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Hat tip: soonerstudent
After refusing a (female) student’s question, Roth is seen talking to a student volunteer and pointing at the cameraman as he describes his blue shirt.
We decide to approach the student volunteer to find out what’s going on. He too has trouble explaining the candidate’s evasive behavior.
What did Roth not want the public to see?
The intrepid warrior, who battles corporations (yeah, sure!) and criminals on behalf of “The People,” got owned by a (female) college student.
After attacking Dana Murphy for her alleged ethical lapses, crimefighter and Superhero Jim Roth had trouble with yet another woman, especially one who wanted to question him about the massive war chest he’s assembled for being a good little boy and doing what his billionaire (and former billionaire) handlers tell him to do.
The sight of a full grown male Homo Sapien running like a scared little girl from a brave woman is priceless! Somewhere, Lex Luthor is laughing his tail off right now.
Jim Roth claims he’s motivated to put “Oklahoma First.” If that’s true, then why are out-of-state groups donating tens of thousands to this would-be Oklahoma corporate commissioner?
Is Jim really planning to serve your interests, or the interests of out-of-state activists?
More importantly, why won’t he answer?
Hat tip: soonerstudent
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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.
“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?
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
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
Muskogee Phoenix’s Dave Gerard: “So why are we suspicious of oil and gas companies?”
“This past week, Oklahoma House Speaker Chris Benge proposed an energy plan for helping reduce the state’s dependence on foreign oil. Benge wants the Legislature to help finance the expansion of publicly available compressed natural gas stations from 28 to 56 in the next five years.
He also proposes the state help fund the conversion of state, city and school district fleets to compressed natural gas, and finance CareerTech programs to train technicians to work on natural gas-powered vehicles.
There are more incentives: low interest loans and tax credits, to encourage the use of compressed natural gas.
Using natural gas, which Oklahoma has a lot of, for vehicles, is a good idea.
But why should the state build gas stations for natural gas companies?”
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Video: The Ambiguously Gay Duo Superheroes
Oklahoma Corporation Commission candidates Dana Murphy & Jim Roth speak at the 4th Oklahoma Political Forum.
Hat tip: JimRothCampaign
William F. O’Brien
The Edmond Sun
Today’s Republican primary between Dana Murphy and Rob Johnson for Corporation Commissioner may not be determined until early tomorrow morning: it’s that close. The real test will be against incumbent Roth.
By Kirk Shelley
In a couple of months the GOP nominee is going to go after Jim Roth an openly homosexual Democrat. I keep hearing that “this race is a slam dunk, the people of Oklahoma won’t put up with that.” The conventional wisdom is conservative Oklahoma will immediately oppose a homosexual candidate.
There is going to be a challenge facing Roth’s opponent in balancing the desire of their anti-homosexual supporters to “go after him” and not alienating socially liberal/libertarian Republicans.
Here are the three major assumptions for making Roth’s private proclivities a major part of the campaign:
1) Oklahoma is a very conservative/evangelical state
2) We hate homosexuals
The first observation is true. We have one of the highest rates of regular church attendance in the country. When I’ve worked with national companies doing voter issue identification work, they keep wondering why voters who are adamantly pro-life are 20% higher than the national average. Our conservative values stick out.
Do Oklahomans hate homosexuals? Well we certainly hate arrogant in your face attempts to push the homosexual agenda down our throats, but then again so do people in other state. There have been parental protests in the liberal states Vermont and California when schools try to cram gay rights propaganda down our kid’s throats.
So what does that mean to the candidate who faces Roth? First your polling and focus groups is going to show that a large number of likely voters are going to vote against a homosexual. The temptation will be bang that issue like a sledge hammer . . . and it will backfire.
Let’s look at some other examples:
· When Roth was running for County Commissioner that was the primary hit against him, it didn’t work.
· David Boren was dogged for years of rumors of homosexuality, but it didn’t work – albeit President Boren attacked the rumor on a stack of Bibles.
· Bill Allian was running for Governor of Mississippi in 1983, several transsexual prostitutes came forward claiming that Allian was a big client. The heavy handed tactic backfired.
So what does it mean? Don’t get in the trap of believing the polls that simply pointing our Roth’s sexual preference is going to win the race for you. Name calling doesn’t win elections; you have to show how a candidates behavior impacts public policy. Some cases are pretty easy. Cheating Spouses = Cheating Politician. Hypocrisy can be identified with a holy roller caught with a prostitute. Some folks are just going to wonder, “what difference does Roth’s behavior make in my utility bill?”
Before the GOP primary we may want to ask the candidates “how are you going to go after Roth?” So here are the question:
· Do you want to make Roth’s public sexual orientation?
· How do you publicize Roth’s homosexuality to those who don’t know it?
· Can you make the case that Roth’s sexuality affects his job?
· Here’s a big one – how are you going to react to some goofy group of citizens who run around with signs that say “God Hate Fags”?
Everyone of these questions has a big up and downside and worthy of some good strategy sessions.
