On Friday, we told you about Oklahoma SB1122 – the legislation Oklahoma lawmakers recently sent to Governor Stitt to neuter Ryan Walters’s and Matt Langston’s ability to use taxpayer dollars to boost Ryan’s right-wing profile on the national stage.
Since one of the primary reasons Matt groomed Ryan to run for Superintendent was so they could use public funds to promote and enrich themselves, the news hasn’t been well-received by either of the edge lords.
As a result, they – along with their allies in the OKGOP – have mounted their own desperate and moronic PR campaign to try and combat the legislation, and pressure Governor Stitt into not signing it.
The campaign boils down to three key and very typical bullet points:
1. Lie & Distort. Ryan and Matt have wasted no time whipping up blatant falsehoods about the legislation passed by both Chambers of the Oklahoma legislature. They're trying to spin it as damaging legislation that will severely hamper and harm the Department of Education. We know this is a lie, because if that were the case Ryan and Matt would be all for it!
2. Play the Victim. Ryan is valiantly portraying the efforts to keep him from wasting taxpayers money as a cancellation attack on him – which is technically kind of true – that will prevent him from keeping Oklahoma safe from library porn, bathroom kitty litter, BLM / CRT / DEI, and all the other right-wing culture war topics out of schools – which is technically not true.