You may have to wait a little bit longer before you can attend a fully licensed and regulated Oklahoma cockfight.
Just a week or so after its leader was charged for being present at a cockfight, the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission – the 15,000-member group that’s been fighting hard to preserve the traditional, God-given, rural Oklahoma pastime of cockfighting – was ordered to dissolve by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.
I guess that sadly means Kevin Stitt will not have any cockfighters to cheer on from the sidelines this year:
For what it’s worth, the Commission isn’t being dissolved because it accomplished its goal to lower cockfighting penalties. It also wasn’t ordered to shut down because raising birds to fight other birds to the bitter death is technically “unethical.”
No, they’re getting their feathers plucked for strapping a couple of extra razor blades onto their fundraising talons and not telling anyone.
The Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission PAC has been ordered to dissolve and pay thousands of dollars as part of a settlement with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.
The Gamefowl Commission advocates for lessening cockfighting penalties and admitted to violating several ethics rules, including accepting anonymous contributions above the legal limit.
As part of the settlement, the Gamefowl Commission will pay $10,000, dissolve within 30 days, and cannot form a new political action committee for two years.
That stinks.
Back in 2023, I planted my wattle firmly in my beak and called for medicinal cockfighting to be legalized all across Oklahoma. I did this because I’m a libertarian who’s against victimless crimes, and…
- There’s nothing a rooster wants more than to kill another rooster.
- Cockfighting has been practiced in human societies since the dawn of civilization!
- We could hold tournaments at the OKC Cock Ring!
But, you know the drill. Nobody listened to me, and as a result, the Gamefowl Commission is history, cockfighting is still illegal, and the Cock Ring sits empty, a somewhat surprising sentence to write about Oklahoma.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
