The Liars Convention of 2020
So the readers of this newsletter found out Friday night that Chairman McLain had either been exposed with Covid, or had it, or had decided to use that as an excuse for attending the annual GOP state convention. The rumor was confirmed by a volunteer at State GOP Party Headquarters Wednesday night and it was also announced at the convention on Saturday, stating that the McLain's and his in laws were fighting through Covid or something to a effect. You know that had to hurt, to admit that once again STP outed the bastards when they thought they could cover things up. I mean people that had visited the GOP HQ had a right to know everything including the timeline so they could determine whether to self quarantine and get tested.
Then this afternoon we get an email from the GOP and David McLain with this info:
“First, thank you for the prayers for our family. Alee's parents are stable, at home and healing. At 0642 this morning, Alee and I had confirmation that we are both NEGATIVE for Covid .”
It was all rather suspicious and if I was to bet money it would be that McLain wanted any excuse to avoid looking the entire GOP membership in the face after being exposed for what he is the past year or so. It also gave Lankford an excuse for canceling the meeting on Wednesday and for not attending the convention where he knew that a bunch of angry County Chairs and Vice Chairs were about to tell him to go pound sand if he wanted to take over control of the State Party. Lankford refused to show up, hell he was in the state on Wednesday, and had planned being in OKC Wednesday night. Congressman Kern did attend and speak, luckily some were intelligent enough not to call for a takeover of the Party.
The GOP email this afternoon spoke in glowing terms of how well the convention was handled and made much of the fact that the emails to support were way down from the June 20th half convention online. Well, not sure about that, staff was sending out the wrong link to the Voter Science website that morning, sending out the previous June 20th page instead of the August 15th page. One by one the links had to be sent out individually, it was nearly 10:30 before I received the correct password after notifying staff that I had not received the individual email with the link to the correct web page to vote. The whole thing of online voting is a big scary mess, easier to do than casting paper ballots and faster, but the chances of cheating skyrocket. The simple fact is that no one should have confidence in the actual votes cast that day.
As for the convention, there were something like 788 votes cast in the National Republican Woman's race, and Lying Pam Pollard won with 417 votes to Sandy Hodges 371 votes. The votes were apportioned, some could carry up to two votes for their vote cast, others in counties with a low GOP presidential turnout in the last election might have shared less than one vote per person if enough of them attended the convention. But figure two votes per person, couldn't have been more than one hundred and fifty people attending and maybe that many online.
Some counties showed a big divide between how their leaders voted and how their rank and file voted. One was Tulsa County where Chairman Bob Rat endorsed Lying Pam and even spoke for her during the nominating speech, yet the votes from the county were overwhelmingly in favor of Sandy Hodges, 76 to 52.
Lying Pam for her part was bragging late in the week that she had 200 delegates endorsing her, some names of which turned out to be not true or so they told me, and 77% of the County Chairs and Vice Chairs endorsing her. Well, that would have been around 140 people. So wining by 2.8% of the vote seems to say otherwise.
I must say it is a bit disheartening to see that 52.8% of the people attending the convention didn't care that Lying Pam had advanced the Lankford take over attempt as we proved in our Friday night special edition newsletter and then knowing that she lied about not having anything to do with the rule change. This 52.8% are the folks that view the GOP as a social club and whose lives revolve around the Party, where their slim access and position is more important than the Party Platform having any credibility or seeing that Republican elected officials actually followed the Party Platform.
So now you have another nickname for Lying Pam....2% Pam sounds nice. Pam was nice enough, said hi that morning and waved good bye as she was leaving. That is the thing about politicians, the harder you hit them the more they want to be your friend.
