Despite the capitol press corps’s contrivance, more information is coming out about W.A.D Edmondson’s plaintiff lawyer activities.We’ve chronicled the press corps’ suppression of controversy regarding Edmondson’s office many many times: the charges by his Republican challenger James Dunn in the 2006 election that were ignored by the Oklahoma media; the attempt by Edmondson crony Mike Turpen to censure a KFOR story by reporter Ali Meyer in December 2006 that raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the poultry lawsuits.

The lazy and highly partisan press corps, which in essence serves as the propaganda arm for these frivolous lawsuits, thought these and other reports were not worthy of distribution in Oklahoma, but today’s story story in LegalNewsLine.com titled, “Call for AG reform growing,” demonstrates Oklahoma’s thought police have not been entirely successful in purging the record:

McGraw is not alone. The San Francisco Examiner reported that then-New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid “received more than a quarter of all her 2002 campaign donations from liabilities lawyers, some of whom received significant state contracts. Similar controversies have surrounded Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon.”

Edmondson is a public official, and his actions are sometimes controversial. They deserve to be discussed, and the capitol press corps should act like journalists instead of serving as his ‘wingman.’ Thanks to LegalNewsLine.com, Oklahomans can make up their own mind, not that fed to them by the propagandists in the 4th floor press room.

Related:

McCurtain Daily Gazette Editorial: Oklahoma has its own media coverup scandal

“Recently, a judge found there was insufficient evidence to go to trial with allegations that the multi-county grand jury made against some unpaid members on the Kiamichi Technology Center Board of Education.

If there were any justice in the world, the judge in the case would make the state pay the legal expenses for the accused board members.

If there were truly any justice, all those legal expenses for the defendants would come out of the budget of the Oklahoma attorney general’s office, so that he could feel just a little of the pain he has caused the people who were falsely accused by a manipulated multi-county grand jury system.”