Billy resigns from cabinet over gaming compact dispute

Posted by John Small | Dec 24, 2019 | Main News

Governor Kevin Stitt said late last week that he was “disappointed” by the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association’s rejection of the State’s offer to extend tribal gaming compacts by eight months. But Stitt’s ongoing dispute with the tribes has cost him a key member of his cabinet: Lisa Billy, the former state representative who was appointed […]

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John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Billy resigns from cabinet over gaming compact dispute

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