A conservative advocacy group is challenging OU President David Boren's plan to fund education through a one-cent sales tax.
OCPA Impact filed a formal protest with the Oklahoma Supreme Court today, saying Boren's petition is unconstitutional.
The group accused Boren's group of logrolling four different subjects in to one petition and said that violates the Oklahoma Constitution's single-subject rule.
"The concept of logrolling usually involves taking something that people like and support and lumping it together with stuff that — on its own — they might not feel so strongly about," said OCPA Impact CEO Dave Bond.
Bond said Boren is promoting his penny sales tax as a way to fund teacher pay raises but there are other issues within the petition that Oklahomans should vote on separately.
Boren's group wants voters to approve the penny tax in order to fund $5,000 raises for teachers, higher education and the CareerTech system, among other things.
Boren’s group responded to OCPA Impact's filing by saying they are confident all subjects within the petition fall under the category of education; therefore, it is filed correctly.