So you want to buy House Leadership?

  McCall ‘s Prosperity PAC 

 by Al Gerhart

  McCall ‘s Prosperity PAC was the vehicle used to bundle cash from lobbyists and other campaign committees to prevent the lobbyists from maxing out on contributions to a candidate.  State law prohibits campaign donations to a single legislature past $5000.00 but once McCall laundered the donations through his PAC the money could be directed back to candidates, an effective if not ethical method of bypassing state law.

  As of the third quarter they had raised around $52,000, around $31,000 from the legislators in the voting block and $20,000.00 from McCall’s own family.  Another $16,000.00 was raised from mostly lobbyists in the fourth quarter. 

Here are some of the 3rd qtr transactions of  McCall’s  Prosperity PAC, in 2015:
Receipts: BARBARA MCCALL CHARLES MCCALL CHARLES MCCALL STEPHANIE MCCALL Distributions: BOBBY CLEVELAND CALDWELL FOR STATE HOUSE FRIENDS OF CHUCK STROHM FRIENDS OF JAMES LEEWRIGHT FRIENDS OF JEFF COODY FRIENDS OF JOHN MICHAEL FRIENDS OF JOHN PFEIFFER 2014 FRIENDS OF KEVIN WALLACE FRIENDS OF MICHAEL ROGERS FRIENDS OF SCOOTER PARK MARK LEPAK JOHN PAUL JORDAN WILLIAM CASEY MURDOCK	$5000.00 $5000.00 $5000.00 $5000.00 $1000.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00 $2500.00

  The attempt to bring legislators into the McCall camp failed after details of sketchy campaign donations from the McCall PAC effort to subvert the House Speaker Designate race was exposed by the Sooner Tea Party newsletter.
  House members refused to sign pledge cards at the Republican Caucus meeting a few days later, derailing what was rumored to be a done deal for McCall as Speaker Designate.  And as it turns out McCall was never even close to having the numbers needed to win the Speaker Designate race and has even fewer votes after falling on his face last month.