We have written about the Tyler Paulsen case for several years now. Now the case has taken an interesting turn with an allegedly stolen gun winding up in the custody of the Adair Police Department, a Mayes County town, but the gun initially wasn't an issue in the traffic stop for speeding and suspended license until months after the initial traffic stop/arrest/

The saga started off simple enough, a mentally unstable person named Vannessa Edwards calls the Broken Arrow police on her boyfriend who is passed out after a argument. We can say she is unstable because the man that eventually prosecuted the case later said she was crazy and if he had to spend ten minutes with her they would have to call a SWAT team on him too. But her view appears to be to get her boyfriend out of his home so she could clean out the place as she left and to ensure custody of their child.

And now for our second installment of the interview with Leslie Nessmith and her evil twin Eilsel.   You will remember from last week that Leslie Nessmith posted a tell all post on Sooner Politics where she admitted many of the things that she had been accused of lately.   

And of course everything was told from Leslie's viewpoint so we thought it would be fun to interview her evil twin and let Eilsel interpret what Leslie wrote.  

You can read the first part of the Evil Twin story here.

 Leslie's original comments are in black text and Eilsel's interpretation is in blue text.

Leslie:  With regard to Jenni White. I told Jenni White and Ronda Smith back in January that I had gotten inside of the Bennett campaign and planned to get rid of Al Gerhart’s involvement.   

Eilsel: Yeah, really I was running John Bennett's campaign, not just “gotten inside”. I guess Ronda Vulliemont Smith was getting worried about what I was telling her because she first recruited that abolitionist lady, who quickly became known as nearly brainless. Then Ronda suckered Jenni White into running against Bennett. So yeah, basically I was betraying John Bennett and making sure that no matter who won I was in control. Al got Bennett elected in 2010 and basically kept him in office till 2018, then ran the group that recruited Bennett to run for Chairman. Damn right, I had to get rid of Al.

This video was done December 18, 2019.  It goes to show just how long I worked with Leslie Nessmith and how we cooperated.

The nonsense that Leslie is spreading about never trusting me or working with me is a pure lie.   As far as who is the trustworthy one, Leslie admitted that she betrayed both Bennett and me, giving Ronda Vuillemont Smith and Jenni White inside information from Bennett's campaign WHILE Leslie was Bennett's campaign manager and/or working with others to get Bennett elected!

This woman is pure evil.  I have many hours of phone calls recorded where Leslie worked with me for years.  Yet reading her Facebook post she would have you think she barely knew me when she met John Bennett through me.

There is another story where we made fun of Leslie's Facebook post, covering about half of it, in a story about interviewing her evil twin.  Just as well have some fun with someone like this.  And in a few days we will post about the rest of that Leslie Facebook post where she admits to spying on John Bennett and communicating with his opponent.  While running the Bennett campaign!

Who is the snake here?  I think you know.

Here is Leslie opinion of me in late 2019. Just 9 month before she admits to sabotaging the work that several other Oklahomans asked me to be a part of. An effort to help John Bennett become the next OKGOP Chair.

An Explanation of Gary Richardson's True Reasons for Withdrawing from the GOP General Counsel Nomination.

Around 16:30 into the audio tape of the State Committee meeting Chairman Bennett claimed that the General Counsel candidate had withdrawn his name due to his being “very busy doing quality stuff”.

 In our opinion, this is so far from the truth and frankly, quite insulting and self serving that we felt we needed to reach out to the person Bennett was discussing.

Below is the statement sent by Gary Richardson:

Former U.S. Attorney, Gary Richardson

  “Having been told by what I consider to be a reliable source that it was reported at the State GOP meeting this weekend that Chairman Bennett reported to the party leadership that I withdrew my name to be confirmed as the GOP General Counsel because I informed him that I was "very busy doing quality stuff", I feel compelled to set the record straight.

That would imply to me and likely others that I didn't see being General Counsel as being that important. That is not at all what I told Chairman Bennett.

What I did tell him was that I saw him as a friend, which he has been for several years, but that I personally saw what I considered to be a lack of leadership and felt I couldn't be of good service to him and the GOP as I saw it, the leadership, going in a direction that I personally wasn't comfortable being a part of.

That said, I will continue to pray for our party and for our party leadership.“

What does this mean?

Now the rest of this article is just the opinion of the rest of us and no reflection on Gary Richardson's statement..

We didn't ask specifically but we believe that the part about the direction the leadership was going in referred to the refusal to keep the State Committee meetings open as had been the custom and the legal obligation in the past. We do know that this decision to withdraw was made shortly after that decision was made by Krems but only Gary knows for sure.

A bit of clarification as well as a 'mea culpa' might be in order. Back before the State Convention and Bennett's election I was given the task of recruiting a legal team for when Bennett won the election. Of course the first pick would have been Gary Richardson, two time gubernatorial candidate, one of the two U.S. Attorneys that Reagan appointed to clean up our County Commissioner mess and send dozens of these crooked commissioners to prison, and a very successful attorney. Gary had the gravitas that no one else had so he needed to be the General Counsel if he would take the slot.

However, there are all sorts of lawyers so we recruited six or seven more awesome attorneys, I believe was the number, to share the load and to have a broad base of advice. One thing I neglected to consider was a parliamentarian. That is a special kind of skill.

But among the candidates was Edmond based Jonathan Krems. The idea of him being local and a fairly young attorney would have put him in the position of a junior partner so to speak, able to get things filed and deal with quick decisions with a few phone calls. He would have been a young attorney surrounded by giants in his field and this would have been a huge opportunity for his career.

Imagine my surprise when the Oklahoma GOP put out an email and a post on Facebook calling Krems a “co counsel”. Well there is no such critter in the GOP Rules, which by the way are also our bylaws and thus the reason for our existence as a group. There is only General Counsel, the others are part of a team recruited but the team was considered a pipeline of future General Counsels.

