaker Pelosi in their headline today. For the Representative who said, “It’s time to take off the labels and do what’s right for a change.” And voted 86% of the time right along party lines, we felt that she deserved the title of her hand maiden at the very least.
Yes, freshman Representative and D.C.veteran Kendra Horn ignored the rules of law and the U.S. Constitution and denied the sitting President his rights. She became part of the hate fest that was the House of Representatives. She thus became a complete and total embarrassment to this great state.

Sunday, December 15, 2019

GIVING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS?



SINCE WHEN DID REPUBLICANS START CO-SPONSORING LEGISLATION GIVING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS?

THE WATCHMAN
Many hard working, well meaning individuals immigrate to this nation every year with the intention of bettering their life and becoming good citizens. They adjust to our customs, learn our language and continue to practice their religion as they see fit. Sadly, they are far outnumbered by those who enter this country illegally. Those numbers are in the millions. This has put a strain on our budget, our education system, our welfare system and everything else. As most of these individuals do not pay taxes, it has hurt the tax paying citizens of this country most of all.
This is not a new problem. This has been going on for decades. An agreement was reached in the 80’s between President Reagan and the Democrats that gave amnesty to four million illegal immigrants in exchange for funding for more border protection. President Reagan signed an Executive Order granting the amnesty fulfilling his end of the agreement, but the funding has never been approved. The affect has been devastating to our nation and to our economy.

Saturday, November 30, 2019

MAPS 4 & HOW IT WILL AFFECT THE CITIZENS OF OKLAHOMA CITY


by THE WATCHMAN
In a continuous tale of trying to make improvements for those who live in Oklahoma City, another of the Maps proposal will be coming up shortly. Many have asked what all it about. We shall attempt to answer some questions about the proposal. The first article we located was this from the City of Oklahoma City. This is an informative article that is well worth the time to read. It may answer a lot of the questions you have.

The next article of interest we found was this this. This gives you information that wasn’t in the first article. Here is where you will find a lot of details, they won’t tell you anywhere else. There are several changes to how the voting for this have changed. The major change is the voting itself. Past MAPS elections have had each project voted on separately. The upcoming vote will be a single vote for all the projects. The suspected reason they did it this way was that by bundling the projects together they all stand a better chance at passing.

Friday, November 29, 2019

Oopsie! We're Correcting Our Report



A CORRECTION TO A PREVIOUS STORY
THE WATCHMAN
We take this small block of your time to issue a correction to a story from last week on Campaign Financing and Congressman Hern. We erroneously showed a conservative rating of 17%. A more up to date article from the Conservative Review indicates that Congressman Hern has a Conservative rating of 60%. We apologize for our error. You can get the latest report by opening this link.
 

Monday, November 18, 2019

Kevin Hern: Campaign Money & Votes


FINANCING A SECOND CAMPAIGN FOR OFFICE: WHERE IS ALL THAT MONEY COMING FROM? 
- THE WATCHMAN

We are often asked where we get the inspiration for the articles we right. That is a very fair and legitimate question. We get our inspiration from various news articles we read on the internet. That is where this week’s story comes from. There was a very good article in the MuskogeePolitico.com. The article can be viewed here. The article covers an interesting subject about the campaign finance raised by Representative Hern over the last quarter. It’s well worth your time to read it.

The first thing we did was go to his campaign website located here to find out as much about his campaign as we could.

We started by going to the page that covers “Promises Kept.” You can see the report by opening this link. It looks impressive on the surface, but we had our doubts. We looked a little deeper.

We next went to the voting records page located here. We couldn’t help but to wonder why he would vote against a piece of legislation and turn around and vote for a motion to recommit. That negates his no vote.

Sunday, November 3, 2019

IS REPRESENTATIVE HORN WORKING FOR HER CONSTITUENTS? OR IS SHE SELLING A SCAM?

THE WATCHMAN

It’s always surprised us how we here in Oklahoma can claim that we are a Conservative State, when our state legislative bodies and our delegation in the District of Corruption are liberal in nature and wouldn’t even qualify as a “Blue Dog Democrat.” That is truly a sad state of affairs. We are shocked to see that Oklahoma still ranks among the top five in the amount of freedom we have, but those liberal, establishment Republicans are always looking for a way to take a little more of that freedom away.

Now we find that the leadership of the state GOP is in complete disarray. That break down led to the defeat of the Republican Incumbent in the 2016 general election. What brought our attention to this sordid take was this story from the Muskogee Politico. This was showing how much she raised during the last quarter. We were curious as to where all that money came from, so we went to the Federal Elections Commission here to see what information they could provide. You can see the results below.

