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Fear of retaliation, explicit texts, requests for topless pictures are all allegations made this year against Oklahoma lawmakers. But one aid says problems go even deeper.
“Maybe into my second week when I was kind of pulled aside, ‘don't be alone with this member, don't be alone with that member.
Embattled Tulsa Rep. Dan Kirby (R) will resign, according to the Speaker of the House's office Saturday.
In its findings released on Thursday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives Rules Committee, investigating claims of sexual harassment and a legal settlement, called for a change in how its body’s leader handled large transactions.
The state representative at the center of a House investigation into sexual harassment complaints at the Capitol, a process he had vocally supported, is now refusing to testify.
A state House of Representatives investigation into whether two members sexually harassed staffers on two separate occasions continues.
The first action of Oklahoma's new Speaker of the House, Charles McCall, was to launch an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against sitting lawmakers.
State lawmakers will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday to investigate whether one of their own sexually harassed a staffer.
The Speaker-elect for the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Charles McCall, announced Thursday that his first action as Speaker would be to investigate the sexual harassment and settlement allegations surrounding Rep. Dan Kirby.
Oklahoma House of Representatives Democrats called for an investigation into allegations of Sexual harassment against Rep. Dan Kirby (R-Tulsa) and settlement payments made by the state, Friday morning. However, they stopped short of recommending a punishment for Kirby.
Allegations of scandal and a cover-up at the Oklahoma Capitol surfaced Wednesday after a published report said state Rep. Dan Kirby, R-Tulsa, allegedly sexually harassed and then fired his legislative assistant in 2015 after she rebuffed his advances.
In a hearing about an interim study on radical Islam, Sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood, state Rep. John Bennett attacked the religion of Islam as an enemy of Oklahomans.
Gov. Mary Fallin met with legislative leaders Tuesday morning to discuss the possibility of a special session to distribute the $140.8 million surplus discovered at the end of FY2016.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has signed a $6.8 billion budget to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year, but issued a line-item veto over one section of the bill she says was not consistent with a budget deal reached with lawmakers.
It was a rough week as lawmakers struggle to fill an estimated $1.3 billion budget gap.
The leader of the Oklahoma Senate says lawmakers might be forced to work during the weekend to avoid a constitutional deadline that prohibits them from considering revenue bills during the last five days of session.
It’s been a very unusual night as Republicans and Democrats fight over a proposed cigarette tax.
Oklahoma lawmakers are expected to take up several bills next week to bridge the state’s $1.3 billion budget deficit. Many of those bills will hit you right in the wallet.
