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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.
