[SoFloFreeper]

Misspelling one word, Gerhart wrote: “Branan, Get that bill heard or I will make sure you regret not doing it. I will make you the laughing stock of the Senate if I don't hear that this bill will be heard and passed. We will dig into your past, yoru family, your associates and once we start on you there will be no end to it. This is a promise.”

Under state law, blackmail can involve a written communication that threatens to expose information about someone “which would in any way subject such person to the ridicule or contempt of society.”

Sounds to me like a prosecutor has gone a bit overboard, if this is the "blackmail" being alleged.

I don't know the specifics, and sometimes I do believe zealots of both sides can really go a bit overboard attacking politicians, but is this a real case of "blackmail"? Aren't there some REAL criminal acts out there that the prosecutor can be bringing to trial?

Just wondering...

[Louis Foxwell]

How is supporting the UN on energy policy a tea party position?

[cripplecreek]

Sounds to me like a prosecutor has gone a bit overboard, if this is the "blackmail" being alleged.

agreed, look at how many liberal groups happily promise to do the same against conservatives.

[Louis Foxwell]

Have looked at the TP Sooner takedown of Gerhart. Sounds like he is a bad apple in the Tea Party basket.

[Carriage Hill]

"Tommy Johnson, an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, testified Branan said Gerhart had a Rolodex of crazy people."

Had to re-read that one line 3x to see if I missed something.

[fella]

” Aren’t there some REAL criminal acts out there that the prosecutor can be bringing to trial?”

But the prosecutor tailgates with Branan and has a need to cover his @ss. /sarc