Making Deals with the Devil, Nathan Dahm Sells His Soul

Senator Nathan Dahm Colluding with AJ Ferate

We warned the delegates that the emails coming from Chickasaw Warrior and Cherokee Maiden were associated with AJ Ferate if not from actually him. 

 You can read the pre convention warning email we sent out at this link. However the thought was that Ferate was stirring the pot, creating ill will between the conservative factions, perhaps hoping for a dignified loss if not making it into the run off.

Polling done prior to the convention had Ferate way under 20% to 30% with the other two candidates nearly tied or with Sean Roberts wi th a small lead. Ferate's emails started putting out the idea that Nathan Dahm would run but as late as the Tuesday before the convention Dahm was attending county conventions but sitting in the audience, not giving campaign speeches. Other sources besides Ferate's Chickasaw Warrior emails were warning that Dahm might get in the race.

The Chickasaw Warrior and the Cherokee Maiden Exposed .......... AJ Ferate Accused of a Felony by his One of his own Allies?

Did AJ Ferate Violate Republican Party Interests and Commit a Felony to Gain Control of the Party?

AJ Ferate broke numerous Bar Association rules, violated the interests of the Republican, and stands accused of a felony by one of his own allies in order to prevent Party bylaws from being enforced.

Ferate went against the best interests of the Party and ensured a lawsuit went forward when one phone call and a call for a Central Committee meeting would have instantly caused the lawsuit to be dropped.

And Ferate did so to take control of the Party himself. To do so he had to make sure that John Bennett stayed in power long enough to drive the Party into the ground.

On October 13^th 2022 AJ Ferate stood before a court in Oklahoma County representing three of the four Central Committee members, Pam Pollard,Steve Curry, and Shane Jemison. At issue was the refusal of these three GOP officials to act to protect the Republican Party and to protect the rights of all Republican Party members. Credible allegations of sexual harassment, embezzlement, the violation of Party bylaws, and the systematic suppression of Constitutional and contract rights had been made against the then Chairman, John Bennett. In fact the sexual harassment allegations had already been brought to John Bennett by Pam Pollard, resulting in no action despite the proof gathered by the victims. You can read the sordid details on OSCN.net by looking up case CJ-2021-3991 and reading the motions by Non Party Johnathan Krems and the Plaintiff's responses starting around March 22^nd of 2022.

 

Fellow Delegates to the Oklahoma County GOP Convention

 Ken Warner, Current Oklahoma County Chairman

Politics is a strange thing, where people's character becomes obvious once they gain a bit of power. Candidates for office tend to fall into three piles; First those called fence turtles, you see one sitting up on a fence and you know he didn't get there on his own, someone put them there for their own reasons. Then there are the sociopaths that truly desire power, the most dangerous kind as they tend to hide their character before the election and once in power they abuse the power to grasp for a higher office, carrying water for others to incur obligation for the next election. Then there are the true public servants, the rarest kind, that just want to clean up a mess or serve their fellow man. These types get beat usually as they refuse to lie or call out the incumbent for corruption. Not a fan of old Charlie Meadows but he said one thing that was right or stole it from someone smarter; elections are tests of the voters character and not of the candidate's character.

What a Bunch of Crooks

The back story on the Bennett lawsuit,

Bennett's Stolen Valor accusations by a retired Marine Major,

who refused to protect the Party and follow the bylaws,

who are the groups trying to take over the GOP at the next convention,

And a good lawyer is being railroaded in Wagoner County

Many have asked the question “What happened to the Sooner Tea Party Newsletter” that was a Sunday night newsletter focused on Oklahoma politics and corruption in the state. Well starting in 2019 a bit of a truce had developed between the Tea Party and the donor class, AKA the State Chamber of Commerce, AKA the tall building crowd. They were tired of fighting and honestly, they had shifted way back to the center as they realized the woke crowd would be the death of them if they continued to appease them by shutting down conservatives and conservative agendas.

Time to go to War on Bennett ------ Chairman Bennett and Pam Pollard Refuse to be Held Accountable Under the Law? Fine, Hardball Politics it is Then

Wednesday's Oklahoma City District Court hearing was a pyhrric victory for the four Central Committee members. Going in we knew just how tough it is to get a temporary injunction, you have to literally be certain to win the case and have an immediate need before a judge will prior restrain someone or an organization from going on about their business. When the motion for Temporary Injunction was filed, the October meeting was billed as the second State Committee meeting which then was turned into an Executive meeting so that took away some of our moral high ground.

