And Some Good News for a Change
On Friday night at 6 pm there is to be a meeting of the OK GOP Budget Board that is tasked with looking over the train wreck of the Mclain administration and setting a firm budget to attempt to hold the Chairman responsible on spending. What is likely is that a fairly austere budget will come out of the meeting and if approved by the rest of the GOP leadership Chairman David Mclain will find himself on a short lease without his cronies snouts in the trough.
The next night is a meeting of the Executive Committee of the OK GOP also tasked with reviewing the wreckage of the Mclain administration and hopefully convince Mclain to resign quietly. The man has destroyed his own reputation, getting caught lying to the media and the state on live radio. Nothing that comes out of his mouth should be believed after the past few weeks.
And the Vice Chair? It turns out that GOP Chairman David Mclain had stripped all the contact info for the state committee members including the county Chair and Vice Chair info from the Party website. Why? Because one of Mclain's limitations is the right of the Vice Chair to call a State Committee meeting to rebuke the chairman or for any reason he sees fit. Yet without access to the GOP Mailchimp.com system or a list of email addresses, it is impossible for the Vice Chair to call a meeting.
McLain has done this before in Tulsa County and was warned of the consequences of not allowing transparency and allowing others to call meetings if needed. Should a county GOP committee feel it is needed they can call a meeting without the Chair or Vice Chair's approval with 25% of the committee signing a petition. But not if no one has a list of who is on the committee....
It is the same with the State GOP Committee, no list, no one circulating a petition to force a meeting to deal with Mclain.
Such was the treachery of Carolyn Mclarty and Steve Curry, the only people that could have done their job and settled things quietly and got Mclain under control. With their refusal to stop the out of control spending Vice Chair Mike Turner had only one option; tell the press and force a confrontation.
The meetings will be held at the Oklahoma City GOP HQ at 4031 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City. There is nothing that says that regular folks cannot attend and after all, David Mclain got on the Pat Campbell show last week saying that anyone can come in at any time and see the books. I would encourage everyone to show up and see that Mclain is cut off from his free spending and something done about the massive debt and controversy so the GOP can begin working on preparing for the upcoming Precinct meetings in late January and early February.
