Brett Farley Resigns at OKGOP, Over Trump Outrage

  Brett Farley has had enough. As the Director of Communications for the OKGOP, he was unhappy with the silence of the OKGOP when it comes to Donald Trump's vulgarity and immoral conduct.

Farley posted the following on his social media account:
​   "The time for bold action is long overdue. I have officially resigned as Director of Communications for the OKGOP. I can no longer countenance an official role with a party that is unable or unwilling to act upon the pressing moral gravity of the situation at hand. https://brettfarley.us/alea-iacta-est/"
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  KOKH reports on the story...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — A key figure of the GOP party in Oklahoma is stepping down from his position amid the recent controversial conversations released revealing Donald Trump indulging in lewd conversation. Oklahoma Director of Communications Brett Farley says after hearing the 2005 recording he simply could not stand behind the Republican presidential hopeful any longer.

  Farley told Fox 25 he addressed the party Chairman pleading that the organization drop Trump, and choose a new candidate, however they declined. It was then Farley made the decision to resign. "After he officially clinched the nomination this was a decision that I had considered numerous times over the last three months," Farley said, "This simply pushed me over the edge. I couldn't any longer justify remaining associated with a party that would defend this man."

   OKGOP Chairman, Pam Pollard has buried her comments in a post which started out talking about the hurricane in Florida.

"Somehow I feel the devastation coming in politics will not be as easily repaired as the storm damage still taking place.
Our Constitution set in place an election for President and Vice President every four years. We must choose a new leader and right now we have two leading candidates.
Our choices are:
Donald Trump, a man that has made some of the most disgustingly vile comments I have ever heard against women and minorities; a man that was given an opportunity as a young man to follow in his father’s footsteps and has used that opportunity to become a billionaire; a man whose ego has empowered him most of his life.
In my opinion Donald Trump’s arrogance is exactly what people are looking for right now to send to Washington, DC because they see Mr. Trump as a fighter against the “establishment” that has ruled our government for the last 20 years. They are not looking for a moral leader. Almost everyone I talk to has a common goal, change the direction of our government. People believe Donald Trump will restore our country and Make America Great Again with the same success he has had in his businesses.
Choice number two is Hillary Clinton, a woman who turned her back on American citizens and her own employees leading to the torturous deaths of four Americans; a woman who sought to destroy any male or female that got in the way of the rise to the top of the Clinton empire; a woman who is recorded on tape as bragging and laughing at her success as an attorney as she was able to get a plea bargain of time served of 2 months for a man who raped a 12 year old little girl.
You are saying right now, but there is more. Wait, you forgot to mention ….. Therein lies my point. In this new day of technology we are overloaded with information on these two candidates.
Yesterday 2,000 more pages of emails of Hillary’s hypocritical politics were released; today they will fire back with more video of Donald Trump being rude and crude.
Where does it stop and where will it lead us? It will never stop. NEVER. We are very quickly becoming a divided and weakened nation. In the world view, our enemies are rejoicing and our friends are worried who will lead the world.
We must not lose sight on what the outcome of this election means. We must focus on the policies that will restore our government to the people, protect our Constitution and protect our nation against enemies, both foreign and domestic.
This morning I weep for every sentence I just wrote.
My only hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ and mornings like this make me want to spend the day on my knees in prayer that God may forgive Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and me and you.

  This is the same OKGOP whose female legislators and the female governor declared a moral outrage last year, over a party staffer who had an expunged misdemeanor.
  Perhaps it's time to hear from those same female leaders in the OKGOP, regarding the proper respect for women, by our elected and party leaders.

GOP voters express outrage on the OKGOP's facebook page.

Farley posted the following detailed account, at his website, 
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Alea iacta est
["The die is cast" is a Latin phrase attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar
on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy.]

This morning I sent an urgent message to the Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party insisting that the party release a statement thusly:

“The Republican Party was founded to promote certain principles, rights and values that befit a free and moral people and to advance candidates for office who will defend them. It has been demonstrated finally and without question by this most recent revelation of what Donald Trump has said and what he said he does that he is wholly unfit to continue as the Republican nominee for President of the United States. We, the Republican Party of Oklahoma, join the growing chorus of party leaders and elected officials around the country in demanding that Mr. Trump withdraw as a candidate for president in order that the Republican National Committee may begin the necessary process to select an alternate nominee who will more appropriately represent our party and its members.”

