Quinn challenges ONG franchise election (UPDATED)

If Mr. Tom Quinn's charges ever make it to court, the judge that hears his case will have been put on the bench by the self-same interests that rigged the election system to allow for unlimited Special Elections during any calendar year.

I have counted up to SEVEN elections in a given year in Oklahoma, due to Special Elections shoehorned between Primaries and General Elections.

One-Of Special Elections, like School Bond elections, or the Vision 2025 Sales Tax Election, or ONG Franchise Agreement Elections, are intentionally staged as solo elections to favor their passage.

That is a known statistical advantage that the Tax Vampires have been leveraging for generations: The advocates for an issue are statistically favored by a One-Of Special Election.

The Tax Vampires have been intentionally engineering this fleecing of the taxpayers with the willful complicity of the State Election Board, and the Tulsa County Election Board.

If you think things will ever change for the better in Oklahoma, keep in mind that Manhattan Construction Company has been in business for over 100 years.

Generations ago, someone figured out it was in their best interest to rig the system with Special Elections staged at will.

Rigged the same way as the state required Campaign Receipts and Expenditures C-1 Report is not officially due until it is too late for the voters to understand who is buying an election, or renting a pandering candidate.

Rigged.

Facts always trump irresponsible, false allegations. By the way, there are only 1400 employees in Tulsa. http://www.oklahomanaturalgas.com/About/NewsRoom/MediaKit/TulsaFranchise.aspx

Tom Quinn was that very same "unknown" who defeated incumbent mayor Terry Young in a Democratic primary election. The result? Mayor Dick Crawford. (Who?)

As we see, Quinn is not without political skill.

Never pee off someone in the sign business. Or the newspaper business. They can bury you in bad publicity.

I hope Quinn's effort to get that sham election investigated bears fruit. But like Bob, I'm not optimistic.

Maybe a simple solution (unfortunately, does not help current issue) would be for our Council to pass a Charter Amendment (which places it on a ballot) that any election in which less than 10% of registered voters turn out to vote is automatically ruled invalid and must be resubmitted or dropped.

ONG Mouthpiece Don Sherry has been the ONG ever faithful storyteller of the Half-Truth for more years than I can count.

My recurrent all-time favorite half-truth erupting from one of Mr. Sherry's orifices is along the lines of:

ONG makes no profit on the sale of natural gas to the ONG customer base.

Of course, Mr. Sherry conveniently omits any mention of the enormous profits that the ONG parent corporation, ONEOK, makes on the sales of natural gas by ONEOK to its captive subsidiary, ONG.

Do you think that ONEOK tries to get the best possible price for ONEOK, or for its customers on gas sales to its captive subsidiary, ONG?

Can a corporation serve two masters?

I doubt it.

A substantial portion of the gas sold by ONEOK to its captive subsidiary ONG historically came from ONEOK's own production. Would ONEOK fudge the books on its cost of gas production?

And, ONEOK is also historically a very active player in the trading of natural gas futures. A couple of its energy traders actually got into a bit of trouble during the California Ratepayer rip-offs, engineered primarily by corporate villain ENRON. But Williams, Dynegy, Duke, Mirant, et al were also gaming the rigged sytem, and feeding at the ratepayer trough.

My long-term suspicion about ONEOK is that every BAD deal that its natural gas traders make on a gas futures contract ends up in the ONG ledger as a gas sale, and is then eaten by the captive rate payers.

And, every good deal that its natural gas traders make ends up in the ONEOK ledger, and goes directly to shareholder profits, and executive compensation.

Nice swindle if you can keep from getting caught. But who's going to catch them?

Commissioner Bob Anthony threatened to actually examine the trading contracts at one time.....but the matter was settled on the proverbial contract steps.

Remember, two of any three of the Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners at any one time are already owned (rented actually) by the power production companies.

Bob, I would hope that the Corporation Commission considers the relationship between ONEOK and ONG when processing rate requests. As for the Corporation Commission, I completely trust Bob Anthony and Dana Murphy. (Jeff Cloud is someone I don't know well, except that I was very unhappy with the way he campaigned against Murphy when they ran head-to-head in 2002.) Murphy, you may recall, beat Aubrey McClendon's pal Jim Roth in 2008, despite Roth's massive funding advantage, and after a primary election in which she was outspent by her opponent, Rob Johnson.

Maybe a simple solution would be for our Council to pass a Charter Amendment that any election in which less than 10% of registered voters turn out to vote is automatically ruled invalid and must be resubmitted or dropped. Thank you...........
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