Political Quotes

“Well, on the subject of respect for and obedience to statute, I thought we might want to discuss for a minute the Oklahoma open records law which the attorney general of Oklahoma not only needs to obey, but he needs to enforce it. He is not just subject to that law. He is the agency responsible for policing compliance with it. What we have just seen is 750 days of noncompliance by his office with an Open Records Act request where he refused to provide anything to us in the EPW Committee. And, by the way, shame on the Environment and Public Works Committee for allowing that to happen. Shame on the Environment and Public Works Committee for--on a purely partisan basis--not allowing us to get those emails that this office had covered up and suppressed for 2 years. Finally, they got before a judge and the judge said: Release that first set Tuesday--Tuesday. So he is sitting on several thousand emails between his office and the big energy companies and the big energy organizations, and he stonewalls everybody for 2 years. When a judge finally gets a look at this misbehavior, first she says: That is an abject failure. Second, she says: That is unreasonable under the statute. And third, she says: Produce them Tuesday. This was a guy who didn't think he could produce them Tuesday. He couldn't produce them for 2 years, and now the judge says Tuesday.…”