The case against Gentner Drummond

Drummond's wife Wendy was also a $1,000 donor to the Lincoln Project on September 16, 2020. It is not known whether she used the same credit card that she used to give to Joe Biden. The Lincoln Project was founded by liberal, ex-Republican and mostly unsuccessful campaign consultants who were working to defeat President Trump's re-election effort.

While this donation may not be directly the doing of Gentner Drummond, most couples will have a conversation before spending $1,000 for something as non-essential as a campaign contribution. We also know from history how often a liberal spouse can influence a conservative politician's views in the wrong direction. The giving pattern points to some hatred for Donald Trump in the Drummond household.

Credit to Laura Loomer for spotting the Lincoln Project donation last fall. Loomer also reported on Wendy Drummond's chairmanship of the Tulsa Film, Music, Arts, and Culture Commission (Tulsa FMAC), which Loomer says advocated for "2SLGBTQ+" art. That's something to look into further.

During the 2022 primary campaign, Muskogee Politico did a deep dive into Gentner Drummond's political contributions and found four-figure donations to help Democrats defeat Congressman Jim Bridenstine and Senator Jim Inhofe. He backed Democrat County Commissioner Karen Keith and supported Democrat Mayor Kathy Taylor's unsuccessful 2013 comeback run.

And what does Drummond's support for a 2018 candidate for district judge say about his ideological leanings? Drummond contributed $1,000 to Chris Brecht, a candidate for District 14 (Tulsa & Pawnee counties) Office 9, and Wendy and Gentner Drummond were named as members of Brecht's campaign committee.

While Gentner Drummond was running for the 2018 Republican nomination for AG, he was backing this lawyer Chris Brecht for District Judge, even though, or perhaps because, Brecht is "married" to another man. Drummond backed Brecht even though, or perhaps because, Brecht called for the use of government force to compel Christian adoption agencies to pretend that a "gay marriage" is equivalent in every respect to a natural marriage between a man and a woman. Brecht had called for the defeat of SB1140, a bill that became law that protects the rights of adoption agencies to make decisions in the best interests of the child and in accordance with their values. Brecht called this bill "hateful, discriminatory and blatantly unconstitutional on its face." (Years later, Brecht's webpage boasts that, "In 2021, Chris also obtained the first gender nonbinary birth certificate to ever be issued in the State of Oklahoma, through the federal lawsuit Lorelied v. Frye." That tells you what sort of lawyer Gentner Drummond tried to elect as a District Judge.)

I wrote at the time that, "If Gentner Drummond thinks that Brecht would make a good judge, I don't think we can count on Drummond, as AG, to defend vigorously our state's religious liberty protections." We've seen that reflected in his actual performance as Attorney General these past three years.

At the time, the Enid News asked Drummond for his opinion of SB1140, but Drummond used the possibility of future litigation (and any issue could potentially be the subject of litigation) as an excuse not to comment. Drummond also refused to sit down for a segment with conservative talk radio host Pat Campbell; Drummond was evidently afraid of polite but pointed questions.

As for religious liberty: When the State Charter School Board authorized the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oklahoma City to open a virtual charter school, Gentner Drummond sued to shut it down.

In 2017, Drummond was a $500 donor to the first State House campaign of John Waldron, the recent Democrat State Party Chair who recently abandoned his State House re-election bid in disgrace last month over a creepy AI-generated GIF he sent to a woman.

In his current campaign, Drummond has been getting regular, small contributions from one of Oklahoma's most liberal legislators, Jo Anna Dossett.

In 2022, many of the same donors who were giving to Democrat Governor nominee Joy Hofmeister were also giving to Gentner Drummond's Attorney General primary campaign, including many who were connected to leftist billionaire George Kaiser's network.

This year, notable early donors to Drummond include former Democrat Congressman Dan Boren, now Secretary of Commerce for the Chickasaw Nation, $3,300; the Cherokee Nation, $3,300; Choctaw Nation, $3,300; Frederic Dorwart, $3,500; Judith Kishner, $3,300; Philip Kaiser, $1,000; Ken Levit, $500.

