Campaigns and elections: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jackson Laymeyer’s campaign said he’s been endorsed by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell.
Lindell’s claims of a vast conspiracy to rig the 2020 presidential election have made him the subject a $1.3 billion libel suit by Dominion Voting Systems.
Under the dome: State Sen. Dave Rader, R-Tulsa, was named to an advisory group for the Oka’ Water Institute at East Central University.
Oka’, which is run by former state Sen. Susan Paddack, received a $20 million federal grant to find “socially sustainable solutions for water, carbon and infrastructure resilience.”
As COVID-related hospitalizations again mount, state Sen. Michael Bergstrom, R-Adair, filed legislation to add religious leaders to the list of people who cannot be denied access to isolated patients.
Bergstrom co-authored last session’s No Patient Left Behind Act, which requires patients be allowed at least one person with unrestricted visitation rights.
That bill goes into effect Nov. 1.
Bergstrom’s more recent filing cannot be taken up until the 2022 session begins on Feb. 7, unless the issue is included in this fall’s expected special session to finalize legislative and congressional redistricting.
