There was a guy with a campaign table running against Lankford at the Convention, Jackson Lahmeyer, a pastor from Tulsa has announced his plan to take out Lankford in the next election. During the hours long delays at the convention I wandered over and met the guy and asked if he supported the Party Platform. A guy working the table got a little animated during the discussion, we were puzzled and finally figured out that they thought the question was “do you support the Party leadership?”. The answer wasn't a surprise, “No, the current Party leadership is shit.”
Relieved looks all around, shoulders relaxing, and they figured out I was asking about the Party Platform and principles and answered a firm “Yes!”
Later on I went back over and talked to the guy that had gotten a bit worked up, learned he was the campaign manager, and heard this story:
With the State GOP Convention coming up the campaign manager called the State GOP office to reserve and pay for a campaign table at the event. After multiple calls to the GOP office McLain's wife Alee gave him Mclain's number and told him to call Mclain. After four phone calls un-returned, messages, and emails the campaign manager finaly called a mutual friend of his and Mclains and expressed his frustration. Five minutes later we were told he receives a phone call from Alee complaining about the interference, saying “You don't have to complain to other people to get a call back from us.” Which was apparently exactly what was needed. When questioned about all the run around he was told that Mclain and Alee are not supportive of those that run against incumbents.
That is a direct violation of Rule 3A in the GOP Party rules that call for the removal of any official that tries to limit participation by a registered Republican in Party matters, meetings, or conventions.
In the process the manger learned that you could sign up for tables online and had registered and paid it seems. So they got the table at the convention after weeks of delay.
Think about this, you have a man wanting to rent one of your tables, that defrays the cost of the convention, why would you try to stonewall the guy?
Because as we told you a year and a half ago, Mclain had sold out to the congressional delegation so he could pay the bills and pay himself. He would do anything and say anything to protect his master. During the twenty minute rant while Mclain was stalling for time when we should have been voting he ranted and raved about the attacks he endured. Without saying how justified those attacks were, no mention of the tens of thousands of dollars he wasted. Or the tens of thousands of dollars in debt he racked up after blowing through tens of thousands of money left in the bank account by his predecessor.
