Resolutions Passed at the OKGOP State Convention

by | May 23, 2024 | Education Policy, Election Integrity, Foreign Policy, Issues, Military Spending, OK GOP, OKG on Legislation, Original Content, State Sovereignty

Written by Cathy Miller

One of the great improvements in the 2024 OKGOP State Convention was the work of an Ad Hoc Resolutions Committee.  It met three days in a row before the Convention resulting in a final report entitled “Proposed State Party Resolutions – Oklahoma Republican Party State Convention 2024”. 

Steve Dickson, chairman of the Ad Hoc Resolutions Committee, reported that the final document emailed to convention delegates the evening of Wednesday, May 1, “is a consolidation of the submitted non-Rule and non-Platform Resolutions as we were best able to determine. Items of import that were improper for the Resolutions Committee to consider, but are still important to many Republicans, were identified in the Appendix. This was our way to ensure they receive appropriate attention and consideration by the appropriate body, at a later date.”

How many years in the past have submitted resolutions completely disappeared once in the OKGOP “system”?  Accounting for every resolution received by the deadline is a BIG step in transparency.  Funneling them appropriately and without alteration is a leap forward in honoring the will of the people.  Kudos to all those involved!

A summary of the 24 resolutions approved as a slate by the Convention on Friday, May 3rd follows.  Within the list are seven topics near and dear to the hearts of the Oklahoma Grassroots:

  • Abolishing outside money
  • Auditing the State Election Board
  • Wiping the voter rolls clean and re-registering with new voter ID cards
  • Banning electronic voting, using paper ballots on a single day with voter ID cards and hand counting
  • Requiring every bill be voted on in committee and if passed, on the floor (Open Government)
  • Enforcing oath of office taken by elected officials
  • Disbanding DEI in our state universities

The 12 page appendix at the back of the Ad Hoc Resolutions Committee Report contains:

  • 22 resolutions which were transferred to the Platform Committee with topics such as opposing WHO pandemic mandates; fortifying elections; eliminating any federal agency not constitutionally mandated such as Departments of Education, Interior and Human Services, Child Protective Services, FBI, CIA, Federal Reserve, EPA, HUD, IRS, BLM, FCC and USDA; banning tax money from being spent on illegal aliens; disallowing foreign nationals or entities from owning property; eliminating state grocery and income tax; banning transgender surgeries and banning pornographic material in schools.
  • Three resolutions that were tabled and not transferred
  • One about formation of a proofreading committee following each State Convention (forwarded to the OKGOP State Executive Committee)
  • One keeping the State Convention to one day with the forum secure so that credentialed delegates could be better determined (transferred to the Rules Committee)

It is disappointing but not surprising that the resolutions transferred to the Platform Committee did not see the light of day at the convention (along with all the proposed rule changes save one).  Let us stay vigilant on passed resolutions so that the great work done by the Ad Hoc Resolution Committee and approved at the State Convention is not lost by a failure by OKGOP to publish and promote them!