Tulsa Today endorses Shelley Gwartney for District 33, a Conservative Republican with an accomplished background as a businesswoman in organizational management, infrastructure, and communications. She’s a woman of faith, devoted mother, and trusted community leader.
This south and west Broken Arrow and some east Tulsa district is 55% Republican and less than 30% Democrat and the elected will replace term-limited Senator Nathan Dahm.
In 2022, Oklahoma lawmakers passed the “Energy Discrimination Elimination Act” (EDEA), which requires the state treasurer to identify firms that embrace “Environmental Social Governance” (ESG) policies. Those pro-ESG firms are barred from receiving state contracts, including management of state pension funds.
Opponents of the law have pushed back and obtained an injunction preventing its enforcement.
But an unrelated class-action lawsuit targeting American Airlines’ use of pro-ESG firms to manage its employees’ pensions shows some retired workers agree with Oklahoma lawmakers.
Opinion: A tactic increasingly used by the political left is to emphatically claim people can’t trust their senses or common sense.
In short, the message has been, “Who are you going to trust? Us, or your lying eyes?”
We’ve seen this tactic used locally in Oklahoma, in national politics, and even on the world stage.
Fitness legend and pod-caster Jillian Michaels wrote in response to the Olympic opening ceremony on the X platform Saturday, “Dear Fellow Gays… We demand tolerance and respect but then make a mockery of something sacred for over 2 billion Christians. This type of hypocrisy and lack of understanding is a bad look. We get outraged when the extreme right bashes us, but then we do this s—. What kind of reaction do you think they will have towards the LGBTQ+ community after this. This is NOT how we break down barriers, it’s how you build them.”
One oddity of American political culture is that even in an age of diversity-uber-alles, our Presidential candidates tend to come with old-time cultural markers that Americans in, say, 1960 thought were keen.
