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Attorney General John O'Connor Plans to continue to fight for Agricultural Producers If Elected
Tue, 31 May 2022 13:04:30 CDT
At the Oklahoma National Stockyards, KC Sheperd, Farm Director, met up with John O'Connor, the 19th Oklahoma Attorney General. O'Conner is making a run for a four-year term as Oklahoma Attorney General and received a few valuable endorsements today.
Some of O'Connor's endorsements include the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, and the Oklahoma Farmers and Ranchers Association.
"This is an incredible unity of rural Oklahoma," O'Connor said. "And not just rural- it's all 77 counties."
O'Connor will have the opportunity to represent some of the biggest issues we are seeing today with farmers, ranchers and ag producers. Two of the first issues that O'Connor mentioned were foreign ownership and illegal growing operations.
"I think there is big concern about those issues," O'Connor said. "Along with, and I think primarily, it is the federal overreach and keeping the Biden, Harris, and Pelosi troika out of our pocketbooks and our businesses."
On the Waters of the U.S. issue, O'Connor said he plans to fight for producers and make sure navigable waters do not include something as simple as a puddle on the sidewalk.
"I think something happens when people go to DC and they live there for 30 years," O'Connor said. "They forget what it is like to be a human being and they forget common sense."
O'Connor also mentioned problems arising pertaining to the McGirt v. Oklahoma case.
"Never has a United States state been where there are attempts to actually cut it in half," O'Connor said. "I don't think the U.S. Supreme Court is the way to do that. The constitution says if we want to reduce a state, there has to be a vote by the people of that state, and then a vote in congress."
O'Conner said he feels like the U.S. Supreme court forgot about the non-Native Americans who live in eastern Oklahoma when making their decision on McGirt.
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