Update on Oklahoma Ethics Commisson Funding

I recently reported that the Oklahoma Ethics Commission was considering suing the legislature for more funds, on the ground that the state constitution requires adequate funding for the EC, and the legislature had, among other limits, permitted it to have only one investigator.

The latest news is that the chair of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee came before the Ethics Commission and essentially threatened them with a serious downside to the suit: "It is a great risk that this commission will be undertaking because if you file suit, if the court takes it up and then you do not prevail, what is the likelihood of your funding increases subsequent to the court's decision?"

And if the Ethics Commission accepts its funding as it always has (it sued the legislature back in 1992, but did not pursue the funding part of the suit), what is the likelihood that they would ever get adequate funding?