It seems clear to me that ⁦@GovStitt⁩, @sec_walters, Every Kid Counts OK, the State Chamber, etc have conspired to misuse federal GEER/CARES Act $

Judge for yourself, though. How did a months old biz get an $8 mil contract? #GEERAudit patreon.com/posts/58939130
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
The founder of that org Brett Farley was a former senior staffer for the terrible Republican congressman from CA Duncan Hunter. The amended incorporation docs for Upward OK when it became EKCO are Jason Reese (Stitt’s general counsel at the time) & lobbyists Cordon DeKock /4
How did an organization that was just a few months old, first established by a Republican operative, and led by the governors cronies come to be granted an $8 million contract? Idk y’all /5

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19 Nov
🧵 abt @GovStitt being sketch, per usual.

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?

Every Kid Count OK - led by Ryan Walters /3
Read 16 tweets
19 Nov
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 /
Read 10 tweets
17 Nov
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
Previous speakers since I’ve been here have been State Rep. Regina Goodwin, @mynameisJabee, @_illbethechange. /3
Read 29 tweets
7 Oct
🧵 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
Read 6 tweets
10 Sep
I’m live from the Jackson Lahmeyer event with Wendy whoever from Arizona and a Republican primary challenger for @GovStitt

I’m currently undercover in a United States Deputy Sheriff Association Supporter shirt I found at a thrift store today /1
“We aren’t going to 2022 or 2024 until we fix 2020!” The crowd stood with roaring applause. /2
Current speaker is discussing @SenatorLankford and people in the crowd are piping up with “he’s a rhino” /3
Read 42 tweets
8 Sep
#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
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