By Keaton Ross | Oklahoma Watch Aug 2, 2021 1 of 7
A gate is seen outside of one of the inmate housing units at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington.
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State Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, has spent much of the summer sounding the alarm over Oklahomaâs prison understaffing problem.
On June 18 he asked Gov. Kevin Stitt to declare a state of emergency, arguing that low staffing numbers have elevated the risk of riots and violence in state prisons. Heâs appeared on weekly Facebook Live broadcasts with Bobby Cleveland, director of the Oklahoma Corrections Professionals group, to provide updates on what heâs hearing from prison workers.
This Lawmaker s Dennis the Peasant Routine on Vaccines Is Unbelievably Foul
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where if you go down in the flood, it’s going to be your fault.
We begin in the state of Washington, where a state representative did his Dennis The Peasant routine in about the foulest way you can. From the
Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh has decried “vaccine segregation” and likened his state’s lottery encouraging immunization against the coronavirus to the “The Hunger Games.” Then, last weekend, the Republican lawmaker wore a yellow Star of David. “It’s an echo from history,” Walsh wrote of the star in the comments below a live stream of his talk Saturday in Lacey, Wash. “ … In the current context, we’re all Jews.”
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