OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – On Monday, Senate Democratic leaders filed a proper grievance in opposition to Senator Nathan Dahm after making feedback in an interview about Vice President Kamala Harris, which have been described as offensive and misogynistic.
Senate Democratic Chief Kay Floyd, D-Oklahoma Metropolis, and Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, filed a proper grievance with Senate President Professional Tempore Greg Deal with relating to violations of Senate Guidelines by Senator Nathan Dahm.
“Final week, a sitting Oklahoma Senator, Nathan Dahm, publicly exhibited conduct which we consider violates RULE 5: CONDUCT AND ETHICAL STANDARDS, Rule 5-1 Legislative Conduct, as discovered within the Senate Guidelines and Joint Guidelines of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature of Oklahoma, 2023-2022.
Due to this fact, per RULE 5: CONDUCT AND ETHICAL STANDARDS, Rule 5-5.L Code of Conduct and Moral Requirements, we’re submitting this formal grievance.”
Republican Sen. Nathan Dahm made the feedback in an interview with KFOR’s sister station, KTUL in Tulsa, as he was speaking a few invoice he filed relating to paper straws.
“You possibly can’t use a paper straw for a milkshake however possibly Kamala Harris might due to her huge expertise,” Sen. Dahm is heard saying within the recording.
He stood by the lewd intercourse joke, in addition to implications Harris had slept her method by the political ranks in an interview with KFOR April 23.
“Her method in attending to a few of her early positions and the place she is now, how she was chosen and chosen,” Dahm instructed KFOR.
“It’s clear that we’re not going to get by to this one senator,” mentioned Home Minority Chief Emily Virgin. “It’s, although, necessary for the remainder of us to talk out about his despicable conduct and let folks know that this isn’t the angle or the sensation of the overwhelming majority of individuals on the State Capitol.”
Senate Professional Tem Greg Deal with additionally condemned the feedback final week, issuing the next assertion:
“I’m upset in Nathan Dahm’s feedback concerning the vice chairman of the USA. His feedback have been misogynistic, disrespectful, immature, and undermine the great work of the workers and different members of the Oklahoma Senate. Because the chief of the Senate, I maintain senators to a excessive normal of conduct and decorum, and Senator Dahm fully did not stay as much as that normal.”
SENATE PRO TEM GREG TREAT
Professional Tem Deal with wouldn’t touch upon whether or not there could be disciplinary motion taken in opposition to Dahm.
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