Imagine that; an army of paid out-of-state petitioners may not be on the up and up.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an initiative petition to put a taxpayer bill of rights proposal before state voters.

The court’s order said the petition didn’t have enough legal signatures and that “the evidence supports substantial illegal participation of out-of-state circulators.”
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The court’s action came shortly after Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, announced the formation of Oklahomans for Good Government to back the TABOR effort.

Considering it was out-of-staters that messed things up in the first place, maybe Brogdon should start a petition drive to ban the gathering of signatures by paid out-of-state petitioners to begin with. What does it say when you can’t even hire enough Okies to circulate a petition to change Oklahoma law?

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