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Embattled Senate Leader Glenn Coffee today announced that his own personal millstone, consigliore Fred Morgan, is leaving his post to head the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, the largely impotent voice of liberal big business and cradle for Oklahoma corporate welfare.
Coffee has been under fire in his caucus over personal and professional missteps. Morgan has drawn the ire of many Republicans for bad advice and bad manners. Coffee had been fighting to keep Morgan by installing weak lackey Sen. Brian Bingman, which would have preserved Coffee and Morgan’s access to potential lobbying jobs.
The most likely casualty of this development is Bingman, who refused to commit to firing the irascible Morgan in order to get Coffee’s blessing to be the next leader. Insiders say the weak Bingman has been increasingly frustrated with having to swallow the Morgan deal, and he had complained to sources recently about the Morgan “albatross” hanging about his neck.
The selection of Morgan is ironic in that he has never been successful in the private sector, with only an interest in a mediocre law firm specializing in bill collections.
One insider says the Morgan selection is particularly rich in that Morgan has been living on a state salary since he termed out of the legislature and finished last in the 1996 Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District. “Couldn’t hack in politics, barely hacks in the legal field and now going to the left-leaning state chamber of commerce,” he says. “Nice pairing, since both are experts in what it takes to make businesses fail.”
Coffee has tabbed former State Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa to succeed Morgan.
Now if the senate’s other well-known bad apple will follow Morgan, Republicans can get back to the regular type of business, instead of the monkey variety.
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