Police union not connected to dark money campaign used in city council races, Tulsa FOP leader says
Tulsa’s Fraternal Order of Police had nothing to do with a dark money campaign that produced ads that distorted and misrepresented the positions of two Tulsa City Council candidates the union opposed, the organization’s leader said.
Dark money refers to expenditures on behalf of campaigns without the original source of the funds being disclosed.
The Tulsa World reported in October that a Columbus, Ohio-based political action committee was behind a series of over-the-top mailers that portrayed District 7 City Councilor Lori Decter Wright as a carpetbagging liberal whose values don’t align with Tulsa’s, and made District 5 candidate Mykey Arthrell out to be an extremist who supported defunding the police.
The PAC, Accountability Project Institute, created a local spinoff, Accountability Project Oklahoma, that was led by Tulsa Police Department volunteer chaplain Danny Stockstill.
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