I guess it’s time to – once again – give it up to ourselves!
A couple of years ago, while the traditional local media (a.k.a. News 9 and The Oklahoman) was giving Stitt darling Shelley Zumwalt the heroic star treatment and mythologizing the media-friendly maven’s meteoric rise up the halls of state government, we sang a slightly different tune.
Instead of amplifying state propaganda about how she whipped various agencies into bureaucratic shape – or following her around with a camera as she gave donuts to people waiting in an unemployment line – we chronicled the wage discrimination claims and judgements filed against her, shady conflicts of interest she had with her hubby’s IT firm, and shitty beer she drank as a N. Western barfly in the mid-2000s.