Another Poster Boy for the Soft on Crime Mass Prison Release

 Channel 9 ran a story on one of the mass release convicts and while they admitted the guy had some previous convictions the story was all about a “second chance” for this convict that was facing another nine years in prison.

Meet Warren Rawls, career criminal and drug addict. His first adult arrest was in July of 2003 in Pottawatomie County for growing weed. About a year later he pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence and $500 in fines plus D.A. Supervision. Four months later he has a violation report and a motion to revoke the suspended sentence is filed. Rawls agrees to go into a Clean Start Program but before he enters in December he is violating his parole again in November. He is sent to prison for five years by November 2005. About eight months later he is out on parole, by April of 2007 he has agreed to a payment plan on his fines and fees but two months later he was getting behind on his payments. By August of 2008 he was arrested for failure to pay and he bounces back and forth between agreeing to pay and not paying. To this day he owes much of the original 2003 fines and fees.

Wagoner County Commissioner's Victim is Cooperating with Law Enforcement

Wagoner County Commissioner James Hanning

Wagoner County Commissioner's Victim

Appears to Have Been Freed From

a Huge Burden and is Cooperating

with Law Enforcement

  We were given this Facebook post from the personal page of the victim of Wagoner County Commissioner James Hanning showing that the victim is much relieved and cooperating with law enforcement after our series of exposes against the corrupt and villainous elected official.

  That is a relief, stories like this weigh heavily upon our hearts before we publish, with our intent not to bring further harm or shame upon the victims yet our concerns of the criminal escaping prosecution and causing harm to more victims generally outweighs the risk to the previous victims. These poor girls generally blame themselves for what happened and finding out that the majority of their friends and neighbors are horrified by what they suffered is a relief.

Republicans Responsible for Surge in Crime

Reaping What You Sow. 

Soft on Crime. 

I guess legislative leaders might be proud of being mentioned in the Conservative Review but the rest of the Republicans ought to hang our heads in shame. This story from Friday covers the soft on crime legislative wave that has crashed upon Oklahoma for the last few years and the outcome of a surge in crime of all types.

And for years the Sooner Tea Party has warned of the consequences of soft on crime legislation and doing story after story that proves exactly what this story says:

Governor's Pardon Wasted ?

Sentence Commuted, Four Days Later Behind Bars Once Again

Yeah, this much vaunted mass commutation was a really bad idea and yeah we were told it was only non violent offenders sent up on small drug crimes or property crimes. These folks deserved a second chance we were told. Well meet Eric Ryan Beck, four time convicted burglar with two assault and battery convictions.  But he is non violent, right? So they said and so he was set free.

Lawton P.D. Arrested Beck in for petit larceny and he was convicted after a guilty plea in 2009, getting a six month suspended sentence and a fine of $200.00, ordered to pay on his $1500 fines and costs debt at the rate of $75.00 per month beginning in March of 2009.

And of course Beck refuses to pay and after two new hearings to hear his sob story the monthly payment is raised to $100.00 per month.

Prater Being Shielded By AG Hunter

Oklahoma County D.A. David Prater Shielded by A.G. Mike Hunter

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter was quick to jump to Oklahoma County D.A. David Prater's defense when the state claim came out against Prater by a former investigator alleging that Prater used his office to pursue political goals and persecutions.

Below is the letter that was sent to the A.G. office in response to their response to the state claim:

November 4, 2019 Mary Ann Roberts, Chief Deputy Office of the Attorney General 313 NE 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105 F: (405) 521-6246
Re: Response to your letter of November 4, 2019
Dear Ms. Roberts, Thank you very much for your letter. I greatly appreciate your time and consideration in your response; however, I am very troubled by certain parts in that that are not completely accurate. I feel that you were a bit vague in some areas that portrayed the multi-county grand jury process with more oversight that it actually has. In addition, I do need to address two matters in your letter.

OSBI Investigates County Commissioner For Molestation

Wagoner County County Commissioner James Hanning Under Investigation by the OSBI For Child Molestation

You will recall the story of the court case in Wagoner County where a sitting County Commissioner stands accused of looting an LLC set up to manage rental properties. In the deposition of one part time office worker, the accused's own stepdaughter, Wagoner County Commissioner James Hanning was accused of molesting his stepdaughter starting when she was in grade school.  The transcript was chilling, including the ADA for Cherokee County, Eric Jordan's advice to "get some counseling for that".  No law enforcement report made, just a friendly bit of advice for the 24 year old woman that broke down during deposition and recounted the tale of abuse.

