Fundraising, Limo Rides, MicMic, and Wind Turbines
Gentle reader:
With Ferlin not posting for nearly a month, and us keeping true to our promise of fewer emails, you have been without content for a while. Well, let's write some for you. Away we go...
The New Regime's First
FEC report is filed, (and attached) and it's....less than great. Chairman Charity had more than 32k on hand left over from the Dahm administration, raised $10,181.62, transferred 10k from the state account (we'll presume this is legal), and paid out about $24,000. In other words, she raised 10k and paid out 24k, meaning that if there hadn't been leftover money from Dahm's chairmanship, she would have been 14k in the red. This is not sustainable.
Some of you may come at us with "wait, they are doing a fundraiser!" Yes they are. At a place that hosts marijuana festivals and burlesque shows. Reminds us of the John Bennett fundraiser at a strip club. This is our party now. But fundraisers are a one-time hit and the Bennett event raised only 14k according to Action Figure Leslie NesSmith. (BTW, the event page, OKGOP.tv, doesn't have the proper disclosures on it, and violates both federal and state laws)
But there's something more interesting in the report: Chairman Charity took more than $1000 in reimbursements. We've looked through reports, and none of Dahm, Ferate, or Bennett took reimbursements. Hell, Ferate was approved by the executive committee for a $2000 bonus and he refused it. While posting negative 14k fundraising for June, Chairman Charity took $1000 for herself. To add to that, a limo company in OKC has been driving Chairman Charity around OKC, including to the Capitol to see RFK. It's half a mile to the capitol, drive your own damn car!
The fundraising foibles don't stop there,
As Vince Scofus has been calling $1000-level donors to ask them for contributions. The enticement to donate? A hand-signed thank you letter from Chairman Charity. That's what you're offering thousand-dollar donors? What if they give five thousand, will Vince ride in the OKGOP limo with you? That would be depressing. We've also been told that Vince is trying to suggest that people trying to stop their automatic donations to the OKGOP should cancel some other group's contribution. This is bad. Vince should not be talking to any donors, but definitely not those in the 1000-dollar level. That's the Chairman's job.
And no shocker,
Charity approached the members of the federal delegation about giving to the OKGOP, and was refused. They refused Dahm as well, so why would they give to her, particularly after they named perhaps the most obtrusive list of "political directors" imaginable. (Dear Lord, Connie Thayer was given a real title?)
And Tulsa County
is no better. Chairman Melissa filed a lawsuit against the former officers over...nothing. Not a shocker that her "attorney" is DEI Krems. Nearly everything that she complained about she already had, and the other things she complains about aren't enough to file a lawsuit over. She dismissed the suit, but we are told that she may try to file again if she doesn't get complete compliance. Please do, Chairman Melissa. Please do. We want to read those filings. Or better yet, just go try to do your job. And in case you didn't know, your job is to win with the candidates that the electorate gives you.
We need to make sure that we've
talked about the new Magic Johnson group in Oklahoma. Their name is "Movement 32," but we've been told that the "32" in the name has no meaning. The leader looks so angry that she has to be missing her frontal cortex. We just figured that they were Magic Johnson fans. If not, here's some other ideas for the meaning behind using the number 32:
- The number of teeth (most) adults have
- The freezing point of water
- The number of teams in the NFL
- The atomic number of germanium
- The number of Beethoven's sonatas
- The average number of pages in a comic book
We digress, but if Movement 32 can't find a real purpose behind the number 32 in their name, maybe some of these ideas are helpful.
We need to highlight
Mic Rosado's great work. She caught Gentner Drummond on a hot mic telling her that he's a "grown-assed adult Attorney General." It was both hilarious and sad that "Governor" Gentner would say this, even if MicMic was approaching him about a lawsuit that would be dismissed the moment it was filed. But thanks for the video work, MicMic!
Finally,
We'd be remiss if we didn't discuss private property for a minute. Conservatives have for decades supported private property and using your land as you please. We've expanded the castle doctrine so you can shoot people that aren't just in your house, but on your land as well. But for some odd reason, Melissa Remmington and her group of happy campers want to revoke private property rights when it comes to a private farmer contracting for wind turbines on their land, or building a data center. We get it, we don't like wind turbines; they're ugly. But to some landowners, they look like money. Same with data centers. This wing of the party that is focused on restricting land use sounds more like classic democrats than republicans, and if we are correct, please go back to the other party and give ours back.
In freedom,
CW/CM/SC/WB
