OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — A dark money group, with a platform calling for Oklahoma to give only the governor power to pick judges and has close ties to a Project 2025 advisory organization, is behind a television ad urging voters not to retain three “liberal” Oklahoma Supreme Court justices.
The dark money group behind the ads has close ties to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), a highly influential Oklahoma-based non-profit conservative think tank and advisory sponsor of the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’ plan.
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The ads paint the three justices as liberal partisan activists, and also claims Oklahoma’s longtime system used for nominating judges and justices is politically biased.
News 4 has found the dark money group running the ads has a published political agenda advocating for the dismantling of Oklahoma’s existing non-partisan judicial nominating system and replacing it with a system the state abandoned nearly 60 years ago in an effort to reduce corruption.