Earlier this week, Ryan Walters officially cleaned house in his Oklahoma Department of Education communications department, getting rid of any remaining holdovers from the Hofmeister regime who still had not been able to score a new job.
The news isn’t that surprising.
During any state agency regime change, you can generally expect the new person in charge of things to put in place their own hand-selected propaganda team, especially when that person in charge is a right-wing culture warfighter who wants to use warped political rhetoric and divisiveness as part of their plan to destroy the agency from the run form inside.
As part of the bloodletting, Ryan also welcomed his new Communications Chief to the team. His name is Justin Holcomb.
We don’t know a lot about Justin. For a PR guy, there’s very little about him online, but it looks like he did once write for the conservative propaganda site TownHall.
Earlier this week, Justin introduced himself to the local media by sending a blank mass email with a PDF attachment to everyone on the OSDE press release list.