Before the Crisis at Chesapeake was announced Friday night, the situation for Chesapeake’s two virtual employees on the corporation commission was dire.

Incumbent commissioners Jim Roth and Jeff Cloud were locked into tight races with their lesser-known opponents. With the Roth and Cloud campaigns on the air and fat with cash from those they regulate including Chesapeake before the collapse, Roth, a Democrat and Cloud, a Republican, cannot shake their opponents. What’s going on?

Judging from the vitriol voiced by Tulsa World readers in the comments section after that paper endorsed Roth, the voters are figuring out for themselves that the Chesapeake Twins have been screwing the rate payers by heeding the demands of their employer, Mr. A. McClendon.

“How much did your electric rates increase in the last year, and mostly due to electric utilities’ claims of high natural gas prices, which were artificially high?

Scratch-Scratch vs. Win-Win”

“Mr. Roth has not been a good steward of the public interest while at the Corporation Commissioner.

He went along with every exhorbitant rate increase dreamed up by the monopoly state utilities, including a straight pass through of last winter’s tree damage cleanup. Utility line damage exacerbated by AEP’s lacksadaisical approach to tree trimming.”

“I have to be in 100% disagreement with the tulsa world on this one. Roth and cloud both feel that out money needs to go out of state to our so called electric provider PSO, they have given this company every increase they have asked due to the ice storm at us rate payers expense. Yet AEP reports record profits. yes at our expense thanks to mr roth and cloud.”

“Why cant we all just get along? Three states have been directed by the UN-Elected Supreme Courts of those states that GAY MARRIAGE is a constitutional right. (We all know Geo Washington & James Madison privately encouraged gay marriage in 1778). Maybe Jim Roth can help OKLA be state #4…ya think?”

With the collapse of Chesapeake, the already frantic Chesapeake Twins have more reason to fear the voters, and while state media continues to ignore the extremes of the once-vaunted natural gas giant, national financial media and federal investigators are going to want to know more about the collapse. Over the next three weeks, we will as well.

 OKPNS FLASHACK (5/28/8)

So Why Is Commissioner Jeff Cloud Smiling?

“Aspen (Institute) is one vehicle whereby left-wing billionaires like George Soros work to influence politicians on Capitol Hill by bringing them to luxurious places, hotels and resorts, and listening to mostly liberal and left-wing speakers.” - Accuracy in Media 4/7/08

It could be that he’s thinking of just how much money he’s going to make after he successfully concludes his job negotiations with a company he’s currently regulating. Or it could be that he’s thinking that the indolent Oklahoma press hasn’t bothered to check out the political leanings of the ultra-left liberal think-tank that sent him around the world and gave him a chance to pose for this picture in front of the pyramids.

Seriously folks, what in the world could Cloud have been thinking when he joined up with the liberal Aspen Institute, headed by former Clinton News Network President Walter Isaacson? Even a simple search of the internet reveals the effete and haughty notions behind the organization, whose major contributors include left-wing crazy and billionaire George Soros, who used the Aspen Institute from which to stage his effort to defeat President Bush in 2004. The Aspen Institute housed and “re-educated” (against capitalism no doubt) little Elian Gonzalez after former Attorney General Janet Reno kidnapped the little Cuban shipwreck survivor from his uncle. What so-called conservative would join an organization that helped force a little six-year old boy to leave the United States and go back into a brutal communist dictator’s regime? And why would Cloud, as rumors persist, be headed to Beijing in August with Aspen to observe the Olympics in another brutal communist country?

OKPNS FLASHACK (9/8/08)

Big Jim Roth Redeems Himself After ‘95 DUI Arrest

Okay, by now you’ve heard that “Big” Jim Roth went all John Wayne on some hit and run driver in Oklahoma City the other day. The husky 135 pound 6 footer chased down the perp through Oklahoma City streets and threatened to perform a smackdown after he pulled a Smokey and the Bandit blocking maneuver on the perp’s car.

Out the door flew the superhero, confronting the perp and calling him stupid because Roth was “offended.” We know this is true, because we saw it on Newsok.TV! For real! Right there in front of his campaign signs, interviewed by a Hot Wings waitress reporter from the newspaper TV station! It’s much, much better than cops!

WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?? STOP IT!! This is Jim Roth, Superhero and official spokesman for Chesapeake Energy Corporation!! Why I’ll bet the perp was a 300 pound weightlifter, and you have got to stop laughing.!!

I’m thinking you’re not taking this seriously. There is much to be learned about crime fighting from Big Jim: always do crime fighting debrief pressers in front of your signs; always select a reporter such as Angie Brus to ensure high quality journalism; (NOT!) make sure that you interview with media conglomerates who are respected world-wide and aren’t in the bag for your election. Frankly, we think adding another crime fighter to the corporation commission is a great idea. Perhaps they can track down those responsible for rulings that are causing your electric bills to skyrocket, and then regular Oklahomans can chase THOSE perps down, pull them out of their car and beat the crap out of them. Just like Big Jim!

Related: EXCLUSIVE: Commissioner Jim Roth Arrested for DUI in ‘95; Resolution of Case a Mystery