Ryan Kiesel
Political commentatorRyan Kiesel is a civil rights attorney and political consultant.
He served as Executive Director of the ACLU of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2020. Prior to leading the ACLU of Oklahoma, Ryan served three terms in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010.
Ryan has been legal counsel on multiple landmark lawsuits dealing with a range of issues, including the First Amendment and the rights of the incarcerated.
He also taught a seminar, Politics and the Law, as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Ryan received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Attorney General Gentner Drummond dropped a second lawsuit by Gov. Kevin Stitt over misspend COVID-19 education funds, a multicounty grand jury indicts three people with Swadley's Bar-B-Q in regard to controversial operations at state park restaurants and Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat using a report on food prices to push for a grocery sales tax.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discuss the Governor setting forth a wish list to lawmakers in the State of the State Address, including his call for a flat state budget while pushing for a cut to income taxes. Plus, a look at some of the bills already making their way through the legislature.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss a special session which saw a tax cut in the House, but nothing in the Senate, State Superintendent Ryan Walters coming under fire for attacking the media for reporting issues with his new teacher bonus program and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat announcing his chamber will not be passing any tax cuts during the governor's special session, State Superintendent Ryan Walters tapping a far-right influencer from California to an Oklahoma library committee shortly after reports were released of thousands of dollars in travel expenses and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discuss the governor's call for a special session to enact tax cuts, Republican lawmakers pushing changes to a law blacklisting banks who don't invest in the oil and gas industry and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses an announcement from State Superintendent Ryan Walters about his intention to cut ties with organizations which provide resources and training to schools, Oklahoma's Five Civilized Tribes uniting in a boycott against Gov. Kevin's Stitt's task force on McGirt and an end to tribal license tag citations issued by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss Gov. Kevin Stitt hiring as his new top aide an oil executive who was the deciding vote on a controversial Catholic charter school and Stitt rejecting a new federal summer food program for low-income children.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Oklahoma City voters overwhelmingly supporting a measure to use a penny sales tax to build a new downtown arena for the Thunder, State Rep. Mark McBride fighting with Superintendent Ryan Walters' aide over what McBride calls immaturity and a lack of transparency and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss a challenge to an initiative petition to raise the state's minimum wage, Attorney General Gentner Drummond's formal opinion saying women could not be prosecuted for having abortions and the head of the State Republican Party opposing the nomination of former Cherokee Attorney General Sara Hill for a federal judgeship.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the Oklahoma Highway Patrol abandoning decades of precedent and ticketing drivers with tribal tags who live outside the nation's boundaries and the State Supreme Court temporarily suspending three measures related to abortion in Oklahoma.