Two state Board of Education members say Ryan Walters played a video with two nude women during a recent meeting.

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is under investigation after he was allegedly caught streaming pornography on his office TV during a meeting of the state Board of Education.

Oklahoma’s Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton ® confirmed in a July 25 statement that the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services is leading an inquiry into the incident, according to The Oklahoman.

The outlet, along with Oklahoma media nonprofit NonDoc, reported Friday that Oklahoma State Board of Education members Becky Carson and Ryan Deatherage said they had seen images of naked women on a television in Walters’ office during the closed-door executive session portion of a July 24 meeting.
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Carson and Deatherage said that Walters, who drew bi-partisan criticism in early 2024 for appointing anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik to Oklahoma’s library advisory committee to remove supposedly “pornographic” books, neither apologized for the incident nor mentioned it further.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    23·
    11 days ago

    He made acknowledgment that he saw it,” Carson told NonDoc. “And I said, ‘Turn it off. Now.’ And he was like, ‘What is this? What is this?’ So he acknowledged it was inappropriate just by those words. And he was like, ‘I can’t get it to turn off. I can’t figure out how to turn it off.’ And I said, ‘Get it turned off.’ So he finally got it turned off, and that was the end of it.”

    The state’s head of education doesn’t know how to turn off or unplug a television? Explains a lot.

    Edit: I forgot that I’d already commented on this and came to promote the Friendly Atheist newsletter and podcast (which is a recap of the newsletter but with one host explaining the stories to the other). They cover this bozo a lot because he’s generally terrible. Check it out if you’re interested in such subjects as creeping Christian Nationalism and other right-wing bullshit. It’s sometimes pretty entertaining, so long as you’re resigned to accepting that we live in hell.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 days ago

      So he either uses a VPN, or he show his identity to access porn. So which is it asshole. Can us Oklahoman please remove him already? I still can’t believe people agree with this asshate.