This is long, I worked hard on it, please read it.
I can't believe this hasn't come up yet, our Wichita contingency is at an all time low. This probably should go in the applause for Kansas or the Republicans being pieces of crap thread but honestly, the depravity showed here deserves its own unique place in history. This is what happens when three Aaron Coleman's get elected.
So here's the story. There was a Wichita mayoral election last year. The incumbent mayor was a republican. There were three Wichita officials; one city councilman, one county commissioner, and one state representative, who conspired to make an ad against the democrat running for mayor. The ad was called Protect Wichita Girls and it was paid for by Protect Wichita Girls LLC. The ad had women make allegations of sexual harassment against the democratic candidate. The only problem was that the exact allegations in the ad were made against a republican state senator two years earlier. The ad was almost immediately debunked, it blew up in the republicans faces, and they lost the mayoral race.
The newly elected mayor, Brandon Whipple, found who shot and produced the ad and sued him. Well this dude is just some poor schlub and we wanted no part of the lawsuit so he told the attorneys and the media who paid for the ad and who gave him the script and told him what to shoot. You guessed it, the the stooges. After it seemed like these idiots, along with a gentleman named Dalton Glasscock, a 25 year old, first openly gay chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party, were on the brink of being caught, the stooges tried to frame Glasscock to take the fall, solely. Well the idiots were in the presence of the videographer and he recorded them. The recording has them talking about the ad, about the scheme to frame Glasscock, and amongst other things, one of them Michael O'Donnell, the biggest piece of crap of them all, saying that he wasn't regretful that George Tiller got shot, but he was glad that he wasn't the person to shoot him.
There are also other things that are definitely going to come to light with this lawsuit, for example O'Donnell buying and serving alcohol to Glasscock and his buddies in Glasscock's frat at Wichita State when some of them were underage. Or the hundreds of dollars O'Donnell paid to Glasscock and others for "election services."
This is absolutely going to become a Bad Principal type of movie one day. If you are familiar with O'Donnell this is sending up a billion red flags, if you are not it's probably sending up millions of them.
BTW, O'Donnell is the only one up for re-election next week. He's running against a woman named Sarah Lopez and conveniently enough, as the mayoral ad scandal was getting legs O'Donnell made a since proven false claim against her stating she doesn't live in the district.
If you want to read up on and listen to this, and I think it's worth your time, here are some links.
The first link is from the Garden City Telegram detailing O'Donnell plowing these frat guys with food, drinks, and money. He got caught because of a Snapchat photo taken at a trump rally in '16. Looked pretty stupid at the time, looks like something different today.
https://www.gctelegram.com/article/20160303/news/303039836The rest of these are simply about the video and the following scandal, in order of when they happened, dating back to October of last year.
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/FactFinder-12-investigates-Whos-behind-false-attack-ad-against-Wichita-mayoral-candidate-563675631.htmlhttps://www.kwch.com/2020/08/28/man-behind-protect-wichita-girls-video-breaks-silence/https://www.kwch.com/2020/10/14/odonnell-capps-and-clendenin-added-to-attack-ad-lawsuit/https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article246669242.html