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“The county has enough money; we can afford the decrease” - Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan
That “giant sucking sound” you hear, as Ross Perot used to say, is actually the daily OKC paper trying to mend fences with one of the state’s brightest new political stars, reform-minded District 2 Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan.
The paper did everything it could to stop Maughan during last year’s campaign. To the paper, Maughan seemed to threaten the old guard good ol’ boy downtown crowd. OKPNS was on the Maughan bandwagon from the very beginning, and after just a few months in office he’s demonstrated why we’ve been such big supporters: he’s a reformer with integrity.
So we’re glad to see the paper admit their error, and we offer our hearty congratulations to the Commissioner on another job well done!
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Examiner.com: Reporters Should Just Stick to Reporting the News!
“The county has enough money; we can afford the decrease” - Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan
Related:
Examiner.com: Reporters Should Just Stick to Reporting the News!
Just hours after a lame attempt to sully the reputation of new County Commissioner Brian Maughan, reporter Unseen Dean wrote what some insiders say is one of the worst stories they’ve ever seen in the Daily Irrelevancy. Now that’s saying something!
Maughan, who campaigned on a promise to restore integrity to the office, has been making good on his promise. An internal investigation by Maughan’s new team has uncovered more disturbing revelations, which in turn have spurred yet another investigation into the former commissioner by the District Attorney.
The now obviously red-faced Dean wrote what insiders say is a distorted, error-filled piece that attempts to downplay the role Maughan’s team, and, when the full story emerges, will be even embarrassing for the now largely-irrelevant paper.
“One day after ripping Maughan for how he assembled his team, Unseen Dean has to eat it and admit the new team is much better than the old team. No wonder the story stinks so badly,” our insider says.
Since the Daily Irrelevancy is unable to report fairly and accurately about this story, OKPNS will! After all, the Irrelevancy ignored the Dirty Harry Coates saga last year, but you still got the truth. No wonder why Brad Henry and other liberals like Unseen Dean hate the blogs and talk radio so much!
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Related:
Examiner.com: Reporters Should Just Stick to Reporting the News!
From Examiner.com:
The laugher of the day comes courtesy of the increasingly irrelevant daily newspaper in Oklahoma City and one of their low-ranking reporters.
For the 40 or 50 folks who may have actually read the story, they were treated today to the thinly veiled musings of an obscure reporter named Bryan (Unseen) Dean. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that the little-known Unseen Dean is a big government liberal whose business operations IQ looks to be in the single digits. Dean and the rest of the paper were in the bag for new Commissioner Maughan’s opponents last November, and now the paper wants to get the attention of Maughan, the conservative Republican who soundly whipped the paper’s bureaucratic buddies down at the county courthouse. Read more…
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!
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!
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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!”
“The geniuses” are at it again. Today they’ve drug poor old J.D. Johnston out into the deep water, apparently advocating tax increases at a time when his opponent, Brian Maughan, is pulling away in the Republican County Commissioner District 2 runoff according to most
observers. Further, they have placed the former Bethany Mayor squarely into the controversy surrounding the Oklahoma County jail.
“For decades the jail has been a financial drain. Sheriff John Whetsel and his staff have done a great job of operating the jail as efficiently as possible.
The latest report from the Department of Justice has offered a scathing report, and while many of the issues raised have been addressed by the sheriff, county property taxpayers could be at risk.”
In a report made public this month, the United States Department of Justice strongly criticized the management of the jail, which has been the scene of 44 deaths since 2000, including three infants. In one instance, an expectant mother was chained to a rail for 10 hours before she delivered the still-born infant in a pool of blood. Referring to the jail controversy, J.D.’s genius handlers quote him as saying the jail’s management has done a “great job,” something the U.S. Department of Justice, the City of Oklahoma City and the families of 44 dead inmates disagree with, by the way. Even Whetsel, who in his first (losing) campaign blamed the management of the jail for its problems, has tacitly agreed with the report: a few days after the report was made public, Whetsel hurriedly hired a new administrator, who said the problems can be fixed, something apparently overlooked by J.D.’s geniuses.
At this rate, the Johnston campaign will overtake the Curtis Bruehl campaign as the worst campaign management job in the 2008 election cycle, ironically run by the geniuses who are torpedoing his chances, and his reputation in this disaster.
Fresh off lying to the voters about running a clean campaign, the formerly respected Republican known as J.D. Johnston has gone silly negative, again.
