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Tara Blume
@tcblume
Canadian-American loving Oklahoma. Producer/Anchor/Reporter @KFOR since 1992. Wife & Mom of two. I tweet about news, the outdoors and art. Views are my own.
Dec 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
OU's President issues a letter to students concerning Gov. Stitt's executive order to review all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion state spending at state agencies & public colleges in Oklahoma. Harroz refers to OU's "unwavering" values that "transcend political ideology... " 🧵 Image OK could follow Florida and Texas, who've banned DEI spending in PUBLIC colleges. DEI policies are routinely highlighted on the websites of PRIVATE colleges & businesses including Gateway First Bank, part-owned but not controlled by Stitt Family Trust.🧵
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Jun 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"We squandered money and we awarded money to powerful people that are connected to powerful people," says Attorney General Gentner Drummond about the OK State Audit that found millions in fed. dollars for education were misspent.(1/5)

4:30/6PM on @kfor https://t.co/pZmsFpqV18kfor.com/news/local/sta…
Stitt & Walters say third-party vendor "Class Wallet" is to blame for missteps in distributing millions of Governor's Emergency Education Relief funds (GEER) with some blown on non-education items like TVs & grills. Drummond says 27 other states didn't have that issue. (2/5)
Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
WITHIN AN HOUR of finding out he is the acting Governor of Oklahoma, Senator Greg Treat signed an Emergency Declaration for Eastern Oklahoma. This will help with various recovery efforts and trigger the Emergency Price Stabilization Act to prevent price gouging. @kfor Image Treat makes the point in his presser: "He began reviewing the documents the governor’s office prepared at 1:40 p.m. and signed it before 2 p.m. – prior to the governor’s press release calling on the pro tem to sign the state of emergency."
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
13,000 feet down with 96 hours of air to see the Titanic for $250,000 each. I hope this story has a miracle ending. Image British billionaire Hamish Harding shown here at the start of the expedition
twitter.com/actionaviation…
May 25, 2023 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
Happening now: Tearful plea from parent of 3 at OK Dept. of Education: “To you, Ryan Walters, I’m here to beg for the safety of my children…change the words you choose… because currently they are vitriolic, dishonest and dangerous…” (thread) Image A line of speakers are waiting for their turn. This is streaming on Facebook page of OK Dept. of Education.
facebook.com/OklaSDE/videos…
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
First images from @kfor chopper 4. First reports are of one person transported for medical care, but possibly two injured.This plant refines fuels including aviation fuel and bio-diesel fuel. CVR Energy says a fire occurred in a gasoline hydrotreater which removes sulfur and other contaminants in the refining process. 2 employees were injured and transported, but no update on their conditions. This update: by David Johnson, Dir. of Emergency Management, Garvin County.
May 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"You gotta teach everybody on how to include everybody? That's horse shit" says Rep. JJ Humphrey who along with Rep. Standridge, are proposing Senate Concurrent Resolution 12. It directs OK Universities to immediately discontinue and disband their DEI programs in whole. (1/5) Gov. Stitt admits "people are going to be idiots" (referencing racial incidents on OK campuses that have made national headlines) but says he can't see why you'd use "tax dollars to try to educate...18-year-olds." He supports banning Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs (2/5)
May 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING FROM AP: The Supreme Court blocks Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip after the state's attorney general agreed Glossip's life should be spared. @kfor Image The high court put the execution on hold while it reviews the case. Justice Neil Gorsuch took no part in the case, presumably because he dealt with it earlier as an appeals court judge.
May 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"A federal jury convicted an OKLAHOMA CITY AIRCRAFT TRUST COMPANY OWNER accused of putting U.S.-registered planes into the hands of drug traffickers on two drug conspiracy felonies on Wednesday."
via @wfaawfaa.com/article/news/c… "Debra Lynn Mercer-Erwin, 60, was also convicted of money laundering and wire fraud in connection with a Ponzi scheme in which investors claim to have lost at least $240 million." Image
Apr 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Governor Stitt responds to questions about his veto of legislation to renew OETA's authorization for another three years.
"That to me is an outdated system, it might have had its place in 1957. Why are we spending taxpayer dollars to prop up OETA..."
(1/4) @kfor "If you want to put that on 4,5 or 9 or Tulsa 2, 6 & 8 that's great. I don't see a need for tax dollars to fund a TV station in 2023."

