The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) is a conservative, state-based

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, US.

Founding, mission, and leadership

The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) was founded in 1993 as a public policy research organization focused primarily on state-level issues. The founders, led by Dr. David Brown, envisioned an organization that was capable of affecting the state's public policy similar to national level think tanks. Since its founding, OCPA has conducted research and analysis of public issues in Oklahoma from a perspective of limited government, individual liberty and a

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. The group was founded following a meeting arranged by Tony Wyman, a Republican political staffer working in the Bill Price 5th District congressional primary campaign and the

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re-election campaign, who brought a representative from Iowans for Tax Relief to meet with local business and political leaders in the board room of Phillips Petroleum Company in

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, in 1992. OCPA's headquarters are near the

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. Jonathan Small serves as the organization's president. A

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outdoor monument tablet was installed at OCPA headquarters in 2015. The monument had been removed from the

as a reaction to an activist group's attempt to install a Satanic monument alongside the tablet.

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* {{Official website, http://www.ocpathink.org Politics of Oklahoma Organizations based in Oklahoma 1993 establishments in Oklahoma Think tanks established in 1993 Conservative organizations in the United States

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