County Sheriff Cleans House After Election

 Elections Have Consequences

40 year Law Enforcement Veteran Fired over Vague Comments

Forty year veteran policeman Ed Grimes was fired for vague comments made while on a cell phone three days after the Oklahoma County Sheriff election. An open mike in his patrol car picked up his half of a conversation, comments that Canadian County Sheriff Chris West claimed were "sexist and derogatory" and aimed toward supervisory personnel.

Grimes had come in last in a special election on September 12^th that replaced disgraced former Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel. The comments were recorded on the department radio system and Grimes can be heard mentioning the movie Dumb and Dumber but there is not really enough to put the comment in context. But the next comment was something about "Chris West ...and his, ah, tampons".

Social Media Plays Larger Role In Campaigns

Legislators Face New Consequences for Special Session Votes

Volunteers Needed to Manage New House and Senate Facebook pages

Politicians have always relied upon the local media controlling the news that is distributed to the public in order to mask their voting record, more than willing to risk voting for special interests and fulfilling quid pro quo acts to pay back campaign donors. As one politician told me after a discussion of his abysmal voting record: "They won't believe it.", referring to his low score on the Sooner Tea Party RINO Index.

However, earlier this year the Sooner Tea Party set in motion a plan to bypass the local media and to harness the power of Facebook and targeted ads on Facebook. One hundred and forty nine individual Facebook pages were set up for all 149 legislative districts and the 2017 RINO index scores were posted on each and every Facebook page along with the picture and contact info for the individual politician. This was a massive undertaking and it still isn't completed so STP needs volunteers to complete the project and to maintain the pages as the go to source for information about each of the 149 House or Senate districts.

Another Victim Killed By Inept Cops

 The Murder of Innocents Continues

Last week saw another brutal murder of a local deaf and developmentally disabled man by police, AKA a retarded person in politically incorrect language. The man's elderly father had been involved in a minor traffic accident and had left the scene leading the police to show up at his house where the car was parked.

Magdiel Sanchez was shot and tasered because he was on the porch of his own home and carrying a 24" long metal pipe that neighbors said he carried when walking around the neighborhood to fend off barking dogs. Neighbors were screaming to police before the shooting that Sanchez was deaf, no doubt leaving off the retarded part out of political correctness or simply not wanting to offend Sanchez. Now there is no law against carrying a pipe or stick when out walking, walkers in my neighborhood usually do carry something for that purpose, nor was Sanchez involved in any crime nor did he have a criminal record.

Richardson Puts Personal 'Skin In The Game' For Governor's Race

Richardson Puts

 $1 Million of Personal Funds into Governor Race

Tulsa, OK, September 24, 2017 – Gary Richardson announced on Friday that he has put a total of $1 million into his campaign fund for Governor of Oklahoma.

"We're in it to win it," said Richardson.  "that's why my wife, Lanna, and I made the decision to put $1 million of our own money into this race."

Richardson continued, "I refuse to be beholden to the special interest groups that have poured millions into the Governor's race.  The people of Oklahoma are my only special interest group."

"That's why I'm asking the citizens of Oklahoma to help support my campaign," said Richardson.  With donations of $50, $25, or even $10 from Oklahomans across the state added to the $1 million Lanna and I have put in this race, we can send a message that the Governor's race can't be bought off by the special interest groups."  

Gary Jones Has A Problem With Grassroots Republicans

State Auditor Gary Jones Facing

Grass Roots Opposition in Run for Governor

Politicians attract toadies of all sorts, people attempting to be useful to the campaign, angling for special favors or a position after the election or simply making brownie points in case the politician wins the election. Sometimes though their work backfires and exposes the politician to ridicule and contempt, such was the case last week when a Gary Jones supporter found out that grass roots political activists on one Facebook group didn't have a high opinion of Jones.

The post was a link to a plan for the budget, with Jones calling for increasing the Gross Production Tax on oil and gas to 5% from the current average of 3.1% along with raising the tobacco tax and gasoline and diesel taxes. An additional 2% Gross Production Tax was recommended by Gary Jones once prices for oil and gas rise with the money going to education and the rainy day fund.

Konawa Tea Party Meeting: Al Gerhart

          

 Konawa Tea Party

(4th) Tuesday September 26, 2017 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Kennedy Library - The Dougan Room

Konawa School, 701 W South Street

Invited Speaker:

Sooner Tea Party's Al Gerhart speaking on the Special Session

Special Session Filled With New Revenue Grab & Spending Plans

Special Session Threatens Massive Tax Increases

A really good article on the upcoming special session can be found at this link. We all should be worried about the session that begins next week as Fallin has vowed to kill any legislation that cuts spending and she has advocated a billion dollars in new taxes to cover the quarter billion dollar in lost funding due to the Supreme Court decision on the cigarette tax.

