Last week, a Special Investigative Committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives subpoenaed members of Mary Fallin's cabinet in a failed effort to blame our other dysfunctional branch of government for the problems they both created, and distract people from their own general incompetence.
The Oklahoma political sphere caught on to the tactic pretty fast, and the next day, the subpoenas were withdrawn. Via Non Doc:
Thursday, the House of Representative’s new Special Investigative Committee sent subpoenas to the acting director of the Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services agency, Oklahoma’s secretary of finance and Gov. Mary Fallin’s chief of staff.
But Friday, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Josh Cockroft announced that the three state employees have agreed to cooperate and that subpoenas have been withdrawn.
Denise Northrup, Preston Doerflinger and Chris Benge were “commanded to appear” before the committee Dec. 19, 20 and 21, respectively. Each individual was sent a request to provide 10 documents and written answers for 39 questions, but now Cockroft said those documents and written answers will not necessarily be required...
The requests for documents included any and all communications between Northrup, Doerflinger and Benge and a slew of people on a slew of topics, including revenue measures, state agency mismanagement, the Department of Health, the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust and any rally planned for the Capitol. Time frames range from the past three to five years.
In case you're documenting all the reasons why Oklahoma is in the shit hole, just look at how much responsibility Speaker McCall has given to Josh Crockroft, a known plagiarist who I think graduated from the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too. That guy shouldn't be put in charge of a boiling a pot of water, much less a government "Special Investigative Committee." Oh well, I guess we get who we vote for.
Mary Fallin and Speaker McCall are also trying to blame each other for Medicaid provider cuts, something they are both responsible for doing. Via McCarville Report: