John O'Connor for Attorney General

The 2022 Republican primary for Oklahoma Attorney General pits appointed conservative incumbent John O'Connor against 2018 loser Gentner Drummond. The nominee will face a Libertarian in November.

I endorse John O'Connor for Attorney General, a conservative Oklahomans can trust to defend our laws and our rights.

John O'Connor was appointed to the position by Gov. Stitt in early 2021 and is running for a full term. O'Connor has been vigorous in defending Oklahoma citizens and their laws against federal encroachment and assertive in advancing Oklahoma's position as we clean up the mess created by the erroneous McGirt decision. O'Connor has been endorsed by Oklahomans for Health and Parental Responsibility, National Right to Life, Oklahomans for the Second Amendment (OK2A), National Rifle Association PVF, Susan B. Anthony Fund, Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, Parent Voice Tulsa, Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, among other conservative groups.

His opponent, Gentner Drummond, ran and lost in the 2018 Republican primary. As noted at the time, Drummond has been a major donor to Democrat campaigns, such as Brad Carson's run for Senate in 2004 and Dan Boren's campaigns for the U. S. House, at a time when Republican control of both bodies was on the line. In 2018, Drummond was an enthusiastic supporter of and donor to district judge candidate Christopher Uric Brecht-Smith, a homosexual leftist who expressed support for using the law to force adoption agencies to pretend "gay marriage" was no different than genuine marriage. More recently, Drummond donated $1,000 on August 31, 2020, to elect braindead Joe Biden president.

A large number of Drummond's donors are also donors to Democrat Joy Hofmeister's campaign for governor and many are connected to leftist billionaire George Kaiser's network including BOK Financial PAC, Frederic Dorwart and other attorneys from his law firm, Ruth Kaiser Nelson (George's sister, and long-time Planned Parenthood board member), Janet Levit (former TU provost and wife of GKFF executive director Ken Levit), Joey Wignarajah (Kaiser's Argonaut Private Equity).

Drummond has also taken money from tribal government officials. In a recent debate, Drummond echoed tribal bank executive T. W. Shannon's highly dubious and likely disingenuous claim that the McGirt ruling will have no precedential impact beyond criminal prosecution. Drummond also stated that he opposes congressional disestablishment of the purported reservations. Clearly, Oklahomans cannot rely on Drummond to work proactively to protect our rights against encroachment in the name of "tribal sovereignty."

In that same debate, John O'Connor showed clarity about the crisis facing Oklahomans:

"It's not just me who supports that," O'Connor said. "For 113 years, the federal government and the state of Oklahoma all treated this as there were no reservations. In 2016, one of our tribal leaders testified to the Congress that there were no reservations in the state of Oklahoma."

O'Connor said statehood effectively ended reservations in Oklahoma before pivoting to the rights of home owners.

"The promise we need to look at is the promise to eastern Oklahomans who bought their homes who have paid 20 years on a 30-year mortgage," he said. "The promise to them is that they can own their land and their homes under the circumstances that they understood when they bought their homes, and that is that the state of Oklahoma is their sovereign."