The article covers the massive pile of Senate bills already filed and how many of the bills have little to do with fixing the budget and more with spreading even more tax credits and exemptions to those that are politically corrected or willing to pay campaign contributions. The special session is expected to last a minimum of ten days due to the Constitutional prohibition on passing revenue bills in the last five days of a session. Then the legislators have to remain until Fallin signs or vetos the legislation.

Asset Forfeiture Goes Way Beyond The Drug War

Civil Asset Forfeiture is Used Only on Drug Dealers, Right?

Or So We Were Told...

  We wish, the practice of shaking down people in the practice known as "Policing for Profit" is entering a new phase. The excuse used to be that the money or property was guilty of being used in drug trafficking. Now running a food cart means the cops can shut you down and strip you of cash, drain any debit cards, and seize property before you are even charged with a crime much less be convicted.

  This story gives the details of a guy running an unlicensed food cart, selling hot dogs at a sports event, when a local policeman walks up, shuts him down, and steals all of his cash. It seems a ticket is in order, even shutting the vendor down till he is legally permitted and inspected by the Health Department. But does it allow a cop to search a guy's wallet and seize all of his cash?

Is Dan Fisher A New John Brown?

 

Does Wild Eye Ranting and Raving

Win Political Races?

  Dan Fisher, former House member and current candidate for Governor put out an epic rant this last week on Youtube. In the video the wild eyed delivery elicits more harm than good to the candidate, and despite the wild claims of 90,000 plus views the video has less than 2500 views as of today on the page I looked at. No other Dan Fisher abortion video shows up on a Youtube search. This appears to be the official Dan Fisher Facebook page, someone correct us if we are wrong.

  Oklahomans do not support abortion for the most part but we also do not support ranting and raving anti abortionists getting in our face. Adding the abolitionist tag to his marketing ensures that the average Oklahoma is going to associate Fisher with John Brown, wild eyed, using terrorism to achieve his goals, simply off the reservation as far as average Oklahoma values.

Special Session Preview, At TARA Meeting, Tuesday Night

 

Tulsa Area Republican Assembly Meeting

​  The Tulsa Area Republican Assembly will meet on Tuesday, Sept 19th at 7pm. 

  Our Special Guest Speaker will be Scott McEachin of House District 67, in South Tulsa. His topic will be the Special Session and associated issues.

  Gov. Mary Fallin is calling the legislature into special session in the next couple weeks for the purpose of attempting to create a constitutional budget. The Supreme Court rejected hundreds of millions of dollars in illegally-passed taxes. The governor and the Senate leadership want to raise even more taxes. There appears to be less support for new taxes among the house members.

Prater's 'Cup Runneth Over'

David Prater's Cup Runneth Over

Senator Bryce Marlatt received well deserved sexual battery charges on Wednesday for kissing and groping a taxi driver during a booze fueled spree across Oklahoma City a few months back. Adding to that is the end of the investigation into Mary Fallin Aide Travis Brauer on charges of taking upskirt pictures druing a legislative meeting at the State Capitol. You gotta feel for the guy though, what are the chances that Fallin thought such antics were "cute" and encouraged such horse play from one of her boy toys?

Brauer allegedly took up-skirt pictures or video of a liberal activist at the meeting by laying his phone on the floor near her feet, an act that was noticed by several people and reported at the end of the meeting. The chick wasn't particularly attractive either, few liberal activists are, so it must have been the act of humiliation and getting away with it that churned Brauer's butter. Right there again with typical Fallin behavior.

Hands On the Car & Spread'em

Hands on the Car and Spread 'Em

Is the attitude of Oklahoma City with the fifteen propositions on the ballot Tuesday. They are all about increasing the sales tax and incurring dept to pay for things that used to be paid for from our normal taxation, money that has been siphoned away for diversity studies, paying medical and dental costs for the non producers in the city, and bloating the size and expanse of city government.

One of the first things you learn in politics is that raising money requires that you protect your donors from too many pitches for money lest you drain their enthusiasm to donate. The same thing goes for increasing taxes, asking for a massive tax hike or continuation of what was to be a temporary tax hike to pay for down town corporate welfare means the voters will be thinking about the upcoming taxes in the special session as well as the demands from next year and the years after that.

Will The Legislature Continue To Ignore The Will of the People?

Will House and Senate Leadership Ignore the

Will of the People in the Special Session?

Special interests run Oklahoma, that much is clear. There is a host of competing interests but they all beat the same drum; raise taxes instead of cutting spending so their share of the pie expands. Leadership in both chambers bowed to the money from special interests last spring and illegally passed both the cigarette tax and the car tax but the high court itself bowed to the money and influence and denied the state constitution's protections and prohibitions against raising taxes without a vote of the people.

And now Oklahoma taxpayers will pay for a special session to correct leadership's weakness and failings and both chambers of leadership are aiming for a raid on the state rainy day fund and bringing back the increase on smoking tax. I personally am not a smoker but singling out one particular demographic to oppress with taxation isn't good government. These days most of the cost of a pack of cigarettes is taxes, with much of that money wasted in the tobacco settlement fund, a haven for ex lawmakers and their cronies. Increasing taxes also increases the size of government and allows it to do more useless things to repay cronies and special interest groups like medical companies and the chronically unemployed/welfare class.

