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This is Kelly Forbes—Mr. Gay Oklahoma USofA 2011—while he was a teacher in Oklahoma City Public Schools. He later hosted drag shows at Tulsa’s New Age Renegade and served as a short-tenure principal in Tulsa and Western Heights. His partner, Chris Culver, worked at Western Heights as Executive Director of Secondary Education and District Communications around 2022–2024. During that time, the district hired Shane Murnan (Shantel Mandalay) as elementary principal. Murnan was forced to resign after his drag performances and a previously dismissed charge became a public issue. NonDoc reporting identified Culver as the district’s director of communications while the controversy was ongoing; he relayed media inquiries and was noted as having previously worked for a drag pageant organization. In August, Culver was named interim superintendent of The Academies of Oklahoma—a taxpayer-funded nonprofit charter network with campuses in Seminole, Okmulgee, and Blanchard. The original Seminole school was first rejected by the local public school board. The founders then went directly to the State Board of Education, which approved it in 2017. It now competes with traditional public schools for the same students and tax dollars. Forbes publicly states he “loves Oklahoma’s Public Schools, at the same time his partner works for a competing charter school. Notice the pattern and the fact that none of this is on his campaign page. Orientation isn’t the issue. The public record and the roles around children are.

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This is Kelly Forbes—Mr. Gay Oklahoma USofA 2011—while he was a teacher in Oklahoma City Public Schools. The same man who later hosted drag shows at Tulsa’s New Age Renegade, served as a short-tenure principal in Tulsa and Western Heights, The more you know.

🔥 Oklahoma’s Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Kelly Forbes, was Mr. Gay Oklahoma in 2011! He also hosted and promoted drag shows at Tulsa’s Renegade gay bar—his own 2016 YouTube video under the name “Kelly Kelliente” is still up---while he was a principal at Zarrow International! Forbes bounced through Oklahoma public schools with remarkably short tenures: Tulsa’s Zarrow International for roughly two years (2015–2017), dual-language principal/instructional coach at Western Heights for another two years (2018–2020), and similarly brief stops at other districts. Remember Western Heights’ Shane Murnan (Shantel Mandalay)? The drag-performing principal? This is the résumé. Now Kelly Forbes wants to be one heartbeat away from running the state as the next Lt. Governor.

🔥 YWCA Tulsa Calls for Due Process for Afghan Benazir Noorzad as ProPublica Audit Reveals Material Noncompliance! YWCA Tulsa says it is heartbroken by the ICE detention of Benazir Noorzad, a former member of its community. The Afghan national came to the U.S. in 2021 as a Fulbright scholar at Oklahoma State University, applied for asylum after the Taliban takeover, and works as an HR representative for Genesee County, Michigan. She was detained Oct. 22 at Detroit Metro Airport while her asylum case remains pending; her employer says she is lawfully present. YWCA Tulsa, led by CEO Julie Davis (since 2017) with Board President Michael Scoggins, has called for compassion, dignity, and due process. A ProPublica-listed independent audit for their FY ending Dec. 2025 identified material noncompliance—a failure to follow requirements set by law, regulations, or grant agreements. The information found on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer page for YWCA Tulsa Inc. (EIN 73-0579296), which draws from Federal Audit Clearinghouse data. The full audit PDF is linked there, but no news stories analyzing or reporting on that specific finding were found. By contrast, the YMCA of Greater Tulsa focuses primarily on fitness, youth programs, and community wellness and maintains a lower-profile public posture on political or immigration-enforcement issues. YWCA=DEI Politics YMCA = Wholesome activities

Oklahoma Democrats nominated N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas for the U.S. Senate (31, self-described democratic socialist, Black and Chickasaw Nation and never held office). She won the primary runoff with 61% and faces Rep. Kevin Hern in November. At Tulsa Pride standing with a drag queen, she told the crowd her mom is a lesbian, she’s “lived for drag shows,” then falsely claimed Oklahoma has never elected a woman to federal office. Multiple women have served in the U.S. House from Oklahoma, including Alice Robertson (1921), Mary Fallin, Kendra Horn, and Stephanie Bice (current). She may have meant the U.S. Senate but didn't say it. In deep-red Oklahoma, nothing says “winning strategy” like running on socialism and drag queens. But, that's today's Oklahoma Democrats. Kevin Hern is clearly the only choice for Oklahoma Senate.

The Terence Crutcher Foundation has been hiring canvassers at $20/hr through Election Day to work the 2026 midterms. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Tulsa City Council ducked into a closed-door executive session on the civil lawsuit over his 2016 death, talking potential settlement with our tax dollars. Autopsy showed acute PCP intoxication: 96 ng/mL of PCP plus TCP. A 911 caller reported him acting erratically, saying his car was “going to blow up.” Criminal jury acquitted the officer. 10th Circuit revived the civil case anyway (city claims dismissed). The same foundation partners with the City and Mayor Nichols on seCURE Tulsa violence-intervention work (part of a $2 million DOJ grant) and received roughly $481,000 in city-approved ARPA funds in 2023. They also spoke before council the day of the failed independent-oversight vote. Taxpayers may get the bill for a payout while the foundation runs a paid political ground game. How is it not a conflict of interest when the city that can still settle or indemnify this case is simultaneously funding and partnering with the organization tied to the plaintiff?