Worse, on that GOP email and post, Gary Richardson's name was mentioned way down near the end of the email as the General Counsel while Krems' name was way up at the top. At the time I wrote that off as inexperienced staff, looking back I believe it betrayed an undercurrent in the staff that had wanted Krems as the General Counsel. This wasn't a smart move on the staff's part but we let it go at the time.

But gradually as problems popped up in our opinion, Krems showed his lack of familiarity with the GOP Rules and indeed his lack of being able to follow the rules. Krems would read into the rules things that simply weren't there, privacy rights, time limits to obtain lists of delegates, and once discovered he was quite prickly about being corrected, some thing that comes out with bells on in the audio recording of the State Committee meeting.

Now I and others that I consulted with had assumed that parliamentarians would be recruited for the conventions and State Committee meetings, indeed they are usually appointed from a list of qualified parliamentarians. Unfortunately this wasn't done for the first State Committee meeting and Krems was appointed with only Bennett knowing if he was questioned on his abilities or education in the matter.

And looking back I could have added some long time activists with experience in the Party Rules, like David Van of Sooner Politics, again I had tunnel vision and was thinking lawsuits and courts of law being the grain for this grist mill we were building. But surely a competent attorney could read these very simple rules and interpret correctly?

A final mistake I made was when Gary Richardson asked me to stay with the legal team and be part of the organization. I felt that this was for the attorneys and like we did when we recruited and supported David McLain for Chairman, our job was over when he was elected and others could take over with our input only being needed if they ran into trouble.

Lessons learned and for sure they will not be repeated.

 But look at the contrast, Bill Shepherd was fired allegedly for "laying hands" on a man requesting a prayer at a Lahmeyer campaign fundraiser and then speaking in "tongues", and Sheppard gets a long email praising him and claiming he was returning back to his "world wide ministries".  Sheppard embarrassed the GOP and the Bennett communications team lied to prevent more embarrassment.

Then Gary Richardson, the Reagan appointed U.S. Attorney, who seems to have been motivated by the breaking of the GOP rules,  is disrespected by claiming he was too busy doing "quality" work to serve as the General Counsel.  No email for Richardson!  No respect.  Just taken for granted.  The only similarity is that Bennett's team lied about both.

Which brings us back to the original question.  Who is actually running the GOP.

The "owner" of Fairview Baptist Church

The video covers a minute or two before the church “owner” asks me to leave to the overflow room. Asking something is different than telling someone to do something, they could claim later that they asked someone to leave but didn't make them leave. So I made sure the cop gave me a legal order to leave before I would move.

As you can see, I was sitting there quietly recording when the guy in the t shirt sticks his head in front of my phone. I was for sure talking as I went past Bennett's staff, letting them know what crooks they were. And note that the cop states that I can stay in the “overflow” room, that I wasn't told to leave the building. The overflow room was one room removed from the main hall where the meeting occurred. There was plenty of seating, even that entire row of small closets with extra chairs set up in side that was vacant other than those of us that were getting booted out. Plus there were dozens of empty chairs in the blocks of chairs and about twenty percent of the room to the right of the stage was empty. You could have put a hundred or two hundred more people in the room.

Listening to the hour and a half long tape recording of the State Committee meetingwas interesting. My first impression was similar to a question asked of me by one of the Lahmeyer lady supporters outside the building as we waited in the sun and heat; “Who was that lady candidate at the state convention that was so angry?” The question referred to the red headed lady that ran as the abolitionist candidate for the Speaker slot. The poor woman had watched and listened while Bennett gave passionate speeches and she had tried to emulate them but wound up merely shouting at the audience instead of being passionate.

Maybe it was disappointment, in how things turned out, but what I heard from John Bennett in his opening speech was the same empty words shouted without conviction. There was talk about the Constitution and liberty, talk about unity, talk about Party principles, rules, and the Platform. We were told to be the Party we say we are.

The July 17^th State Committee meeting turned into rejection for Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett. His motion to censure Lankford and Inhofe failed 93 to 122. Now there were a total of 317 delegates and proxies registered to vote so around 68% of the votes were cast. Is that not weird? We will come back to that later in this story.

So a total of 215 delegates, or 43% supported Bennett's action and a whopping 57% rejected Bennett's leadership on the matter.

The second issue, having a fall convention to clean up three years worth of rule changes, bylaw changes, and resolutions (including the two county submitted censure resolutions) was actually pulled from consideration by the Bennett team. Smart move, with the censure resolutions as part of the package for a fall convention, that issue would have failed along the same lines as the censure vote.

               Welcome to the Republic of Bennettstan

GOP State Committee Meeting to be Held in Secret

No Press No Spouses No Delegates    No Transparency

No First Amendment

Late last night I texted one of the members of the legal team asking if the rumor that the State Committee Meeting would be closed to all but the State Committee members, the first such closed meeting in recent memory. One thirty year veteran GOP activist said they had never seen a closed meeting.

The GOP rules are completely silent about any sort of executive meeting, nor is there any GOP rule that would allow a non public meeting. More important is Rule 3 A

This story was part of an earlier story about a $6,000 donation to the GOP being sabotaged by members of the Oklahoma GOP headquarters staff.   We decided this was what is called a buried lead, an important story on its own so it needed its own article.

Click on this link and you will be able to listen to a phone call from Bob Dani where he asks that a $6,000 donation project be cancelled or pushed back.  Why?  Because Communications Director Leslie Nessmith wanted to sabotage the donation because she wasn't involved in setting it up.  Read the original story for the disgusting details of a woman that puts her own political power before the good of the Republican Party.