Tulsa Republican Mens Club Welcomes Dana Murphy

Tulsa County Republican Men's Club

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

We had a big crowd last month with Bob Dani from the High Noon Club OKC.

Come join us this month at:

Oklahoma Joes, 6175 E 61st St, Tulsa, OK, from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. for another great meeting!

Lunch is only $13, drink, tax, and tip (pay when you check in at our table in banquet room) Membership is $20, Ladies $10, open to the public. For a $25 membership you also get a shirt or hat!

PD Taylor's House of Death

More Deaths at the Oklahoma County Jail

Thank You Acting Sheriff P.D. Taylor

And the carnage continues at the Oklahoma County jail with the latest death due to a severed spinal column on a drunk being booked into the jail. Acting Sheriff and long time Whetsel era undersheriff P.D. Taylor is holding out hope that the cause of death was "natural causes".

So far this year the Oklahoma County Jail ran by P.D. Taylor continues to hold its place in notoriety as the nation's deadliest jail with ten deaths so far this year. Taylor faces Democrat, Mike Hanson, an Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy, and an independent, Ed Grimes, a Canadian County sheriff's deputy on September 12^th . Ed Grimes is widely supported by the grassroots and is a thoroughly decent man.

Murphy's Law & Oklahoma Justice

Murphy's Law About to Give the

Oklahoma Justice System a Major Enema

Patrick Dewayne Murphy is about to cause a major overflow in the Oklahoma Justice System. Back in 1999 Murphy was accused of murdering a fellow Creek Indian citizen, prosecuted and convicted in state court and sentenced to death. However, Murphy and his attorneys waged a successful appeal that overturned his conviction on the grounds that the state of Oklahoma had no jurisdiction over Indian citizens when a crime was committed on Indian territory. Whether the Indian is the accused or the victim the state has no jurisdiction according to the U.S. 10^th Court.

This Murphy case is going to affect thousands of cases in Oklahoma alone. Anytime an Indian is involved on either end of a criminal case the jurisdiction is Federal, not state. Thousands of felony and misdemeanor cases could be over turned and sent to the feds for prosecution or simply result in the criminals walking free. The Murphy case is also affecting new felony cases such as the Tulsa fireworks stand shooting in July of this year.

Gary Richardson Forming His Local Campaign Teams

 Wanting to See Some Real Change in Oklahoma?

Volunteer for the Gary Richardson's Campaign

The only Gubernatorial candidate that challenged the billion dollars in taxes was Gary Richardson. The rest were too timid or too connected to the donor/ruling class to stand up and speak up.

Yes, there is the John Birch Society candidate, Dan Fisher, yet as good as Dan's voting record was for the few years he was a state rep he hasn't any backing other than the John Birch Society and no private money. Plus Dan Fisher is considered religious right, far right at that with the John Birch Society backing, so he will never appeal to a broad base. A close comparison would be the other John Birch Society guy, a preacher, up in Edmond that challenged Clark Jolly multiple times and never came close to winning. We might agree with much of what they stand for but that is a far cry from being electable.

Then there is Gary Jones who has done an excellent job as state auditor but Gary has been as silent a church mouse over the new taxes and did not step up to put his money and reputation on the line to sue the state over the new illegal taxes. Why? Because Gary Jones has no money of his own and must depend on the tall building crowd for campaign donations. This is one of Gary Richardson's strengths, the ability to largely self fund and reject the demands of the donor class, AKA Trump 2.0.

The 5 Tyrants Of the High Court

Patrick Wyrick (R)2018

The Five Tyrants of the Oklahoma Supreme Court

  

    The dissenting opinions of Justices Combs, Watt, Edmondson, and Colbert lay out a clear case of judicial activism and tyranny. You can read the entire decision here along with the dissenting opinion of the four honorable justices. You will notice that the two Republican appointed justices betrayed both the Republican Party and the people that voted for SQ 640.

John F. Reif (D) 2020 

The Oklahoma Supreme Court didn't just get their ruling wrong on the car tax, they purposefully gutted SQ 640 and thwarted the will of the people. Their opinion relies upon one decision, Leveridge V. Oklahoma Tax Commission, a ruling that closed a loophole that allowed auto dealers to evade state tax on cars.

SQ 640 simply made it difficult for the legislature to raise revenue and taxes by requiring a super majority or a vote of the people and not allowing revenue raising bills to pass in the final five days of session. What these five tyrants did was add a second prong to what was historically used to determine if a bill was a revenue bill or not. The first prong, established one year after the formation of the court, is if the bill's purpose or principle object is the raising of revenue and not a bill where revenue is raised incidentally. What the five tyrants did was add the second prong of "does the bill levy a tax in the strict sense of the word".