Pre Convention Newsletter
April 9th 2021
Greeting Delegates
Thank you for becoming delegates and stepping into politics. It ain't always pretty and sometimes it gets down right ugly because people do things they would rather you not know about and some of us feel it is our job to make sure everyone knows who and what they are dealing with. We report, you decide, if the information is uncomfortable and ugly so will be the article.
You have three main issues at this 2021 State Republican Convention:
Electing fresh leadership for the Party that is willing to hold politicians accountable
Stopping the electronic voting that is designed to allow fraud and undermine the grass roots
Holding Senator Lankford and Senator Inofe accountable for their lack of support for Trump
This newsletter is long and we do apologize, but if you read the info you will be able to help a wide swath of conservatives accomplish all three goals at the Convention.
1. Fresh Leadership
We all thought 2020 was bad till we saw the election stolen at the end of 2020 and the Biden administration destroying much of the work that Trump had done to claw us back from the edge of the abyss. Now the border is once again out of control, deficit spending is beyond anything anyone had ever witnessed, and there seems to be no end in sight to the lock downs and civil liberties lost in the name of “public safety”.
Oklahoma needs the leadership to stop the insanity at our border and to get that we not only need new GOP leadership, we need a new way of thinking. The politics of the past never worked, appeasement of the donor class's never ending demand for a more cosmopolitan Oklahoma and a never ending stream of special tax breaks only for the rich and well connected, and appeasement of the liberals through soft on crime legislation, tax increases, and a declining school system that long ago stopped focusing on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
The legislature has been unusually good this session, few tax increases, little soft on crime legislation, even a bill designed to push back against Biden's insane executive orders has passed the House and is at the Senate waiting on a vote. We saw the five members of our Congressional Delegation back Trump in January but the two Senators betrayed us all. Those two Senators were not afraid of the GOP leadership because they had long ago broken David Mclain and turned him into a dependent lap dog.
We need a fighter to lead the GOP. Someone that the legislature respects, that has a history of not backing down and leading the fight against tax increases and the loss of our freedom. Not a RINO, not a nice lady with good intentions hoping to win a popularity contest.
With that in mind here are your choices for GOP Chair and Vice Chair along with what we know about them in order of their giving notice of running for the office.
John Bennett
We are sure everyone has seen his emails and knows his background. A rock solid conservative, author of the Ten Commandments monument bill, a former Marine combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eight years in the House of Representatives with a good solid conservative voting record.
His goal is to enforce the Party Platform on elected officials. It is that simple. You run as a Republican, then you vote in line with the Party Platform starting with the ten principles on the front page that will be found in the last article in this newsletter. The man already has a team of fundraisers recruited, men with a history of raising money for the Party. We can say two things about Bennett that are the most important things about the man; he does not back down and he is highly respected by the legislature and statewide officials. He will make things happen.
Charles Ortega
Ortega is a nice man, he truly is on a personal level. The donor class are supporting him, the Senate and House and our two Senators would prefer him as GOP Chairman because he will do what he is told to do. I suspect that Lucas, Cole, and Bice would prefer him as well for the same reason. Charles Ortega is about the polar opposite of Bennett. Ortega is a RINO to the core and he loves illegal aliens. Each year the Sooner Tea Party scores the legislature based upon the Republican Party Platform with one modification, we also Trump's views and agenda which are nearly 95% the same as the Party Platform. Ortega's usual Trump/RINO index score is usually at the very bottom of the list:
6 points out of 100 in 2013 where he got one vote right out of nineteen votes,
5 points out of 100 in 2014 meaning he got one vote right our of twenty votes,
20 points out of 100 in he 2017 Special Session, one vote right out of five votes,
25 points out of 100 in 2017, four votes right out of twenty votes,
24 points out of 100 in 2018, three votes right out of 19 votes
0 points out of 100 in 2019, he voted wrong on every single vote
Ortega was the Floor Leader under Speaker Hickman and prior to that he was deeply involved with Speaker Kris Steel. One of Ortega's pet projects was shutting down the second wave of anti illegal alien legislation that came after Randy Terrell's HB 1804. Ortega ran that committee and he would shut down any bills that were anti illegal immigration and he pushed the Soon to be Sooners plan, an addition to the Sooner Care program that specifically states this from their own publication:
“Soon-to-be-Sooners is a limited benefit plan providing pregnancy-related medical services to women who do not qualify for benefits due to their immigration status.”