Mr. Shelley is President of Shelley Strategic Services. His consulting for pro-business organizations has included successfully completed projects in Iowa, Oklahoma, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Mississippi, Arizona, Louisiana and Alabama. As a general consultant, Mr. Shelley has worked on 137 State House and Senate campaigns in 5 states and has a winning percentage of 92%.
A graduate of East Carolina University, Mr. Shelley lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and four children.
Monday June 2nd begins Oklahoma’s filing period for elective offices, and thanks to the proliferation of blogs, Oklahomans will have more information about candidates than ever before.
Some of the information will be items that the old and slow media, dogged by conflicts of interest from their wealthy owners, simply will not share with their readers, listeners and viewers. Some information will get altered, due to people like Mike Turpen, who tried to kill an extraordinary, and true, story that was damaging to his buddy Drew Edmondson. Some information is tainted, as exemplified by Turpen continually pimping his clients, without disclosing that fact to his viewers on the formerly respected political affairs show Flashpoint.
Further, with the slow and lazy Oklahoma media, the last minute dirty trick has become standard operating procedure. Responses through traditional media seldom are successful. Sometimes the press makes value judgments that a particular claim is in fact a dirty trick when it is not: the press erred when it did not take seriously Gary Jones’ campaign claims about disgraced Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan. The press didn’t do its job, and the voters did not have the information they deserved before they re-elected McMahan. Some watchdog, huh?
But there’s also the clever tactic some candidates use when, in the rare occasions the press actually does their job and uncovers real character issues, to denigrate the information by actually employing the ‘victim’ mode: “they’re throwing mud,”as the saying goes.
At OKPNS, we think open and vigorous discussion is what the votes deserve. After yesterday’s revelations about Corporation Commissioner Jeff Cloud’s ties to the George Soro’s radical-left Aspen Institute, it seems another issue that could dog corporation commission elections is beginning surfacing.
OKPNS has obtained a copy of an arrest report that is being circulated. Commissioner Roth was arrested December 12, 1995 after 2 AM in a section of town known for its gay nightlife. Roth was arrested for DUI and following too closely. He refused the arresting officer’s request for the “implied consent request,” most likely a blood or breathalyzer test, and he was accompanied by Joe Mark Elkouri, a special municipal judge, who according to the arresting officer’s report, appears to bargain with the officers to make the officer “forget this happened.” The officer refused, and called in a supervising official. Elkouri died less than a year later after what the paper referred to as a lengthy illness.
It should be noted that the report by the arresting officer is in a public document that represents the officer’s opinion that Roth was intoxicated. There are no attachments to the documents detailing how the case was adjudicated, and there is no indication from the report that Roth was involved in the effort to make the officer “forget this happened.”
Excerpt from the police report. (Click here, here, and here to read entire report. Click on image to enlarge)
“(Elkouri) then stated to this officer, “There must be something I can do to make you forget this happened.” I informed(Elkouri) that there was nothing he could do and that (Roth) was under arrest for DUI. (Elkouri) continued to state that he was a special judge and that (Roth) should not be arrested.”
Undoubtedly, this document would have surfaced in the late hours of either the primary or general election. Now it’s out in the open, regardless, the public will, and Roth’s opponents, will demand an explanation for his behavior.
Some will say the incident, which happened in December 1995, is unfair to Roth because it was so long ago. That’s non-sense. It’s been nearly 40 years since Chappaquiddick, and Sen. Kennedy is yet to come clean. George W. Bush was hit with a DUI revelation less than 48 hours before the 2000 election. There were no Democrats screaming foul on that night. The public deserves to know, and Roth deserves time to make that explanation.
Developing………
Judging by the information we at OKPNS are receiving, it’s the two corporation commissioner races that will present the most drama this summer and fall, especially when considering the intrigue surrounding the two incumbents: Democrat Jim Roth and Republican Jeff Cloud.
While we know the U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S Sen. Jim Inhofe and State Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, will be entertaining, the musical chairs theater that is developing over at the commission promises multiple story lines.
Roth became the first openly Gay person to hold a state-wide elected office when he was appointed by Gov. Brad Henry in May of 2007, replacing Commissioner Denise Bode. Per the Oklahoma Constitution, Roth is running for the last two years of Bode’s term.
Cloud was elected to a six-year term by the voters in 2002, and according to reports is running for another six years.
The only problem is, what you’re hearing about these races is just not true.
Electing Roth is the number 1 priority for Chesapeake Energy. Chesapeake championed Roth’s appointment in the first place, and their officials have made it clear that they want Roth in the six-year seat that Cloud now holds. Cloud, like Roth, supported Chesapeake’s successful campaign that stopped construction a coal-fired power plant and is seen as such a good friend to Chesapeake and the petroleum companies that he has a standing job offer from an unnamed natural gas company. According to sources, the sticking point has been the salary: Cloud wants in the neighborhood of what Bode took to become CEO of the Clean Skies Foundation, but his potential suitor believes Cloud is nowhere near as valuable as former Commissioner Bode, a national energy policy expert who headed the Independent Petroleum Association of America prior to her ten-year run at the corporation commission. Further, Cloud has gained a reputation as being so uninspiring and lethargic that insiders tell OKPNS that Republican Commissioner Bob Anthony’s pet name for Cloud is the “ghost commissioner.”
