Sometimes when a public figure's deviant behavior crosses over into criminal activity, the process of investigation turns up emails that point to a completely unrelated crime. Last week we heard about Anthony Weiner's selfie problem leading to a search of his computer, leading to more of Hillary Clinton's emails, including...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 4, 2016 1:37 PM
Smear merchant Karl Ahlgren, the campaign consultant behind the current Money Belt effort to seize total control of Tulsa city government, is advocating for the defeat of Blake Ewing, the Republican nominee for Tulsa City Council District 4. Ahlgren is nominally a Republican, but he seems to support any cause...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2011 10:27 PM
Karl Ahlgren's vocation is taking money from political special interests in exchange for smearing people who are obstacles to the special interests's goals. He's done it again today, with a mail piece on behalf of Tom Mansur smearing Steven Roemerman. Contrary to Mansur's claim, Steven Roemerman has not been endorsed...
Posted by Michael Bates on September 10, 2011 11:34 AM
In 2009, incumbent Councilor Bill Martinson was defeated by Chris Trail, a well-funded challenger, a newcomer to politics and to the city limits, funded and supported by forces that didn't like an intelligent skeptic on the Tulsa City Council scrutinizing their schemes. I recently came across Martinson's response to the...
Posted by Michael Bates on July 28, 2011 2:05 AM
The new issue of the Oklahoma Gazette covers the recently concluded Oklahoma City city council elections, in which candidates backed by a shadowy special interest group won all but one contested race. The story notes (as was speculated on BatesLine last month) that Majority Designs, the same campaign team that...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 13, 2011 12:17 PM
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