Edmondson Says He Plans to Keep $1,000
Contribution from Stipe
KOTV, November 02, 2006
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Attorney General Drew Edmondson says he won't return a one-thousand
dollar campaign contribution from former state Senator and convicted felon Gene Stipe.
See foot note about his family's political connections with Gene Stipe. [Ref N103]
Stipe is on probation for federal convictions related to illegal campaign contributions.
Edmondson says his office isn't investigating Stipe and he intends to keep the contribution
unless or until Stipe is investigated by the attorney general's office.
Edmondson says he did return money donated by Vyrl Keeter when Keeter was under
investigation. Keeter later pleaded guilty to lying to a state Grand Jury.
Republican attorney general candidate James Dunn says it's "offensive" Edmondson is taking
money from "convicted, corrupt politicians."
Edmondson criticizes Dunn for taking 32-thousand dollars from donors connected to Arkansas
poultry companies Edmondson is suing over pollution in the Illinois River.
Dunn says there's no conflict of interest in taking those donations because he'll dismiss
the lawsuit if elected.
The following April
Owl: The Attorney Grandstander had a sudden change of heart the following April, when learning the FBI was investigating Stipe's donations, an authority beyond his influence.
Yet it seems the AG did violate unethical boundaries trying
to manuver his way into the
FBI's investigation. Then other cases of the AG's
campaign ethics started popping up.
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N103 |
Drew Edmondson is a member of one Oklahoma's longest standing political families.
His father was a U.S. Congressman.
His uncle a Governor of Oklahoma and appointed U.S. Senator.
His brother is a current Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice.
A family that has been in bed with the good ol' boy power structure for
over 50 years. A political history that runs parallel with Gene Stipe's tenure.
The Attorney General is in office, because the power structure knows where
the stands. That is out of the way!
You will note the Attorney General has conveniently ignored Gene Stipe for all of these years,
until just recently when an FBI investigation associated his name with Stipe's illegal campaign
contributions.
[Ref A122]
Note: We will defer any comments regarding the Attorney General's brother,
James Edmondson as we have not followed his career.
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