PBS creates its own programming and purchases the rights to broadcast other shows. Networks like NBC can't cherry-pick PBS shows.
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Apr 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Damage from Cole, Oklahoma with a damage path about a quarter mile wide according to @kfor chopper pilot Mason Dunn. Impacting Etowah Road area, and reaching Tribbey at 8:54 PM ImageImage
Mar 31, 2023 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Fires burning in the area of Eastern & 122nd, traveling east. @kfor OKC Fire Dept. is asking via facebook that people evacuate between 122nd and Hefner from Eastern to I-35.
Mar 30, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
ILLUSTRATION of what the OK School Tax Credit/Voucher bill looks like for some typical families. I say "voucher" because private school families can get more than a tax credit. They may also get a check, even after their state tax bill is ERASED.
2 scenarios (thread 1/7) @kfor The senate education bill has an income cap of $250,000 a year. If you have two kids in private school and a household income of $250,000… you're eligible for $15,000 in private school vouchers every year. (2/7)
Jan 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: OK Attorney General Gentner Drummond DROPS lawsuit against Class Wallet. A new state audit awaits.

Ryan Walters had final approval for education spending of pandemic dollars, some of which was blown on things like Xboxes & C-mas trees. (1/3)

kfor.com/news/local/aud… The State Dept. of Education says OK allowed $650K in "unallowable" purchases. The State of OK didn't vet how families spent the money but did file a lawsuit, seeking return of $150 million dollars from Class Wallet. BUT CW was also never "served" by AG O'Connor. (2/3)
Jan 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
ICYMI: For 11 years, Epic's financial statements indicated no misappropriated funds. In reality, the state auditor now suggests $30 million or more was misspent: “We don’t get requested to conduct a performance audit until things are off the rails"
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kfor.com/news/local/why… "Byrd said once Epic’s new school board severed ties with the founders of the school, Epic saw a 13% increase per student funding, and had $30 million more dollars to invest back into student and technology needs in one year." (2/3)
Jul 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
They have a logo, a listed address, and millions in funding, but on a tour, @ByAshleyMoss was told "But the pandemic center itself, sounding like it is a physical structure, an operational building... that does not exist at this point in question." Keith Reed OSDH 🧵 The website clearly refers to a "campus" but the OK Health Commissioner said today "the pandemic center itself is a vision" and the $30 million dollar figure often cited is money set aside for Covid-19 testing. @ByAshleyMoss reports at 10pm on @kfor
Jul 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
HHS Date hub shows 441 Covid-19 hospitalizations in OK. OK State Health Dept. reported 222 last Thursday. Summer cases are climbing, but OSDH provided this explanation for why there is typically a gap in the hospitalizations OSDH reports compared to the numbers from HHS.(THREAD) Image "There are many factors that go into the numbers that we report in our three-day average. It should be noted we report data that hospitals report to us, so if there is a facility that is not reporting or that does not report on time, that affects the numbers...(THREAD)
Apr 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
KFOR asks Oklahoma's congressional delegation why they voted "NO" on The Affordable Insulin Now Act. It would cap insulin prices for patients at either $35 a month or 25% of an insurance plan's negotiated price (depending on which is lower) 🧵 Rep. Markwayne Mullins called it a "socialist drug pricing scheme that will stifle medical innovation and lead to fewer cures." (included is his 2020 tweet when he praised Trump's plan to lower insulin costs) Frank Lucas says it will "increase yearly premiums." 🧵
Oct 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Wait... what?! Edmond Memorial High School teacher Regan Killackey, a plaintiff in the case, said he was told to avoid phrases such as “diversity” and “white privilege” and books by NON-WHITE AND FEMALE authors in his English classes. From the lawsuit: "District administrators have struck texts by Black and women authors from their reading lists, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Their
Eyes Were Watching God, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass🧵