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From The Oklahoman’s “Inside the Beltway” blog.
Chris Casteel:
First, here’s a picture of state Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre, who is attending the Democratic National Convention as a guest and has hit all of the souvenir shops near the convention center in downtown Denver (she also bought a dog scarf that says Bark Obama).
Eason and state Rep. Jabar Shumate, a delegate here from Tulsa, told a story this morning about how Shumate and state Rep. Anastasia Pittman essentially mugged CNN anchor Anderson Cooper last night in the Pepsi Center, site of the convention proceedings, to get a picture with him. Despite Cooper’s protestations that he had to go, Pittman grabbed him for a pic, and Shumate quickly squeezed in. Read more…
Hat tip: OklahomaHorizonTV
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J. D. proclaimed,”He got more votes than me, so he deserves the job.”
From all of us at OKPNS, we’re really gonna miss this guy.
Soon to be ex-Republican J.D. Johnston performed better than expected
in the Republican runoff election for Oklahoma County Commissioner
District 2 tonight.
The ex-mayor who sold his political soul and lost a fortune to idiot
campaign consultants got nearly 30% of the vote, silencing the critics
who thought J.D. would get only 1%.
Final tally: Brian Maughan 71%, the “geniuses” 29%.
Who was it said, “A fool and his money are easily parted?” J.D. Johnston’s campaign consultants!
From The Oklahoman’s “Inside the Beltway” blog:
Chris Casteel:
“Oklahoma delegates to the Democratic National Convention pose this morning with their friends and family members (and some seemingly random kids on the floor _ I don’t think they belong here) at the Embassy Suites in Denver.” Read more…
Picture courtesy demookie.com
Tim or Calvin Reese, not sure which one, after a night of partying after Monday’s opening night.
Related:
Red Stater: DNC Convention Update- Day 1
We’ve been documenting the beanie propellers and compressed natural gas snake oil job that T. Boone Pickens has been peddling to the American people.
In Oklahoma and Texas, he’s bought influence by giving away money he’d otherwise have to pay in taxes, thus rendering many legislative and business leaders, and of course the MSM, deaf, dumb and blind.
Other parts of the country are not so intoxicated from freshly printed money/feedlot smell that emanates from the confidence job being sold by the former greenmail pirate gone “philanthropist.”
So it seems there are two types of people who are buying Picken’s folly: those he buys and those who are idiots. Some, it seems, wouldn’t know a renewable resource from an oil field sludge pit. Read about one of those poor ignorant souls here.
All we have to say is, “Pray for America.” With the clueless leadership we’ve had, we’re going to need a lot of Divine intervention to survive.
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On the day of the run-off, sources tell OKPNS that the hapless J.D.
Johnston County Commissioner campaign received a huge blow recently when KFOR television refused to run J.D. Johnston ads because they bordered on being “libelous.”
It was a major blow to the Johnston campaign, who were apparently counting on the huge Olympic audience to lobby into voting for the now disgraced ex-politician from Bethany. If KFOR (who regularly look the other way when their own clownish ex-politician Mike Turpen pimps his clients) can’t stomach the ads, they must really, really be bad!
It’s yet another setback to buffoonish Johnston, who has been backed by political hacks of both parties at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, causing some insiders to wonder just what it is the hacks are worried about the public discovering if their boy J.D. gets whacked at the polls by Brian Maughan on Tuesday. But look at it this way: now J.D. can go re-register as a Democrat and run against some of the other RINO’s down at the courthouse next time!
Developing……….
Related:
Okiepolitics: What did J.D. do to OKPNS?
J.D. Johnston’s been caught with his dirty tricks hanging out! The “geniuses” have screwed poor old J.D. once again after Republican officials, including U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, publicly shellacked the hapless Johnston after Johnston deceitfully used Coburn’s image in a negative TV ad against favorite Brian Maughan. Coburn authorized Oklahoma County Republican Chair Pam Pollard to do a robocall denouncing the slimy tactic, further harming Johnston’s slim chances to overtake Maughan in the Oklahoma County Commissioner District 2 race.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO CHAIRWOMAN POLLARD’S CALL
Insiders say the robocall should finish off Johnston, who foolishly hired an inept and untalented gaggle of campaign consultants whose only abilities, as we chronicled earlier, were the slimy dirty trick. “He’s dead meat,” one observer laughingly tells OKPNS. “He’s probably lost a quarter million dollars, he’s going to lose the election, and his reputation in the Republican Party is shot to hell as he touted his “experience.” Some experience: I’d like to sell the guy a used car!”
So tonight on the eve of the election, Johnston’s dirty trick has blown up in his face, his wallet is a lot lighter, and he’s the one wearing the slime. Great work, “geniuses!”
Oklahoma Corporation Commission candidates Dana Murphy & Jim Roth speak at the 4th Oklahoma Political Forum.
Hat tip: JimRothCampaign
Some Political Satire from Kirk Shelley:
Obama – I keep telling you it can’t be a Clinton, I’m too damn skinny as it is, and if she gets the nod I’ll never be able to eat again.
Voice1: Oh come on, you are being paranoid, she’s not wouldn’t poison you, I mean she’s not that bad.
Obama – Vince Foster, Espy – I tell you, Clinton’s out.
Voice 2 – Hey how about Wesley Clark – General, gravitas, take on the terrorists
Voice 1 – Give me a break, first of all “Wesley” I don’t care if you put General in front of it, it still sounds wimpy, and then when he tries to go after McCain, he got his butt kicked.
Obama – Is there anybody out there who’s like a war hero, who is still a Democrat? Hey sit down Kerry you got your chance. I mean anybody else?
(General murmur, no, don’t think so)
Voice 2 – Hey you had some other Democratic primary opponents besides Hillary, how about them?
Obama – Yeah that’s right, anyone remember any of them?
Voice 3 – Kucinich – hot wife, believes in UFO’s – should do great in California
Obama – We got California, anyone else?
Voice 1 (shaky) – Edwards?…
Loud laughter (five minutes)
Voice 2 – Chris Dodd?
General murmur, who? Oh him, nahhhh (20 minutes of key clicks and internet searches follows)
Obama – Come-on guys, it’s almost 3AM; I need to text these people.
Voice 3 – Well the only one left is Biden.
Voice 1 – Hair plug? Why him.
Obama – Because I need someone. Does he hurt me??
(General murmur) No, don’t think so.
Obama – Cool, someone hand me my cell phone I need to send a text message.