🔥 PartnerTulsa Board Member Tyler Ray Duncan Viral Post: ICE Detainee More American Than You, Voters Are Bigots, Church Is Dead! The owner of Coracle Coffee, Tyler Ray Duncan, a mayor-appointed PartnerTulsa Board of Trustees, posted that a man detained by ICE days before his wedding is “more American, Oklahoman, and Tulsan than most of us on this platform, much less the leaders in this Godforsaken country for the current administration “culpable,” labeled them bigots, ridiculed Christian “love,” and blamed them for the Church being “dead and dying.” Then Duncan disabled comments so no one could reply. Jordan Mazariegos (DACA recipient) was arrested by Tulsa Police on October 10, 2026, nine days before his wedding for public intoxication and obstructing an officer, a second such arrest. Duncan provides no facts about the man’s immigration status, his name and past interactions with authorities or his reasons for being detained. ICE detains people for being in the country illegally, failing to check in, having prior removal orders and other violations. To say that someone is “more American” than the citizens of the United States, without taking into account the legal framework that governs entry and presence, is not advocacy, but rhetoric that treats citizenship and legal status as optional. The rest of the post is worse. It’s not a serious argument to accuse every voter of one party of being guilty by association, to suggest that bigotry is the only reason someone could support immigration enforcement, and to claim that those voters killed the Church. They are moral grandstanding that doesn't stand up to the simplest scrutiny. The kind of charge that shuts down discussion rather than advancing it is to reduce disagreement to “shame on you” and “you are the reason the Church is dead.” Duncan is a coffee shop owner who enjoys the benefits of the rule of law, of contracts, of property rights, of a working city government. PartnerTulsa is charged with economic development and opportunity. Those things are founded on orderly processes, not selective outrage. If you want better outcomes for people here illegally, you need specifics, legal pathways, and honest trade-offs — not declaring one detainee more American than the citizens who live here, then silencing replies. This is who Mayor Monroe Nichols chose to help shape Tulsa’s economic future. ----- See previous post: Fiancée of ICE Detainee Runs GKFF-Supported Eastside Rise While Raising Money for him 10/19/2026 (Thanks Aaron for the tip.)

Tulsa’s new Harbor shelter, 315 S. Gilcrease Museum Road, is almost entirely bankrolled by Ruth Nelson’s foundation (George Kaiser’s sister) and the Zarrows. The city dropped $500k of taxpayer money on the old juvenile center to buy it from the county and then stepped aside. The rest is private money from these families. Run by City Care. Its CEO: “any reason you can’t access a traditional shelter — we say yes.” It’s low-barrier by design. Druggies and alcoholics walk right in. Comes with 38 dog kennels too. These nonprofits are paying to set the rules for how Tulsa deals with homelessness, and Tulsa voters don’t get a say. Thank you to the liberals on the city council for championing this free for all.

Tulsa City Councilor Laura Bellis is mad that an out-of-state conservative LLC is trying to flip a north Tulsa council seat. These same people never complained when Kaiser, Schusterman, and left-leaning PACs funded their side. Dark money is only “shady” when conservatives do it.

🚨 UPDATE: Jason & Monica Ponnequin (the anti-Trump protesters charged in the Sand Springs QuikTrip vehicle-ramming case) just pleaded NOT GUILTY. Today (10/22/26) before Judge Greg Lavender: Arraignment held. Both present, not in custody, represented by Ben Fu. Waived reading of the information. Preliminary hearing set for 11/19/26 at 9AM in Room 347. Bond remains. Recognized back. Recall the charges against Jason: Assault & battery with a deadly weapon, throwing an object at a motor vehicle, and conspiracy to commit a felony — after police said he threw a large object at a man’s car then intentionally rammed his SUV into it during their protest, injuring the victim’s wife. Monica faces related charges. Both out on bond while the case moves forward. Accountability incoming. #Oklahoma #SandSprings #Tulsa

Mid-speech in North Platte, Nebraska, Vice President JD Vance stopped cold when a woman collapsed in the bleachers directly behind him. He didn’t try to power through it. He told the crowd there was a medical issue, asked for a doctor, and kept everyone calm while responders moved in. After a few minutes he turned back to the audience: “While they’re working on her, maybe those of you who are of the praying type would join me in a prayer.” Then he led the Lord’s Prayer, start to finish. When he finished, he stepped off the stage and walked into the stands himself. The woman told him it was her first rally. He stayed with her a moment, checked that she was okay, then returned to the podium and told the crowd she was doing all right before wrapping up. No theatrics. Just a pause, a prayer, and a walk into the bleachers.

🔥 Democrats Dump $500K on Cyndi Munson to Flip Deep-Red Oklahoma — the House Minority Leader Who Voted Against Keeping Biological Males Out of Girls’ Bathrooms! The Democratic Governors Association is trying to buy Oklahoma’s governorship with $500k after a bitter GOP primary. Trump-endorsed Mike Mazzei narrowly beat AG Gentner Drummond by ~2,000 votes. Now DGA spokesperson Kevin Donahoe is hyping Cyndi Munson—House Minority Leader who wants to overturn the abortion ban and reinstate DEI programs—as “in a strong position” in a state Trump won by 34 points. Their evidence? A Workbench Strategy internal poll with a 72-person sample of Drummond voters supposedly going half for Munson. They saw a path and are pouncing. An unmarried, childless, far-left progressive like Cyndi Munson—who voted against requiring transgender students to use the restroom of their biological sex and against bans on gender-neutral school bathrooms—is the last thing Oklahoma needs. Let's make midterm voting turnout history!