Patrick B. McGuigan, The Metropolis Sentinel
OKLAHOMA CITY – There are some information tales that make an individual ask: “What’s up with that?”
Listed below are a few examples.
Tres Savage of NonDoc.com, a web based information service, is a high quality reporter, cautious in his strategy to his chosen career. In the course of the latter years I labored from a cubby-hole workplace within the state Capitol newsroom, I grew to respect his seriousness and methodical strategy to information about politicians and coverage.
Within the age of COVID warning, I’ve not seen him usually — however I learn his work and that of his reporters on daily basis.
In a July 23 story about Governor Kevin Stitt’s appointment of Tulsa lawyer John O’Connor as state lawyer normal, Savage referenced one thing that those that cowl our authorities know is going on, however for essentially the most half lack particular knowledge to quote in our reporting.
Savage averted sensationalism and caught to the swirl of data, together with with this nugget:
“Quite a few legal investigations involving public entities and public officers … are ongoing, and O’Connor might in the end must make selections on issues of potential public corruption, though a number of the instances are underneath investigation by federal legislation enforcement businesses.”
Early final 12 months, when the state Supreme Courtroom discovered unconstitutional a state legislation (Senate Invoice 608) regarding rules on entry of distributors to name-brand liquor and wine. It was a case that pivoted on the which means of the phrases “might” and “shall” – the form of resolution that delights authorized eagles, and might frustrate even clever non-lawyers.
In that story, Savage referenced one critic of the 5-4 resolution – state Consultant Chris Kannady, an Oklahoma Metropolis Republican.
Savage reported (italics beneath):
“It’s apparent that it’s nonetheless a contentious problem because the court docket is split,” Kannady stated. “It’s not the primary time I’ve disagreed with the court docket, and it most likely received’t be the final.”
Requested if he thought political drama surrounding S.B. 608 had spurred the FBI to look into how political contributions are made and the way legislative enterprise is performed in Oklahoma, Kannady stated he believes the FBI was taking a look at proposed laws that he was not concerned with.
“I’m not going to touch upon that. I’m not anxious about it,” Kannady stated. “And I don’t suppose that was the one factor that was tied to. There have been different points and payments that I had nothing to do with that have been tied into that.”
Kannady is the primary particular person to debate the FBI’s investigation on the document. Others have mentioned the matter on background with NonDoc.
As the good Paul Harvey, whom it was my pleasure to print (and infrequently edit) early in my profession, used to say, “Keep tuned, for Information!”
