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A state retiree seeks to overturn Oklahoma’s ‘woke’ investment ban
The Frontier ^ | 11/21/23 | Clifton Adcock

Posted on 11/25/2023 11:05:17 AM PST by DallasBiff

A former state employee, backed by pension groups and an organization that represents public workers, is suing to overturn an Oklahoma law banning the state from doing business with financial firms accused of boycotting the fossil fuel industry.

Don Keenan worked at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission as a disabled veterans employment and senior interviewer from 1985 to 1996, and is also the former head of the Oklahoma Public Employees Association. Keenan filed the lawsuit in Oklahoma County District Court on Monday.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: election; oklahoma; woke
Oh that's smart in OK, where many peoples livelyhoods depends on oil and natural gas production.
1 posted on 11/25/2023 11:05:17 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

sorry no standing


2 posted on 11/25/2023 11:06:20 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DallasBiff

Good luck with that. Woke investments are about as safe as fake crypto currency


3 posted on 11/25/2023 11:09:50 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

The cancer has been injected into your personal investments because they want you poor and destitute and this is the way they can accomplish this without you even knowing it. One day you will receive a statement and it will be all zeros and they will apologize for the inconvenient


4 posted on 11/25/2023 11:12:18 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: DallasBiff

The State’s attorney should tell the judge that he needs to run for the state house if he wants to rewrite the laws. The court has no jurisdiction over the legislative branch.

If the judge balks, defund his office to prove the point.

EC


5 posted on 11/25/2023 11:26:34 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I don’t know if you mean that ironically or literally. I think he does lack standing because Oklahoma has a defined benefit retirement, probably backed by the state treasury. No particularized injury = no standing. If he does have standing the argument would be that the supposed potential harm is speculative


6 posted on 11/25/2023 1:13:50 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DallasBiff
Send them a copy of Woke Companies (https://daveseminara.com/complete-list-of-woke-companies-condemning-so-called-racist-voting-laws/). Oklahoma might want to expand its ban.
7 posted on 11/25/2023 1:46:39 PM PST by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: DallasBiff

You have misread the article. There is a double negative in the first line. They are boycotting investment firms that won’t invest in fossil fuel companies.


8 posted on 11/25/2023 2:38:07 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: DallasBiff

“Public Employees Association” should read SEIU, bunch of PROG/LIB/COMMUNISTS!


9 posted on 11/25/2023 5:55:02 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: DallasBiff
Read the first sentence, people. He's seeking to overturn the ban on fossil fuel investments.
10 posted on 11/26/2023 11:51:11 AM PST by Lizavetta
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