One day after State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced his resignation, a state lawmaker is calling on the Oklahoma Ethics Commission to investigate him.

Its not the first time Representative Ellen Pogemiller has requested an ethics investigation, and both times were directly tied to the place where he has accepted a job as Chief Executive Officer.

In March, on official letterhead, Walters office issued three press releases within a week touting The Freedom Foundations new initiative called the Teacher Freedom Alliance.

The blatant preference prompted Rep. Pogemiller to file the first ethics complaint.

I had never seen, in all my years, a state official promote one association over the other, so I immediately drew an eye to it, Pogemiller said. I thought, thats not within his scope

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