Good Government

Victory for free speech

January 25, 2019

Trent England

Free speech won a victory today when the Oklahoma Ethics Commission declined to move forward with its plan to regulate private political speech. After hearing public comment on the proposal for a third straight meeting, no commissioner made a motion to approve it. This means it is dead, at least for the remainder of 2019.

This is the result of many organizations that provided expert testimony on the flaws of this proposed regulation. But it is thanks most of all to the thousands of Oklahomans who signed the OCPA petition and the hundreds who contacted the Ethics Commission directly. This is exactly the kind of citizen activism that we were protecting. And we won!

Watch the testimony in the video below, and read more about the measure here and here.