The program pays for pre natal care and for all the post natal and birthing expenses of illegal aliens, right out of federal and state tax coffers. They cover around 10,000 births per year in Oklahoma.
Charles Ortega's home town was also the scene of one of the largest Oklahoma bank fraud cases in recent memory. The scheme used Oklahoma tax credits given to new companies that would then sell the tax credits for as low as 50 cents on the dollar. Oil companies and banks would snap up the credits for half price and pay their normal taxes with them, saving them millions of dollars in taxes. Ortega's brother in law and partner in their auto repair/tire company was mentioned in a series of emails between an FBI agent and someone that was trying to get the story about on the tax credit fraud. The Chairman of that Altus bank was eventually sentenced to prison over the bank fraud and tax credit fraud.
Christine Leeviraphan
A very nice lady and the GOP Chairman of Rogers County until this year. And in fact, up until two and a half years ago, literally months before being elected to the Chairman post in Rogers County, she was a Democrat. A registered Democrat.......
Christine was recruited by the outgoing Chairman David Mclain and Ronda Vuillemont Smith of Tulsa to run against John Bennett, both Mclain and Ronda are City Elders members, indeed Mclain was once on the board of City Elders and might still be as he refused to step down once elected as GOP Chairman. Christine is a self proclaimed abolitionist. Abolitionists believe in abolishing all abortions including those needed to save the life of the mother such as ectopic pregnancy-related abortions, where the embro has self implanted in the abdomen or elsewhere where it has zero chances of surviving and will result in the death of the mother or major reproductive organ damage. They also consider birth control to be another form of abortion. Not just the morning after pill, any medical birth control pill.
These types are not normal Christians, in fact they have along history of attacking Christian Churches as most do not belong to normal churches but gather to worship in small groups at homes, there is even one cult compound in Logan County that has control over the Logan County GOP. They have a long history of attacking Pro Life leaders, picketing churches and calling the pastors and congregations baby killers. Rep George Faught's church was one of the targets and he was a good conservative Republican. Things got so out of hand a few years back that it ruined the career of Senator Joe Silk who sponsored their radical bill, the attacks on Senate leadership were horrific, picketing their houses, bill boards calling them baby killers, until not a single Senator would be seen working with them other than Silk till he refused to run for re election.
Another important point. Nearly all of us would love to abolish abortion but the abolitionists believe that before abortion can be banned legally we must first repeal all other anti abortion law on the books. Senator Silk's bills had dozens of repealers, single line sentences that repealed every single abortion controlling law in the Oklahoma statures. If a bill outlawing all abortion can be passed most of us would be for it even knowing that it would be likely stricken down by the Supreme Court of the United States and anyone that is up to date knows that the Oklahoma Supreme Court is very liberal and would stop any such bill that outlawed abortion. So the bill that Silk and the abolitionists ran was doomed to be struck down.
But, the Oklahoma Supreme Court wouldn't find the bill unconstitutional per se. Per se means “by and in itself, or on its face, intrinsically” Meaning all of the bill was bad and struck down. What they would do is rule that the abortion outlaw bill was unconstitutional “as applied”. Only part of the bill would be struck down, the part that outlawed abortion. The entire statute would remain in force but each time a case was brought the court would rule the same way, as applied. The parts that stripped all other abortion controlling laws from the statutes would remain as well. No more control over abortion. You would see them opening up abortion clinics in shopping malls, online appointments even, all controls gone completely. The work of decades of the Pro Life community would be wiped out including all court decisions that helped define and enforce the control of abortion.
