Oklahoma Ethics Commission

I'm Keith Merks.

The Oklahoma Ethics Commission has released information about its investigation into potential rules violations by State Representative Danny Williams.

And as Lionel Ramos reports, such disclosures are a rare move by the commission reserved for matters of great public interest.

Williams, a Republican from Seminole, has been embattled with accusations of sexual harassment and conflict of interest violations since State House leadership announced they were investigating him in July.

And it's a shitty tactic that you should not be doing if you are pretending to even... slightly pretending to run a poll.

No Oklahoma candidates have reported paying Visible Trends, this polling company, for campaign work during the 2026 election cycle, according to reports that have been filed with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.

And no outside group has reported payments to the company.

But of course, some organizations have not complied with state reporting requirements.

So Williams serves, um, on the, um, like, like a committee or like an, it's like a state agency called the Oklahoma education commission.

Um, And then Williams, so first of all, he authored a bill that created the Oklahoma Ethics Commission in 2022.

And it's like a 17-member body tasked with producing a report about how to improve the quality of instruction and learning through distance and remote modalities, right? How to use Zoom for school.

And that made sense in 2022.