These Executive meetings are rarely a big thing, the notice goes out to a few dozen people that are either appointed by the Chair and Vice Chair or have a seat as a consequence of an office they hold. They are not big positions, more of a peacock position. Among their abilities or duties are announcing a County Chair or other County GOP slot abandoned or open, advising the Chairman, or advising the Chairman for the next State Convention time, location, or advising on organizing the convention. A quarter of them at the County level can call a vacancy in an office and call for a County committee meeting. At the state level the executive committee can advise the Chair and provide advice and consent to the Central Committee meeting on the running of the day to day activities. .

Which is all soundly ignored in most administrations. The reality is that the executive board has been a no work peacock post for a long time, a symbolic post that does telegraph to everyone where your loyalty lies. Bennett has few actual executive meetings but a lot more partial meetings, many times at Leslie Nessmith's house, at least the dependable ones in Nessmith's opinion it seems. Those executive directors placed by the Vice Chair aren't as …. shall we say... notified or present or wanted.

But I drove us off into the weeds, didn't I? Back to the court hearing.

There were four attorneys present, three for Bennett and the GOP, and one representing Pollard, Jemision, and Curry. All the attorneys ought not to have been there as none of them had the required conflict waivers needed from the State Committee. We were offered to hear the motion to disqualify which we filed against Ferate but it was scheduled to be heard in very late December. We simply were not expecting to or ready to do a good job of it. And the other three bozos, well they just entered Entry of Appearance late last week, no time to do multiple motions to disqualify.

So despite having zero path to become legal counsel they just ignored the fact that they owed their allegiance to the Party first before any new client. Ferate by virtue of being a current executive board member and his recent past as a GOP executive director and despite the other three legal beagles attempting to represent Bennett and the Party who have very different interests. Bennett is accused of breaking the Bylaws, the Party's interest is in following the Bylaws and not causing liability.

I would speak for two to four minutes, then usually three of them would speak for two to four minutes in turn. Point being, they had three to four times the opportunity to get their point across. As you can imagine our one hour hearing done by the excellent judge on her lunch hour, was over before we got to introduce our witnesses and exhibits. There were some exhibits filed with the initial complaint, another few dozen that the court didn't have time to hear due to time constraints.

And not unsurprisingly we lost the temporary injunction battle with all six injunctions being turned down. The judge did allow us to go over what our witnesses would say and what the exhibits would prove but she ruled that none of it would change her need to not approve the temporary in junctions. On that point, knowing the time constraint, we asked for just one temporary injunction: follow the GOP rules and by a simple reading of the text. And didn't get it. Not because our request wasn't moral and right, but because the four stinking lawyers said she couldn't.

Why? It seems that we were somewhat wrong about some unincorporated associations. Congress and the Courts ruled long ago that political parties were under limited jurisdiction of the Court. If the state had state laws that directed political parties to appoint vacant positions so they were filled then the state was allowed a minimal amount of questioning and supervision of the Party by the Judiciary. And the Supreme Court recognized that individuals possessing offices are valuable property, a contract by right even, but the Court also realized that since taking sides in a political party fight over another side caused strife, there was simply little time in a busy docket to to deal with normal cases and even less for dealing with party squabbles.

The bottom line after the hearing was ended? John Bennett, Shane Jemision, Pam Pollard, and Steve Curry can do as they damn well please and the Court won't interfere. If married volunteers were sexually harassed, too damn bad, it is a political issue to solve the Central Committee is saying.

If the Bylaws aren't being followed, tough cookies, the Central Committee says it is up to the organization to sort things out. If Bennett or one of his staff decides to throw you out of the Party, too bad. If Jemison has been missing in action along with our two National RNC members, too bad. If Bennett or some of his staff decide they won't allow Nathan Damn to run as a Republican, too bad. If they want to tell the governor of the state to piss off and strip their right of association to run as a Republican, too bad sister.

When this became apparent, that we were not to be allowed to hold Bennett and crew accountable using the temporary injunction orders, I asked the judge to consider the consequences of the ruling That it is saying that there is no rule of law and it is the strongest that will come out on top. Why bother with recruiting delegates when you can just gather or rent fifty strong men with baseball bats and take over the convention. Giving a people no way of making peaceful change is to invite disorder and anarchy. If they cannot petition to follow the rules, well they can riot.

