Jeez. He was just handing out money like Halloween candy. How was this all missed when it was going on?
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Jeez. He was just handing out money like Halloween candy. How was this all missed when it was going on?
Stillwater Townie
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Not all of it was missed. When it was noticed apparently nothing was done about it.
From article:
Walters was no stranger to handing his staff unexplained payouts. In April, News 4 reported Walters gave former communications director Dan Isett a final paycheck for more than $75,000.
“It is appalling to see a payout this size effectively creating a golden parachute for somebody who’s separated from an agency for unknown reasons,” Rep. Andy Fugate, D–Del City, told News 4 in April.
Ok so people might have known what was going on and just didn't care.
Is it common for state employees to get 5 figure termination bonuses? This seems appalling to me but if its a common practice then maybe that explains it a little. Without any other information it seems highly unusual and potentially illegal.
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It is highly uncommon for state employees to get ANY termination bonus or really anything other than a COBRA insurance notice and payment of any outstanding annual leave due.
The only time I've ever seen something like this during my 20 years as general counsel for a state agency (before I became a prosecutor) was if there was some kind of a pending or threatened lawsuit surrounding the employment.
Your first paragraph is what I figured. State jobs are about stability and good health insurance (or at least they used to be). Its not like private industry where you can see a compensation package if you leave through no fault of your own.
Your second paragraph-that seems beyond shady if it happens alot and it seems like everyone in his circle got something when they left. I saw Walters as an opportunist but considering this he may be more like Trump than anyone realized when it comes to grift. The state really needs to do an audit of the DOE during his time running it.
I got to feel like that’s where we are going
Polds4OSU
Marshall
New records obtained by News 4 reveal fresh concerns about former State Superintendent Ryan Walters, including a taxpayer-funded bonus to his press secretary who now works with him at an activist group, taxpayer-funded travel to events hosted by that same group, and behind-the-scenes videos of Walters promoting a specific Bible brand he later sought to place in public schools.
Stillwater Townie
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Republicans aren't worried about Walters. Instead, they still want to push the culture war at their party meetings where Republicans running for office are invited to speak. They still worry about porn in schools, and transgenders in school. They worry that laws against it are not being enforced and want people in schools not enforcing them to be charged with crime.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
News 4 has uncovered even more records showing former State Superintendent Ryan Walters paid his executive staff massive bonuses—this time, offering his chief of staff yearly bonuses worth more than the average Oklahoma teacher makes in a year, on top of a nearly $200,000 salary.
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
UpGrayedd Double Dose
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Looks like Ryan had a state vehicle assigned to an assistant and then used it himself for personal use. When is the AG going to go after this guy?
Questions remain over who drove a taxpayer-funded vehicle issued to an aide of Ryan Walters • Oklahoma Voice
Current and former Education Department officials have refused to explain who drove an agency vehicle to Texas, country clubs and stores.
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UpGrayedd Double Dose
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I am astonished by the current lack of will to prosecute these politicians. Is it because of one party rule? They sent Carroll Fisher to jail back in the day and he was an amateur compared to Ryan Walters.
Im thinking he was told to find employment elsewhere to avoid prosecution.
I guess don't watch porn on a work computer
PF5
Sheriff
my opinion is two-fold...don´t attack your own (party) and/or don´t attack your own (fellow politicians)...I would say (again, my opinion) that the majority of politicians are corrupt so they have to look out for each other, and if they do ´attack´ a fellow politician, they are ´game´ as well (and may be looked at closer)...
UpGrayedd Double Dose
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I agree this most likely what has happened, but it shouldn't be. No one should be above the law and none of us common folks would get away with such shenanigans.
Yep. There was griping by teachers and people who know them when the computer issue first started as anyone below him would have been suspended pending an investigation for similar conduct but he kinda got a pass.
Seeing all of this coming out now, anyone who wasn't him would have faced prosecution by now. But he didn't even have to resign due to it-he got to "take another job" instead of facing any real consequences for his actions.
The statute of limitations certainly hasn’t expired. Lock him up! Lock him
Up! Make his life as miserable as he made the people in public education. Ban him from EVER serving in a public office again. Make him personally repay the State for his doling out money to his personal friends. Then, after he’s financially bankrupt. Lock him up! Oh I forgot, give him the same due process ICE agents ignore.
Up! Make his life as miserable as he made the people in public education. Ban him from EVER serving in a public office again. Make him personally repay the State for his doling out money to his personal friends. Then, after he’s financially bankrupt. Lock him up! Oh I forgot, give him the same due process ICE agents ignore.
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