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Relevance: 100% Posted on: March 14, 2008
It's nice to have friends in high places. Or to sit on high yourself - way up above the law. Or so Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson must think, as he chirps from his high perch. Last year, State Representative Mike Reynolds detailed publicly that Attorney General Edmondson had violated…
Relevance: 94% Posted on: May 20, 2008
Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon is disappointed by the most recent objectionable conduct of his state's attorney general. The AG, Drew Edmondson, publicly opposes a bill to term-limit the offices of state officials, including his. The proposal would impose a twelve-year maximum. Mild as far as term limits go, but…
Relevance: 92% Posted on: April 28, 2008
A Daily Oklahoman editorial laments the killing of a bill that would have created a task force to study the state's initiative process, writing, "The initiative petition process in Oklahoma is in need of a fix." That's why Representative Randy Terrill sponsored the bill. Which passed the House 86 yays…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: February 13, 2008
You can't answer every random fallacy uttered by fierce foes of facts and logic. Can't always ignore them either. Like, when your polemical adversary is trying to jail you for ten years. I refer to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who indicted me and two others for abetting democracy in…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: July 29, 2010
Many is the time I’ve compared various politicians to The Wizard of Oz’s man behind the curtain. They’re not bad men; they’re just not very good wizards. But today brings a different connection to Oz: I can’t get the song, “Ding-dong, the Witch Is Dead!” out of my head. Tuesday,…
Relevance: 77% Posted on: January 21, 2008
Last October, two colleagues and I were indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Our crime? Helping a petition drive to limit the growth of government spending. Supposedly, we three willfully violated an arbitrary residency requirement for signature gatherers. As I've explained at the freepauljacob.com website, we acted in good…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: November 17, 2008
I’m beginning to feel sorry for Oklahoma. That may seem a little strange to regular readers. They know that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is prosecuting me, along with two other activists, for work on a 2005 petition drive to cap state spending. He’s trying to throw us in prison…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: June 4, 2008
Here's another interesting court decision in Oklahoma. Oh, this time it's not a petition with hundreds of thousands of voter signatures being tossed out. And no, it's not quite as crazy as that ruling allowing a man to photograph up the skirts of girls at the mall. This time Oklahoma's…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: April 3, 2023
If it can happen to former President Donald Trump — something like the politically motivated ham-sandwich indictment issuing from an avid Trump-hating Democratic DA — can it happen to you and me? It already happened to me. Fifteen years ago. Handcuffs and leg-irons. Paul Jacob, Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson. The…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: July 23, 2008
The political establishment resists reform. Voters have had to take their favorite causes - like term limits and tax limits - over the heads of politicians, directly to fellow voters. And politicians don't much like us voters having all that say-so. That's why they've tried to legislate the initiative process…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: October 29, 2018
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is running for governor. Again. You may recall, as I certainly do, that Mr. Edmondson prosecuted — more like persecuted — me and two others involved in a 2005 petition drive. He charged us with “conspiracy to defraud the state,” a felony carrying a…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: May 20, 2015
“It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.” Drew Carey served as initial video host of ReasonTV, helping debut the online freedom-oriented service in 2007.
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 4, 2008
The wheels of injustice creak along slowly. Indicted in October last year, the Oklahoma Three — Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson, and I — have still not had a full preliminary hearing. That first step has now been pushed back to next February. Our alleged crime? Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson,…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: May 1, 2009
Receiving an award is a lot nicer than ten years in prison. As regular listeners know, Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson, and I were indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges stemming from a petition drive to cap state government spending. For almost two years this indictment…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: January 26, 2009
It seemed hardly necessary. The handcuffs and leg-irons, I mean. I wasn’t a threat to anybody. Neither were Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson. We had been charged with “conspiracy to defraud the state of Oklahoma” for our work to put a spending cap on the ballot. The metal constraints were…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 8, 2008
A leading indicator of a free nation? The lack of political prisoners. We Americans are aghast when we learn of dissenters jailed in other countries. But, even in America, politicians in various states seek to put people in jail for engaging in legitimate (if dissenting) political activism. I am one…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 18, 2009
This year has brought good news for freedom and democracy in Oklahoma. Last month, the state’s attorney general, Drew Edmondson, dropped his appeal of a federal court decision, which had overturned part of Oklahoma’s petition law. The AG also dismissed all charges against the Oklahoma Three — Rick Carpenter, Susan…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 5, 2009
The name. The hair. The gall. Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is getting lots of attention. However, the governor’s favor-trading is unique only in blatancy. The longer politicians hold power, the more readily they regard pay-to-play corruption as acceptable, profitable. Which is one reason I advocate initiative rights, term limits, mandatory…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: May 19, 2009
Change is funny. Sometimes it seems like change will never come. Then, all of the sudden, it’s here. For years, I’ve been hoping for some changes in Oklahoma politics. That’s because the state’s voter initiative process was blocked. It’s also because, as regular readers know, the state’s Attorney General Drew…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 20, 2008
My new favorite comedian is Drew Carey. Not that Carey is funnier than, say, Don Knotts . . . or explanations of the national debt. I just like what Carey’s doing lately — helping turn local stories about political lunacy into national stories. Carey is working with reason.tv, spinoff of…