Gentner Drummond
is a Liar.
Gentner Drummond has lied to Oklahoma voters. Now, you know the truth.
Drummond donated to Joe Biden — and Oklahoma Democrats — 11 times
The record — On August 31, 2020, Gentner Drummond wrote a $1,000 check to Biden for President. It's right there on the federal disclosure: name, Tulsa address, "Drummond Law, Attorney."
And it wasn't a one-time lapse. Drummond has contributed roughly $10,000 to 11 Oklahoma Democrat candidates for state and federal office since 2004.
Drummond sued Oklahoma farmers and ranchers
Before he asked for your vote, Drummond took Oklahoma's own farm and ranch families to court. Hear the story in their words:
Coverage: FOX 24
Drummond stood with the underage trans surgery industry
Instead of defending Oklahoma's law protecting children, Drummond struck a deal with the ACLU to halt enforcement of the state's ban on child gender transitions. The ACLU celebrated it as a major win. Gov. Kevin Stitt called Drummond's actions "disgusting and shameful."
Amnesty for illegal immigrants
Biden donor Gentner Drummond told KOCO-TV that illegal immigrants can stay in Oklahoma:
"If you're an illegal immigrant in Oklahoma and obeying the law, I don't have any concern for you. I wish you to have success as you work through the process of legally immigrating."
— Gentner Drummond, KOCO News, 05/21/24
Chief banker for the marijuana industry
Drummond profits from his bank's cannabis-focused banking, which specifically targets growers, processors, dispensaries, transporters, waste disposals and laboratories.
The Drummond land loophole
Gentner Drummond claims he protected Oklahoma land, but the affidavit issued by his Attorney General's Office allows a noncitizen to purchase property simply by claiming they "shall become" a bona fide Oklahoma resident. It does not require the buyer to already be a resident before the deed is recorded.
That is not serious enforcement. It is a loophole built on a future promise, leaving Oklahoma land vulnerable to foreign buyers and bad actors willing to check a box and sign their name.
Mike Mazzei will close the loophole, strengthen verification and enforcement, and make sure Oklahoma land stays in the hands of people who are legally entitled to own it.
Setting the record straight
The mail hitting your mailbox about the Inola aluminum plant is false
Anonymous mail is showing up in Oklahoma mailboxes claiming the state handed billions of your tax dollars to a foreign-owned smelter. Every headline claim on that mailer is wrong — and the people behind it won’t put a candidate’s name on it.
Here is the same mailer, claim by claim, next to the facts. Read both and decide for yourself.
The mailer’s own disclaimer: “Authorized and Paid for by Oklahoma Leadership Advocacy Group, INC. Not Authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.”
The mailer claims
The smelter is owned by the United Arab Emirates.
The truth
The plant is owned by Oklahoma Primary Aluminum — a United States company. Century Aluminum, a longstanding American producer headquartered in Chicago, owns 40%; Emirates Global Aluminum owns 60%. That is the same structure as the Honda, Nissan and BMW plants that employ thousands of Americans on American soil.
The mailer claims
The UAE will control 350 acres of Oklahoma land.
The truth
The land is owned and controlled by Oklahoma Primary Aluminum, a U.S. entity — and it answers to Oklahoma law like every other landowner in this state: local zoning, state permitting, DEQ oversight, inspections and enforcement. No foreign government gets a deed, and no foreign government gets an exemption.
The mailer claims
Oklahoma agreed to give away $275 million to the foreign company.
The truth
Not one dollar goes to a foreign company. The 2025 appropriation directed $255 million in existing LEAD economic‑development funds to electric upgrades — so building the plant would not land on local ratepayers — and $20 million to upgrades and construction at the Port of Inola. Those are Oklahoma‑owned public assets, and the money is contingent on strict job‑creation performance metrics.
The mailer claims
Federal and local giveaways total $1 billion.
The truth
These aren’t giveaways — they’re investments that pay Oklahoma back. The incentives are performance‑based and fully recovered in 12.5 years, then return 100% over 25 years: roughly $80 million a year in new tax receipts, $2 billion over 25 years, and a projected $25 billion in economic impact. These are the same local programs that have succeeded 99% of the time in Oklahoma, creating tens of thousands of jobs.
The mailer claims
The smelter will not pay taxes to Oklahoma for 30 years.
The truth
The plant pays corporate income tax like any other business in Oklahoma. On top of that, an estimated $700 million in new payroll supercharges the local economy, putting income tax and sales tax into Oklahoma communities from day one — about $80 million in tax receipts every year.
The mailer claims
Pollution from the smelter will last for generations and spread over 100,000 acres.
The truth
This plant refines alumina — there is no red sludge and there are no sludge pits. Modern technology is what makes it clean, and there is a financial incentive to keep it that way: fluoride is needed in production, so the plant filters and recycles it rather than releasing it.
Design engineers are expecting fluoride output at Inola to be under 0.45 lbs per ton of aluminum produced — well below the EPA’s 1.2 limit. This operational metric has been proven possible by plants in Dubai and Iceland.
One more thing
Attorney General Drummond’s lawsuit circulates photographs of cattle with fluorosis and implies that is Inola’s future. Those cattle were not affected by aluminum production. The nearest aluminum plant to where those photos were taken is roughly as far away as Oklahoma City is from Atlanta.
A plan, not slogans
Mike Mazzei’s plan: safe for people, safe for the cattle, safe for the hay.
Oklahoma can reshore its industrial base, create thousands of jobs, supply our men and women in uniform, and protect the land at the same time — with the right plan and real oversight. Mike will hold this project to the highest environmental standards for clean air, public health and community safety.
Thorough EPA and Oklahoma DEQ review
Third‑party verification of that review
Baseline testing of soils and vegetation
Third party continuous monitoring of exhaust (CEMS)
Continuous independent monitoring of surrounding farms and communities
A working group of soil, agriculture and regenerative‑farming experts to oversee it
$0
to any foreign company
1,000
new jobs averaging $100,000 — 90% for Oklahomans
8,000–10,000
secondary jobs — construction, restaurants, retail, education, ag markets, health care and industry
12.5 yrs
to pay every incentive back