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July 24, 2008

OKPNS/McCarville Do Media’s Job; Coates Owes “A Few Fanatical Individuals” an Apology

It’s a shame that it took an embarrassing elapsed time clock - and frankly Mike McCarville following up on our lead - for Dirty Harry Coates to admit that he himself ended the senate investigation into the alleged theft of his emails. After the House surveillance tapes showed no suspicious characters “breaking into his office,” Coates quietly ended the investigation and hoped and prayed the sleepy Oklahoma media would let the story die. Loyal readers of OKPNS knew we weren’t going to let Sen. Turncoats off the hook that easy.

From The McCarville Report Online:

A Department of Public Safety investigation into the disappearance of a confidential file in the possession of Republican Senator Harry Coates has ended at his request, The McCarville Report Online has learned.

A letter from Coates, R-Seminole, dated April 30, reports that the investigation to that point had found nothing conclusive and to avoid additional expense, he asked that it end.

The internal probe apparently involved a review of camera images of the hallway outside Coates’ office. That review obviously produced no evidence the file was taken from Coates’ office.

There are still a couple of issues here that need to be tied up. One, at Coate’s press conference, he called the alleged burglars “a few fanatical individuals” who were against his attempts to repeal the popular HB 1804. Doesn’t he now owe an apology to law abiding citizens who are only trying to protect the safety of their families and the sovereignty of their country? And second, in order for the Senate investigation to have started, the senator had to file a police report. Since everyone now knows Dirty left the documents in the crapper - and he knows that we know he left the documents in the crapper - did Dirty Harry knowingly file a false police report? These are a few questions we’ll be following for you over the next couple of days.

Developing….

Filed under: HB 1804, Sen. Harry "Turn" Coates — Posted at 2:08 pm by C. W. McBlackville Email This Post Email This Post

2 Comments »

  1. tip of the hat to you and McCarville. Looks like he was getting on the record without much notice. Guess we’ll have to keep waiting for the drive-by capitol media to followup. Why doesn’t somebody make an open records request of just what Coates put in the police report?

    Comment by Tim — July 24, 2008 @ 3:18 pm

  2. Randy terrill finds Hispanic breaking are laws by entering our country objectionable.but he doesn’t object to breaking are federal bankruptcy laws and lying to the state.

    I suppose there is a since of irony about this . Blaming is wife for all his personal finance problems. Throwing is wife the main bread winner under the bus. This entire thing strikes me as incredible bizarre . Specially the role of victim rep randy terrill seems to be trying to play

    Comment by bill — August 3, 2008 @ 6:13 am

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