Oklahoma Watch has reported that the Oklahoma State Medical Association spent more money than any other Oklahoma organization on independent expenditures. Spending more than $814,000 on a variety of legislative races.
Which races did they spend those big bucks on?
The following expenditures can be viewed from the Oklahoma Guardian Ethics website here, and here.
$72k on mailers for the following candidates:
Ty Burns
Ross Ford
John Haste
Darcy Jech
Mark McBride
Kevin Wallace
$66k on mailers for the following candidates:
Rhonda Baker
Bill Coleman
Jared Deck
Kyle Hilbert
John Kane
Ken Luttrell
Anthony Moore
Josh West
$202k on mailers, phone calls, texting, and door to door canvassing for the following candidates:
Rhonda Baker
Keith Barenberg
Ty Burns
Bill Coleman
Jared Deck
Ross Ford
John George
John Haste
Kyle Hilbert
John Kane
Ken Luttrell
Cody Maynard
Marcus McEntire
Cynthia Roe
Brenda Stanley
John Talley
George Young
Hunter Zearley
$473k on digital, newspaper, and radio ads for the following candidates:
Rhonda Baker
Keith Barenberg
Ty Burns
Bill Coleman
Jared Deck
Ross Ford
John George
John Haste
Darcy Jech
John Kane
Ken Luttrell
Cody Maynard
Mark McBride
Marcus McEntire
Anthony Moore
Gabe Renfrow
Cynthia Roe
Brenda Stanley
John Talley
Kevin Wallace
Josh West
George Young
Hunter Zearley
$7k on digital, phone calls, and texting for the following candidates:
Collin Duel
Hunter Zearley
We expect dark money and OSMA to campaign hard during the runoff election!
While we could feel defeated, we need to use this to motivate ourselves to volunteer and donate. We have beat OSMA before, but we had a literal army of fired up mama bears! Many of our members seem to have gotten complacent. Speaking face to face with people as a grassroots volunteer beats mailers and ads nearly EVERY TIME! But we have to have the manpower and money to get it done. We have spent more than half of our war chest and need to replenish it to fight against far-left candidates who want to mask, test, and segregate us and our children in the name of public health.