By David Arnett, Publisher
The hot local issue of Arkansas River restoration and development in Tulsa has driven Republican Party divisions to the public most recently with a personal attack by a self-aggrandizing pundit upon a private individual who is active within one of the most influential political clubs in the metropolis.
Michael D. Bates
The perpetually defeated, angry white guy – and apparent leader of the Republican “No-Knows” – is
Michael D. Bates. He has run twice for City Councilor of District 4 and was easily defeated. Bates led the opposition to
Vision 2025, of which all four propositions passed by overwhelming margins. He opposed the
4-to-Fix infrastructure propositions – voters approved. He has motivated others and engaged himself in hate-speech, orchestrating continual slanderous attacks on public officials of Tulsa County, the most recent of which urged the City Council to
annex the Tulsa County Fairgrounds – a disaster only postponed for the moment.
Bates uses the
Urban Tulsa Weekly (a free, local entertainment guide) publisher’s appetite for free content to advance his addiction to ambition with KFAQ, a fringe radio station so desperate for ratings they hired disgraced former city councilor Chris Medlock to provide political commentary.
Bates does have a style –
pedagogic demagogism – and often reminds this writer of “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski: born to a good family, highly intelligent, well educated and insane.
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Labels: Tulsa Today
Posted at 9/24/2007 04:19:00 PM