Beyond this, Christine simply isn't qualified. She cleans houses for a living, is a super nice lady to talk to, and is a very recent Republican convert. She has neither the experience nor the trust of those that fund the Republican Party nor the legislature, nor any of the Congressional delegation.
Jenni White
We have already addressed Jenni White in two previous email but just in case you missed the first email click here to read it or re read it. Jenni frantically responded claiming that she was being bullied by the facts coming out. We replied back with response with even more Facebook posts including one where Jenni called Trump “a vile con man”. And we will leave you with just one of Jenni White's Facebook posts so you can judge the character and Christianity of the woman:
Vice Chair Candidates
Shane Jemison
Shane is the incumbent Vice Chair. Shane's employer is an Indian tribe and he used to work for a far right campaign consultant that is associated with the abolitionist and City Elder group. Loyalties will come into question and Shane will either keep his paying job and do the tribe's bidding or he will be looking for a new job as the Vice Chair isn't a paid position.
Shane is also tainted by association with the current Chairman David Mclain and his work as a political consultant. He has publicly attacked conservatives in the past including an attack on the Sooner Tea Party and Epic Charter School system despite the overwhelming evidence that State Auditor Cindy Byrd had written a sham of a report on Epic. Worse, Shane had WORKED for Cindy Byrd when she ran for office, here he was a the Vice Chair of the GOP attacking the Sooner Tea Party and Epic Charter School to defend his former client who was violating our Party principles and corrupt as hell! Vice Chair Shane Jemision was carrying water for the teachers union!
Shane is a swamp creature and would be constantly sniping against a conservative elected as Chairman. We don't know who owns him or where his loyalties will be, the tribe, his former consulting company employer, or one of his old clients. We need a fresh start.
David Van Risseghem
Everyone knows him as David Van because we simply cannot pronounce his name without butchering it. David led the Santorum presidential campaign in Oklahoma in 2012, has worked on the NAMI mental health advocacy board, runs a small business in Tulsa, and founded Sooner Politics, and he hosts an online group of bloggers, dozens of bloggers including the Sooner Tea Party blog. David is a good conservative, wants to work on mental health and in fact he trains the jailers in Tulsa County Jail on how to deal with mentally ill detainees. David works with everyone that is willing to move the ball another foot down the playing field. David has worked for several decades with the Republican Party and knows the rules, the system, and how it all operates.
David's campaign agenda has been very simple; to support John Bennett as Chairman.
Nothing else is as important to David as he has been a huge supporter of Bennett for nearly a decade. Like Bennett, no one owns David. He is a small contractor and beyond the reach of the big money or donor class RINOs. His character is excellent, has a great work ethic, and the guy is intelligent and trustworthy. David is a master at Facebook and online media, and is one of the men behind 3D politics, a Monday night two hour live stream show that interviews Oklahoma activists, candidates, and legislators.
David approached the Sooner Tea Party in 2015 at the State Committee Meeting where we elected a new Chairman after Randy Brogdon had resigned after being hounded out of office by Vice Chair Estella Hernandez and Pam Pollard. Hernandez had temporary control over the GOP as she was the Vice Chair, and she marched up on the podium with about thirty supporters. Poor Pam Pollard had two, a sad looking bunch. But Pollard won, actually trounced Hernandez but there was to be a run off between the two but it was so lopsided that Hernandez chose not to continue to save face.
Why did this happen? The Sooner Tea Party had sent out a video the night before to all the State Committee members and the delegates from the previous Convention showing Hernandez's husband working illegal aliens. We also published an audio tape where Hernandez was savaging Randy Brogdon in a meeting, viciously attacking him, stating that her job was to pursue her agenda (illegal alien lover she was and still is!) and not there to support the Chairman. A Tulsa radio show had a copy of that tape and ambushed Hernandez during an interview just a few days before, catching her flat footed and lying about the entire meeting and her being the “victim”.
