Oklahoma state Superintendent Ryan Walters desires the board members who say they caught him watching porn to “resign in shame.”
Final week, two college board members advised the press they’d seen Walters displaying a pornographic video on a TV in his workplace throughout the closed-door portion of a Board of Schooling assembly on the time.
In a video assertion shared to X Tuesday evening, the Trump fanboy making an attempt to reshape the Oklahoma college system went on the offensive, claiming the allegations have been a “political assault.”
“These are lies by board members, by a corrupt information media, and perpetuated by the lecturers union to try to cease the desire of Oklahoma voters, and the Oklahoma mother and father,” Walters stated. “What we’re going to proceed to do is transfer this training reform for the households of Oklahoma.”
“These board members ought to resign instantly in shame over the lies that they’ve pushed about me to attempt to destroy my character.”
The Oklahoma Workplace of Administration and Enterprise Companies (OMES) had opened an investigation into Walters’s actions Friday, and on Monday requested the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Workplace (OCSO) to start a prison investigation, based on News4.
When he’s not going after board members or the media or lecturers, Walters’s different tactic appears to be straight up mendacity about what occurred. Earlier on Tuesday, Walters claimed that he’d had his identify cleared by each OMES and the sheriff’s workplace—however that wasn’t true in any respect.
“That merely isn’t the case,” OSCO spokesperson Aaron Brilbeck advised News4. “Our investigation continues to be ongoing. The truth is, I might categorize it as being in its infancy. That is going to be a really thorough investigation. And as soon as the investigation is full, we’re going to be very clear with our findings.”
In his video assertion Tuesday evening, Walters once more claimed that he’d already had “two unbiased teams are available and show there was no wrongdoing occurring,” however he provided no additional particulars.
Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson, the 2 college board members who’d spoken to the press in regards to the incident, launched a joint assertion Tuesday. “No board member has accused Superintendent Walters of something, we solely introduced consideration to inappropriate content material on a TV—content material that may trigger a instructor in our state to lose their license. Because the investigation continues, we urge Superintendent Walters to cooperate with legislation enforcement and chorus from smearing the names, characters and reputations of board members,” they stated.
