Outside groups have spent at least $3.4 million leading up to the vote on whether to keep three state Supreme Court justices. That amount is expected to grow in the days leading up to Election Day.
The Multi-County Grand Jury finds “grossly negligent handling of federal grant money” that was “easily preventable” under Gov. Kevin Stitt.
The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states.
The organizers of a political action committee that backed the governor’s allies have ties to Stitt. All of the group’s funding came from a nonprofit that doesn’t have to report its donors.
Shadowy independent groups pump more money into some races than candidates spend on their own campaigns.
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin argues that the cost of land buyouts could be passed on to many Native American, rural and poor Grand River Dam Authority ratepayers and that the federal government should pay instead.
The mostly Republican task force also said it “would not oppose lifting” the current restrictions against politicians receiving direct monetary contributions from corporations and unions.
Tulsa school board candidate Maria Seidler says there was no illegal coordination between her campaign and a group her husband founded that bought mailers attacking her opponent.