So David approached us, asked us to join his group of bloggers. Our first thought was to say “Are you crazy? You know how many RINOs and corrupt activists hate us? They will trash you for including us.” David did it anyway because he realized that STP (Sooner Tea Party) was one of the most influential groups in the state and had the widest readership. David set up some sort of automated system that took our emailed newsletter and posted the individual stories on a blog that was linked to his Sooner Politics website and Facebook page. Our work was never his work, we were one of many bloggers contributing from liberals to pot heads to RINOs to conservatives.
We disagree with David on several issues but there has always been mutual respect and cooperation on the issues we share. Sometimes our biggest frustration with David is his willingness to work with snakes in the hope that they have some good in them. Sometimes that is the least helpful thing about truly good people; they see the good in everyone and are a bit blind to the sociopaths and habitual liars that tend to infest politics.
And David suffered greatly for including STP. Ronda Vuillemont Smith was one that attacked him, he was even threatened with being removed from his State Committeeman post there in Tulsa County. Not for anything he did or said, but for allowing STP to publish our stories on his blog. But David never wavered a single time, he felt that STP above all groups had the ear and respect of the legislature even if the respect was more fear than anything else. David stood for free speech and inclusion of all. He is another man that will not back down or betray the conservative cause or the Republican Party Platform.
Another David story illustrates his skills. At the 2017 GOP Convention the vote total screen that was projected on a wall went blank and then popped back up. The delegates loudly groaned in unison, this was a well known Pam Pollard trick as she was running the spreadsheet that was counting the votes and being projected on the wall. A few minutes later STP quietly approached the Chairman and the parliamentarian of the convention asking for a copy of the spreadsheet to have tested by Excel experts to avoid any rumors of cheating. They blew a gasket, said no and threatened to call the police to have the STP leader removed from the convention.
So, after trying it the Christian way, STP called for a Point of Order a few minutes later, repeated the same request and was turned down with a B.S. excuse. Walking away from the podium Al was heard to say “You just cost yourself the mid term election.” Half the crowd booed, they didn't like the convention chair being held accountable for the corruption going on. This was Rep. Josh Cockcroft as the convention chairman. And he refused to file for office the next year so that turned out to be true.
But the fight was just started and David Van knew the Party would be damaged if these rumors of cheating on counting the votes wasn't laid to rest. So David Van approached Pam Pollard, the GOP Chairman at the time, also the one running the laptop up in the balcony counting the votes. Meanwhile a few bloggers had gotten with the STP leader and were planning the next move when up walks David Van and Pam Pollard. David Van had convinced Pollard to hand over the spreadsheet for inspection. The convention was treated to the sight of Pollard, David Van, and the bloggers walking up the stair case and coming down with a thumb drive held high.
The spreadsheet turned out to be clean after being examined by Excel experts and after discussing the issue, the bloggers put out a story and clearing Pollard of any wrong doing. Everyone won with this compromise brokered by David Van. Except for Josh Cockcroft. He moved out of state.
What we are asking you to do
We need fighters, not the winners of a popularity contest. A vote for Jenni White or Christine Leeviraphan is a vote for continued RINO control of the Republican Party. A vote for incumbent Vice Chair Shane Jemison is to leave a weakness inside the Republican Party. Please consider this before voting on Saturday. John Bennett and David Van are the best candidates if you are a Trump supporter.
The Electronic Voting Scheme
You all read the convention emails from Shane Jemison and David Mclain, telling us that we HAD to go to the electronic voting. I am going to let this letter from Steve Byas explain why this is an open invitation to fraud. Below this is what the Oklahoma Republican Party Bylaws say what is legal.
And We Don’t Like Mail-in Voting?
Millions of Americans are not convinced that the 2020 presidential election was conducted freely and fairly in every state. As such, Republicans in several states are tightening up their election procedures. Yet, despite these meritorious moves by Republican legislators in other states, the Oklahoma Republican Party leadership is proposing changes to our state convention voting procedures that are fundamentally flawed in multiple ways.
According to an email I received from the Oklahoma Republican Party, “there are certain things that HAVE to change.”
