EXCLUSIVE: Governor Hopeful Highlights Record Of Cracking Down On Chinese Communist Pot

An outside spending group supporting former Republican Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall’s run for governor rolled out a new ad Friday highlighting the gubernatorial candidate’s work to crack down on foreign adversaries owning American land, including illegal Chinese Communist Party-affiliated marijuana operations.

The Oklahoma Conservative Coalition, a pro-McCall super PAC, spotlights the former Speaker’s legislation to protect Oklahoma farmland in a new 30-second video. The ad is part of a $1.6 million buy that will air on broadcast, cable, satellite and streaming statewide until Sept. 14 in support of McCall’s campaign.

“China and Iran: they were buying up Oklahoma farmland for organized crime, money laundering and trafficking illegal drugs,” the ad states. “It was growing out of control.”

“Until Speaker Charles McCall stopped them,” the ad’s narrator continues.

McCall is one of two well-known candidates vying for the GOP nomination to succeed term-limited Republican Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race. Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has also entered the primary contest.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) endorsed McCall’s gubernatorial bid in May. He became the longest serving speaker in the Oklahoma House of Representatives before stepping down in 2024 due to term limits.

The McCall legislation spotlighted in the new ad bans noncitizens and foreign adversaries from purchasing farmland and ranch land in Oklahoma directly or indirectly through business enterprises. Stitt signed the bill into law in June 2024.

“I started the fight against foreign adversaries authoring some of the harshest laws in the country,” McCall says in the ad. “Our state deserves an America First, Oklahoma First governor who has proven to you that he can get the job done.”