Whinings Of A GOP Drama King

Editor's Note: A federal bankruptcy trustee wants to reopen state Rep. Randy Terrill's three-year-old case, alleging the controversial lawmaker failed to report all of his assets. Terrill, best known as architect of the state's mean-spirited immigration law [HB 1804], blames a "cartel of immigration lawyers" for his election-eve woes. The matter could be referred to federal prosecutors for review.

BY KAREN WEBB

"We have a bunch of nameless, spineless character assassins who want to go around with hoods over their heads and shoot me in the back and use my wife to do it." – State Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore.

Is the guy who is saving us from all those illegals really blaming this on immigration lawyers? Obviously he thinks you should be a “born in the USA” American before you get to ignore the laws.

It brings to mind former Rep. Tim Pope wearing a gun on the Oklahoma House floor because he was expecting a shootout with gays. The only thing worse, in Oklahoma, is a gay immigration lawyer who speaks Spanish in front of Randy.

“Spineless character assassins?”

Really, Randy, coming from a guy who would go after low-income 5th graders for their Christmas decorations; pardon me if I don’t join your pity party. Then there are all those kids, born here, you want to punish for their parents wanting a better life and not deserving it.

“Hoods over their heads?”

Randy, that is a bit too much coming from a guy who demeans 5th graders on TV and in the press. They shot him in the back using his wife? Talk about your drama kings. Maybe we need to know exactly what was charged on all those credit cards. Maybe he really blames his wife because maybe they weren’t for books, tuition or gym shorts? Are we sure he didn’t use the credit cards to do campaign purchases?

Is it true that the Terrills owed less than $80,000, mainly on credit cards, and they made $100,000 a year? Is it true that he claimed he was a consultant to the State of Oklahoma instead of a representative?

So he had loaned or paid campaign expenses he was to be reimbursed for. They should have been included in his filing as assets and they weren’t. Then the campaign repaid him after he was granted bankruptcy protection.

These things happen all the time, especially to Republicans. With all those corporate lawyers you would think one would know about this. Stranger things have happened; former President George H.W. Bush was nearly indicted for tax fraud during the 1984 re-election campaign because he “inadvertently omitted” the sale of his house on his tax return.

Ed Meese, while working for President Ronald Reagan “inadvertently omitted” his wife’s income on his joint tax return. “Inadvertently omitted” was the term most used when Republicans were found out.

The fiscally conservative are, in reality, fiscally challenged. There was the savings and loan mess and Iran/Contra of the Reagan years and the Enron, the mortgage crisis and so much more in the Bush years.

The problem comes from having their cake, eating the whole thing too fast and puking it up on the rest of us.

Oklahoma has more than its share of family values nutcases. This year the lunatics are attempting to take over the asylum. First, we had Rep. Sally Kern claiming that the Oklahoma gay agenda was more dangerous than al-Qaeda. This week, multi-indicted Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart came out with an “edgy” comic book claiming toga-clad homosexuals are luring boy scouts in the woods.

Now the savior of the white race from people who speak other languages is claiming nameless, spineless, hooded lawyers are assassinating his character and using his wife to shoot him in the back.

You would think he believes it was immigration lawyers who forced her to charge whatever she charged on those cards.

By the way, the guy filing the suit isn’t nameless. Is he an immigration lawyer?

Randy thinks Hispanics should be a lot more forgiving even if he plans to toss their grandparents and their grandchildren into holding facilities indefinitely.

– The author lives in Moore, OK