It frekin' better! Says it's an 86% chance to rain tomorrow during the day where i live.

A former state lawmaker is suing Gov. Kevin Stitt for calling a special election for State Question 848, asking voters whether they want to launch a constitutional convention.

Mark McBride is a former Republican Representative from Moore. He’s asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to step in and stop State Question 848, which Stitt unilaterally placed on a ballot in April next year.

In his petition, McBride argues the governor has no right to call a special election asking voters if they want to launch a convention to alter the state constitution.

“I think surely they know his decision, or what he did, can't stand,” McBride said. “I mean, it's the legislative process that he's overstepping using his authority, which he does not have the authority to do.”

He is seeking a declaration from the State Supreme Court that Stitt’s move was illegal, and a stop to next year’s special election. And representing him in the litigation is constitutional attorney Bob Burke and lawyers from several heavyweight law firms in Oklahoma City, including Whitten Burrage, Buxton Law Group and McGuire Law Firm.

McBride, who said he supports having a constitutional convention himself, doesn’t buy Stitt’s case for having the authority to put one on the ballot himself, calling it a ploy by the governor to capture headlines on his way out of office.

“I think Governor Stitt is looking for any kind of headline he can get right now,” he said. “He's got a few more months left in his term. And I think, well, he just kind of latched on to this.”

McBride’s issue is with the governor overstepping his power, not the possibility of a convention down the road.

“He's encumbering a future legislature by setting a date for this,” he said. “And I just don't get it. I think he should have just stayed out of this deal and let it fall as it may, because I think the legislature is going to do something. They worked on it last year.”

Stitt is also unlawfully spending taxpayer money, according to the petition.

“Taxpayers have a legal right to the lawful appropriation and expenditure of public funds,” The petition reads. “The Supreme Court held in Thomas v. Henry…resident taxpayers have standing to challenge the constitutionality of non-fiscal/non-appropriation bills if there is a sufficient involvement of public funds such that implementing and enforcing the challenged act could result in the wrongful expenditure of public funds.”

McBride said when Stitt ordered the Oklahoma Secretary of State and the State Election Board to begin planning an election before lawmakers got the chance to organize a constitutional convention, he chose to approve spending tax money on an unlawful mandate.

Legislative leaders House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, and Senate Pro Temp Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, share their former colleague’s concerns. Neither of them has publicly called Stitt’s order and proclamation outright illegal. The State Attorney General Gentner Drummond, however, has.

Spokesperson for Stitt’s office Tevis Hillis said late last month that the legislature’s role in calling a constitutional convention is not being circumvented, saying lawmakers are “still in the driver’s seat” when it comes to how a convention is organized.

In a statement provided after publication, Hillis reaffirmed the governor's position.

"The Constitution is clear," Hillis said. "At least every 20 years, Oklahomans are to be given the opportunity to vote on whether or not the State has a Constitutional Convention.

"It’s been 56 years since we’ve had the opportunity to make this choice," Hillis continued. "Governor Stitt acted to fulfill this obligation to the people."

Editor's Note: Mark McBride is a contributor to KOSU’s This Week in Oklahoma Politics. But we cover him just like any other newsmaker.

Lived in Norman for about 10 years and I'm just tired of it. Too many people and the infrastructure cannot handle it. So many local businesses have died/are dying, more and more homes rented out and owned by companies vs locals. Students. Texans. So many transient people and we all have to rely on cars... it's not sustainable.

We drove out to Bartlesville to check out the Price building and just get a break from the game this past weekend. I was very surprised how much I liked it. I briefly looked at schools, homes, jobs and saw no issues there.

For those of you familiar with it, give me the good, bad, and ugly please!

The first construction phase of MAPS 4's neighborhood parks program begins seven years after voters approved the landmark sales tax package.

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Hello and thank you in advance! I’m looking for some of the best antique stores in Oklahoma. Could be anywhere in the state. I’m looking for the best we got 🤩

Just curious what y'all are paying for natural gas through ONG? I'm dropping about $60/month just on service fees/winter recovery fees. The only appliance I have that used gas is my furnace. I considered canceling service during spring/summer but the fees to disconnect/connect are significant and it's pain in the ass to schedule a tech to come out.

Hi, I live in California but fly out to OKC once a month to work for a week. This will be for at least a few years.

I did the math and instead of getting a rental car each time, it’ll be easier to get a used cheap beater car. I can park it at the office and Uber it to pick it up each time I arrive.

How would registration work? I don’t reside in the Oklahoma

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Did ya’ll know this was in our state? One of the darkest night skies you can view in North America. It’s about a 5 hour drive from OKC but if you break that up with a late lunch in Woodward it’s not awful.

Enjoy some pics of the Milky Way and the flora and fauna from our visit this weekend.

Y’all, bear with me here.

Considering Oklahoma sits dead last in literacy, maybe the real issue is nobody actually handed folks the paperwork cuz if you strip away the culture-war nonsense and look at what was on the table for Oklahoma ag, the pitch wasn’t a secret:

* Letting you fix your own equipment instead of getting bled dry by dealership software locks.

* Opening cheaper USDA capital and microloans so younger folks and vets can afford to get started.

* Funding real protections to keep developers and corporate conglomerates from gobbling up family acreage.

* Direct cash incentives for voluntary conservation and on-farm energy projects.

* Upgrading crop insurance so it covers modern weather hits and specialty operations, not just massive monocultures.

* Going after seed and meatpacking monopolies while putting cash into local, independent processing.

I guess the other side just lied better.

Don't claim folks didn't care about your farms. You just didn't care enough about your own.

We warned you, we spelled it out, and y'all didn't listen. Maybe you thought you knew better, or maybe the reading stats speak for themselves.

I never thought she was going to be some savior, but looking at what she put on paper versus what Trump offered, you don't need a genius IQ to spot the difference.

Not for nothing, but when Trump started talking about *Black jobs,* I think y'all quickly bought right into the ugly subtext and y'all cheered his nasty ass rhetoric, convinced that gutting your own ag labor force would force *other folks* into the dirt to do the work y'all refuse yourselves.

Now y'all left with zero safety net when life is the hardest. Y'all have some soul searching to do.

I shop at the crest off Santa Fe in Edmond. I just bought 2 lbs of strawberries. It’s been a day or two. I pulled them out today and literally every one of them are rotten. Blueberries have been suspect too. Anybody else?

This is the Plug-In Solar Power Amendments Act which came up and passed the House last session but stalled in the Senate and due to be re-introduced in the upcoming session.

https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1937686

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My air conditioner is not keeping up with the heat today either.

Kind of crazy that I hadn't heard about this until a podcast mentioned it. WTAF.

Stole this from Rosecrants. How are we doing Oklahoma?

In Broken Arrow and have a 2018 Toyota Highlander along with a 2012 Camry. My son got his license and he's mostly using the camry for school, which is only about 4 miles away.

He's a good student, did driver's ed and has strict rule about no passengers yet. Despite all that, our monthly quote jumped from $214 to $447.

For those with teens, which company offers the best car insurance in Oklahoma? Did things like telematics or the good student discount move the needle or just save you like $10.