Oklahoma Republican Scandals | Updated List of GOP Scandals in OK

Engaged in an extramarital affair with a state government employee which resulted in his resignation from office and dissolution of his marriage

Drove in and out of his lane for an extended period of time and had such "extreme difficulty with sobriety testing" after getting pulled over that the police officer decided to arrest him on the spot instead of conducting further tests

Forcibly grabbed and kissed his female Uber driver on her neck without consent while also being married with three children

Passed out in his GMC pickup with his head against the steering wheel and the truck still in gear at 3am and reeked of alcohol when police arrived who then woke him up and took him into custody

Paid for sex with a 17-year-old minor boy he found on Craigslist at a local Super 8 Motel while also being a married father of four young children and an avid supporter of Anti-LGBT legislation who proclaimed he was a “family values Republican”

Had multiple felony videos that police said "depicts a man engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a prepubescent girl" on his laptop when police found him in a hotel room with an underage boy

Illegally consumed marijuana with a teenage boy he met on Craigslist in a hotel room after he cosponsored a bill that would have made it so people who get caught with even small amounts of marijuana would be charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor

Was found liable for $4M in damages for falsely portraying a Republican political consultant who was affiliated with his primary opponent's campaign as a felon who tried to steal an election

Tried to gouge his wife's eye out serious enough she had to miss work for a week to recover

Ran his teenage daughter and another woman off the road while screaming that he was "going to kill" them

Drunkenly told police officers they had no idea “how bad you messed up" and claimed they "cannot detain" him because he was a state representative after getting arrested for ignoring repeated commands to leave a bar that had closed at 2am and could no longer have alcohol consumed on the premises

Drove under the influence of alcohol and was arrested by police

Weaved in and out of his lane while driving almost 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, smelled of alcohol when police pulled him over and resisted arrest and then called multiple state house colleagues from jail where he threatened to use his position as an elected official to retaliate against the police department for his arrest

Used his stature as the second highest-ranking member of the state senate to push through legislation that he knew would have a direct positive impact on his wife's finances she otherwise would not have been able to pursue if the law weren't changed

Was found visibly drunk in the driver's seat of his vehicle with the engine running outside of a bar and was arrested after he failed a field sobriety test, but not before he unsuccessfully attempted to get out of trouble by falsely asserting that the state legislator was in a special session and he was therefore immune from prosecution

Swerved off the road and crashed his motorcycle killing his girlfriend who was riding with him while under the influence of alcohol and a cocktail of illicit and unprescribed pharmaceutical drugs including amphetamine, tramadol and oxycodone

Secretly paid $44,500 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former assistant that he fired after she complained about his behavior

Frequently pestered his legal assistant thirty years younger than him to text topless photos of herself and go with him to a local strip club which she did presumably because she was afraid of losing her job and then fired her after she reported his harassment

Allegedly made frequent phone calls to a "house of prostitution" presumably to have sex with the women who worked there while also being a married father of three

Threatened his church pastor with violence by telling him how "good" he was with his gun and warning that he wanted to put him "in a body bag" resulting in his arrest and expulsion from the church and having a restraining order filed against him

Groped a male client's groin and other areas of his body after getting so drunk he couldn't "speak more than one or two words at a time" at a business conference while also being a married father

Stole at least nine cows and branded them as his own after being hired to transport them by a cattle auction facility

Secretly recorded two of his employees while they worked without their knowledge for months and later fired them without cause because he baselessly suspected they had helped the authorities with a criminal case he was under indictment for

Used $30,000 in county funds to repair the private road he lived on that wasn't supposed to be maintained by the county

Had at least 153 videos, pictures and screenshots depicting prepubescent girls being sexually abused and exploited on his home computer

Was fired by his Republican boss he was running against in a sheriff's election who claimed he improperly arrested an innocent black man, was insubordinate, disobeyed the chain of command and misused trademarked county images for his campaign

Took photos or a video up a woman's skirt while she was seated at a state House legislative meeting and later destroyed his mobile phone after searching "how to completely wipe a phone before police" in a failed attempt to delete evidence which police were able to recover through other means

Used government funds to purchase a UTV for the sheriff's department that he had previously owned and falsely claimed the vehicle was new so he could evade rules that were in place to deter exactly what he did

Received free services from an auto shop in exchange for sending county vehicles to the shop when they needed work done on them

Watched a pornographic video featuring multiple naked women while a parent was advocating on behalf of their child during an executive state Board of Education session inside of his office

Violated multiple campaign finance rules during his 2022 campaign and then stonewalled the state Ethics Commission when they demanded he hand over all "financial or accounting documents" from his campaign resulting in the commission going to court to subpoena the records