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Ryan Walters was already controversial, but alleged images of naked women on his office television during a board meeting have made matters vastly worse.
Another religious fraud demanded bibles be placed in all classrooms in Oklahoma ⦠while he watched porn during an online meeting.
— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-07-29T20:03:27.083Z
Oklahoma schoolsâ chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/oklahoma-schools-chief-faces-investigation-adult-content-seen-board-me-rcna221674
A sheriffs office in Oklahoma is investigating an incident during a state Board of Education meeting last week that reportedly involved images of naked women on the state school superintendents office television. The images were seen during the boards executive session, held in Superintendent Ryan Walters office, The Oklahoman newspaper of Oklahoma City reported, citing members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson, who attended the meeting.
....Indeed, Walters isnt exactly benefiting from an outpouring of support from his fellow GOP officials. Two leading Republicans in the Legislature, including Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, issued a statement late last week on a separate investigation into the matter.
This is a bizarre and troubling situation that raises serious questions about the events and what took place during yesterdays executive session at the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting, Paxton said. Board members accounts, he added, paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency.
State House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, whos also a Republican, called the allegations serious and said that an expeditious third-party review is warranted......
Waters has called an Oklahoma teachers' union a terrorist organization. Hes partnered with a far-right propaganda outlet, bringing its materials into classrooms. He pushed a social studies curriculum guidance that directed educators to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
At one point last fall, as my MSNBC colleague Jahan Jones noted, Waters even wanted to require schools to show children a video of him praying for Donald Trump though the state attorney generals office said that couldnt happen.
Its against this backdrop that the radical official is suddenly facing a new and unusual kind of mess. Watch this space.

tanyev
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Beartracks
(14,019 posts)He says those board members should resign in disgrace. Sounds like projection to me.
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mwmisses4289
(1,655 posts)Yesterday he claimed it was the media's fault that said naughty movie was on his in office t.v./computer screen/jumbotron, and today it's Gov. Stitt put these BOE members up to it.
Is his next going to be to fall back on that oh so popular gop politician canard of blaming one of his staff?
LetMyPeopleVote
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mwmisses4289
(1,655 posts)clutching their pearls and falling onto their fainting couches isn't that he was watching porn, it's that he got caught watching porn. Basically, he said the quiet part out loud.