Foreign Money In The Kendra Horn Campaign

HAS FOREIGN MONEY MADE ITS WAY INTO OKLAHOMA POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS? THE ANSWER IS YES

- THE WATCHMAN - 

We know that in today’s volatile political climate and fake news environment many good informative news articles are never reported because they don’t fit the agenda of the mainstream media. Sadly, many of those stories affect the everyday citizens such as us. These stories range from violent crimes, illegal immigrants committing crimes, politicians committing crimes and political parties committing crimes. Today we shall expose one such story and the lack of cooperation from an incumbent U. S. Representatives staff to try and resolve the matter.

We do want to be perfectly clear about one thing in this article. When the funds were accepted by the campaign committee for this representative, we have no reason to believe that they were aware of the situation. Where we have the problem is in the complete lack of concern that the campaign had over the problem.

We became interested in this story after reading this article that came in on one of our news feeds. We browsed the list of Political Action Committees and immediately recognized that many of these PAC’s had contributed to Rep. Kendra Horn’s 2018 and 2020 campaigns. We thought we would give her the benefit of the doubt and that she was unaware of it.

We also found this article in our news feed on the same subject. After not hearing or seeing anything on the subject on broadcast and written media, we decided to contact her campaign to see if they were aware of it and what they planned to do about it.

Before we contacted her campaign, we went to www.opensecrets.org and looked up the names of the individuals indicated. We’ve included the documents of one individual at this link. We would urge you to open it and look at all the influence buying these individuals were doing. What makes it worse was that they were doing it at the request of a foreign nation. Yet we have not seen a single dime of those funds being returned.

We tried contacting the campaign. We were successful on the first day but were asked to call back the next day and speak with some of the senior staff. We did call back the next day and for every single day over the next two and a half weeks. They never picked up the phone. We left messages on their answering machine and never received a call back. We were left with no choice but to go with what information we had.

We did not want to write this story without the input from her campaign. We still feel that they were not aware of the illegality of the funds she received from some of the parties. We do believe that the failure to even request information to assist them in a problem that they didn’t know they had or may have was an indication that they chose to ignore the problem and trust that nobody would find out. That was a mistake.

We would recommend that all private donations to her campaign cease until such time as she has made a full accounting of any possible illegal funds. We would further recommend that the mainstream media stop paying more attention to fake news and start paying more attention to news that truly affects the citizens of this country.