Top 10? Heck, state Superintendent Ryan Walters may be the No. 1 litigation target ever among statewide elected officials. At last count, in less than eight full months on the job, Walters has been named a defendant or respondent in seven lawsuits – the most recent filed by a former state department school counselor specialist, Janessa Bointy. She was fired in March for having the temerity to speak, as a parent, at her children’s school board meeting in Edmond, where she urged the locally-elected board to bolster its mental health programs and apply for federal training grants. Bointy and her attorney, Leah Roper, join us for this week’s Observercast, One More Lawsuit For Wrecking’ Ball Ryan, to discuss the wrongful termination lawsuit – and give us a glimpse inside what’s really happening at the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

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