Where We’re At It’s clear that your advocacy has made a difference in Oklahoma’s state budget. Your advocacy helped prevent cuts to the sales tax relief credit and the child tax credit. Funding for common education and Medicaid would have been much worse if legislators hadn’t heard from you. Unfortunately, our lawmakers didn’t protect education and […]
Author Archives: Kara Joy McKee
What advocates can do in the last week of session.
Our legislators face a deadline to end session by this Friday, May 27th, but they still haven’t produced a solution to Oklahoma’s massive budget shortfall. It’s all come down to this week when the key funding decisions will be made with huge consequences for Oklahoma families. What advocates are doing this week when we #DoSomethingOK: Ask Governor […]
Last chance! Save the budget!
Sorry to be alarmist, but it really is that bad, right? If our legislators don’t choose enough revenue options for the budget, nursing homes and hospitals will close, schools will cut teachers and class days — and that’s just the start. What a mess! We don’t want to see that kind of Oklahoma. Time is […]
The Big Picture and What to Do About the Budget
This legislative session is scheduled to end on Friday, May 27th. You have JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS to get your friends to join us in calling and visiting their legislators to impress them with our need for a better budget. Let’s do this! The Big Picture Let’s keep the big picture in mind. Right […]
A dream you dream together is reality!
We are all dreaming of a better budget where we can avoid massive cuts to schools, health care, and more. I dream of what Oklahoma could look like if every single person in the state took responsibility for the TWO legislators that represent each of us. If you’ve already made sure your two legislators have […]
We see you out there making a difference!
For years folks have been saying “Oklahoma will have to hit the bottom before we bounce back up”. Well, it looks like that bounce is happening! Every day we see more articles about the budget crisis, more posts about conversations with legislators, more questions from constituents who have become better budget advocates for the very […]
Are we leaving it up to chance?
Now that we are past the drama of who is filing for office, legislators are more ready to make decisions about the budget. Will they make decisions based on your input or are you leaving the fate of our great state up to chance? Three reasons your two legislators may listen to you: Because you […]
Writing to Your Legislators
Hand written letters can be particularly effective in influencing legislators’ views. Why? Who tends to hand write things? You guessed it! Older Oklahomans write and older Oklahomans vote. Write to give the legislators one more good reason to take you seriously! Writing to legislators also offers an opportunity to maintain contact and keep your issues […]
Who can fix the budget mess?
There’s just seven weeks left in the legislative session — seven weeks left to do something about a budget crisis that could be an unprecedented disaster for Oklahoma. So what do we know? We know we didn’t end up in this budget crater overnight. It’s not all because of low gas prices. (Remember this headline […]
Seven easy steps to boost a better budget
Tell lawmakers we need a budget that will protect essential services while raising new revenues #DoSomethingOK! Thank you for all you’re doing to get the word out to your fellow Oklahomans, but who can actually fix this budget emergency and who was elected to represent you? You have exactly TWO state legislators elected to represent you […]
