Lobbyists and RINO Politicians Seek
Total Control over GOP Leadership
Sooner Politics David Van
published an excellent article last week covering the possible motivation for GOP Chairman Pam Pollard's heavy handed abuse of her authority. Pollard has tried and succeeded in manipulating several county GOP conventions, even throwing out one set of duly elected county leaders and their delegates to the state convention in favor of her own hand picked chairman, vice chair, and delegates.
Van did attempt to guess the authorship of an anonymous legislator that had written an account of the Coal County GOP convention debacle. While the side bar article mentions a legislator we can confirm that it wasn't that legislator that had written the piece.
Pollard seems to have an agenda in place and no one is quite sure what she is up to. I might be a dark horse candidate such as Estella Hernandez, a former GOP state vice chair
that was considered a rising national GOP star until she was defeated in a special election after she viciously worked to hound duly elected Randy Brogdon out of the GOP chair position. Hernandez had been recorded berating then GOP chairman Randy Brogdon before she made allegations against Brogdon for screaming at her during the exchange. Of course it was Hernandez doing the screaming and out of control belittling of her superior. The audio tape was listened to and discussed by Pat Campbell at KFAQ talk radio in Tulsa but STP released the entire tape the night before the special election.
You can listen and download the entire audio tape by clicking this link. Estella refuses to stop undermining the chairman even after being read the state rules that state she is to support the state chairman's agenda. Her shrill voice berates Brogdon including accusing him of using her as a puppet.
The two scandals together ruined Estella Hernandez politically. At the special election meeting she got on stage with around 30 supporters including the notorious RINO political hack John Roberts, AKA “fat bastard”, a nickname you will find fitting once you see a picture of him. Pam Pollard got on stage with two supporters, yet Pollard won the most votes and Hernandez wisely conceded the race as she had been soundly beaten with about as many votes as she had supporters on stage with her.
Meanwhile Pam Pollard, the current GOP State Chair, has refused to send the rule changes to the County Chairs and Vice Chairs ten days before the convention as required by the rules if we are to vote on them on April 5th. Pollard might be seeking a situation where she can force a vote by getting everyone to vote for a suspension of the rules without having time to read the proposed rules, digest them, and ask questions.
We are not sure exactly what Pam Pollard and James Lankford have planned for the upcoming GOP State Convention but Pollard is taking some major heat and sticking her neck out committing obvious infractions against the GOP Party rules and she is doing so for a reason. Delegates to the April 5th convention need to be ready to vote no on the party rules change and be ready to sniff out a dark horse candidate being pushed to win the GOP chairmanship.
We Told You So Years Ago,
David Boren Exposed
on Homosexual Sexual Battery Allegations
Another university employee and long time Boren supporter Trip Hall was also accused of inappropriate touching of the victim by running his hand up the inside of his leg to his groin area. Hall is said to be facing other allegations of sexual battery according to the Non Doc story and names are given and the shocking details are given.
A simple Google search with key words “David Boren Homosexual” will turn up plenty of other stories alleging that Boren was queer.
An attorney was once quoted as saying about the Sooner Tea Party: “What they publish is probably true, but it just can't be proven yet. But in a few years they almost always turn out to be right on the stories.”
No reason to run this picture other than it is funny as hell
GOP Party Chairman and Vice Chair Candidates
So far this year we have three excellent choices for GOP State Chairman and one good choice for GOP State Vice Chairman.
Running for State Chair, in no particular order, are Darren Ward, Darren Gantz, and David McClain.
Darren Ward is the outgoing Oklahoma County GOP Chairman. While he isn't our favorite candidate he would be a good chairman. Ward has some baggage that we have written about before but he has showed a lot of good sense and good morals during his term as Oklahoma County GOP chairman. It is true that we lost a local congressional seat to the Democrats during his watch. However, as compared to past GOP Chairmen, Ward would do fine. Ward has a lot of name recognition among the county gop chairs and vice chairs as he is on the state committee.
Darren Gantz has led the Tulsa Republican Mens Club for years and has steadily grew the organization as well as running for office several times. Gantz is a solid conservative and fought against the Obama Care state health insurance schemes. Darren is unlikely to win though as he has had little experience running a county party and has little name recognition among the state gop county chairs and vice chairs. He would make an excellent chairman should he be elected.
