Originally, this post was scheduled to go up yesterday, but we had to delay it due to the site maintenance.
Thank god! Because of our IT unexpertise, we were able to make a last second change to our “Worst Local Politician” nominees. This change resulted in Mayor Mick getting bumped. Hmmn. I wonder who replaced him???
Vote after the jump.
(p.s.- This is for local politicians. We left our amazing US Senators and Representatives off the list.)
Lance Cargill:
Lance used to be big time. He was Speaker of the House, gathered a bunch of ideas and even a-l-l-e-g-e-d-l-y received voicemails like these. Then he decided to not pay his taxes. When you’re the Speaker of the House, that’s usually not a good idea. Now he’s becoming a political consultant. Good luck to him on that.
Shane Jett:
Shane Jett could discover a cure for cancer and figure out how to turn red dirt into gold and he’d still make this list because of that whole five-megagillion foot tall oil derrick he proposes that we build over the Oklahoma river.
Sally Kern:
Sally Kern’s bigoted, derogatory anti-gay remarks were an embarrassment to all Oklahomans. How she could ever be elected to a political office is amazing. The only thing I would vote for her to do is raise a group of 32-year-old celibate metaphysics-practicing music teachers.
Brent Rinehart:
He may be facing criminal charges, be in trouble with the IRS and create strange comic books about himself, but he also likes to get drunk with girls and party!
(photos swiped from the ultra liberal McCarville Report Online)
Randy Terrill:
Seriamente, no tengo ninguna pista cómo este individuo camina alrededor en público sin conseguir golpe para arriba. Sus draconianos, discriminatorio “consiguen librados de ésos no como nosotros” cuenta son cerca de uno de los leyes más mudos que este estado tiene cada pasado.
Worst Local Politician
- Brent Rinehart (35%, 134 Votes)
- Sally Kern (32%, 122 Votes)
- Randy Terrill (25%, 96 Votes)
- Lance Cargill (5%, 20 Votes)
- Shane Jett (3%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 383
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Wow, this is the first poll that has actually been difficult to decide. That’s kind of depressing.
I about shit my pants when I read Randy Terrill’s description.
Glad we slipped a democrat in here.
What’s that charm on Sally Kern’s necklace? A wolf?
Or an ant-eater. I hear ant-eaters have magical powers that ward off gay people.
I believe Sally’s charm is a bear…
a big hairy bear…
that wears a leather collar…
…and hangs out in dark places with other hairy bears….
Every time I drive down I-40 and stop – boom, there goes another $250. Shane Jett is really smart. And I think he is taller than the Eiffel Tower.
A giant temple in the form of a drilling derrick, built to worship our Gods Oil and Natural Gas, is a grand idea. You then could go to the top of such a magnificent tower and be able to view beautiful downtown Elk City in the distance.
Now we know why Rhinehart is mad at Sheriff Whetsell all the time, he is spending tax payer money on the wrong toys! If the sheriff would go to the nearest Christies and buy toys he would be ok. As far a Sally Kern goes I think an old fashioned tar and feathering would do her good (but peta would lose their minds over the bird feathers and they need the tar for the I-40 cross-town)
Find me a local politician who’s a democrat and done anything remotely Ogle-worthy, Bosley. Andrew Rice is as close as I could think of, and the only thing he’s done to merits a blurb would be subjecting himself to the bile that Jim Inhofe is going to throw at him between now and November.
For those who don’t want to go to bable fish to translate what the Terrill blurb says:
Seriously, I do not have any track how this individual walks around in public without securing blow for above. His draconian, discriminatory “drawees of those obtain not as we” count are near one of the laws dumber than this state has each past.
This was hard. I finally decided to go with Randy Terrill. btw I really hope her charm isn’t an ant-eater. I like ant-eaters.
So, two people can post here under the same name?
Or..what?
I might have been groggy at 7 am, but I didn’t write that.
Wow. Toughest poll yet. I gotta say, as much as Brent is a shoe-in, it was a really tough decision between Sally and Randy.
Literally, flip-a-coin decision.
As for Brent, come on, he’s just dumb. He’s really not even worth the ink he gets. The other two, however, are equally guilty. They would make a lovely couple, though.
I hate them all!! I really hate Randy Terrill. I hope he gets pooped on by a bird today.
Sally and Randy are equally evil.They would make a great couple,maybe they could run away together and honeymoon in Mexico.
@chiefmech and @the momma: right on
Whinehard’s pictures were obviously from BEFORE they started playing “dress-up”. What I want to see are the AFTER pictures.
