Candidate to protest CAIR event
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma congressional candidate plans to peacefully protest a meeting of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Kevin Calvey, a candidate for the 5th Congressional District, says he will protest Friday night’s meeting of CAIR in Moore and urged others to participate.
Calvey says CAIR has been identified by law enforcement authorities as a front group or propagandist for terrorists, including Hamas. He says his actions are not about protesting Islam but about protesting terrorism.
A spokesman for CAIR in Washington, D.C., Ibrahim Hooper, says Calvey’s action are those of a desperate candidate seeking to win votes at the expense of Oklahoma Muslims.
CAIR will discuss airport profiling and security at the meeting.
Agency OKs provider rate cuts
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Medicaid provider plans to reduce its payment rates to health care providers by 3.25 percent because of state budget cuts.
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority’s board approved the action Thursday. Officials say the cuts were required by the agency’s reduced budget allocation for December and January. State agency budgets were reduced 10 percent due to a revenue shortfall.
The new rates will go into effect April 1.
The agency’s budget cut totals about $5 million. But each dollar the state spends in the Medicaid program is matched by $3 from the federal government.
In December, the board cut $17 million in state funds from the agency’s $4.4 billion budget for a total reduction of $69.6 million when federal matching funds were included.
Bill would deter some gun suits
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state lawmaker has filed legislation he says would deter frivolous gun lawsuits in the state and strengthen Oklahomans’ Second Amendment rights to own firearms.
Rep. Lewis Moore of Arcadia says his bill would make guns made in Oklahoma and sold to Oklahomans exempt from federal regulations, including registration requirements, since they had not traveled in interstate commerce.
Moore says regulation of commerce within a state is vested in the states under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He says the guns would have to have the words “Made in Oklahoma” clearly stamped on a central metallic part.
Moore says the bill would prevent gun control advocates from filing frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers that are an attempt to put them out of business.
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Three held in Stilwell murder
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Report filed in officer-involved shooting case
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