Way back in January of 2020, a month or two before modern life as we know it changed forever, Governor Kevin Stitt issued an order banning any non-essential state-funded travel to California for all Oklahoma state employees.
The reasoning was that California had banned all state-funded travel to Oklahoma in 2016 in response to our anti-LGBTQ laws, and since pettiness and pandering always rule the day in politics, Stitt figured we might as well do the same thing to them.
Well, that is unless you win an award.