OK2A Announces Support for Paycheck Protection Bill

OK2A Announces Support for HB1749
Released at: March 24, 2015

OK2A announced Monday that its Board of Directors has unanimously expressed its support for HB1749, which would halt automatic payroll deductions by state agencies for employee dues in any “public employee association or organization or professional organization that…collectively bargains on behalf of its membership.”

This bill would not affect an organizations ability to collect dues from its members, it simply removes the state from the business of supporting private organizations by handling (and using tax dollars to pay for) the collection of that private organization’s membership dues.  In the case of the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), this politically leftist organization has made clear its stance against gun owners’ rights.  Some of OEA’s dues money is then passed up the line to the National Education Association (NEA), which calls for “strict prescriptive regulations” of handguns and a total ban on “military-style semiautomatic assault weapons” (NEA resolution I-34, p.91).  It is an improper function of government to act as bookkeeper for a private organization and even more improper to support an organization that is so clearly anti-constitutional.

We urge the Senate to pass the bill and the Governor to sing it.  We also commend Representative Tom Newell and Senator Nathan Dahm for taking action on this important issue.