protestors show up at Oklahoma Ryan Walters "town hall"

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Anti-Woke Oklahoma Schools Boss’ Event Labeled a ‘PR Stunt’

Oklahoma schools boss Ryan Walters kicked off his talk at a state university on Wednesday night by calling on people to “never back down to a woke mob.”

But less than 15 minutes later, Walters seemed to do just that as hecklers in the audience shouted over his remarks.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-woke-oklahoma-schools-boss-event-labeled-a-pr-stunt/ar-AA1ng9OY

On Wednesday morning, a TUPSA college field rep sent an email to students who RSVP’d to what was advertised as a “town hall.” But the message noted that “Ryan will be giving a 20 to 30-minute speech with questions at the end if time permits.”

“So that’s not a town hall and pretty undemocratic for it to be presented that way,” Farrow told The Daily Beast, adding that TPUSA instead had certain people ask prepared questions.

“We extensively prepared to have a dialogue, but he was unwilling to hear us out,” she said.

That changed protesters' original plans, which included asking researched questions about Ryan’s policies. They weren’t planning on staging any disruption until they learned the “town hall” was actually just a right-wing lecture.

“We have questions about the way that he is operating as state superintendent, because that is taxpayer dollars from all of us,” she said.

According to News 4, more than 100 people showed up to the lecture hall to see Walters, who doesn’t often engage in Q&As with the general public.

Walking back and forth across the room, Walters told TPUSA supporters of the activists, “You conservatives scare them so bad, they are so scared to hear from you that they will shout you down. They will scream hysterically.”

“Conservatives, this is what winning looks like,” added Walters, 38, a former high school history teacher who’s aligned himself with far-right causes including the extremist group Moms for Liberty since taking office in 2023.

Despite the clamor, Walters took an opportunity to spew his us-versus-them discourse.

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1. He is trash incarnate!

He is beyond disgusting.

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2. agreed. he's a snake

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3. The entire state education department legal staff has resigned, and an armed guard blocks his office

From the same article:

The students also take issue with his failure to retain staff—more than 130 education department employees have resigned, including the legal staff and his Christian conservative supporters—and his use of public funds to pay for his out-of-state media appearances. They underscored one recent poll from Change Research that revealed 55 percent of Oklahomans disapprove of the job he’s doing.

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Last week, one of Walters’ high-level executives spoke out about why she resigned from his administration in October, telling News 4 she’s worried about the future of the state’s education system. Walters hired Pamela Smith-Gordon, a former teacher and school district superintendent, to be the state’s program manager of grant development and compliance.

Smith-Gordon said she could never get a meeting with Walters, so she tried visiting his office—only to find an armed guard blocking the way. “His hall to his office is behind locked doors with an armed guard. You were not allowed to go down his hall, much less enter his office,” Smith-Gordon said. “Now, there were a select few that were graced with his presence. But department heads were not.”

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Good job, Oklahoma.

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4. How very facistic of him.

And from the education department? FFS

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5. He doesn't care - he'll punch his ticket, resign and run for Congress

And he'll have a seat for life - like James Inhofe, but without the charm and intelligence.

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6. he tore the OK education system apart. every decision was based on religious facism and "owning the libs"

rather than education. I knew things were spiraling when he started filming from his car.