Johnston and the “geniuses” that run his campaign have issued a bizarre and rambling press release which, if you dig deep enough, contains an announcement that the former police officer has received the Fraternal Order of Police endorsement. Johnston, whose mind appears to still be in a fog after getting his butt kicked by Brian Maughan in the July 29th primary, apparently thinks he’s in a runoff for sheriff or district attorney. Regardless, his genius campaign handlers succeeded in burying the good news in a torrent of blithering idiocy and insults to Republicans, raising serious questions of his grasp on reality and his evident lack of competency to hold elective office.
“Despite the fact a Republican sounding group has endorsed my opponent; even they admit they dont (sp) believe he has the experience or ability to get the job done. I do have the experience necessary to do the job and am looking forward to working with the other elected leaders in a cooperative way and end the embarrassing disagreements that have brought our county such negative publicity, Johnston said.”
J.D. is touting his “experience,” but based on what we’ve seen from his campaign – besides the fact that the author of Johnston’s press releases vehemently dislikes commas – we know the following: he lies about running clean campaigns, he can’t remember which party he’s in, he can’t select efficient and competent employees, he’s confused about what office he’s running for, he wastes in a manner that makes Nancy Pelosi jealous and he seeks out the support of groups that want illegal immigration to run wild. Bet the FOP really appreciates that last one!
Based upon this week’s developments, J.D will probably seek the endorsement of the state Democratic Party, and issue a press release blaming Maughan for the Russian invasion of Georgia. Expect J.D. and his genius handlers to call for U.N. intervention before the Russians reach Atlanta.
“Geniuses” to seek Ahmadinejad endorsement?
When we told you that Republican Oklahoma County Commission District 2 candidate J.D. Johnston had fired his second team of campaign consultants and hired a third batch, we also suggested that the former Bethany Mayor would be tempted to go silly negative in his uphill battle to catch Brian Maughan.
We were right, and it’s curtains for Johnston’s reputation.
Sources tell OKPNS Johnston hired a gaggle of undistinguished operatives known mostly for poorly orchestrated dirty tricks. The so-called consultants have been tied to the catastrophe that was the campaign against Rep. Randy Terrill in the District 53 Republican House primary. Insiders says some of the faction that instigated the lawsuit against the State of Oklahoma for not offering driver’s license tests in the Iranian language were donors to the ill-fated anti-Terrill campaign. Johnston’s new “advisors” participated in that epic bungle, which was replete with slimy dirty tricks. They also have been tied to failed slimy behavior against State Rep. Jason Murphey. Heck of a resume’, huh?
“From what I’ve seen, they’re who you want handling your campaign if you’re running for dogcatcher or some local yokel office, but basically they’re awful,” one county insider says about the new advisers. And on Thursday, as predicted, a fecal flinging e-mail circulated. Here are some excerpts:
“The extremist groups, those that have Republican sounding names, are
blasting me and it is my belief this is a sure sign of the weakness and lack of experience my opponent has and how desperate they are to elect another Stan Inman/Brent Rinehart clone to county office they can control with
their anti-government agenda.”“There are some in both parties who are admitted libertarians that oppose all government. Inman/Rinehart earned the endorsement of these groups because of their extremist, out-of-the-mainstream, Republican-sounding ideas that pander to the lowest common denominator.”
“My opponent may have an endorsement of a ‘Republican sounding group’ but he has a lack of experience. We need an experienced leader, not an unproven former county worker who, much like a ghost, has left no footprints of leadership anywhere he has worked in political-based jobs.”
“I’m a grown up, I have a lifetime of experience and will serve the
voters full-time as county commissioner that is my goal. I’m interested in
serving the county I have lived and worked all my life. My opponent, endorsed by extremist groups that have brought ridicule to Oklahoma County, meets the requirements to file for office, but lacks the experience to effectively serve the people of our great county.” (Click here to read entire email)
We’re glad to know Johnston is a “grown-up”: after the hire of the “geniuses,” we were a little shaky on that. And labeling the 69% of Republicans who didn’t vote for him as “extremists” is really a clever way to gain support, huh?
The imbecilic e-mail slandered activist Republicans and, in an attempt to fool all the people all the time, attempted to link Maughan to the man he defeated in the July 29th primary, Brent Rinehart. Maughan far outdistanced Johnston, 47% to 32%, in the race. Maughan’s entire campaign was based on getting Rinehart out of government, and he had publicly declared that in the event he finished out of the money, he (Maughan) would endorse Johnston.
So now Johnston has violated his promise to run a positive campaign on the issues by either sanctioning the dirty trick or by being asleep at the switch as his team of campaign miscreants executed a ridiculous political scam. Whether he was too clever or too clueless, it was an incredible political miscalculation. Either way, it was a very, very bad week in the political career of J.D. Johnston. After this idiotic move, with the consultant’s ties to him, getting the Iranian President’s endorsement won’t seem like such a silly idea after all!
