Brent Rinehart Update

Oklahoma County Republicans ordered County Commissioner Brent Rinehart to find another line of work as he went down to defeat in the July 29th party primary. The Daily Oklahoman reported:

Oklahoma County will have a new county commissioner next year after voters booted District 2 Commissioner Brent Rinehart from office Tuesday.

The embattled and controversial Rinehart received only 21 percent of the vote and failed to make a runoff in the Republican primary.

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Brian Maughan received 4,230 votes, or 47 percent, and J.D. Johnston received 2,808, or 31 percent. They’ll square off in an Aug. 26 Republican runoff to decide who faces Democrat Jim Dickinson in the general election.

Maughan said he and Johnston pledged to run positive runoff campaigns.

“Our main concern was to replace Rinehart, and obviously that happened tonight,” Maughan said.

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Rinehart hurdles included felony campaign finance charges related to his 2004 campaign and Internal Revenue Service scrutiny related to his tax returns.

Rinehart has said both are politically motivated.

Also, a comic book Rinehart’s campaign released this month received national criticism.

In case you missed it, CNN interviewed Rinehart before the primary. Here is a link to that clip, which contains sections of his vitriolic "comic book".