Yesterday afternoon, a busload of oil and natural gas industry employees left the corporate high rises of downtown OKC to encourage lawmakers not to raise gross production taxes as part of a new budget agreement. I guess they don't mind living in a hell hole as long as they have a job, gated community and can afford to send their kids to private schools.
Overall, the "protesters" put on a pretty good show. They clapped their hands, held up signs and reminded everyone that Oklahoma energy industry employees are a diverse lot of grateful, business-casual white people who will do whatever their employer asks.
Here's a pic from Dale Denwalt:
Oil and gas industry members came en mass to the Capitol today, too, at least partly organized by .@OIPA pic.twitter.com/0bn233b8HE
— Dale Denwalt (@denwalt) May 18, 2017
Oil and gas votes too? I thought they just bought off politicians! No wonder this state is such a shit show.
The not-so-big secret about the protesters is that most of them arrived together on this bus: