5/22/2012 at about 5:10 pm: Oklahoma GOP chairman Matt Pinnell evicted me from HQ bldg shortly after I entered building. This was after he told another republican that National non-delegates could enter building with video cameras. Apparently Pinnell & others in the building were shocked that I showed up. Pinnell indicated it was a private club, even though Im a card carrying republican since 1973 when I 1st joined Army during Vietnam War. Pinnell went so far as to ask me if I needed help in leaving building. I guess I was not moving fast enough. I went back to parking lot & told Conservative slate delegates & Paul supporters what happened. They were shocked. After Ron Paul folks got their cameras & live feed gear charged up about 20 minutes later they all (about 70 of them) marched down to the GOP headquarters & Pinnell did not say a word about the cameras nor about non-executive member delegates. Everybody (including me) got inside building for conservative slate caucus in another meeting room in the building.
I dont know why Pinnell had the nerve to mess w/me. But I’m not going to stand idly by & let him and any other personnel at Oklahoma GOP prejudice me as payback for me not prejudicing Ron Paul folks. If he has a problem with me not prejudicing Ron Paul folks, then he better get over it real quick.
The address of the Oklahoma GOP Headquarters where all this occurred is: 4031 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK
At Oklahoma GOP convention on May 12, 2012 I met up w/ Jimmy McMillan: “the rent is too damn high” man & asked him about his previously announced candidacy for president. He responded that he’s a registered republican but that he will run in the democrat party. The reasoning he gave was a bit confusing to me.
I asked if he’s registered republican in Oklahoma. He said he was not, but he didn’t say where. In corner of my eye, I noticed a man was touching him as though it was a que for him to stop talking. But I kept plugging in questions until I was nudged to move alone & I saw the deputy sheriff headed my way … and …… I moved along..
Location of this interview was at Embassy Suites in Norman, Oklahoma.
Newt Gingrich Who Demeans Blacks as Dead-Beats, Gets Caught passing Hot Check
Newt Gingrich, a GOP 2012 presidential candidate writes $500 hot check to the state of Utah, after he tells the world that black folks need to get off welfare. This is a man who wants to head the Republican party and be President of the United States (leader of the free world). BTW, Newt has a history of writing hot checks & stiffing creditors. This is also the same man who broadcasted to the world that America’s first black president (Barack Obama) is a food stamp president. However, Newt’s claim was proven to be false, as reports show that food stamp participation actually grew under Bush administration and decreased under Obama. I can only speculate the reasons why Newt Gingrich continues to equate blacks with welfare and poor work ethics: (1) he truly feels that blacks are the dregs of American society; and/or (2) he is appealing to a certain base within the republican party who wants to perpetuate this lie.
The irony self explanatory. But in case the readers can’t figure it out, I’ll break it down like this –>
If blacks (who in fact not majority on food stamps) had to depend on PAY CHECKS from the
likes of Newt Gingrich, then how far will a hot check take them? If black workers’ employers paid them with hot checks,
would it be an excuse for them to get on welfare?
I’m blogging about this Newt hot check story because most republican conservatives’ blogs and their tweets are awfully quiet about it. Im also doing this because I’m noticing that here recently, most republican conservative bloggers tend to be quick on the key board when republican politicians serve up blacks as red meat. This morning, HLN was the first televised news outlet that I’m aware of that reported this; and that’s where I first heard about it. Moreso the reason why I diversity my news media and online viewing.
In any case, had Obama or any black democrat candidate had written a hot check, what do you think the head lines would say? What do you think Foxnews would report? What do you think the republican (conservative) bloggers would report or embellish? To be sure, the right-wing conservative twitter timeline would had gone viral on the story.
BTW, just to be fair, here’s Newt’s side of the story about his bounced check –> LINK. Also, in interest of fairness, here’s video of Black republican J.C. Watts (Newt supporter) defending Newt Gingrich’s food stamp remark as not being racist. However, in my opinion, Watts is in denial.
I’m just trying to keep it real and bring attention to the recent hypocrisy in my own party, particular when blacks are continuously being unfairly stereotyped and demeaned as dead-beats for political thunder by politicians of a political party in which the black are more likely less than 1% of its electorate.
The following are video clips relevant to this subject matter to jar the memory of Newt Gingrich’s racially coded remarks :
Steve Harrison Runs for Mayor of McAlester, OK speaking at Kiamichi Center on 2/7/2012
(R-OK) Steve Harrison, sitting councilman is running for Mayor of McAlester, Oklahoma. He feels council members should at least make a good impression while sitting on bench at meetings for the sake of public appearance. He said his rival John Brown (another councilman) shows up wearing shorts. But when Harrison shows up to city council, he dresses up in suit & tie.
Harrison also answered questions about the McAlester landfill that the council had previously imposed a restriction on its use. Harrison explained that the landfill was full & that the city had to comply w/DEQ rules.
About the matter of McAlester council passing city law that conflicted w/state law in regulating the sale of over the counter cold medicine, Harrison said that the city council rescinded their ruling after its passing due to ruling from Oklahoma Attorney General. The initial reason given by the council in trying to regulate the cold medicine was to clamp down on meth labs. But Oklahoma attorney general Pruitt said towns can’t regulate sale of cold pills.
Steve Harrison, who is a republican, is currently a city councilman for ward 2 McAlester, OK. He seeks to win the office of Mayor, as the outgoing mayor – Kevin Priddle, is retiring. John Browne, a democrat is also running for mayor.
Election for the mayor race is super Tuesday – March 6, 2012.
Tonite, driving from Walmart getting on to George Nigh Exwy, I spotted a Ron Paul sign. It was the ONLY political sign in the whole area.. just sitting out there all by it’s lonesome.
Before any Ron Paul supporters start jumping my bones, I want to say that I ain’t got nothing against Ron Paul & in fact I like the guy.. But a Ron Paul sign in these neck of the woods is highly unusual. I didn’t think Ron Paul was even on the radar out here. In McAlester, OK (or surrounding area of District 2) most Republicans I talk to would say they support Santorum or Romney. But Ron Paul ?????? This is a first. I need to find out what the hell is going on. I’m call up Pittsburg GOP to find out if Paul has a headquarters out here.
Oklahoma Republican female voter reveals who she may vote for in Oklahoma’s 2nd US Congressional & Presidential election 2012. She’s leaning Dakota Woods & Markwayne Mullin for US congress; but since she had not seen all of the GOP candidates she said she could change her mind. But she did say that her liking for Mullin & Woods was because they seemed strong & forceful.
Voter says she prefers Rick Santorum for President, but since he’s unlikely to win GOP nomination, she said she’d probably vote for Mitt Romney. When asked about Newt, the voter strongly replied he was dirty, a big government progressive & lack morals & character. However, voter felt Mitt was not that conservative, but that she would chose him over Newt based on morals & character.
This interview was on January 31, 2012 in McAlester, OK at a GOP event held at Angel’s Diner.
I plan to do more video polling of Republican voters at forthcoming Oklahoma GOP events so as to get a feel for how GOP voters are leaning.
At a January 26, 2012 annual meeting of Hughes County Rural Water District #2 in Stuart Oklahoma, the minutes of 2011 annual meeting that was read by Secretary/Treasurer Janet Frederick were disputed by water customer (member). After this dispute, membership voted not to approve those minutes until the board of directors produced the handwritten minutes for the membership to review. The member disputed the legality of the election of the water district’s chairman – Jim Wilson in reference to term of office. Secretary of the rural water district read minutes of 2011 annual meeting that mentioned that Jim Wilson was re-elected at a 2011 annual meeting.
Another member – Ronda Talley, at the January 26, 2012 meeting made motion to not approve the 2011 annual meeting minutes. The motion overwhelming carried to not approve those minutes.
Prior to this January 2012 annual meeting, most of the board of directors told the membership that they did not know when their term of office expired. Many water customers in this water district had been questioning the legality of the term of office and elections of the district’s board of directors that the board claims to had occurred at an alleged prior meeting.
(UPDATE: Now that Herman Cain is out of the race, I say GOOD RIDDANCE !!)
Above is Herman Cain’s racially targeted 2006 radio ad that was reportedly intended to “attract” blacks to vote republican. Reportedly this radio ad was paid for by American’s PAC. Yes, Herman goes from characterizing blacks as Ho’s in 2006 to calling blacks “brainwashed” in 2012. My or my.. what progress this man has made in race relations.
“The main thing that America’s PAC is up to is it basically is challenging the thesis or the belief on the part of the Republican Party that they cannot attract the black vote,” Herman Cain, an African-American talk-show host who voiced some of the ads, told the Sun. He said similar advertisements run in 2004 helped boost President Bush’s share of the black vote in Ohio to 16 percent from 9 percent in 2000.”
I figure this must be what Herman Cain meant by when he asserted he would get 1/3 of the blacks to vote Republican in the 2012 election. But if this blaxploitation (blacksploitation) didn’t work in 2006, it’s seriously doubtful this sort of racial stereotype ad will work in 2012.
HYPOCRISY #1: What’s more shocking & disheartening to me is that there’s people in the republican party who would tolerate this ad being aired on its behalf. Since Herman Cain went on rampage against Black people, I’ve noticed RACIAL hypocrisy in both Republican-types as well as in the Democrats regarding “whose the blackest” … & “whose authorized to talk about blacks & whose not” … and the attitude of “My black is better than your black”. All of a sudden what the Republicans accuses the democrats of doing with regards to the black race, Republicans are doing the same thing. If both parties take a step back, they’ll see this. When Obama (a black DEMOCRAT) told blacks at Congressional Black Caucus to take off their slippers and stop complaining, the Republican-types jumped on him – and rightfully so. I too jumped on Obama for saying this. Shortly thereafter, Herman Cain (a black REPUBLICAN) who outright called black people “Brain Washed” on nationwide television, but all of sudden the republicans makes all sorts of excuses for this behavior. In fact republicans DEFENDED IT.