Why does Shane Jett make the list when there are so many more idiodic legislators out there. At least Jett has a soul. I admit, the tower-thingy he proposed is a stupid idea, but he is one of the better Republicans in the State House.
so tough to choose, they’re all winners in my book…
Very tough decision between Terrill and Kern. Kern embarassed us more nationally. But at least she doesn’t hide her true bigotry. Terrill is a bigot who hides behind the “law.” “I don’t hate Mexican’s, but we have to follow the immigration laws.” Sounds alot like people in the 50’s who said “I don’t hate Black people, but the law says they’re inferior so I guess I can’t serve them in my restaurant.” It’s all hatred of people who look or talk different than your rural Oklahoma self. Chances are Terrill has never met a person darker than his daughter after a sit in the tanning bed.
Carol Fisher, Jeff McMahon, just to name recent ones…….
When is the last time we talked about campaign financing on this website?
Rinehart is bizarre and creepy, but he’s harmless in a way. Sally Kern is a complete and bonafied nutjob that taints our status as a major league city by branding us all as homo-hatin’ Jesus freaks.
I know we aren’t talking National here but these folks make Istook look good..
I think they should start a Superfriends like team battling the Gheys, Mexicans and General Common Sense. They could get their orders from Inhofe. Ewww maybe a comic book could be made – does anyone know Shane Suiters phone #? I hear he can rock some comic book art…
I think you should have let us have six votes on this poll.
I don’t care for any of them but if you want me to name a Dem that is a shady bastard, I have one name for you:
Gene Stipe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/18/usa.matthewweaver
If shane jett made it why not this guy.
Three words: Less is more. Day-um!
Geeoffh
1) Stipe is not a OKC local politician
2) He is no longer in office
Jane:
Lance Cargill is also not a local OKC politician and he is also no longer in office, so by your definition he shouldn’t be on the list.
Isn’t Cargill from Harrah which is near OKC. Stipe would have been a good choice in 80s.
Remember in the movie, The Rocketeer, when the villian turned out to be a Hollywood Nazi sympathizer, Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton)… well, when I first saw Rinehart that is immediately what I thought of. (He looks like the villian, I don’t really know if he’s a Nazi sympathizer.)
My only comment on the poll though is why wasn’t there an “All of the above” option included?
Let me get this straight…fraud and campaign financing issues fail to make TLO’s radar, but paying property taxes late does?
Come off it Clark! I have no problem with you spewing all the liberal crap you want to, as long as it is halfway humorous. And I certainly will not take up for the peeps listed. BUT, don’t insult the readers by attempting to claim the list has no liberals b/c none have made a$$es of themselves like these fools listed.
Let’s call a spade a spade. You’re as biased as Keith Olberman and Rinehart is crazier than an shithouse rat.
I had to go with Rep. Terrill, who in the ultimate scheme of things is a lot more likely to cause long-term damage than any of the others on the list.
Even “The Daily Oklahoman” has editorialized against Rinehart, and so I believe his time on his relatively small stage is close to an end. Rep. Kern’s views really don’t change anyone’s mind — people who disagree with her still do and people who agree with her didn’t start thinking that way just because she opened her mouth. As for former Rep. Cargill, he’s now bye-bye, and Shane Jett isn’t even a punchline of his own. But the people of Moore seem to want to return Rep. Terrill to an office where he can continue to not only say stupid things, but get some of his sloping-browed ideas into law…
Redman:
If it makes you feel any better, I came up with this list by myself.
Since you’re a regular, I’ll be nice. You’re simply over thinking things, and probably taking it bit too serious. But that’s fine, a lot of people do that. Simply calm down, lighten up, go grab a drink, and have a great weekend.
I would elect myself over any of these folks. And I am very lazy and unmotivated. I am not religious and have never even been baptized. I like to drink and I tend to cuss a lot but I like gays and Hispanics and especially gay Hispanics so I have that going for me. And if I were to hire someone to draw some cartoons I would make sure that they were funny.
Cargill is still in office. He resigned as Speaker.
I’ve never claimed I wasn’t a liberal, in fact, I’ve often pointed it out. I just asked someone to come up with a local Democrat who belongs on the list. There just aren’t many candidates because there aren’t many Democrat politicians in the area.
Oops. My miss on Cargill. I expect he will keep a low profile and do and say as little as possible, however.
Lance Cargill has been reborn as a political consultant. He’s currently running a campaign for some guy against Rep. Mike Reynolds, who was one of the nefarious powers that helped cast Lance from office.
He also offered to consult for anyone who would run against Brent Rinehart. The world get weirder and weirder as you get closer to Choctaw.
Hate to say I told you so, but I predicted this “Worst of” thread would lead to partisan poop throwing.
Redman, crooked politicians come from both parties, but in this area, the true crazies tend to be Republicans because the state leans so far to the right. Go to Berkley, Calif. and the nut jobs are all Democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJijJVEp3t4
What about me? I am not very literate, the press just covers up for me.
How about Al Lindley? Dude has come up with some great stuff over time…
Truly, this is an embarrassment of riches. How many other states can claim this many awful politicians? Even better, how many can claim that those same politicians will likely be re-elected?