Over the past month, The Oklahoman – on behalf of oil overlords, the Oklahoma political establishment and other members of our state's ruling class – has been aggressively pushing and promoting a comprehensive "plan" to save Oklahoma from incompetent lawmakers.
It's called "Step Up Oklahoma." I would encourage you to not fall down for it.
Nicely packaged in shiny wrapping paper by a PR firm (The Oklahoman), the plan is billed as a "nonpartisan," "comprehensive solution" to "increase state revenues, fund $5,000 teacher pay raises and reform state and county government." But in reality, it's just another attempt by the people who run this state to expand a conservative, pro-corporate agenda and maintain their power and control over Oklahoma government.
You can see all that by momentarily looking past the policies and focus group-crafted talking points, and examining the people involved. It's the same who's-who list of Oklahoman Society Page regulars who have supported, elected and enabled people like Mary Fallin and today's crop of dysfunctional Oklahoma lawmakers, and helped turn Oklahoma into the oil industry-dependent Trumponian financial shit hole it is today.
Just check out this snippet from The Oklahoman on how the coalition evolved.