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Stitt says 99% of people in Tulsa encampments chose to leave
“99% of the people, they just leave because this is a lifestyle and they haven't hit rock bottom yet. And they're literally just getting on the train tracks and walking on to the next community.”
Stitt: Executive order banned DEI teaching in Oklahoma universities
“Obviously, I signed an executive order that banned DEI teaching in our universities.”
Stitt claims there is no evidence needle exchanges curb drug use
“We don't see any evidence that that's gonna curb drug use by, you know, giving them more, more needles.”
Stitt: Oklahoma provides families up to $7,500 tax credits for school choice
“Now every single family has up to 7500 dollars of a refundable tax credit. To go to a school of their choice”
Stitt claims 45% of Tulsa's homeless population originated out of state
“The other thing, Joe, that I think is interesting, from our surveys, around 45% of the homeless in Tulsa were from out of state.”
Stitt claims restoring felony theft penalties decreased crime in Oklahoma
“So we've gone back, and we've raised the threshold, we've turned it back into a felony, and guess what? Crime's going down in Oklahoma.”
Stitt: One of the few US governors to refuse statewide mask mandates
“And then during COVID I was one of the only governors in the country, by the way, that refused to do a mask mandate statewide.”
Stitt: Oklahoma banned public encampments and routed detainees to treatment
“So we banned obviously campments on any kind of public, public public places and then we had to change the law where our police, because a lot of this is mental health, it's addiction, and so our police at first could not, weren't allowed to take anybody excep…”
Stitt: Oklahoma business permits are free if not processed within 30 days
“I signed an EO that said that if you don't have a permit done to business within 30 days, it's free.”
Stitt: Oklahoma removed 1.9 million pounds of debris from Tulsa encampments
“We removed about 1.9 million pounds of trash and debris, needles, drug paraphernalia.”
Stitt: State operation cleared 64 homeless encampments in Tulsa
“There were 64 different camps, and you'd be shocked, like literally right off the highway in some wooded areas, some encampments behind people's houses.”
Stitt: Oklahoma Passed Law Requiring Litigation Funder Disclosures
“And so we, you have to now disclose who are your funders. And we're just trying to expose that. So we actually passed a law last year against some of those major, major you know, lawsuits that are coming, and who are the funders behind them?”
Stitt: Oklahoma increased education funding more in 5 years than prior 25
“We've got we've done tax cuts, done more money into education than any other governor in my first five years, and they did for 25 years before I got there.”
Stitt: Tulsa Public Schools remained closed for 355 days
“Tulsa Public Schools was closed for 355 days.”
Stitt: Oklahoma requires agencies to cut two rules for every new rule
“One of them was, if we're gonna do, if we're gonna promulgate rules, so a rule is from a state agency, right? So if you're gonna add another rule, we want you to go through and scrub the list and get rid of two rules, right? So pretty, pretty easy to do, becau…”
Stitt: OU Nursing School accepted all 600 applicants after state pressure
“And at the OU Health Science Center, and the President Joe Harris and I got up there, and we proudly announced there were 600 nursing applicants to OU Nursing School, and we accepted all 600.”
Stitt: New York spends $233B compared to Florida's $115B budget
“New York is two hundred and thirty three billion is their state budget. What do you think Florida is? A hundred and fifteen billion. Ok? And Florida has a zero percent income tax. New York has 10.9 plus the city tax in New York City.”
Stitt: American Airlines starts Tulsa A&P mechanics at $70k a year
“And the American Airlines executives, I sat in their sea level room with them, and I was asking them these questions, and they said, Governor, do you know what we start an A&P mechanic in Tulsa, Oklahoma for? And I said, what's that? They said, 70,000 a year.”