Anytime someone tells you that some things just HAVE to change is attempting to convince you that resistance is futile. The great English philosopher G.K. Chesteron said that before one takes a fence down, one must find out why the fence was put up. Certainly, change is sometimes good, but sometimes it is not.
The burden of proof is on the person who wants to make the change. There must be something more substantive than “certain things that HAVE to change.”
So, what is the change that simply has to be implemented at this year’s state convention?
Electronic voting.
This is yet another effort at a top-down edict. It may be good or it may be bad, but this is a decision, even if it was a good change, should have been made at a previous state convention --- a real one, not a zoom one --- to be implemented at the next state convention.
There is nothing in the rules that allows the state chairman to change the voting procedure by fiat. The state chairman is not a dictator. If that is the direction that the Oklahoma Republican Party wants to go, count me out. If the state chairman can make this change, without the approval of the state convention, then why even have a state convention?
We are justifiably proud that our state’s optical scan voting machines are not connected to the Internet. This prevents the chicanery that happened in other states, like Georgia and Pennsylvania, from happening in Oklahoma. Republicans are nearly unanimous that voting should not be done via the Internet, because it would create the potential for instant voter fraud, with no paper trail to verify the results.
Why would Oklahoma Republicans want to go to Internet voting for our convention when we rightly denounce it in other states for the election of public officials?
The state chairman also cannot, on his own, add qualifications to the grass-roots to serve as delegates. Yet, delegates are now being told that to participate in this year’s convention as a voting delegate, one must have a phone that is connected to the Internet. And, one is expected to attend a “training session” so the delegate will know how to use their phone (or laptop or tablet) in order to vote.
We have historically been a party that respects rules. In Georgia, the secretary of state simply altered state election laws so as to please Democrat Stacy Abrams! Similarly, election laws and even the state Constitution were ignored by election officials in Pennsylvania.
I have been involved in the Republican Party for a long time. Over that time, I have seen the grass-roots lose more and more power and authority. At one time, we met in private homes for our precinct meetings. The precinct is no longer important in the Republican Party structure, as practically all counties have “joint precinct meetings.” Presently, we cast our votes at the state convention in our county delegations. This usurpation of the process that is being proposed --- ordered? --- now will make our county parties irrelevant.
The email that I received said, “In order to accomplish staying relevant, there are certain things that HAVE to change.” The email explained that the Party needs to “be relevant and encourage younger ones (under 50 crowd) to join in on the process.”
So, if we vote by the Internet, “younger ones” will suddenly think the Republican Party is relevant? Really? Taxes and spending, limited government, individual liberty, the free enterprise system, respect for life, a strong national defense --- the “younger ones” are not motivated by any of that, yet if they can bring their phone and vote on it, that will motivate them to get involved in the Republican Party?
Surely, no one is that naive.
As Republicans, we cannot tell the general public that we must guard the integrity of the election process, yet we are going to use a phone to vote? That sounds quite hypocritical, to put it mildly.
“This administration is all about transparency and free and fair elections,” the email states. In other words, you must trust us. “Trust, but verify,” former President Ronald Reagan famously said.
With no paper trail, how can we be sure that all of these votes transmitted by phone, tablet, or laptop, are accurate?
At the end of the day, this is just a bad idea whose time should never come.
--- Steve Byas
What the State GOP Rules Actually Allow for Voting at Conventions
The Steve Byas article above does an excellent job of pointing why we should reject David McLain's dictatorial edict and be forced into electronic voting. Byas's logic is immaculate and it is well explained. But what do the GOP rules actually allow as far as voting?
The State GOP Rules, referred to as the GOP Rules for the rest of this article, are modular and very precise. These are not just rules, these are our bylaws that are filed with the Secretary of State of Oklahoma. The Rules cannot be bypassed by a vote, they can be amended by a vote only at a state convention and even then the new rules only apply AFTER that convention is closed.