David McClain is the outgoing Tulsa County GOP Chairman. With that came a lot of name recognition with the county GOP chairs and vice chairs as he was active with the state committee and worked it diligently for several years. McClain is a pastor and a businessman so it is great having that real world experience. There was a bit of a manufactured scandal of McClain's supporters claiming that Gov. Stitt had endorsed McClain for state chairman. Few seasoned party activists gave the claim much credence as we know that few people or officials will endorse a candidate before the primary vote is over and it is obvious that the person is the one with a shot at winning in a general election against a Democrat which of course doesn't apply here.. There is no doubt that people that worked for the Stitt campaign had encouraged McClain to run for party GOP chair and McClain himself never stated that he had the endorsement of Stitt. McClain is the most likely winner of the election unless the RINOs introduce a dark horse candidate at the convention.
For Vice chair we have former House member Mike Turner and RINO activist John Roberts, AKA “fat bastard”.
Mike Turner was a rock star conservative legislator with an excellent ranking in both the STP voting index and the OCPAC conservative index. Turner comes from a wealthy family and one thing that the donor class like is stability so Turner isn't a hard core far right person. Yet we cannot think of a finer person to represent the conservative cause. Turner will have an excellent rapport with sitting legislators and elected officials as he was once one of them and faced the public in an election.
John Roberts, AKA “fat bastard”, is an obese RINO activist that has a reputation of being a political hack for hire. Cindy Sullivan and Seth Rott are allies of Roberts, both have been linked to attacks on conservative politics. Roberts is fighting a losing battle with obesity, nearly as big around as he is tall. Short, obese, smarmy, Roberts fits the description and stereotype of a political hack willing to be anything that his funders desire. We can't imagine anyone less suited for the position.
Pam Pollard Turns on the Fake Tears
Most people are intelligent enough to know that the "vandalism" done at the Democrat HQ was just another fake attack on liberals. Who else stood to gain? Who else woud care about some list of numbers equating to white supremists or even care?
But that didn't stop Tammy Faye Baker, AKA Pam Pollard from going down and making a spectacle out of herself. Come to think of it, she looks a lot like the old white woman that did the deeds....
It will be a good thing that this embarassment to the GOP is gone in a few weeks.
Some Recent Victims of
Pre Trial Release Programs
Catch, Release, or Detain Legislation up for Committee Vote on Tuesday
SB 252, covered in last week's newsletter, comes up for a vote on Tuesday in the House of Representatives. The committee vote will determine if the legislation gets heard on the House Floor, it has already sailed past the Senate.
Pre Trial Release Programs are ran by non profit, for profit, or government entities. They charge detained criminals a set fee per month to get them out of jail without bond and to supervise them while they are awaiting trial. This usually consists of regular drug testing and checking in at their office once a month or more. Some charge as much as $10.00 per day, and while the average bail bond might be $5,000 or $500.00 cash, that is easily eclipsed in a couple of months by the pre trial release programs. Worse, these programs are not responsible for tracking down those criminals that refuse to show up for court as there is no cash bond posted with the court system. They remain at large, sometimes not reported by the pre trial release program to prevent getting a bad failure to appear ratio.
Meet Charles Greenfield. In November of 2018 Greenfield is accused of killing a passenger in his car and a taxi driver while Greenfield was driving and high on PCP. He had three previous DUI convictions and no drivers license as it had been revoked. At the accident scene Greenfield had a broken leg but was showing no signs of pain, he was that high and out of his mind on PCP.
Greenfield had also pled guilty to drug charges and assault charges in 2003,2004, and 2014
In December of 2015 Greenfield had been arrested for DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was found and arrested for these crimes in April of 2018 and bonded out on through a bail bondsman. The bail was $1500.00 or $150.00 cost from a bail bondsman. But by the beginning of November 2017 that bond was revoked and forfeited after Greenfield refused to show up for his court dates. Less than a couple of weeks after the bond was forfeited Greenfield was arrested by the bail bondsmen and returned to jail.