Rex Duncan came out of his seat when the idea of someone using force if there were no way to get the rules followed, finding it offensive. Then after the judge was out of the room he had the gaul to give friendly advice in a wavering voice not to say such things in front of a judge. No Rex Duncan, YOU were advocating that anarchy was the only way out when you fought to prevent Bennett and his crew from following the Bylaws of the GOP. You Rex Duncan were advocating to hide sexual harassment allegations.

Yet, it turns out that if Chairman Bennett wants to throw you out of the Party he now has a clear path to do just that. You or anyone he dislikes can be unilaterally removed from a meeting, from the email list, from the Party or convention itself and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. If the Vice Chair cowers in fear, unwilling to stand up and call for a State Committee meeting or if he does and the State Committee meeting is unwilling to do the right thing, you have zero rights despite the Bylaws and despite the contract between you and the Republican Party because Rex Duncan says the Party and the leadership team cannot be held accountable using the law.

So John Bennett wants to stick to politics instead of following the Bylaws? Has the dumb son of a Biden thought that through?

There were many years I admired Chairman John Bennett and fought to keep him in office and protected. I always knew he wasn't the brightest bulb in the string of lights but I thought he was smart enough to act in his best interests. He had other attributes that made up, he was thought to be loyal and honest, and was certainly a passionate speaker.

But since early June I first began to have doubts then realized the boy was more than a few bricks shy of a load. Some of the people that helped put Bennett in office still try to cling to a shred of hope that perhaps he is being misled by some of his corrupt and self promoting staff but when you point out that it is obvious they are speaking wishing to believe, not in belief , they figure out that is true.

I suppose it is time to go all out against John Bennett. After all, he turned on the man that got him elected in his first race and kept him safe for ten years, what the hell are a dozen people that got him elected as Chair? I think it is time to use twelve years of inside knowledge and not just peel the skin off him till he does the right thing, I think we need to get down to the bone.

John Bennett, you have been warned. You are out of time to do the right thing and Sunday night your sins of the past are going to rain down upon your sorry lying ass. You think the Sooner Tea Party was rough on the RINOs and Democrats? Wait till you see what we can do to a traitor that sheltered in our foxhole and stabbed us in the back. By the time we are done you will wish you were back in Afghanistan surrounded by horny,syphilitic Taliban soldiers and you were armed with just an October 2021 copy of the Official Navy Chief Petty Officer coloring book of the month and a box of half eaten official issue Marine Core crayons.

Staff Sexual Harassment? The Republican Party Demands No Interference In Party Governance

On Wednesday October 13th in the Oklahoma County Courthouse four lawyers hired by Central Committee members are going to try to eliminate anyone from attempting to hold them accountable on Party matters or from demanding an investigation into at least five cases of sexual harassment by  GOP staff members. If you are to believe their court filings, their autonomy trumps the right of anyone to interfere in the internal governance of the Party, claiming it is the Party's First and Fourteenth Amendment right to govern itself. 

 You can read the initial compliant and some of the filings at this link.   GOP lawsuit    The last filing by Chairman Bennett is yet to be uploaded, I can send you a copy if you ask.

The problem with their reasoning is that the Republican Party of Oklahoma isn't a legal entity, it exists under a charter from the RNC and does business as an unincorporated association which has no legal barriers in place to prevent any judgments or debts from falling upon the ruling body which is the State Committee or the registered voters of the state for that matter. AJ Ferate, R. Tom Hillis, Kyle Alderson, and "acting" General Counsel Rex Duncan filed entry of appearances with the court and filed two replies claiming a Constitutional right to boot out anyone the Party wishes, to be allowed to run the Party in contradiction with the Bylaws, allow zero financial oversight, and to deal with internal Party issues as they fit and that appears to include allegations of sexual harassment. 

 

 Who decides who is a member of the GOP? The state does, allowing anyone to register as a Republican. How does that make for a “private” group or an independent organization? There are a myriad of other ways the State of Oklahoma and the Federal government regulate or monitor political parties. The Party files Ethics Commission reports quarterly, it pays taxes on payroll, has to follow zoning laws, health and safety regulations, city ordinances. It reports to the Federal Election Commission on a quarterly basis and follows the laws of the U.S. and Oklahoma. Who pays for our method of picking our candidate in the general election? The state does, not a privately funded party caucus. At one point between 1979 and 1981 there was a law on the books allowing a one dollar check off on the State tax return. Party is an unincorporated association, it has no legal entity, yet lawyers claim it has 1st and 14th amendment rights. 

 The First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 

 

 In this case that is the right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances which has been adjudicated to mean the right to join and participate in a political party. And use our free speech.  

