The Bankruptcy Creditors of
Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain
Nine Paint Stores Looted?
Twenty years ago... the man has changed.... is what some people said when we disclosed and discussed the 1999 federal bankruptcy case that David Mclain and his wife Aleen filed after fleeing the state of Alabama and the area of Muscle Shoals where they had financially raped local businesses and financial companies.
The Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan was filed with Aleen and David McLain living in Kingman Arizona, not that long before McLain and Aleen moved to Oklahoma. Yet some considered the 20 year old bankruptcy record old news, that McLain had become a minister and found God.
GOP Chairman David McLain holds himself out as a Christian, as minister no less, yet he acts as anything but a Christian towards others. McLain and his campaign team dug up dirt on a fellow candidate, Darren Ward, in the GOP Chairman's race while hiding a much, much, more checkered past.
That brings up a good Bible parable that others should keep in mind when thinking about David McLain. Mathews 18:23 – 35 talks about a provincial governor that was brought before the king to settle his debt of a massive amount of money owed to the king, what must have been several decades of unpaid taxes or collected taxes of others that was unremitted to the king. As the governor was unable to pay, the king ordered the man, his wife, and his children to be sold into slavery, along with all of his property. That was still just a tiny fraction of what was owed so the governor threw himself at the feet of the king begging for mercy and forgiveness. The king was wise and merciful so he gave the man and his family mercy and dissolved the debt.
The former governor walked away a free man and all was well until the former governor ran into one of his own debtors, a man owing the former governor a few days of working man wages worth of debt. The debtor was seized by the throat by the former governor and a demand was made for repayment. The debtor likewise threw himself at the feet the former governor, asking for patience, asking that he be given a bit of time to repay the debt. Alas, the former governor refused to give mercy and had the debtor cast into debtor's prison until such time that the debt was paid.
Word got back quickly to the king. And the king was justly enraged and he had the former governor brought before him and delivered him to the tormentors in debtor's prison until the old debt was repaid in full.
“Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?” (
Matt. 18:33.)
One debt was beyond the means of ever repaying.
The other was a debt of a few day's wages.
Such was it between GOP Chairman David McLain and Darren Ward.
McLain carried far, far more financial and legal baggage than Ward.
GOP Chairman candidate David McLain and his campaign manager Tom Demont had approached us using stealth, actually approaching a Tulsa activist McLain knew who then vectored Tom Demont to the Sooner Tea Party. All of this happened within a few hours from the first time the Tulsa activist met Demont for the first time and the meeting at a pre convention party at the Old Surety building in Oklahoma City. Demont showed up acting very nervous, laid out the details, dropped Lt. Governor Matt Pinnel's name as the person that recommended that we be approached while also insinuating that Pinnel might have been behind the gathering of the dossier on Oklahoma GOP Chairman candidate Darren Ward.
At the time STP was unaware that McLain had made the initial introduction between the Tulsa Activist and Demont. Yet both the Tulsa activist and STP had no clue that Tom Demont was actually the campaign manager for David McLain. Few candidates would be so foolhardy to have their campaign manager doing the dirty work, it could easily backfire and there would be the candidate with mud on his hands. Plus McLain would be exposed a hypocrite once his own dirty laundry was exposed.
As we said in the last newsletter, the info on Darren Ward wasn't a surprise, much of it was already known. And before we published the story we gave Ward's supporters a copy and a chance to respond as well as doing some quick OSCN.net research on McLain himself. That turned up only one negative hit, a lawsuit from Sherman Williams Paint Company for breech of contract/unpaid bills. It had been settled after McLain had paid in full and due to the short timeline, literally eight to ten hours before the convention started along with the election, that was the limit of our resources and time available.
For his part, Darren Ward chose not to respond in kind. It is unknown if he had anything on McLain or if he simply chose a higher road to travel.
And GOP Chairman David McLain had us all fooled. He was selling himself as this squeaky clean pastor, a successful businessman, a man that would unite the factions of the GOP. The reality was that he was a horrible businessman that had cheated dozens and dozens of companies when his business failed in 1999, filed a bankruptcy, then moved to the Tulsa Oklahoma area and promptly got in over his head again and McLain and Aleen McLain were sued by Sherman Williams Paint Company for not paying their bills.
Despite having massively more of a checkered financial background, Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain deliberately chose to attack another man politically, using his own campaign chairman, while deceiving the activists by hiding the fact that Demont was Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain's campaign.