The response I received indicated a refusal to make a clear and unequivocal statement of the sort that has already been offered by dozens of Republican elected officials and leaders nationally. Therefore, just before 11am CST I offered my immediate resignation as Director of Communications for the Oklahoma Republican Party. The time for bold action is now. I can no longer countenance an official role with a party that is unable or unwilling to act upon the pressing moral gravity of the situation at hand.

No doubt my decision will bring with it certain derision and charges of political desertion from members of my party. And I expect fully that it will come at a cost to my professional reputation and perhaps even of a financial nature. But no cost is too great compared to what I must necessarily sacrifice if I were to continue supporting in any official capacity a party that refuses unequivocally to reject such a man.

​  That I am not changing my party affiliation is a mere matter of unfortunate circumstance in that it is already too late to reregister prior to next month’s election. Moreover, Donald Trump’s defeat at the hands of the weakest Democrat challenger in a generation is almost certain; therefore, I hold hope that we might find a collective dignity with which to begin picking up the pieces from this electoral wreckage to rebuild the party of Lincoln and of Reagan.

  I am the father of three daughters with a fourth daughter due in February. One of my greatest joys of late has been teaching my oldest daughter of twelve years about the sort of character and Christian ethic that befits a man worthy to call himself one day her husband and my son-in-law. I cannot and I will not, then, through some twisted logic attempt in the same breath to justify a vote for a man who is the quintessential opposite of everything I am teaching her to expect in a man. To put a finer point on it, I cannot bring myself to place a mark next to the name of a man whom I cannot trust to be alone in a room with my daughters.

Once upon a time the word ‘party’ meant more than simply a letter after a candidate’s name. Not so long ago, membership in a political party meant necessarily that one ascribed to a set of principles and policies that he or she believed along with fellow members would aid our republic in creating a brighter future for our posterity. That word now clearly rings hollow.

If many of my Republican colleagues are to be believed, we have some sort of unholy imperative to cast a vote for a man simply for the fact that the letter ‘R’ follows his name, despite that that man has publicly professed values and positions in recent years — and in many cases within recent months — that are diametrically opposed to the very platform passed by the same delegates who gave him our party’s nomination. The argument can be summed thusly: Donald Trump because Hillary Clinton.
​Never has more tortured logic been proffered by members of our party to justify support for a man so politically and morally bankrupt. It is an argument so specious that any further attempt to disprove it would be a waste of keystrokes. But it suffices to point out that it is precisely the same argument offered by our counterparts to justify an unwitting vote for Hillary Clinton.

Other of my colleagues offer a justification which can be summed: Donald Trump because SCOTUS. Never before has our party so willingly turned a deaf ear to history and practical political reality until now. Even in our best days, Presidents Reagan and Bush, solidly conservative Republicans, managed to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who gave the deciding votes in some of the most egregious decisions in the Court’s history. Yet these same colleagues argue that we can trust a man who has broken promises to customers, business partners, wives and God himself to uphold his tentative pledge to nominate conservative justices.

  Ronald Reagan once famously quipped about his switch from the Democrat to the Republican Party that he did not leave his party, for his party had already left him. Over the years I have often wondered what such a scenario might look like on this side of the partisan divide. Alas, I need not wonder any longer; the answer is plainly before us.

December 17, 1998, my 21st birthday, is a date I will never forget. It was the date originally scheduled for the impeachment vote by the House of Representatives for President William Jefferson Clinton. I recall vividly watching the television two days later at a Pizza Hut just off the campus of the University of Oklahoma as Republican members of the House voted finally to impeach. They did so after having concluded that the unbecoming behavior and subsequent obstruction and perjury by Clinton met the threshold for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’.

Not even 20 years hence a majority of the members of that same party have nominated a man who publicly brags about that same felonious behavior. Not only has he refused to repent of his transgressions, Donald Trump celebrates them in the worst instance and, at best, offers a token apology that “some may have been offended.” Is this what our party stands for today? Is this the man we want our children and grandchildren to look to as the exemplar of that “shining city on a hill”? I pray not.

The time for political machinations and twisted reasoning has come to an end. It is time now for each of us to appeal to the better angels of our nature and vote with moral courage, not with a vain fealty to some predisposed partisan obligation. Our consciences, our posterity demand more of us. On November 8, I will be placing a mark neither by the name of Hillary Clinton nor by that of Donald Trump. And years from now when my children ask me to detail for them the history of the Republican Party and of our participation in it, my solemn prayer is that we may still call it ‘our’ party.