In addition to their annual bills that fight the culture war battles of the day, one thing our conservative lawmakers love to do more than anything is try to subvert the will and power of the Oklahoma people, and make it harder to get an initiative petition on the ballot.
As this article and this article and this article and this article show, it’s a pretty popular pastime.
In fact, I’d say it stands right up there with introducing an anti-abortion bill, authoring a pro-gun law, or simply hooking up with an L.A. at a Sine Die party as a right of annual legislator passage!