For instance: Judith Kishner gives generously and exclusively to Democrats at the federal level, according to the FEC database, including Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Jon Ossoff, the DNC, and the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. Why would a generous donor to liberal Democrats want to help Gentner Drummond become governor?

As Gov. Stitt has worked to promote equality before the law regardless of ancestry, Drummond has consistently pushed for the expansion of tribal apartheid beyond its McGirt roots. Last fall, Drummond tried to exempt Oklahomans with Indian ancestry, however minimal the connection, from enforcement of wildlife conservation laws covering offenses like poaching, bear-baiting, and hunting without a license.

In his 2022 AG race, Drummond also took money from tribal government officials. Drummond also stated that he opposes congressional disestablishment of the purported reservations. As AG, Drummond has not worked to protect the rights of all Oklahomans against encroachment in the name of "tribal sovereignty."

Recently, KFOR traced back an AI-generated, dark-money attack ad targeting one of Drummond's opponents to the Chief Operating Officer of the consulting firm running Drummond's campaign. Jarred Brejcha, COO of Campaign Advocacy Management Professionals (CAMP), also runs the non-profit Oklahoma Leadership Advocacy Group, which gave $900,000, to the PAC Make Oklahoma Great Again, which Brejcha also runs, which ran the AI-generated ad showing Mike Mazzei embracing Hillary Clinton next to Gentner Drummond with President Trump. CAMP was founded by Fount Holland, who made a career of electing special-interest-backed clients and trying to convince Republicans to vote for tax increases and who was indicted in 2016 for illegal collusion between Joy Hofmeister's campaign and a PAC supporting her. Democrat Karen Keith used CAMP for her unsuccessful 2024 run for mayor.

Just last Friday, on May 22, 2026, Gov. Stitt formally requested that State Auditor Cindy Byrd conduct a special audit of the Attorney General's office, citing "concerns about a 205% increase in the Attorney General's office budget between FY23 and FY26 and a massive increase in headcount." From the press release:

Additionally, Governor Stitt highlighted his disappointment over the Attorney General's approval of over $20,000 of taxpayer funds directed to the Diversity Center of Oklahoma, a left wing organization that provides DEI training, LGBT programing and "gender affirming care" to adolescents. The Attorney General's approval came two weeks after Governor Stitt banned this type of funding in Executive Order 2023-31.

From the letter itself:

Financial records reveal that over the last three years the OAG has transformed from a traditional statewide law office into a much larger and bloated government agency. Between FY 2023 and FY 2026, OAG legislative appropriations more than doubled, rising from $38.1 million to $90.5 million-making the OAG the second fastest growing agency in state government. The oftice's overall budget grew even more sharply, rising from $43.2 million to $131.8 million, an increase of approximately 205%. Put differently, the OAG more than tripled its budget in just three years. What's even more disturbing is that a recent discovery shows some taxpayer-funded grants were awarded to DEI-related programming at the Diversity Center of Oklahoma, which were authorized by the Attorney General.

Spending patterns beneath the topline growth underscore the need for scrutiny. Over this three-year period, OAG employee headcount increased by approximately 61 %, adding more than 100 employees, while salary spending more than doubled. The growth was especially concentrated at the upper end of the salary scale, meaning the OAG was not merely adding staff to meet increased workload, but substantially expanding high-dollar compensation. Taken together, these trends reflect a pattern of bloated government.

What I believe we have in Gentner Drummond is a liberal trying to masquerade as a conservative with the help of millions of dollars in direct spending on ads and likely millions more assistance from dark money.

A few nights ago, my wife and I listened to a Drummond campaign call in which screened callers were allowed to ask questions. We were both impressed and distressed by how smoothly he misled and misdirected the questioners. Our "deep red" state is in jeopardy from sociopathic liberal politicians who have no qualms about depicting themselves dishonestly as conservatives. Bill Clinton, aka Slick Willie, ushered in the Age of the Brazen Deceiver in politics. Gentner Drummond is following in his footsteps.

Photo of Gentner Drummond from Wikipedia, placed by photographer TulsaPoliticsFan into the public domain.