OK educ superintendent Walters paid assistant, press secretary massive bonuses during final days in office

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Records: Walters paid assistant, press secretary massive bonuses during final days in office

https://kfor.com/news/local/records-walters-paid-assistant-press-secretary-massive-bonuses-during-final-days-in-office/


OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Former State Superintendent Ryan Walters handed out two more five-figure, taxpayer-funded “performance bonuses” to top staff in his final days in office, including one to a press secretary who had only been on the job a matter of weeks.

About a week passed between the time Walters announced his resignation on Fox News on September 24 and when he officially left office on September 30.

During that week, new records obtained by News 4 reveal Walters gave out two large taxpayer-funded performance bonuses to staff at the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Among them was his executive assistant Lexie Flanagan.


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The records show Walters also gave press secretary Madison Cercy a massive payment on his way out the door.

Cercy only joined OSDE in July. She graduated college one year prior, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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1. There's some sort of fire under all of this smoke.

I am fairly sure that the letters S, E, and X appear somewhere in whatever it was. All paid off with the children’s money.

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2. ...."Is there anything you can do retroactively on those things to get that money back, if it's appropriate? Or, going f

Well, perhaps not allowing only ONE person to make these payouts would be a start IMHO!


.............“Is there anything you can do retroactively on those things to get that money back, if it’s appropriate? Or, going forward, can we expect those kinds of things to continue on a staff departure?” News 4 asked Fields.

“So, I can understand how that can be frustrating to read, to read those things,” Fields responded. “I don’t think there’s anything we can do to claw, claw those things, things back. So as frustrating as it may be, we just have to move forward. So, I don’t, I don’t anticipate there’ll be any surprises moving forward with folks that we bring on.”....................