If they had real competition they wouldn’t.
Shrum?
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I mean they can but every casino in Oklahoma is on on Trust Land except for the two Horsetracks. Oklahoma would never allow that to happen though because they would lose all money from Tribal Casinos. The Compact is to keep out other companies from Vegas etc.
The number one reason Tribes use casinos is to fund their Healthcare for their citizens. During Covid many tribal facilities opened up services temporarily to non tribal citizens. They gave free vaccines, but also COVID-19 convalescent plasma therapy and many other services that they paid for themselves. Tribes also use that money to fix roads that ODOT won't touch, and also donate money to Oklahoma Public schools for all Oklahomans.
Believe it or not Hastings Hospital where our second med school is located needs that money to operate.
Lol…I mean I have to call major bullshit that people avoid Oklahoma because of toll roads.
Try driving around the Dallas Metroplex daily.
Some of y’all so quick to dismiss
I’m not necessarily saying it isn’t true but I’m going to need a little more verification beyond “Grey Ghost”.
Yeah, unless there’s solid confirmation from someone trustworthy that’s going in the junk mail pile
And anonymous X post is about as reliable as an anonymous post on this message board.
Not that it makes him any more reliable, but there’s a “Grey Ghost” who calls in to Robert Allen’s show sometimes. Those amounts seem a bit far fetched though…
Agreed, I would have expected to hear from colleagues on campus had 2 people pulled a pledge of $150M. Those are HUGE gifts that rarely happen.
I think a lot of oSu folks really have an affinity for Shrum, she loves the university and deserves to have that acknowledged. Unfortunately, as often happens in these situations, there will be different camps that will find all kinds of underlying motivations for this decision and most will be wrong. Along with that will come all kinds of stories that are either skewed or completely untrue, who knows the accuracy of this individuals information, but I'm highly skeptical.
The next president will have stronger academic credentials because that's what every dean on the campus is going to demand.
Did Jimmy kill all of Grey Ghost’s cattle?
More (just posting as I see them). Given the rhetoric this will be the last one I share from ‘ol Grey
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Maybe @greyghost is a split personality of @Lou Diamond Phillips
So is grey ghost like her husband or what. Guy sounds like a nut
It is the new question people are wondering, just who is grey ghost? Time to jump on the IP address and get crazy!
Rumors are out there that @steer jock ran his cattle this morning and Jimmy Harrel was using drones to watch the drive and he will be hand picking his favs, story to come from Grey Ghost soon!
Ryan’s an idiot. Guy is the epitome of swampy and political. As a parent I get a damn email proclamation from this douche bag at least once a week. I have never paid any attention to any previous superintendent and this guy is in the news every other day.
I think Walter’s is off the rails at times. But I’ll say this for him. He got Tulsa PS’s off their rear ends. It was never going to make progress under the former superintendent. He held their feet to the fire and they are finally getting some traction. It’s an impossible task, but there is movement.
I admire someone that is willing to take on everybody with no fear.
What did he do? Throw Bibles in there?
I like the guy. IDGAF attitude is kind of refreshing in today's walk on egg shells mentality.
You know, if I was a governor who wanted to be the president of one of the state’s major universities, I’d probably start by distancing myself from the idiot I put in charge of public education, who everyone in any way associated with public education hates… 🤔
As I said, he’s a handful at times. But there’s two sides to every story. Wife was a teacher for 17 years. And she’s as critical of the system as anyone.
You do realize Stitt didn't "put Walters in charge" of anything ? He was elected and will be again.
Pretty sure Stitt appointed him twice as Secretary of Education, then endorsed him as State Superintendent. Basically, we wouldn’t have Walters without Stitt!
Walter’s is disruptive. Whether that’s good or bad depends. But as is true with Trumps agenda to disrupt the spending the govt has created it is good or bad depending on which side of the fence your on. And whether your job depends on it. Government doesn’t produce anything. It’s a user of capital. Unless you count dependency as producing something.
you seemed to downplay its importance. And I’m not sure Walters is a disruptor. He just says absurd shit all the time. Guy is worried about a possible political career over doing anything meaningful in education
