Good News for the Oklahoma GOP
The entire state got some good news Friday afternoon with a mass email sent out by GOP chairman David McLain. After bragging for a few pages about his “accomplishments” he dropped the good news, the miscreant has read the writing on the wall and is refusing to run for office again.
McLain was a disaster for the Party. A wide coalition got the man elected including STP bulldozing a path and getting other candidates to step aside but as soon as he was elected he turned on the conservatives, allying with the far right radical City Elders group. And the spending went wild with McLain flying cronies and family members across the U.S., running up tens of thousands in credit card debt after burning through tens of thousands of dollars left in the bank account from the earlier administration.
Scandal after scandal erupted, cronies pulling shady deals, illegal acts like advocating the gathering of corporate campaign dollars, and the books were a complete mess to the point where McLain had to fire staff and the Party not knowing where the rent money would come from or how they could pay overdue utility bills. The financial damage was so horrendous that STP worked with a private investigator to dig up McLain's own sordid financial scandals from the past including the looting of nine paint stores as part of a bankruptcy scheme down South. McLain fled to Arizona it seems after the bankruptcy, winding up in Tulsa where he promptly was sued by a national paint supplier after he once again fell behind on paying his bills. Unable to do another bankruptcy so soon after the previous McLain was forced to settle the debt after the court case was over.
This spending behavior and tens of thousands in debt allowed Lankford and others to get control of the GOP, bailing out McLain and fixing a firm muzzle on both he and the Party. Part of the debt was settled with an attempt to completely remove the County GOP officials from management of the State GOP but the plan fell apart after it was publicized by STP prior to the 2020 Convention.
Is it any wonder that Senator James Lankford betrayed our President a few weeks ago? He felt insulated by his lap dog chairman, content that McLain would squash any protests over the betrayal of both Trump and the state Republican voters.
While many are relieved that McLain will soon be just a bad memory we can also expect a lame duck tyrant working to suppress dissent and insulate Lankford and Inhofe for as long as possible.
