In case you missed it, late last week – on Thursday evening before a holiday weekend, if we’re being exact – Oklahoma AG / soon-to-be Governor Gentner Drummond announced that State Representative Ty Burns “received a one-year suspended sentence” after pleading guilty “to one misdemeanor count of domestic abuse and two misdemeanor counts of assault.”
He’ll also have to go through something called a Batterers Intervention Program.
“These are serious charges,“ Drummond said. “While there is no excuse for domestic violence, I am encouraged that the representative has taken responsibility for his actions and will receive counseling under terms of his sentence. Domestic violence is tragically all too common in our state. It must stop.”