Louis Smitherman has won the Ward 6 Council seat.
That is one sad day for this town. It speaks volumes about the apathetic voters in Ward 6. I hope the firemen are happy and they get what they paid for in this election.
How long until he can be recalled?
Probably as soon as he meets with the firemen and promises them how much he's going to give them on their contract. Congratulations 6th ward. You have just proven yourselves to be the bottom of the barrel when it comes to understanding anything.
Contract? Smitherman is proud of not reading contracts.
He reads? Let's see how he performs. 6th ward is not too smart to elect a man like Smitherman over Sam Mason. Shame on you 6th Ward and firemen, you are not going to keep those big salaries too much longer so defeating Sam didn't accomplish what you wanted. Smitherman can promise the moon but he will not be able to DELIVER!
Ha, how long until he can be recalled? Won't take long, maybe 3 council meetings after the voters of his ward watch how he operates.
I know what hurt Sam's run the slander/mud slinging calling him a child molester. I had to talk to several friends who live there in ward 6.. and pointed out if he was in fact one he would be in jail.
The child molester comment was over the top even for mcalester politics. I would control the continued breathing of the person who put that out. Good job fire pukes, you now have a loser as your stooge. Time to turn the tide, two honest folks on the council, show the light to the roaches. The ff group and stayned wipes group now have a problem, who bids the most for the seat.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but Smitherman serves only one year of this term due to term limits. He served 11 years previously and the limit is 12 I believe. I may be off base on this, but someone who knows a little better could enlighten us.
Sam: Those comments are grounds for a law suite. That is if you can find out who put them out.
Cookie - if it was anyone other than Joe Benson, I'd be shocked. He went over the top with those smears against some very good and decent people. In my opinion, he is a nasty, nasty vindictive man to stoop so low. And I believe Agent Smith is correct in his assessment. He usually is.
Sixth Ward is got to be the most ignorant bunch of inbred hillbillies in Oklahoma, they elected Louis Smitherman as a council man....Haaaaaaaa you are idiots the ones that voted for him over sam mason....my god what is it gonna take to teach people a lesson.
I THOUGHT I HEARD JOE BENSON GOT QUITE A BIT OF MONEY FROM THE CITY FOR WRONGFULL TERMINATION BUT IT WAS KEEP HUSH HUSH
Yes, and he was still terminated. I understood it was actually related to his retirement settlement and his illegal build up of time and leave.
Back more to my earlier question and a related one mentioned here: Are there term limits on city councilors? Were they included in the new charter? Do they apply to councilors from before that charter? Finally, how long until Smitherman can be recalled?
My apologies, just saw other thread with meat of discussion of term limits.
Shame a seat on the council is demeaned by the likes of Benson and his buddies. Men like them can't deal with anyone smart like Sam Mason. Has anyone asked Joe or Bill Ervin about the term limits for Smitherman?
What I'm hearing is that 3 attorneys all have different opinions, and a contest betweenf the election board and the City of McAlester is about to pop since No one wants to be responsible for upholding the Charter requirements. They want to ignore it and pretend that things are hunky dory and sign that paper and take your seat on Tuesday. It needs to be determined by a judge in court: Do the state 12 year term limits apply to Louis, or does McAlester's 12 year term Charter limits apply. It will take a judge and a court ruling to see which law trumps the other one. And until that is settled, the election board should see that SAID problem DOES exist with the Charter, and CERTIFICATION SHOULD NOT BE MADE BY THEM UNTIL A COURT RULES. Two days left to achieve the impossible.
NO one wants to be responsible for upholding the Charter? Might be some legal consequences if the Council seats Smitherman under a "discrepancy". Certainly will make any of his votes open for legal ramifications, maybe Priddle and his buddies need to think this through. Joe Ervin should be speaking out, his mother helped rewrite the Charter. No one wants to uphold it! Astounding.