Friends Don't Let Friends Vote For Tom Cole. I get messages from people asking for PROOF to show their loved ones about Tom's crazy votes. I understand. One of the most beautiful qualities of Oklahomans is their loyalty. But, sadly, our longtime rep no longer reps our Values. He belongs to other interests. I'm offering a choice, a CHANGE, this Republican Primary June 16. New energy, new skills, new methods, new solutions. If you're tired of the old Swamp Ways, vote ME next Tuesday. I'm going to put an assortment of info here today to share, print, attach. People DESERVE proof, and I have it. First up: Conservative Voting Ratings analyzed by Conservative organizations.

Again...is it about data, or making life unliveable for people. Who needs them when we have AI - right?

Hard to think about without turning oneself into knots, huh? LOLOLOLOLOL

Sorry... yet another personal post about my campaign for House, but I think this one is super instructive and might be worth a share... WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT IN HD36? I thought I'd just take a second to talk about things people have talked with me about on their doorsteps... 1. By far the number 1 issue - no matter who they are, is property taxes. Residents universally want schools and roads, etc. to be funded, just not off the back of their property ownership. 2. They also talk about how tired they are of funding schools that don't educate their kids and grandkids. Some of them have had their students bullied, most of them don't think their kids are learning enough. 3. If we talk about schools, one of the things we talk about most is GETTING COMPUTERS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM and going back to paper, pencil and books and in-classroom learning. 4. Lots of people talk about how unaffordable insurance is - health insurance and property insurance being the top 2 concerns. It's killing their budgets. 5. People don't believe our state government is working for them and they believe there is a lot of waste, fraud and cronyism. WHAT DO PEOPLE NOT WANT IN HD36? - NO ONE I've talked to on a doorstep has made AI an issue. NO ONE has said, "We need AI to fuel growth in Oklahoma", or "We need to bring data centers to Oklahoma to keep up with China", or "We need to be putting AI in schools". In fact, many have said THEY DON'T WANT AI to take a forefront in Oklahoma - or society. - NO ONE I've talked to on a doorstep has advocated for wind turbines or other green energy issues. One person managed the building of solar installations and said he wouldn't vote for me because I didn't support them, but then he also didn't know food couldn't be grown in the soil under the panels after they removed all the topsoil! - NO ONE I've talked to on a doorstep has wanted Oklahoma leaders to give our tax dollars to businesses to "make sure their kids can stay and work in Oklahoma". - NO ONE I've talked to on a doorstep wants our state creating a 'wealth fund', or dismantling TSET, or any of the other goofy things our state leadership has pushed this session. Bottom line? I've knocked doors of people who have voted in the last 3 or 4 primary and general elections. I'VE NEVER KNOCKED A DOOR AND FOUND A STATE AGENCY HEAD, A LOBBYIST, A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CEO, OR PAC ADMINISTRATOR. Now think on that... they may be in my district, but they're not regular voters. And if they're not in my district at all, why should they influence my campaign - or my office, if I'm elected? Food for thought, huh?

How awesome is this? AFTER their DUE DILIGENCE, I got their vote! I'm so honored!

