Kevin Canfield

Tulsa World Reporter

First District Congressman Kevin Hern recently made phone calls to several Tulsa city councilors cautioning them against approving an ordinance expanding human rights protections in the city, multiple councilors said Thursday.

“He has been receiving a lot of feedback from folks at the state level and some folks at the federal level about the ordinance, and he’s concerned that it may hamper his ability to bring resources back to the state of Oklahoma,” said Councilor Anthony Archie.

Archie said he did not come away from the conversation thinking that passage of the ordinance would result in a “one-for-one” loss of a particular federal funding source.

“But I came away with the idea that the White House was watching, and folks in the executive and the

See Full Page