And how bad was the Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain bankruptcy in Alabama? It was massive, I counted 56 creditors, a couple of which were listed twice due to having multiple claims like the IRS. Below are lists of creditors sorted by purpose.
The labor/benefits bills owed to the Painters Unions were troubling.
One has to wonder if there were families left without a paycheck with kids to feed.
As troubling was the massive list of paint companies.
Two points on that, most businesses will settle on one supplier for an item like paint. You find the local company that has good prices and takes care of your business and most tradesmen and businesses won't switch suppliers without very good cause. But it looks as if Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain and his wife Aleen were running up bills at the various paint stores till they cut off his credit, then moving to the next paint store to run up another huge bill. And the second point, professional painters we talked to stated that the paint on a painting project is between 10 and 20%, the rest is all labor and overhead. Their point is that not paying the paint store is puzzling as it is such a small part of a total job.
On a blown up version of this Google search I counted only 19 paint stores, many of which will be places like Lowes, Home Depot, or automotive paint stores. Twenty years ago there would have been fewer, yet the nine paint stores that were robbed by McLain and his wife would have been between half of the paint stores in the area in 1999 or perhaps even close to every paint store in the area. Most of the stores are within ten miles of the Muscle Shoal area with Russellville being about twenty miles. One wonders if McLain and his wife Aleen were traveling that far just to purchase paint after wearing out their credit locally.
McLain and his wife Aleen appear to have screwed over the majority of the paint companies in the areas, possibly skipping to each in turn, despite most being small companies that usually operate underfunded and on a tight cash flow. I can see families suffering as the paint stores were cheated out of their money, employees laid off, businesses failing, in fact many of these companies are no longer in business.
The bankruptcy was filed on May 7th 1999 and lasted until August 20th of 2003. Now most of the creditors had their money stolen and the debt wiped out, usually only the withheld employment taxes and other taxes wind up getting paid off in full after a Chapter 13. In a Chapter 11 a portion of all debt might be paid, Chapter 13 everything that is possible to wipe out is wiped out.
And recall that in February of 2009 Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain and his wife Aleen were once again in legal trouble with Sherman Williams Paint Company. The amount that McLain was sued for wasn't available online but it was more than the $5000 small claims limit and
under $10,000 according to the court filing.
And I believe it was in 2004 that Mclain became a minister....
So like the corrupt and vindictive governor in Mathews 18, Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain attacked a rival despite having a much worse past. Nine area paint stores were systematically robbed of money, little different than if Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain and his wife Aleen had walked in with shotguns and used violence, at least the outcome was the same for the small businesses, their employees, and the families of both. Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain and his wife Aleen chose to use the power of the state to commit their theft, then turn around exactly ten years later and attempt to steal from Sherman Williams Paint Company again. That must have been thwarted by the bankruptcy prohibition for a number of years after filing for bankruptcy, Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain and his wife Aleen were forced to pay the paint company what was owed, taking nearly four years to do so.
Past this outrage we learned this week that Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain has surrounded himself with City Elder's board members, making one the official chaplain for the State GOP. We understand Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain has set up some sort of religious fund raising/outreach committee in an effort to allow the Moral Majority types to solidify control over the GOP. We have seen the congressional delegations carefully dole out just enough money for the doors to remain open, not enough in fact to pay the $3000 monthly salary of Tom Demont who is serving as Executive Director without the authorization of the Party for the position nor the finances to pay him each month, causing Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain to continue to run up the credit card debt in the name of the GOP to the tune of $14,000 in just a few short months.
The City Elders types deserve a seat at the table as do all GOP factions, yet they have successfully seized control of the GOP and once it becomes widely known the reputation of the GOP will suffer. There have never been enough Moral Majority types or Taliban Dan Fisher types to form a large enough faction to keep power. Instead the public has time after time rejected religious litmus tests for political candidates and while they prefer to see religion acting as the wise advisor for public policy the vast majority of voters don't want a theocracy led Party or government. Yet unless these City Elder types are put in their place the Republican Party might well become the abolitionist part of Oklahoma.
For Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain to survive in office even in a crippled state he will be forced to decide which master he serves, the City Elders, or the GOP. Two very poor hires he made will need to be removed even though the Party has lost control over the upcoming political campaigns for President and CD 5. Once that is done he could repair fences if he atones for his misbehavior and arrogance, but whether the City Elders and the John Birch Society will allow him to reform and repent is another mater.
Next week we will have more info on Oklahoma GOP Chairman David McLain, his financial difficulties, along with his wife Aleen and space permitting we will begin to publish information on Tom Demont.