14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

 The 14th Amendment protects those 1st Amendment rights but in the current lawsuit it isn't the State of Oklahoma's power or that of the Congress that is at issue; what is at issue is how the Party has written its bylaws to regulate itself and is refusing to follow their own bylaws. What the Republican Party under the Central Committee is doing is refusing the Plaintiff and other Republicans from assembling with like minded registered Republicans. 

 Does the general membership of the GOP have these rights to association and assembly, then why are they forced to take just anyone into the Party? Do the other Party members have the right to choose who they associate with by voting to kick people out of the Party? No? Then the only one with true First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are the individuals in the Party including the Plaintiff asking the Judge to use the powers of the judiciary to enforce the Bylaws. 

 

So what was the motive for Chairman John Bennett to turn on a 12 year long political relationship and conspire to boot the Plaintiff out of the Party? Well, he was being surrounded by an ever increasing paranoid and power hungry staff but that alone ought not to be unexpected. We believe that what tipped the porta potty was allegations of a number of young, married, Republican volunteers reporting sexual harassment charges against two or more members of the Party leadership/staff. On the day that the Plaintiff was wrongfully removed by a uniformed off duty sheriff deputy from the State Committee meeting, he spoke to dozens of people in the parking lot of Paul Blair's church in Edmond. One was a young lady there supporting Lahmyer, who like the rest of us was denied entrance to observe the meeting. Most had been lied to and told that Bennett was to be removed, something I explained was impossible without following the requirements of a ten day notice before the meeting and majority vote and it had to be for cause, which sad to say existed.

 

 But this young lady asked a lot of questions and we came around to discussing one particular staffer/leadership team member and the Plaintiff was told of “wildly inappropriate” behavior by the team member against the young woman. She was reluctant to share the entire story but when asked if it was creepy kind of behavior she said yes. 

Well, nothing to be done as the Plaintiff had zero access to the Party according to then Public Relations Director Leslie Nessmith, now Chief of Staff, who bragged on Facebook that she, Executive Director Bob Dani, and Chairman Bennett had conspired and agreed to remove “all access” from the Party by the Plaintiff to “protect” the Party. The report wasn't a crime, sexual assault, so it couldn't be reported. The info was filed away. 

 Later other stories and rumors started popping up around the same theme and issue about the same staff member. Then last week a phone call came in and one of the issues discussed was Central Committee member Pam Pollard meeting with Chairman Bennett and Executive Director Bob Dani with a hint that others were present. Allegedly National Committee member Pam Pollard recounted five, I repeat five, separate allegations of sexual harassment including text messages proving the same. The alleged reply from the Republican Party leadeship? “We are not going to Brent Kavanaugh …......” and then they gave the name of the alleged sexual harasser. 

Some of the other rumors about this one person were centered around late night phone calls to married volunteers. Stories have been written speculating about why Chairman John Bennett turned on many of the very team that recruited and got him elected as Chairman. It was all a mystery but perhaps these allegations explain part of the reasons. Of all people, Bennett and the motley crew he had surrounded himself with knew that Al Gerhart would not allow this to fester and would demand investigation and if found to be true the removal of the harassers would be demanded and an apology from the Party, as well as rule changes for the next convention including the formation of a grievance committee. 

But if the scandal was exposed Chairman Bennett gets a black eye, poor leadership and scandal, and losing an ally in a rapidly shrinking team of individuals willing to stomp on the rights of others to maintain their grasp on power and influence.. A National news story, scandal and shame was guaranteed, along with an increasingly paranoid leadership team cracking down on team members thought to be talking with outsiders. Closely held incestuous churches tend to act like this, where outsiders are kept at arms length to “protect” the congregation, and to prevent the cult like practices to create a sense of us versus them. 

 A choice was made; transparency, accountability, and civil and decent treatment of women volunteers was less important than holding onto power and influence. They seem to be saying that the Republican Party must sacrifice these young married women for Chairman Bennett and his team.

 And while the Sooner Tea Party is solidly Pro Life and against mandated vaccines, we have to remain consistent and non hypocritical in our arguments. What Chairman Bennett and his team are saying is “Your body, my choice on matters of sexual harassment and pregnancy, my body my choice on matters of public health such as masks and vaccines.” 

The hearing will on a Temporary Injunction to force the Republican Party to a) stop libeling the Plaintiff, and b) follow their own bylaws until the entire lawsuit can be heard on the merits or until the Central Committee calls a State Committee meeting and the entire mess be investigated and cleared up once and for all. When we pass bylaws and laws and regulations we always have to be aware that one day we might no longer be in power. So turning a blind eye to the current abuse and wrongful behavior is setting a precedent for future Party leaders. 