The Chairman, the executive committee, nor the central committee have the power to override these rules, amend them, or suspend them. There is a convention rules committee that is allowed to create rules for the upcoming convention and these new rules are voted upon at the convention, but they CANNOT violate or surpass the GOP Rules.
The GOP Rules, Section 3 a state that any official of the Party that violates the right of any Republican member are liable to be thrown out of office. You simply cannot restrict any registered Republican from attending a meeting or a convention or doing any normal task at that meeting or convention. They can speak, they can vote, they can object and raise hell and anyone that removes them short of there being a crime committed can be removed from GOP leadership or position.
So restricting the rights of delegates is a sensitive matter and adding qualifications or requirements is de facto restrictions of rights.
Now, the Rules covers how voting is conducted in several sections each of which is modular in that much of the same structure and text is used for the precinct, county, congressional district, and convention sections. But, each section is crafted and applies to that section, the omission of a voting type must be taken as intended and each section MUST be applied as written to that specific type of voting.
Section 5 a covers the election of precinct officers and it is mute on how the election is conducted. A raising of hands, secret ballot, a roll call vote which is where the voter is required to be known, a standing vote, a voice vote are all legal and proper. As the GOP Rules don't delineate, Roberts Rules of Order (RRO) take over and can offer guidance. However RRO cannot supersede anything written in the GOP Rules. The only requirements are that you are a registered GOP voter and live within the precinct.
Next you have the County GOP officials that can be elected by roll call vote or secret ballot. No other forms of voting are allowed as the GOP Rules specifically speak to the manner of voting. The only requirements are that you are a registered GOP voter and live in that County. No further restrictions can be placed upon the candidates unless the GOP Rules are amended at a State Convention and even then the new GOP Rules are not in force until AFTER that convention is over with.
Rule 6 B 5 states that the County Chairman is the executive officer of the County delegation at any district or state convention. He is responsible for ensuring that the votes are cast properly and an important part of this is that within the County delegation all people carry the identical number or portions of a vote. One man, one vote, then when votes are tallied at a district or state convention the weight of a vote comes in, which reflects how many delegate votes that County has. This is very important, this is the election fraud firewall for a convention vote.
Next up are the Congressional District Committees with the requirements that the candidates be members of that Congressional District Committee and live within the borders of that Congressional district. The GOP Rules are silent on how they are elected other than the requirements of being a candidate so RRO can provide guidance.
Now we are down to the election of the state GOP chairman and vice chair. Section 10 G covers the election and it is at the State biennial Convention, and MUST be elected by roll call vote. Remember a roll call vote is a recorded vote. Each County MUST provide a written list or a spoken list of how many votes for each candidate. Secret balloting is not allowed as it is not mentioned as it specifically was at the County GOP Conventions.
The next relevant GOP Rule is 16 G, which lays out exactly how County, Congressional District, and State Conventions can vote. First each delegate from within a precinct or county MUST have the same number or fractions of a number of votes as the other delegates from that unit. Only full votes and half votes are allowed unless the actual ballot counts are allowed for computerized counting, AKA an excel spreadsheet. Next, each delegation has the right to pass on the first time their county is called, delaying the recording of their vote until their county is called on the second pass at which time they vote or lose the right to vote on that issue.
Now this right to pass on a vote gives some advantages and note that the delegation has the right to pass, not the individual delegates. And who is the executive officer of that delegation? The County Chairman or he can hand it off to the Vice Chair.
So ONLY the executive officer of a County may submit votes. This is the fraud cut out, they will know if there is a problem, too many votes, a stranger that isn't a legal delegate, that they are actually living in their county, are they even on the floor of the convention? The individual convention delegate CANNOT cast their vote individually and it doesn't matter if the County Chair gets a list afterward or not. Voting individually is prohibited.
In section 19 there a way for committees to pass additional rules but the new rules may NOT collide with the existing GOP Rules. The new rule cannot be inconsistent to the existing rules. If the rules are silent upon an issue, a new rule can clarify, an example of changing a venue on a convention which it seems must be done this year thanks to the incompetence of David McLain.
