House Republicans Select McCall, As Next Speaker

Speaker candidate, Rep. Charles McCall, of Atoka, OK

In a unique campaign which took many turns over the last 6 months, the Oklahoma House of Representatives has taken a step toward naming a successor to Speaker Jeff Hickman, whose final term ends this year. The majority party of Republicans met behind closed doors to select their nominee for the next speakership. The Democrats will also forward a name for next January's formal election of House leadership.   The final numbers are not published, but Rep. Earl Sears of Bartlesville is the other big name being touted. Rep. John Bennett of Stilwell was said to be combining his weight to that of Sears, but it was not enough.  Read further at the Bartlesville, Examiner-Enterprise: ​ http://examiner-enterprise.com/news/local-news/caucus-selects-mccall-speaker-house

  Al Gerhart, of the Sooner Tea Party, has written of this matter over the past several months. You can read his take, here: http://ymlp.com/zE3nfy

Al Gerhart, of the Sooner Tea Party One Pretentious RINO Implodes Anyone See a Private Turbo Prop Plane Going Down in Flames Last Week?     Last week we warned of the chaos that would ensue if Rep. Charles McCall were elected Speaker.  McCall had created a quandary for a dozen or more legislators that had accepted unreported junkets on McCall’s private jet and others were worried not so much about McCall’s voting record but about McCall’s unsavory list of campaign donors.   Some legislators were warning the Sooner Tea Party that the Speaker’s race was done and that McCall had it wrapped up and was going to be asking the representatives to sign pledge cards at the retreat.  But the extra newsletter full of McCall dirt went out at 12:03 am on Monday morning and by12:30 am legislators were forwarding copies and probably calling peers because by 3:00 am Monday morning a good quarter of the the legislators were getting up and opening their email to read the extra newsletter sent out that night.  By 5 am another quarter of the legislators had opened the extra newsletter and we saw other opens being recorded by most of the same legislators that had read the extra newsletter before 3 am which meant that the people they had forwarded a copy to actually opened the copy.  Leslie Osborn, Jason Nelson, Harold Wright, George Faught, Scot Martin, and Earl Sears were among the top re senders, all of which were running for Speaker or top lieutenants of a candidate for Speaker.