Paul Jacob was presented Saturday with the “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Paul was honored by CPAC for his commitment to citizen-led reform and his recent fight to uphold initiative rights in Oklahoma, where he had been indicted for helping citizens gather signatures for a state spending [...]

Steve Forbes weighed in this week on the dismissal of charges against the Oklahoma 3. In his Forbes magazine column, Forbes applauded the dropping of charges but noted that those with political power still win when the system allows them to harass citizen activists and distract them from their missions.

Edmondson in all likelihood knew this [...]

The Citizens in Charge Foundation hosted a “Get Out of Jail, Free” party for Paul last night in Washington, D.C., celebrating last week’s dropping of all charges against the Oklahoma 3. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, we’d like to share some photos from the event, as well as some taken on [...]

There was a super editorial in yesterday’s The Oklahoman, giving Randy Brogdon’s I&R-reform bills a nice push. (The piece also mentions Edmondson dropping the prosecution of the OK-3.)
Paul reminds us that we must keep in mind that we haven’t won a complete victory in Oklahoma until the initiative process is opened up.

What happens with Sen. [...]

John Fund did a short piece yesterday about Paul and the Oklahoma 3 for the Wall Street Journal Political Diary. On the dismissal of charges, Fund wrote:

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson finally decided that his crusade to send three political activists to prison for trying to get an initiative on the state’s ballot is a [...]

Now that the charges have been dropped against the Oklahoma 3, Paul has vowed to continue his fight to protect and expand initiative rights and citizen control of government. His main vehicle for doing that is his organization, the Citizens in Charge Foundation. We hope you will want to join us in these goals. Visit [...]

The good press coverage continues to come in, following AG Drew Edmondson’s dismissal of all charges against the Oklahoma 3.
There was a very good piece at a high-traffic blog, Hot Air. In the post, Ed Morrissey writes:

The AG should have to answer for his Javert-like pursuit of obviously unconstitutional laws to persecute three people whose [...]

Back in November, on the day of Paul’s preliminary hearing, Paul released a statement to the media via email. Soon afterwards, a spam complaint from OETA (the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) to Hostica caused the company to shut down the Citizens in Charge website. Well, they did it again!
When Paul’s statement in response to yesterday’s [...]

Numerous good articles have come out across the country since yesterday’s dismissal of all charges against the Oklahoma 3 by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson.
Doug Bandow writes in the American Spectator:

This is good news for the movement, since Jacob has fought for term limits, budget and tax limitations, and educational choice in the past and [...]

Free at last! Oklahoma AG Drew Edmondson today dropped all charges against the “Oklahoma 3″—Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter—in response to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeal’s refusal to approve his request for a rehearing.
Edmondson had asked the court to rehear the case in which the 10th Circuit judges invalidated Oklahoma’s residency requirement [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today denied Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s appeal of the ruling that struck down Oklahoma’s residency requirement as unconstitutional. Edmondson has accused the Oklahoma 3 of violating this requirement, leading to his pending indictment of the three.
In denying Edmondson’s request for rehearing, not a single judge [...]

Tomorrow is election day in Nashville, Tennessee, on an amendment to the Nashville Charter to give voters more say in their government.
The Amendment 2, known as the “Hear the People” measure, would lower signature requirements for city initiatives, make it easier to put measures on general elections so citizens don’t have to pay the cost [...]

Paul Greenberg’s wonderful editorial (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Jan. 4th) has been getting a lot of national play, being also distributed as his weekly syndicated column. But the battle must be fought in Oklahoma, so we were very pleased to see the column picked up today by The Oklahoman, the state’s largest newspaper, with the headline “State’s [...]

A super editorial appeared in yesterday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, defending Paul (and, more generally, the First Amendment) and calling AG Drew Edmondson a “zealot” and “a bully with considerable power, a high state office, and more ambition than respect for the rights of others.”
The Sunday lead editorial read in part:

This indictment has been hanging over the [...]

The Wall Street Journal has again called Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson on the carpet for continuing his prosecution of the Oklahoma 3. In an editorial published December 26th, the WSJ notes that Edmondson is planning a run for governor and “is angling for support from public employee unions and other special interest groups that [...]