One source that needs to remain anonymous gave the age of eight years old as the age when the abuse started. You will recall that a sitting Cherokee County ADA was representing Commissioner Hanning in the lawsuit as he was working the case before he was hired on as an ADA in Wagoner County. Now that is a state law that allows lawyers employed by the state to complete their case loads after being hired but is it a good law?

The Bully Backs Down

And the Bully Backs Down

One of my favorite Gary Richardson books is one called Black Robe Fever where Richardson retells the lessons he learned in his life about dealing with bullies, even the ones that wore judicial robes. One in particular stood out, a lesson his father taught him in high school after a local bully challenged him to a fight. Richardson's dad insisted that he meet the problem head on and of course the bully didn't show up at the arranged time and place. The story came to mind after this week's melt down of a horrendous bully up in Tulsa County.

We posted a story last week outlining the antics of the Tulsa County GOP Chairman, Bob Jack, AKA Bob Rat, and his heavy handed treatment of anyone that dares to have a different opinion. Bob Jack came from the corporate world where who you know and your position counts more than what your talents are. The story covered his public attack against David Van of Sooner Politics, over the content of what others had posted on Sooner Politics.

Poster Children for Soft on Crime Agenda

 A Literal Swarm of Poster Children for

Soft on Crime Agenda

Yikes, the mass commutation/parole done last week is a treasure trove of stories on bleeding heart liberals setting free criminals with zero care for justice. Case in point, Tondalao Hall, actually named Tondalo Rochelle Hall, who pled guilty to four counts of child abuse and neglect in 2006.  If you read the Oklahoma article one of the children had nine broken ribs and a broken thigh and the three month old child had a broken thigh and toe.

Tondalo did indeed serve 13 years of a 30 year sentence, which is unusual so the abuse and neglect must have been horrendous. Her boy friend Robert Braxton Jr., who was later convicted of drug possession walked free on a suspended sentence after serving about two years in jail awaiting trial. Supposedly the boyfriend did the abusing but the eight counts were equally split between the two in the case. There was a delay in the prosecution and investigation due to the need to confer with doctors so the children were either abused badly or neglected and in poor health.

The ACLU had gotten involved over the failure to protect laws, laws that punish women harshly for allowing their kids to be abused or sexually abused. Paying attention Mrs. Hanning?

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor. 

I had several people contact me over the Tulsa County GOP meeting last week.

 I interviewed them over the phone for the following follow up story. I interspersed some comments of my own that are not in quotation marks to emphasis the importance of what was said.

“I need to tell you about my recent meeting of the Tulsa Republican County Committee meeting. It was my first Tulsa County GOP meeting but I had attended other GOP meetings and this was perhaps the least productive and in fact the most destructive meeting of misfits that I have ever witnessed. Of the 200-300 members it's supposed to have, only about two dozen showed up. There was no agenda posted and the meeting location was moved causing some to show up at the wrong place, miles away. The meeting started with a bible reading which was going to be longer, but the chairman limited it. Then we had not one, but 3 separate prayers. this went on for several minutes.”

 Everyone in Oklahoma is okay with opening a meeting with a prayer, but three prayers? And a bible reading? That will drive away the less religious folks or those that prefer not to mix religion and politics. 

"After the pledge, we had some basic and helpful financial details on the party. Then we had the county clerk give us a talk about what the county clerk's office does and how they are trying to modernize the office. That was followed by several more minutes of questions from the members. By now had spent over an hour of what was vaguely billed as an important meeting. Then the chairman talked about the drama at the state party and gave his unauthorized & unsubstantiated rumors of what "the real story is". Bob Jack was very negative talking about the GOP leadership and the state committee, he left no doubt he thought all of them were idiots.”

 Bob Jack is from a corporate world where those below bow and scrape to those above. Which is why corporate leaders usually fail in the real world much less in politics. 

"Then he turned the topic to the county party leadership and started to address the matter of David Van's media platform known as Sooner Politics.org. Other attendees interrupted to discuss the state party drama and vent their own opinions of who's right or wrong. About 10 minutes later the chair started back in on calling David Van a divisive person, but couldn't point to any comment that Van had ever said or written. He claim was that Sooner Politics, which is a collaborative platform of RSS feeds from several dozens of conservative bloggers; has a few bloggers that say things that Chairman Jack doesn't like.”

 This next part is important and those from a church community will understand the enormity of not attempting to fix issues in private before going public.

“David tried to defend himself from the attacks by pointing out that Bob Jack had never discussed this matter with him. Instead, Bob Jack went public with his call for David Van to resign his party elective office. None of the religious leaders saw a contradiction of biblical dispute resolution teachings in this meeting.. or if they did, they kept their mouths shut.”

