Apr 24, 2020
Revenue failures, people suing the government, and look, the state is reopening!
A whole lot has happened over the last week! From declarations of revenue failures at the state and city level, to civic groups suing the election board, to legislative candidates who don't actually live in Oklahoma, to - wait for it - the state is slowly beginning to reopen. But is that a good idea? We discuss it all!
* Governor Stitt announced that SQ802, Medicaid Expansion, will be on the ballot on June 30th.
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* Quick recap:
* On Monday, April 6th, Governor Stitt cancelled the Board of Equalization meeting because his ‘digital transformation’ project was not funded. So, he only signed 2 of the 3 bills the legislature passed to help shore up this year’s budget, but without that third bill, there was still a $416M hole in the budget. Basically, they state was funded through the end of April, but we didn’t have enough money for May and June. The legislature scoffed.
* So, a week later, on Tuesday, April 13th, House & Senate leaders sued the Governor to force the Bo…