A Midwest City couple said they had never been to the State Capitol before, but they felt compelled to join other Oklahomans there to call for the ouster of state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters.

Valerie and Lance Carter were among an estimated crowd of 300 who attended an Impeach Ryan Walters Rally held by a group called the Sooner State Party.

"This is important," Valerie Carter said, as she walked inside the Capitol building. "I can't believe our education is where it is at. It should be going up, not down."

Community activist CJ Webber-Neal, a Sooner State Party spokesman, spoke briefly to the crowd gathered on the second-floor rotunda, thanking them for showing up to the rally on a Saturday afternoon to voice their concern for education in Oklahoma and their disapproval of Walt

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