We’ve seen the pure darkness of Gov. Stitt’s soul. We can’t give him 4 more years of power when we’ve seen the absolute evil he will do with it - & in the name of his God.
I walk back my past comments. If Joy is on the ballot in November, I’m voting for her. Period. We have to.
She isn’t going to be the prog. candidate we need, want or deserve. But she went on record saying she would have accepted the recommendation of the P&PB. She wouldn’t have tortured 2 families & the entire Black community.
Not voting for her would be weaponizing your privilege.
I won’t ever forget the feeling of watching @GovStitt psychologically torture someone so that he could feel the power of playing God. He is a dangerous narcissist.
This changed everything for me. I promise every single person reading this that I will hold Joy accountable /
just like any other elected if she wins. I’m very sure that she will not be ideologically aligned with me on the majority of things.
But we have to get this soulless man out of office. He has too much power and no capacity for empathy.
I see things differently now.
Mama Jones has fought hard for 22 years. She thanked a man who tortured her and her son bc his political calculus forced him to save her son’s life.
We have to follow her lead. She earned it. So many families in OK need us to excise the cancer that is Kevin Stitt. We can do it
Idk what else to say. I can’t sit back and watch him waltz back into office. He just toyed with a man’s life and traumatized the Black community, for what?
It was so sinister & inhumane.
Are we willing to subject Black Oklahomans to that until 2026? I’m sure AF not.
This was so sinister. I don’t believe in the devil, but I felt pure evil in the state Capitol this week. I could feel it every time I stepped out of the rotunda. Every time I couldn’t hear the pleading voices of the kids singing on the 2nd floor.
I tell my kids “people aren’t bad. We don’t use that word to describe humans. People can make bad choices, but people are not bad.” But Kevin Stitt is bad. At his core. And a whole lot of folks we consider “allies” stood silently while he tortured and toyed with folks.
Kevin Stitt has to be voted out.
If you’re a fellow progressive and unfollow me bc of this, all I have to say is that I love my fellow humans too much to not say this publicly. I hope you come around. It’s going to take all of us.
Please don’t stand by and throw your vote away.
Goodnight y’all.
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I am very curious abt why the Scissortail Community Development Corporation first attempted to register the trade names “Every Kid Counts OK” & EKCO in January of 2020 /2
And why the stagnant organization Upward Oklahoma was chosen to become EKCO? /3
Have y’all heard of GEER funds? I hadn’t either until recently. Funded through the CARES Act, GEER stands for Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund. Stitt had access to $39.9 mil. How was it spent? /1
We need an audit - urgently. Stitt earmarked $30 mil to these 3 programs - Learn Anywhere Oklahoma, Bridge the Gap Digital Wallet and Stay in School Funds.
Here’s a press release from ‘20 where Stitt made sure to say the funds could be given to private schools 🙃 #GEERAudit /2
“Bridge the Digital Gap Wallet” sounds like a great program… it provides $1500 grants to low-income families for purchasing curriculum content, tutoring etc.
Cool, cool. So who is overseeing the $8 mil. allocated for this program?
Capitol 🧵 @mynameisJabee speaking at the Capitol - says he asked Julius’ mom what should we do today. She said “pray, because I see now that only God can save my son.”
Calling for 22 seconds of silence in honor of the 22 years Julius has spent incarcerated / 2
🧵 personal thread on the Gov race. & I’ll keep it short & measured bc I have a moderate professional conflict of interest I can’t afford to inflame - I take issue with Republicans using our party as a Trojan horse. Folks say, well no1 else wants to run. that’s not true./1
We just know what happens when a candidate isnt the chosen one of the powers that be in the OK dem party. & this is the opposite direction of where the Oklahoma Democratic Party has proven to be moving!
We just re-elected the 1st AA woman to serve as state party chair! & she /2
hasn’t always been treated fairly by the same machine that is propping up candidates who don’t excite, or give any level of reasonable comfort to, progressives.
They just convinced Abby Broyles to run again when they KNOW she was abusive to her staff and a miserable candidate/3
#TW!!! 🧵 “Sarah, why are you so hard on the @GovStitt” I take on a lot of personal passion projects. They normally center on the NDN experience, women, kids, mental wellness and sex worker rights.
Supposed to write what you know, right? /1
I write about NDN life because it is my responsibility to keep fighting for the honor of my ancestors and to protect my future generations from Yt supremacists like @GovStitt (worth noting, he’s also fighting for his ancestors legacy 🙃) /2
I fight for women’s rights because I won’t disrespect myself or dishonor my ancestors by allowing the same colonizers’ country who forced sterilization on nearly 25% of NDN women/girls in a 6 year period to tell ANY OF US what we can do with our bodies. /3