It’s a good bet that the puppeteers over at Chesapeake do not want two of their favorites running against each other, so based upon what Chesapeake officials are repeating, their expressed desire to have Roth in the six-year seat would indicate Cloud is in the way. Some are suggesting to OKPNS that Cloud knows he is leaving, but using time as leverage to increase the value of his compensation package. “Chesapeake would much rather have Roth than Cloud: he’s sharper, harder working and has become an extraordinary ally for them, and besides, they have a much more energetic person than Cloud ready to put into the two-year term,” one corporation commission insider tells OKPNS, “so while Cloud is a friend, Chesapeake has others they want on the commission that simply will work harder than Jeff.”
So where does that leave the other announced candidates? Until Cloud divulges his intentions, or is forced by his potential employer to make finally make a move, the others are forced to wait. “It’s not even out of the realm of possibility that Cloud and Roth will eventually reach an accommodation, and that Roth will file against Cloud, who would then drop out AFTER filing to thwart others,” says another political observer familiar with Chesapeake’s concerns.
So while Roth and Cloud are different in every conceivable way except their allegiance to Chesapeake, it appears that the two are very dependent on each other to get what they want. So even after filing is over next Wednesday, we may still have no clue how this drama is going to play out. OKPNS will keep following this developing story.
So how’s that ‘eco-friendly’ feeling now? When corporation commission officials nuked a proposed coal generating plant last year, ostensibly because coal fired plants are just too “dirty”, the environmentalists and their buddies at Chesapeake energy cheered. Now folks in northeast Oklahoma are finding out the real dirt is in their electricity bills because of the rapidly escalating cost of natural gas.The phony coalition formed by Chesapeake to oppose the construction of cheaper and more economically-reliable coal plants in favor of plants fired by price-volatile natural gas beat back a proposal fronted by the incompetent team at Oklahoma City-based OG&E. OKPNS chronicled the hapless effort the utility made on behalf of coal, but the natural gas syndicate won primarily because they own two members of the commission: Jim Roth, the official Chesapeake errand butt boy, and light weight commissioner Jeff Cloud, who is rumored to have a standing job offer from a “natural gas” company. One can only guess who.
Ironically, both Roth and Cloud, if he files, face re-election this fall. Insiders say Cloud is being offered far, far below the salary former commissioner Denise Bode took to head up Chesapeake’s anti-coal working group based in Washington.
From eco-imperialism.com (4/27/06):
Even in this “era of corporate social responsibility,” brazen violations of honesty, transparency and accountability standards occur regularly. Exhibit 1: the recent “Coal is filthy” ad campaign.
Prominent advertisements in major US papers featured an ethnic spectrum of smudge-faced California models, whose misleading claims about emissions from coal-fired electrical generating plants were reinforced by a CleanSkyCoalition.com website. The campaign urged citizens to tell government officials, “No more filthy coal plants.”
But the Coalition wasn’t another gaggle of environmental pressure groups, like those listed on the website. It was a cabal of natural gas companies, led by Chesapeake Energy of Oklahoma. Their goal wasn’t really helping Americans get “clean skies” and “live longer,” as their ads proclaimed. It was fattening corporate wallets.
Cloud, unlike Bode, doesn’t posses an impressive body of work and is rumored to be, shall we say, not that enthusiastic about hard work, which is important if the offer comes from Chesapeake, since screwing the public, like rust, never sleeps.
Regardless, some Oklahomans can soon experience for themselves the results of the phony global warming scam that allows greedy power companies to exploit the public’s fear so that long-term energy policies are based on emotions rather than reason. Ethanol anybody?
So now some Oklahomans will see their electric rates take a major hike in a few days, and based upon some estimations, natural gas prices will double in the next couple of years. So any money you have left over from purchasing artificially-inflated food and automobile fuel will fly out of your pockets for your electric bill. Shunning coal for natural gas may sound great, until reality hits. Thanks to the climate change hysteria created by idiots like Algore, Chesapeake has committed daylight robbery, and gotten away with it. So it’s grab your ankles time in Oklahoma:
Dr. natural gas will now administer your treatment.
So here’s the environmental scores for tonight: Chesapeake is going to make more obscene profits, Oklahomans will soon begin sending corporate welfare to Chesapeake’s basketball team and in gratitude, Chesapeake will now return the favor by screwing those same people on their utility bills.
It’s been a very busy year for the folks at 63rd and Western, but there’s much more lying, stealing and even a few folks they haven’t hosed out there yet. Now THAT’s an inconvenient, and unfortunate, truth.