The hearing is at 12:00 pm, noon, in the court room of Judge Natalie Mai on the 7th floor of the Oklahoma County Courthouse in room 707. Bring as mask as they will surely require one once inside the courtroom. I know, yuck, but bring a mask and wear it or do not complain if Chairman Bennett and his team or the next administration of the Party puts a boot on your neck and laughs at you for trying to participate. 

My cell number is 405-942-2644 if you have any knowledge of any kind that you wish to share. Please don't call if you are upset that Party leadership is being held accountable, I could care less about you if that is how you see things. Please don't call if you are a victim and refuse to at least talk to a judge in private, the very least that is needed. If sexual harassment is to be stopped the victims HAVE to come forward and the law does protect them in many ways but at some point, if the accused is adamant, they have the right to face their accusers. 

 I would ask everyone to call their County Chair, Vice Chair, and both State Committee members and demand that they step up and deal with this mess immediately.  Probably little use to call the Vice Chair or the National Committee members, Shane Jemison, Pam Pollard, and Steve Curry.  You cannot get that contact from the Republican Party on their website, they pulled it down sometimes after July 4th of this year, about the time this controversy exploded, to prevent "phishing". However an email by replying to this email will get you what you need if there is no other way. 

This story was edited after news of a second abuser came in shortly after it was published.

The Sheer Incompetence of the Republican Party

So mistakes were made and like Hillary Clinton said the Party leadership of the Republican Party asked “What difference does it make?” Which led to the lawsuit filed on the 21^st of last month. And in the process we started looking for details on the GOP here in Oklahoma so we were sure we knew what it was and how it could be held accountable. And it turns out, very few people if any actually knew what it was legal.

You see the Republican Party of Oklahoma is a really weird duck. We first went to the Secretary of State to find out what its status was but there is no filing for the Party. Not in non profit, not in the domestic corporation side, nothing. So a trip down to the Capitol to visit with the Secretary of State, the Ethics Commission, and the Election Board, all of whom were as mystified as we were; exactly how was the GOP organized and what in the hell was it?

Back in junior high and high school days we had a study period, luckily with a library next door, and being a voracious reader I had pretty much gone through the suitable books for a young man in the seventies including hundreds of small biographies of the famous men from Colonial days forward. Many a time you would read about a soon to be famous man becoming a lawyer and taking a few years to “read the law”. And that was how you became a lawyer in those days, reading the few law books available and reading the decided cases. And it turns out that is a pretty good way to learn how the law works.

A good friend of the Tea Party would send us case law for the various Oklahoma statutes covering lawsuits that pertained to what we were looking for and before long the term “unincorporated association” became an obvious lead. Now normally in order to have a bank account and any property you need a legal entity. A corporation, a partnership, or a sole proprietorship, or just a person doing business as, AKA known as a DBA. Or you were a registered non profit corporation or as it turned out, you could be an unincorporated non profit association. Which turned out to be a vauge partnership of sorts, normally used for short term political PACs or fund raising for Aunt Jenny's son who needed an operation or some sort of charity.

Well, guess what? That is exactly what the Republican Party of Oklahoma seems to be. An unincorporated non profit association. And why is that a problem? Well, the directors as well as the members of an unincorporated association are liable for any liabilities incurred by the association.

Yeah, the knuckle heads that set up the GOP here in Oklahoma never thought anyone would sue their dumb butts and they left everyone hanging in the wind. So when the hypocritical religious fanatics took over the GOP and squeezed out everyone not of the Pentecostal faith or other far right religious cult, they set up every member of the Republican Party and the Directors, AKA State Committee members, to take a hard fall.

Yeah, an association or corporation has bylaws that set out a board of directors, those that are the ultimate controller of the organization, our State Committee members in our case. And other state statutes lay out a Director's responsibilities and liabilities meaning as long as they are following state law the State Committee members are pretty safe and shielded from being responsible as long as they  act in the best interest of the corporation or association. But these folks weren't told this; many wanted the State Committee member slot for social reasons and were unaware of the massive responsibilities involved and the Party leaders either didn't know or didn't want them to know.

