Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt implored lawmakers to send him tax cuts and said the continuing fallout from the McGirt decision’s effect on tribal-state relations risks state unity, an assertion that left representatives of many of the state’s tribes sitting stone-faced in the gallery.
Stitt, in his sixth State of the State speech at the Oklahoma Capitol, struck a hopeful tone about the state’s future. He evoked President Ronald Reagan several times during the 41-minute speech, saying people are looking to Oklahoma as an example of Pilgrim John Withrop’s “shining city on a hill.”
The governor, who...
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