Taking a cue from a wounded Donald Trump’s “fight, fight, fight” rallying cry after he was wounded by a sniper last year, Oklahoma Rep. Molly Jenkins told a “Stop the Green” rally at the state capitol Tuesday, “This fight is far from over—fight, fight, fight!”
It brought cheers and applause from those who gathered to bring attention to the Governor, state leaders and legislative officers of their opposition to wind and solar projects as well as transmission lines that result in eminent domain.
Rep. Jenkins, wearing a tee shirt with the message “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” informed the crowd of her bills she will introduce in the coming legislative session to fight eminent domain and wind turbines. She also told rally goers, “If they come onto your land and threaten you with eminent domain, call me!”
Attorney General Gentner Drummond was the lead speaker and criticized what he called the “Green Energy scam.” Drummond said the wind turbines around the country were “brought to you on the backs of oil and gas workers.” Among Republican Attorneys General who have joined forces to file suits against the Biden administration’s green energy efforts, he said the only green in green energy is the money….or tax dollars.
“Donald Trump’s certification yesterday as elected president will end this…there will be no more give-aways and fighting for oil and gas.”
Even Education Secretary Ryan Walters joined the list of those who spoke to the crowd.
“We should not be selling our state to woke green energy companies,” he said. “We should not allow green new deals into our state.”
Responding to enthusiastic applause and cheers, Walters urged the crowd to fight what he described as the “radical woke leftists in Washington, D.C.”
“Do not stop the fight! This fight won’t go away. These are radical Marxists and we are the reddest state in the country.”
Other speakers made similar calls.
“All subsidies of green energy should be stopped,” charged John Spence, a 7th generation Oklahoman who lives in Craig County.
“Oklahoma is the reddest state in the nation and our legislature needs to act like it.” He said people in Oklahoma are against wind and solar projects and urged the rally goers to “put the legislative leaders and Governor on notice.”
Another speaker, Rep. Jim Shaw, said, “It’s time to stop playing political games.” He called it Green Energy Insanity and said, “we have to correct the course now.”
Rep. Tim Turner, a Republican legislator leading a fight against a proposed wind farm in McIntosh County addressed the group.
“It’s time to let the outsiders know, we will protect our quality of life in Oklahoma. Time to get back to oil and gas—drill baby drill!”