Now finally, how can these GOP Rules be changed? By a majority vote at a State Convention, by submission of two methods.
First by submitting the Rule Change to the State Executive Board but it must be submitted 30 days prior to the Call for Convention which is put out by the State Executive Board because it must be included with or without a recommendation. That appears to state that ANYONE could submit a new rule or change. The important word is “shall”, they MUST submit the Rule change. The State Executive Board cannot change anything, only submit rule changes to the Convention for a vote.
The second method is by a County or Congressional District Rule submission. The Rule change must be voted upon and passed and submitted before five days after the passing convention. The difference between the second method and the first method is that it is a violation of Rule 3 a, a Rule change submitted by a County or District Convention that isn't added to the next GOP State Convention is grounds for removing the Chairman and anyone else involved in not submitting the Rule change.
Now, in that David McLain Dominion Style Voter Fraud letter it mentions “Our Executive Committee and State Committee both approved this company for last year's convention.” Yet the GOP Rules themselves were not amended and IF they were it would require a long list of requirements including a majority of the state committee members being present, 2/3rds vote after a ten day notice in which the specific language of the Rule changes were given ten days in advance. Obviously this wasn't done and if it was done it was last year yet the current rules do not reflect any changes of such.
And is it even possible to do? A majority would be 51% of the committee members. Say there are 70 counties with organized County GOP organizations, chair, vice chair and two committee members are elected so you are at 280 members. Add 149 legislators, at least state wide office like Governor or Labor Commissioner, corporation commissioners, now you are at 437 and add another 20 from the various sub chapters of the GOP, College Republicans and the like. 457, but there are a handful of Democrat legislators, say 20 to 25, so down to around 430 total members so you would need 215 attending the State Committee meeting to even bring up a Rule change and get 142 votes that are needed to change the GOP Rules. Not happening. Didn't happen. Or the GOP email would have mentioned the GOP Rules were changed instead of saying the company was “approved”.
What we are asking you to do
Watch the battle over accepting or rejecting the Rules for the Convention. There will be a fight to remove the electronic voting and go back to the paper slips counted by hand in public in front of witnesses by the County Chairmen. Support that fight by voting for the change. Talk to other delegates and show them this information. Ask your County Chairman to twist arms and call David Mclain and ask them to stop this insane method of voting that is both illegal and non transparent.
3. The Senator Lankford and Senator Inhofe Censure Vote
The last count was that 34 County GOP Conventions have passed censure motions or resolutions punishing Lankford and Inhofe for betraying our President, our Party, and our families on the January 6th vote to confirm Biden instead of opening up the voter fraud debate.
That is almost half of the Counties speaking out against Lankford and Inofe. Many other counties tried but failed to get similar resolutions that ranged from a simple censure to an outright call for both men to resign from office. In Oklahoma County we tried but couldn't get the 2/3rds votes needed to suspend the rules. Pam Pollard and some other RINOs had rigged the rules where we needed a super-majority vote to suspend the rules before we could vote on any resolutions. Evelyn McCoy was the outgoing Chairman of Oklahoma County and had vowed not to allow any censure votes to occur. Inhofe's man was booed repeatedly at the beginning of the event when he spoke. We in Oklahoma County were not able to pass a censure but a vote was held to suspend the rules and a message was sent to the Senators.
Now at the beginning of the convention there will be lots of politicians speaking including Inhofe and Lankford. They need to be booed until they leave the stage and the convention. If you don't want to boo them, stand up and turn your back to them or walk out of the main room of the hall. You have a right to be heard, do not be nice. Few know that the word “nice” once meant foolish, simple minded, un-thinking. BTW, these conventions are designed to be wasteful of your time so that you leave early. Bring water and snacks. Once we get in fresh leadership one of the priorities is to clean up the conventions, the politicians can speak last after we have the business done. Instead of wasting hours of time on credentialing that needs done the week before or the day before for appeals. Show up, get to work, leave before lunch, there is no reason not to do it other than to give the politicians a captive audience to tell lies and to run people off early.
