Electricity bills creating current gridlock in Legislature

Amid tax cut talk tension, drama with forestry services and investigations into financial fiascos at the state mental health department, several contentious electricity policy questions have short-circuited the Oklahoma Legislature’s annual negotiations — to little public fanfare.

Behind the scenes, however, the combined bluster from competing parties has blown the year’s biggest policy bubble that has yet to burst.

“All these conversations are similar in nature,” said House Speaker Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow). “It would be difficult to pass one of them without knowing what you’re going to do on the other end of things. You’ve kind of got to figure out the whole package — what you are or are not going to do.”

Electricity bills creating current gridlock in Legislature