Gann Appeals $1.3B OCC Preapproval of New PSO Capacity to Power Inola Smelter, Data Centers Hundreds Enter Appearances in PSO Rate Case OKLAHOMA CITY – Less than two weeks after Rep. Tom Gann, R-Inola, said the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) quietly preapproved some $1.3 billion in new electricity generation and storage capacity for Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO),  he has appealed the OCC’s order to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gann now has ten OCC utility appeals pending before the court, some of those filed with Reps. Kevin West, R-Moore, and Rick West, R-Heavener. This latest appeal, filed May 22, brings the total amount of PSO, OG&E and ONG customer payments the representatives have challenged to $475 million in rate increases, $3.2 billion in 2021 Winter Storm bonds, $11 billion in fuel charges, and $1.3 billion in new capacity preapprovals. Although not identified by name in the OCC’s order, Gann said PSO’s capacity expansion is intended to power several new “large-load” industrial customers, including multiple proposed data centers in eastern Oklahoma and the new $4 billion Emirates Global Aluminum smelter proposed for Gann’s hometown of Inola. On May 29, AARP and the Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers joined Gann’s appeal of the OCC’s $1.3 billion capacity preapproval order for PSO, arguing one of the financing methods the OCC approved was based on an unconstitutional law. Approved in May 2025, Senate Bill 998 mandated approval of Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) financing for certain utility projects. In addition to the new appeal, Gann and more than 300 other PSO customers have filed Entries of Appearance in PSO’s latest rate case at the OCC in which the utility is seeking an additional $600 million rate increase. The Entries are being challenged by PSO. The customers  say they are being filed to comply with a recent Oklahoma Supreme Court decision (2026 OK 24) that recognized individual utility customers’ constitutional right to appeal OCC utility orders, but said ratepayers need to intervene and raise their objections at the OCC first. The court’s decision is currently under reconsideration. A Statement of Position Gann filed in the PSO rate case raises several issues related to the proposed aluminum smelter, including Gann’s opposition to existing customers being forced to subsidize its electricity. “The Oklahoma Constitution prohibits the OCC from approving rates for PSO’s residential customers that are not ‘reasonable and just,’” Gann writes. “Rates that are not cost-of-service based and result in residential customers subsidizing the cost of extending service to the new load, the cost of infrastructure improvements necessary to serve the new load, or the cost of increased generating or purchased power capacity necessary to meet the demands of that new load, are unlawful and unconstitutional.” Gann argues the OCC should create a new customer class for the smelter and data centers that takes into account the consumer protections afforded under recently enacted House Bill 2992. “I voted in favor of the Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, and there is no reason why the OCC cannot protect PSO’s existing residential customers from bearing the burden of similar costs and expenses caused by the smelter or other large industrial loads just because they are not data centers,” Gann tells the OCC. Gann said on Monday, June 1, more than twenty PSO customers, including ten who drove two hours from Inola to the Capitol, gave in-person public comment imploring OCC Commissioners to deny the proposed rate increase and protect residential customers from unnecessarily higher bills. Some spoke specifically against socializing infrastructure costs to benefit private company shareholders, including both PSO and the new large-load customers it is courting. In both the new Supreme Court appeal and in his filings at the OCC, Gann argues that PSO’s customers have not been adequately notified about these cases. He also argues OCC Commissioner Todd Hiett is required to recused himself from these PSO cases because of his alleged criminal conduct – including sexual assault, drunk driving, and sexual harassment – about which PSO’s attorneys are alleged to have direct knowledge. Gann argues that state ethics rules require public officials to disqualify themselves from matters in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. Charges were never filed, and the Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint against Hiett in May 2025. But the appeal asks the Supreme Court to review the Ethics Commission’s legal determinations. Gann argues that when Hiett told the Ethics Commission that the common law Rule of Necessity allows him to continue to participate in OCC cases even if he is biased, that was itself an admission of bias. Gann said the Rule of Necessity only applies to biased or conflicted judges. On Tuesday, June 2, Gann filed motions in the PSO rate case citing laws in other states and asking the OCC Commissioners themselves to weigh in on both issues. “It is time the Corporation Commission explicitly recognizes that Oklahoma’s utility customers are entitled to due process protections too, especially when the process is already explicitly required by Oklahoma law,” Gann wrote in his Motion for Determination of Utility Customers’ Due Process Rights.  He filed a separate motion seeking to disqualify Commissioner Hiett. In his Statement of Position, Gann told the OCC, “In my opinion, pursuing a case already infected with so many fundamental errors of law is a waste of taxpayer dollars. The OCC should dismiss this case and start over – beginning with adequate notice to PSO’s customers.” The utility case appeals can be followed at the Oklahoma Supreme Court: PSO rate case ($250m rate increases; $700m bonds; initial decision 4/21/2026; reconsideration pending): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… ONG, PSO & OG&E CY2023 fuel cases ($1.5 billion; all briefs filed): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… OG&E rate case ($127m rate increase; $760m bonds; all briefs filed): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… ONG rate case ($98m rate increases; $1.3 billion bonds; all briefs filed): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… ONG CY2024 fuel case ($390 million $888m for 2021/2022; first brief filed): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… OG&E CY2024 fuel case ($925 million $1.9 billion for 2021/2022; first brief filed): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… PSO CY2024 fuel case ($600 million $2.8 billion for 2021/2022; briefs this fall): oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… PSO Preapproval case ($1.255 billion; briefs this winter) oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInfo… -END- Tom Gann, a Republican, represents District 8 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. His district includes parts of Mayes, Rogers and Wagoner counties.

Representative George knocked on Mic's door. Mic lives in HD36. He was in her yard and he knew that she was filming. I did not ask her to take this video, but I think it's worth sharing. I am happy to talk to constituents at a forum. He does not want to and he says that to Mic - who had been helping me find a place for us to have a Forum.

For those of you who can't understand why I'm not a fan of American Federation For Children, here might be something to research a bit...

Oklahoma! VOTE NO SQ832! We Can Do This!

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Cutting up while setting some signs and knocking some doors. What? You think these country girls can't pound some stakes!? Here's the thing about me (and Kelly!) - we'll just outwork, outlast and generally outperform your expectations - it's just the way we're built...

My friend Holly reminded me of this article after she saw my video this morning. If you want a really good example of my work for We The People, this article pretty much epitomizes it. What an amazing time this was for all of us involved!

Don’t forget numerous Oklahoma Senate “Republicans” voted on the bill to GIVE DRIVER LICENSES TO ILLEGALS! THEY want people like this here. And several of them are up for re-election on June 16th. Brenda Stanley Bill Coleman Chuck Hall John Haste Vote them OUT!

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has become the first known Indigenous nation in the U.S. to officially block data center development on its land, voting unanimously in March to place a moratorium on hyperscale data centers and generative AI infrastructure. Recently, a tech company approached tribal leaders with a proposal to build a data center on Seminole land. Leaders and community members raised concerns over the massive water and electricity demands these facilities require, along with the long-term risks to local ecosystems and water supplies. Tribal chose to ban construction of data centers and maintain environmental protection and sovereignty, arguing that once resources like water are depleted or damaged, the impacts can be irreversible. This vote is now being seen as a landmark response to the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and could influence how other Indigenous nations and rural communities respond to future data center projects.