There are two Resolutions that will be up for a vote, Wagoner County and Mayes County both have a stiff censure resolution against both U.S. Senators. These are on the agenda and cannot be removed unless the convention votes to do this. So listen carefully and ask questions if you don't understand what is being voted on. At any time you can raise your hand or go to a microphone and say “Point of Order” and ask a question to clarify what is being voted on.
There will also be resolutions being passed around before the Convention, if a certain percentage of the delegates sign these resolutions they have to be presented for a vote. And any resolution can be changed, strengthened or weakened, by a motion to amend the matter at hand. Any delegate can make these motions so polish up your Roberts Rules of Order skills.
Both Lankford and Inhofe know they are in deep poo, they are frantically sending out emails showing how conservative they are and how they are concerned about the illegal aliens. They deserve to be booed and to see our backs if we are forced to listen to them. You can count on this, if they get booed by the crowd this will have a lasting impact on their behavior for years to come. If they are censured, it will make national news and they might just learn to respect the Republican Party.
What we need you to do
Be ready to vote to reject the Convention rules and raise a ruckus if they try to cheat or shut us down. This is a political convention, be loud, be assertive. If in doubt, ask around on how to vote but do not trust anyone that you don't know their values. If in doubt, ask them first what they think about the Sooner Tea Party. Be ready to stand up and turn your back when Lankford or Inhofe speak or if one of their representatives try to speak. Nothing wrong with booing them. Nothing they can do or say will erase what they did. They knew what they were doing and decided it was worth the consequences before spitting in your face if you were a Trump supporter and I know most of you are.
If you feel strongly about this issue please respond to soonerteaparty@gmail.com and we can help this process along at the convention. How about a small sticker that shows a delegate is willing to boo and vote for a censure? We will have them printed if enough people sign up to hand them out. Something short and catchy like “Turn your Back on Them”.
What Does STP Stand For?
But what does the Sooner Tea Party actually stand for? In the beginning in 2009 we chose the Oklahoma Republican Party Platform, specifically the first page which lays out ten principles that guide the GOP:
This is the GOP Party principles, literally unchanged since 2009 when we adopted them as our own.
As Republicans, we believe:
•Our rights of life, liberty, and property are natural rights granted to us by God, protected by the Constitution, to be defended by our elected officials.
•In the free exercise of religion and right to worship as we please without government intrusion or interference.
•God is the Author and Creator of life and that all human life, both born and, in the womb,should be protected.
•In traditional marriage; the union of one man and one woman.
•Economic freedom is the cornerstone of individual liberty and the private sector and free market principles are the best to stimulate economic development rather than government subsidies or programs.
•Revenues collected at all levels of government should be used only for well-defined, legitimate government functions, and should be carried out efficiently so that tax rates may be kept as low as possible.
•It is the right of every parent to act in their children’s best interest including health decisions and choosing the form of their education, whether at a public school, private school or education by other means.
•In welcoming immigrants,who want to legally seek freedom and opportunity, who want to work and who will embrace our values, learn the English language,and respect our Union’s border and State’s sovereignty.
•In Supporting and maintaining a strong national defense and advocate “Peace through Strength.”
•The Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.
•That we are to function as a Constitutional Republic with undefined State power as described in the Constitution; where Oklahoma Sovereignty is considered constitutionally superior to a Federal Govt.
And the Sooner Tea Party has never wavered in our support for these principles. We did take a look in 2017 when President Trump came into office to ensure that Trump's principles were not in conflict with the Party Principles and found they were in perfect unison. And at that point we renamed our RINO Index to the Trump Index.
Those that oppose the Sooner Tea Party either do not understand what we have done and what we believe in, have been lied to and misled, or as one of the letter authors put it, they are on the opposing side. As for our tactics, they can be quite brutal at times and are the most brutal when we deal with traitors to the Republican Party principles. No enemy is as insidious as the one hiding inside and these kind deserve to be rooted out quickly and without mercy.