Sunday, October 20, 2019

WHO IN OKLAHOMA WANTS TO SILENCE YOUR VOTE?

Kyle Hilbert
 
WHO IN OKLAHOMA WANT TO SILENCE YOUR VOTE? 

THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE
AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT: 
PART 4

THE WATCHMAN
 
The subject of today's review is District 29 Representative Kyle Hilbert. Looking at his background from his college days we find it hard to believe that he would actually get involved in something like the National Popular Vote.
 
We first went to his official web page, located here, to see what information was available. This was a biography page. There is little useful information available here. The most useful would be his office telephone numbers.
 
We next found this article from Ballotpedia. Now at a glance it appears that he sponsored some good legislation, however that is not the case. A good portion of the legislation are actually proclamations for various things. He wrote a tax increase bill that never got out of committee. The rest are bills designed to micro-manage the state budget. We agree with the need for more oversight but fail to understand why it must be micro-managed.
 
We next went this site to look at his Wikipedia page. It was a complete waste of our time. There was no useful information at all. Except for the basics, the page was blank.
 

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Free Legislative Junkets For Selling Out The Oklahoma Electoral College


Sen. James Leewright
WHO IN OKLAHOMA WANT TO SILENCE YOUR VOTE?  THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT? 

THE WATCHMAN

Tonight, we bring you the third installment of those who wish to silent your vote. District 12 Senator James Leewright is the subject of tonight’s presentation.

We began by going to his official biography page. You can find it by opening this link. We will give him credit for being a little more open than some of his colleagues in the Senate. After reading it, it became difficult to draw conclusions on the man with an open mind. We will say this much. His biography displays a tendency to lean towards the business community rather than his constituents.

We next went to his campaign web site located here. Although this is relatively good site, it’s lacking in something that is vital to the knowledge of the voters. We were unable to locate any trace about where he stood on anything that is an issue the voters would be concerned about. We found this to be true throughout our investigation. This allows him to say what ever he feels the voters are concerned about without being pinned down to his written word. Another word for such actions is simply cowardly lies.

Monday, September 23, 2019

THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT: PART TWO


THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT:
PART TWO


THE WATCHMAN
This week we bring you the second installment of those accepting trips from the National Popular Vote lobbyist. Yes, they have a lobbyist pushing it at the state capital. Once again, we received some good information on the subject from the Muskogeepolitico.org. What we found was that some of the senior levels of politicians are not for this proposal.

We’ll begin by going to Lt.Governor Matt Pinnell. You can read his comments by going to this link. He is a long-time opponent pf the National Popular Vote and remains stead fast in his opposition.

Another of the state leaders opposed to the National Popular Vote is the Senate-pro tem Senator Treat.
You can find Senator Treats comments by going to this link here. He too is a long-time opponent to the effort.

Monday, September 16, 2019

The Oklahoma Republicans Who Cozy Up to the National Popular Vote


WHO IN OKLAHOMA WANT TO SILENCE YOUR VOTE
THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT

-THE WATCHMAN
We read a disturbing article the other day by Mr. Jamison Faught of the MuskogeePolitico.com. Even though as recently indicated on Friday the 13th of September of 2019, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg, the most liberal of the 9 Justices, considered doing away with the electoral college was absurd. Now they don’t come out and flat say that they want to give away your vote or even do away of the electoral college, but that’s what in affect what the national popular vote would do. It’s a blatant attempt to give all elections to the liberal east and west coast by saying your representatives on the electoral college must vote for the person running for the Office of the President who receives the most votes regardless of how your state voted.

Quoting from the article “The legislature is very concerned about voter apathy and declining participation. I told them in 2015 that elections need to be meaningful for Oklahomans” says David Van Risseghem, editor of SoonerPolitics.org. It still is today.

Monday, September 9, 2019

ANOTHER FAKE REPUBLICAN SHOWS HIS TRUE COLORS



THE WATCHMAN

From time to time we come across am elected official that goes so far against what the party is doing, that we just have to ask them to leave the party. We came across one such Republican traitor last week. Once again it concerns the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. The law he wants to see off the books is the recently passed “Constitutional Carry” law.

What made us take a look at this individual was this article in the Muskogeepolitico.com. We have here an elected Republican official who not only spoke at a rally to repeal the law, but also had the nerve and audacity to misrepresent the legislation to his hometown City Counsel in order to get them to join in the petition against the Constitutional Carry law.

We know that this is nothing more than a political stunt started by Representative Lowe to gain name recognition. In actuality we can say, by this example, that in reality all this petition was for was to split the state much like what the Democratic National party is doing to this country. This isn’t being done to protect the innocent at all. What is it that is causing these allegedly highly educated Representatives don’t understand about the phrase in part: shall not be infringed” do they fail to understand. As the saying goes “You can’t fix stupid.”