One of the whines coming from the Central Committee, at least three of the four, was “Well, we couldn't do anything so we should be dismissed from the lawsuit.” But then the responsibilities as an officer of the association/corporation bite them in the ass and we find out they didn't do squat to stop the madness nor address complaints that were sent to them months ago. And the responsibility rolls downhill to the State Committee members who literally might find themselves responsible for a judgement, personally responsible because they also either refused to act or were derelict in knowing what was going on. Ouch....

Then it gets very interesting because the lawsuit filed is itself a weird duck. It is part a lawsuit for damages for a horrendous false light/libel campaign perpetrated by GOP officers and staff, and part a derivative lawsuit; a lawsuit that derives its power to sue on behalf of the GOP itself to defend the Party from lazy or malicious acts or malicious refusal to act and do a duty and protect a right granted by membership in the association. Yeah, in fact the lawsuit is protecting the GOP, enforcing the bylaws, in fact should the judge find punitive or actual damages done by Chairman Bennett, Vice Chair Shane Jemison, or National Committee Members Pollard and Curry, the money goes to the GOP.

Even more interesting, by filing this derivative suit the judge is on notice that a problem exists in an organization and is not able to dismiss the lawsuit unless they notify the organization prior to dismissal and giving any single person in the GOP the right to step up and say “Hol on dere.”

This weird unincorporated association is ruled by the state statures on corporations for the most part and one enormous benefit that is coming out of this lawsuit will be that before we are done the State Committee members will be absolute beasts in total control of the GOP which is as it should be. No more waiting around for a chairman like Bennett to give them financial data or information. Any State Committee member already has the right to march into the GOP headquarters and look at anything and everything they have. Books, contracts, receipts, emails, even the normally solid Attorney/Client privilege cannot shield a scrap of info or communication from the prying eyes of a State Committee member. Any member of the GOP has the legal right to see financial records, all board minutes of any meeting, a list of the members, a list of the state officers including the state committee members including their contact info, and I mean march right in on Monday and ask to see the info.

Some in leadership are under the mistaken idea that they have five days to produce this info but that is actually when any member can file a motion before a judge, possibly even without having to file a lawsuit, and the judge can summarily write an order to force the GOP to follow the law.

And no one knew this or the ones that knew were making sure the GOP members and State Committee members didn't know. No longer, a new day has come for corruption in the GOP.

And the Democrats? A bit smarter than the Republicans. The Oklahoma Democratic Party, Inc. is a domestic not for profit corporation. As such the have an actual entity under the law and are shielded somewhat from liability should the directors or officers make stupid mistakes.

On October the 13^th there is an emergency hearing scheduled in Oklahoma City to force the current administration of the GOP to begin to follow the bylaws. And while so far no one has filed an entry of appearance to represent the GOP it is going to get interesting because legally we have no General Counsel approved by the State Committee due to the corruption of the Bennett administration. Yeah, there is one listed on the website but he ain't legal and if he were appointed by the State Committee after a ten day notice of a State Committee meeting he HAS to protect the Party itself, not the corrupt staff and officials that created this mess. Good luck convincing a judge that General Counsel needs to protect the association by fighting to continue to break the bylaws of the association. And a General Counsel cannot represent Chairman Bennett as he was the one breaking the bylaws.  Ditto on the other corrupt staff members and officers.

The outcome of the October 13^th hearing ought to be very short and solid; follow the damn bylaws or face contempt of court. And continue to follow the bylaws while the lawsuit is heard on the merits and order and decency is returned to the Republican Party of Oklahoma. After that, if we prove that the officers of the GOP either broke the bylaws or refused to do their duty to protect the Party then we can ask for their removal. So far the former general counsel AJ Ferate has filed to represent Pollard, Curry, and Shane Jemison but he isn't likely to survive a challenge to represent anyone as he will be a witness in the trial that uncovers the corruption of the Republican Party of Oklahoma. Unless common sense becomes common and the State Committee rallies to the defense of the GOP and joins us in holding these corrupt or lazy officials accountable.

What to do with AJ Ferate?

The Sooner Tea Party has written a good half dozen stories about the long “serving” GOP general counsel AJ Ferate, covering his corrupt shenanigans before and at State GOP Conventions, conflicts of interest that he involved himself into like the candidate challenges where two GOP primary candidates are at the Election Board with Ferate representing one of the sides, and the notorious attack on President Trump back in early January of this year. We are no fan of this dude, make no mistake about that.

Yet like the rash on a baby's butt we find ourselves writing again about Ferate because the slow turnover to the incoming GOP Chairman has generated a small debate over tossing the guy out on his ear or keeping him around in a lesser position. Ugh, a Hobson's choice rears its head.