For decades, under founder/former president Charlie Meadows, the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) was the standard for rock-ribbed conservatism in the state. I remember a time when OCPAC and the Conservative Index (run by the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper with OCPAC input) was regularly mentioned on the State House and State Senate floors. Good times... long past, now...
New leadership has taken the group in a different direction and rebranded the organization as OCPAC Foundation ('Original Constitutional Principles Affecting Culture') and OCPAC Action, and their influence has changed as well. Still, they continue as one of the longest tenured political gatherings in the state, and in some ways, they have more pull with statewide officials than ever before, even if their influence with legislators is lessened.