Sunday, August 18, 2019

VIOLENCE IN AMERICA WHAT ARE THE REAL NUMBERS



- THE WATCHMAN

The liberal press is starting to get involved in the gun debate. Time after time they claim those innocent people who own firearms and the NRA are to blame for the devastating number of mass shootings that this nation suffers. They imply that the United States has the largest number of mass shootings in the world. A quick trip to Google and a little research would always find the untruth in their statements. We could care less what they tell you, because we will give you the truth of the problem.

What brought this story to our attention was this article. Although well meaning in nature, it fails to provide its readers with all the facts. It fails to mention the number of incidents occurred in zones clearly marked as weapons not allowed. Depending on what government agency you decide to get your information from, that number is 86% using the Census Bureau statistics or 94% based on F.B.I statistics. It is believed that the shooters use these areas because of the lack of protection available to the citizens. What is truly remarkable is that with all the firearms in citizens hands, firearms are not the leading weapons used in murders.

We did a little research on the subject and found this article. It clearly states that according to the F.B.I. three times as many murders are committed with knives rather than firearms. Are we to become like London where knives are prohibited to the ;aw abiding citizens? I don’t think so. That would be ludicrous.

Sunday, August 11, 2019

A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM



THERE IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST
IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM OR JUST THE APPEARANCE OF ONE

- THE WATCHMAN
Often times are done within government agencies and private associations. The question is whether or not they represent a conflict of Interest. Outward appearance would tend to lean towards there being a conflict of interest when they are not. Two such entities are the District Attorney’s Council, a state agency, and the District Attorney’s Association, a private entity. The answer will surprise all.
What got us interested in this subject was article. There are two groups in Oklahoma that we are going to talk about. One is the Oklahoma District Attorney Council, a state agency, and the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Association, a private organization. The first group is a state agency and subject to the open meetings act. The second group being a private association is not subject to the open meetings act. Because both groups are comprised of the same individuals, has made people a little un-trusting of both groups. We can understand why.
Here’s a brief summary of how things go. There is a call to order, introductions, get down to do the business scheduled votes and adjournment. They all get themselves some fresh coffee and five minutes later They start the meeting of the second group, a private organization meaning the meeting of this group is behind closed doors and the business they do is private.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

MS13 Illegal Aliens: "Here To Do Jobs We Won't Do"?


ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN OKLAHOMA WITHOUT
CRIMINAL RECORDS FACE DEPORTATION


- THE WATCHMAN - 
 
The one thing we seldom do, and probably do more of, is hitting journalist with a report that flat out shows political correctness. The journalism community, whether it be print, televised, on the radio or in an online forum should never include Politically correct terminology. Unfortunately, today we live in a country and state that is to obsessed with being politically correct. This week we had a story cross our desk that shows how political correctness hurts America and Oklahoma. Sadly, we will present it to you.
 
The State of Oklahoma is a state of laws. The United States is a nation of laws. People are expected to follow them, but always break a few. We find incredibly disturbing that most politicians and a vast majority of journalist fail to understand that crossing or border is a crime. If you don’t mind a dry read and want to learn the facts on a subject we would recommend that you start here. These are the statutes on immigration. Look close enough and you will find that there are even provisions that would put a politician in jail for making the area the control into a sanctuary sight. The system isn’t broken, the truth is that neither party wants to do anything about it due to cheap labor that the opened and unsecured border provides.

Sunday, July 7, 2019

SEEKING JUSTICE BECAUSE OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE AFRAID TO DO SO

SEEKING JUSTICE BECAUSE
OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE AFRAID TO DO SO
THE WATCHMAN
We don’t normally stray from political concerns within the state of Oklahoma, but after receiving this from a friend, we felt it needed to be brought to your attention. We all have the right to redress our grievances with the Government. This is usually done by contacting your Representative and Senators. When this fails, people often do nothing about it. There are other ways to seek redress of your grievances. What follows is a letter from an individual to the U.S. House Ethics Committee. The name of the sender has been eliminated for their privacy as he requested.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

ARE OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES TRULY REPRESENTING THEIR DISTRICTS?

  ...OR ARE THEY LETTING OUR FREEDOMS EVAPORATE ?