HYPOCRISY #2: The Republicans excuse for Herman Cain’s condescending remarks of calling black people “Brain Washed”, is that they turn it around and say (paraphrase) – ‘Well Obama told told CBC to take off their slippers & stop complaining”. TWO wrongs don’t make a RIGHT! Recently the republican-types (mostly whites) have jumped all over TWO Black men – Cornell West and Harry Belafonte for their remarks about another black man – Herman Cain. But Foxnews (white hosts) decided to take West and Belafonte to the woodshed as there way of defending Herman Cain. However, a few days prior, Foxnews (white hosts) took Lawrence O’Donnell (also a white host for MSNBC) to the woodshed with the excuse that Lawrence had no business as a white man to tell a black man on how to be black. Since this is how most white Foxnews host & its white contributers wants to play this, then what the hell were they doing when they tried to tell Cornell West & Belafonte how to feel as a black person when they felt racially insulted by another black.
My take: Herman Cain, apparently a bitter angry black man who has issues with his own race, is a polarizing figure to blacks. He sort of reminds me of David Duke in this respect – Both figures are no friend to the Black people, no matter what political party they affiliated with. This man is NOT trying to attract black votes, but instead his job is to SUPPRESS black democrat votes from switching to the republicans in 2012. All this so that Mitt Romney can win the GENERAL election. Face it folks, in the republican camp, its NOT enough of us black republicans for Herman Cain to be concerned, & he knows this.
Speaking as a Black Republican: Unfortunately it takes something like a “Herman Cain” for any black republican to see what it REALLY looks like on nationwide TV when their own race is demeaned by another black republican. It don’t look good at all and it Don’t Feel Good. Instead of saying “dont let the establishment Republicans pick our candidate”, As black republicans, we ought to add “Dont let ANY party, including the republican party, use the black race as a political foot ball”.
Everyone has an idea of what “gone rogue” REALLY means. But there’s a lot of folks out there who would spin it to glamorize what they THINK they want to see in a leader.
Basically, to go rogue is to be your own boss. No rules. No tie downs. No strings attached. Behavior you would find in unattached people who are not accountable to others and whose success or failure falls on him/herself alone. Self Employed. Not a team player. No supervision. No commitment. Not bound by constituents <—- does this sound familiar?
Personally, I can only speak for myself. But a person “gone rogue” don’t make good leaders. And they certainly don’t make good employees in organizations. “Gone rogue” is something you’ll find in “lone” hunters, gamblers, political fix-it men like Carl Rove or Carville. There is a place for them in this world, but again, NOT in leadership roles. What would become of our military if its LEADERS were to go rogue?
Regardless if folks who follow Sarah Palin try to spin the positives of “going rogue” as befitting of a president, they need to realize that “gone rogue” means just what it says “gone rogue”. No matter if its Palin or anybody else. A person who “goes rogue” does it w/out authorization or consent from anyone. Last time I checked, the presidency of the United States has strings attached. The President has a boss and is checked & balanced by Congress. Which is something that Obama still fails to realize.
Yes, we already have a person in the White House who has “gone rogue”. Going rogue may be a cute label to identity some people, but its not flattering for a “Leader”. BUT check out where Im going with this:
Sarah Palin, a self-admitted “going rogue” person has already gave the caveat. She readily admits that if you hire her, that she WILL go rogue. She went rogue when she endorsed John McCain for his senate re-election bid. And she did this against the blessing of the tea party, who propped her up as the tea party darling. But “going rogue” don’t need no blessing from anybody. A “going roguer” just “do”. Is that so hard to understand? Again, she gave us the caveat, disclaimer, duly notified or what ever you want to call it.
The same with Obama, when he was straight up when he TOLD US he was 5 days away from “Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America” . But there are many folks EVEN TODAY who deny they heard him say it or that they didn’t think he meant it literally. Some say that they were deceived because he didn’t clarify what that statement meant. Obama didn’t lie about it. It’s that people were too mesmerized and caught up in the euphoria at the time he said it. But again, he did give us the caveat, disclaimer, duly notified or what ever you want to call it.
If Obama had said he would GO ROGUE, would folks still had voted for him?
And if they did, would they Blame Him for Doing It?
Why would a person who is running for the high office of the president of the United State use a congressional office to relay his or her CAMPAIGN press releases to the media? Reportedly, this is what GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has done. I thought all campaign press releases were suppose to come directly from the candidate’s CAMPAIGN office/organization.
I don’t think Herman Cain has a “Real”campaign manager or an actual communications director. He may have named someone to those position to put on a legal application. But I suspect its a subterfuge. I would go so far to say that its doubtful he has a campaign organization. Why else would he go thru FL Rep. Scott Plakon office for them to relay press release to the media, on his behalf.
I can understand that Cain’s campaign communications director Ellen Carmichael quit. I can understand that this man is short of employees. I can even understand that he does not have the respectable amount of financial resources. But this business of him going thru a tax-payer funded congressional office to relay messages to the public is ridiculous and cheap.