But a few weeks later on December 6th 2017 Northcare pre trial release program had filed an OR bond for Greenfield and six weeks later on January 24th 2018, Greenfield refused to show up for court again and the bond was forfeited. But no, there was no bond money forfeited at all as there was no cash bond in place to forfeit. In July of 2018 another arrest warrant had been sworn out against Greenfield as he missed court again. But with no bondsman on the hook there was no one out searching for Charles Lee Greenfield so he remained free until he caused the wreck that killed two people and critically injured two others.
By November 14th Greenfield was in custody after being in the wreck that killed two people. As he had an outstanding warrant, he was sent to jail after clearing the hospital. Three years after the original DUI arrest Greenfield had yet to face a judge for his crimes.
You can see from this court record that when Greenfield had commercial cash bond he was quickly returned to the jail after non cooperation. You can see that pre trial program provider Northcare got him released and Greenfield was free to wander around in Oklahoma until he killed two people.
Next meet Gabriel Carter who we talked about a few months ago. Carter was out on pre trial release for charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and for unauthorized use of a vehicle. He was also out on bail for a felony charge and another misdemeanor charge. On the 29th of January his PRT bond was revoked and he was supposed to turn himself in but he didn't.
Carter turns up next in the February 9th shooting of two police officers in Midwest City after being caught shoplifting. Despite being unable to legally possess guns, Carter was armed and when he had been arrested he opened fire on the two police officers that had came to arrest him. They returned the fire, killing Carter on the spot.
Next meet someone who is likely to be the next subject of a pre trial release program story. Logan W. Reed. Reed was stopped on December 19th 2017 for driving with a suspended license, most likely for a municipal DUI arrest that cost him his license. A few years ago a law was passed that started putting DUI arrests into the state OSCN.net data base so we won't know about any previous DUI arrests without a lot of research, for now one must assume there is a past history.
However there was one arrest for driving 95 miles per hour in a 75 mph zone in March of 2016 and that had a suspension notice sent to DPS. In April of 2018 Reed paid $686.00 in fines and fees to settle the suspended drivers license ticket case but that doesn't mean his license was valid afterward, that was just the ticket.
Then on September 12th 2018 Reed had been drinking with friends and drunk enough that they tried to take his keys away from him. Instead Reed raced his pick up truck at speeds as high as 90 mph down NE 23rd until he veered into the Westbound lane and killed a 48 year old woman. The reports said that she was driving at a normal rate of speed and hit her brakes two seconds before the collision but Reed never hit his brakes and was going 83 mph when he crossed the center line and killed the woman. First degree manslaughter charges are filed against Reed on the 1st of November 2018.
Reed was hospitalized for a few weeks in serious condition but around the 20th of December he appeared in court and was released on a pre trial release bond. But by the 22nd of February Reed was violating his agreement and a violation report was filed with the court by the pre trial release program. Reed shows up in court on March 21st yet on March 22nd another violation report is filed with the court.
By March 14th an arrest warrant is issued for Reed for failure to comply with his pre trial release program and by March 21rst Reed is in custody and bail is denied. By the 27th of March a motion has been made by the defense for reduced bail and by the 28th of March Logan Reed is back out on the streets to menace other drivers and families with no bond to insure he appears in court or complies with the pre trial release program.
Pre trial release is bad when done on a wholesale level. It is good that judges have that option available for the rare cases where someone without a long record with breaking the law needs a break. It is bad when used to let career criminals out or those who don't show up in court.
And the worst part of SB 252's new catch, release, or detain law is that only those that are pre determined guilty beyond a reasonable doubt are allowed to consider professional bond. Our system was built upon presuming innocence till prove guilty but those that are refused pre trail release bail will now be considered to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before their trial.
Stripping the judge of his ability to consider OR bonds or PR bonds and forcing a formula to take the place of common sense and good judgement is a bad idea.
The other part that is worrisome is the wholesale destruction of the bond industry. They need a stead flow of customers of all risk types in order to be profitable enough to pay a quarter million dollar forfeiture. Removing all of the lower risk bail clients means the money is just transferred to the PRT groups and the defendants spend three to six times more on monitoring that never happens instead of a one time 10% payment to the bondsman. And having no one to round up these criminals before they kill again or to transport them back should they flee the state and be caught on a traffic stop.