- THE WATCHMAN
  We decided to step out of state politics this week because of a story we found as we were going through our news feeds this week. We came across a very interesting article that is or should be a major concern of everyone in the nation, not just Oklahomans. What was put into danger by three of our States House Delegation was the privacy of your family’s medical records. Now wee sent those Representatives to D.C. to work for the people of this state, not to deny them of their rights.
  What we found was an article on this amendment that funds a nationwide system for you and your family’s medical records. This proposal has been up for a vote and defeated several times. What we found was that should this bill make it through the Senate, the government will be funding the operation to set in place a nationwide database of each individuals medical records.
  While we will concede that having an individual’s medical records would be useful in cases of an emergency, whether that emergency happened close to home or on a vacation or business trip, it would also be another way for identity thieves to gain your personal medical, social security, financial status and your entire world to the thieves. This constitutes a major set back for those of us who like their privacy. We also see this as a waste of taxpayer’s dollars on a project that will only leave everyone in harms way.
  By opening the link above, you will see how each House member voted to protect your rights. Rather than you having to do the work, we are going to provide it to you below.
  • Oklahoma 1st District (R) Kevin Hern voted Conservative, No
  • Oklahoma 2nd District (R)Markwayne Mullins, voted Liberal Aye
  • Oklahoma 3rd District (R)Frank Lucas, voted Liberal Aye
  • Oklahoma 4th District (R)Tom Cole, voted Conservative No
  • Oklahoma 5thDistrict(D) Kendra Horn, voted liberal Aye.
  What is surprising about these votes? Those three yes votes gave the Democratic who control the House 16.3% of the votes needed to pass this legislation. There was only one surprise in these votes. Rep. Tom Cole voted as a Conservative. It surprised us simply because of his voting record. Normally he would be in favor of spending more money. We thank you for your vote Representative Cole. Representatives Lucas and Mullin have always been liberals. We weren’t sure about Representative Hern, but we must thank him for his vote.
  Representative Horn’s vote was expected. This is the woman who worked as a lobbyist while employed by one of our previous Representatives. She ran as being “Tired of partisan politics “and has only voted no on one bill since being elected, and it was a bill she co-sponsored. What a joke she has turned out to be.

Monday, June 24, 2019

CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR THE CHAIRMAN

A QUESTION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR THE CHAIRMAN OF THE APPROPRIATIONS  AND BUDGET COMMITTEE

THE WATCHMAN

Sometimes people are put into positions of authority that they really either can’t handle or there is a serious conflict of interest. We have found one such individual in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. Now we don’t know if the charges are certain or the working of a spiteful former spouse. Either way, the House Leadership should have acted to prevent the conflict of interest from happening. This will once again prove to be a poor judgment call of the Speaker of the House.

On January 2, 2019, the Chairman of the Appropriations and Budget Committee was accused of being just over $27,000,00 dollars behind 9n child support. With the case pending inn the Courts, he never should have been allowed to chair the Appropriation and Budget Committee. You can read more about it by opening this link here.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Is Horn Working For Us?


IS SHE WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE?
OR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The Watchman
  We know it’s early to be talking about candidates for the 2020 elections, but because of the circumstances we had to bring to light the incredibly dismal performance of Kendra Horn, (D), 5th District of Oklahoma. We wanted to present this information prior to the 208 elections, but her campaign finance reports were curiously missing from the Federal Election Commission. How she got elected and the sexist attitude of then Oklahoma GOP Chairman at the time, led to a male member of the legislature being disciplined by the party but the female legislature could get away with it. We did a story pointing to this matter a couple of months back.
  We were surprised at that time of not being able to see who donated to her campaign. Federal Election and became Commission was void of any campaign records for Congresswoman Horn. That has stalled our investigation in her records.
The first place we looked was at her web page. You can read the page by going here Kendra Horn.

Monday, January 28, 2019

Sexual Bias In The OKGOP Chair?


 
  
IS THERE SEXUAL BIAS IN REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP?

STATE PARTY OFFICIALS AND A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE TULSA AREA
A CALL FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE STATE PARTY AND A RECALL ON AN ELECTION


THE WATCHMAN

It's not very often that public officials open themselves to public ridicule and removal from the ruling committee. This last election cycle found at least two Republican Representatives openly supporting Democratic candidates. It wasn't only displayed by just the officials involved, other members of the House openly supported liberal Republicans to replace Conservative Incumbents. Yet with all this going on, the Oklahoma State Party Chair used the current rules to have only one liberal removed from the committee.

Republican Harold Wright donated to and endorsed the liberal Democrat candidate in a Senate Race in his area. This is cause enough to ask why the State Chair, Pam Pollard, refused to use this rule on others, especially Carol Bush. Why is she allowing the Oklahoma Republican Party being allowed to be overrun with liberals? They are defeating the hard work and actions by various committees and grass roots organizations.