KTOK's Rudy: Group Got It All Wrong

Radio station KTOK Capitol Correspondent Peter J. Rudy says a Washington-based group, The Center for Competitive Politics, criticizing the state's just-passed Clean Campaign Act has it all wrong.

Rudy says the group's researchers blasted the bill as containing language harmful to the First Amendent, but he correctly reports the group was looking at Senate amendments the House rejected.

The bill went to a conference committee and the only thing it deals with is donations to legislators or candidates by lobbyists during the session and for five days afterwards.

After reading the final version of the bill through a link provided by Rudy, the center's communications director, Mike Schrimpf, told Rudy, "This is good news for Oklahomans, albeit slightly embarrassing for our organization. We will certainly now be sure to double check the latest status of every bill we comment on immediately before we send something out. Apologies for the false alarm."

The group's erroneous news release criticizing the bill was printed by several bloggers.

Read the bill, by Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, at http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/WebBillStatus/main.html.

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