 A second source called in and went over what happened in an interview:

“In Bob Jack's world, David Van needs to quit because some other blogger in the platform is airing party disputes in public, bringing embarrassment to the party. The current state party chairman is from Tulsa and formerly chaired the county GOP. But some bloggers around the rest of the state are leveling some assertions regarding his leadership & character. It seems Bob Jack believes the party has a right to expect Mr. Van's media platforms to censor any opinions that are unflattering of the chairman, even while Bob Jack seems to impugn the state vice chairman. One man rose up and pointed out that several of the attendees including Ronda Vuillemont Smith and Amanda Teagarden were outspoken online and on the radio, including being on the Oklahoma Taxpayers Unite board so to ask David Van to resign would mean asking them to resign if we were to be fair about it."

“Bob Jack tried to claim his motion for removal is valid motion and that no rule requires a quorum in order to be voted on. A younger man sitting next to David Van then contested the point. The incredulity evidently got the best of the young man and he smirked in disbelief. That smirk then drew the ire of Chairman Jack and he loudly scolded the younger member for smirking at him. And that just brought even more smirking. But no quorum was even close to being there, some discussed that point, but the microphone was passed around to people bitching, mainly that opinion sites shouldn't reflect bad on the party, no one wanted to follow a Christian manner of dealing with disagreements.”

“Mr. Van kept an amazingly calm demeanor through the whole discourse and the attacks levied against him for letting diverse opinions be published on one of his media platforms. Realizing that his argument was falling apart, Bob Jack then said that unless David Van resigns, he will resign as chairman. This led to emotional pleas from a few folks who then called for the few dozen voting members to "stand up if they stand with Bob Jack"; which about 15 of the 20 present then did.”

“After the meeting people were discussing exactly who Bob Jack had such an issue with on Sooner Politics. Most hated the Sooner Tea Party but they couldn't attack them so they attacked Sooner Politics, no experts, no facts, just finding fault, and threatening David Van with a vote forcing his resignation.”

“Bob Jack's ultimatum was very unprofessional. The entire meeting was a giant waste of my time, don't feel like I could get involved after this, it was a two hour meeting. 

Leave my name out of this interview. This bunch is crazy and I sure don't need the drama.”

A Taliban Tribunal in Tulsa Oklahoma

         

 Bob Rat and the Abolitionist Queens. 

We got a letter to the editor email today and a phone interview about a meeting of the Tulsa County GOP Central Committee last week. 

Sources had warned us that some really bad people were about to attack a good man so we had published a warning to others to attend the meeting and everything that we had been warned about had come to pass that night. You can read the letter to the editor and the interview in the next story.

Tulsa used to be a conservative place until the last few years. Their GOP was rock solid conservative in the early days of the Tea Party but boy has it fallen on hard times the past couple of years. Currently there is a RINO named Bob Jack, AKA Bob Rat, a former V.P. For Manhattan Construction, and more than a bit of a tin horn despot. Bob Jack had ran for Senate in 2016 and failed to win, losing in a four way race by coming in third place with a tiny percentage of the votes. Interestingly enough Bob Rat was against Medicaid Expansion during the campaign but since then has been pushing for the expansion to help fill some of the hospitals his former employer built in Tulsa.

Lying Wagoner County Commissioner James Hanning Caught Red Handed

November 3^rd 2019 Newsletter

Wagoner Co. Sheriff Elliot & Wife Judy Elliot,
Swearing to up hold the Law

Wagoner County Commissioner James Hanning is quite a douche bag and appears to lie as easily as others blink their eyes. A few weeks go we went over the allegations that he molested his step daughter starting when she was in grade school, which was uncovered in a deposition where the girl was asked why she was estranged from her step father. As far as we are aware, not a thing has been done about the molestation which was said to have begun when the child was in grade school. But Commissioner Hanning is also quite a liar as we will learn in this week's episode.

As you will recall from earlier stories, Tyler Paulsen had met Commissioner Hanning's step daughter (yes, that step daughter) and had begun dating her before going into business with Commissioner Hanning. A series of properties were acquired, some from both parties but the vast majority from Paulsen. Eventually Commissioner Hanning's own son was said to have spilled the beans: “My father is stealing from you.” A confession allegedly made on the back deck of a mobile home during a visit with Paulsen. That led to Paulsen getting the statements from Lowes and finding a boat load of materials charged to their joint company but delivered to the home that Commissioner Hanning was remodeling.