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Anonymous ID: cecfb3 June 19, 2020, 4:33 a.m. No.9669252   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9283 >>9305 >>9328 >>9392 >>9530 >>9550

>>9668905

Tulsa mayor = Tulsa/DC Swamp Rat

G.T. Bynum was born and raised in Tulsa to a family where the value and importance of community service runs deep. G.T.’s great-great paternal grandfather was Tulsa’s second mayor, serving from 1899-1900 and his maternal grandfather, Robert LaFortune served as Tulsa’s mayor from 1970-1978. G.T. is married to Susan Bynum and together, they are raising two children - Robert and Annabel – the sixth generation of Bynums gt-family.jpgto call Tulsa home.

 

G.T. was sworn in as Tulsa’s 40th mayor in December of 2016. His achievements in office have brought him national and international recognition from his Ted Talk on replacing partisanship with policy to his international keynote address at the British Government’s Leadership Conference. Bynum’s mandate to use data when driving decisions has led to unprecedented efficiency in city government and his collaborative approach proved itself as Tulsa responded in heroic fashion to a devastating flood and other natural disasters.

 

Prior to his time as mayor, G.T. served as a Tulsa City Councilor for 8 years. During his time on the Council, G.T. focused on fiscal restraint, public safety, and infrastructure while coordinating efforts to establish the first municipal veterans treatment court in the United States.

 

G.T. was previously a managing partner of Capitol Ventures,sounds like Bain Capitol Ventures a firm which assists Oklahoma companies and communities with federal contracting and business development. He’s served in policy roles in the United States Senate for Senators Don Nickles and Tom Coburn and as senior management for a national real estate firm and for the American Red Cross.

 

G.T. is a proud graduate of two institutions operated by the Augustinian Order of the Catholic Church: Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa and Villanova University, where he served as Student Body President.

 

http://www.gtbynum.com/meet_gt_bynum

Anonymous ID: cecfb3 June 19, 2020, 4:45 a.m. No.9669328   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9371 >>9399 >>9530 >>9550

>>9669252

>Republican mayor of Tulsa?

 

>Da Fuq is he up to?

 

RINO

City Councilor AND a LOBBYist? what could go wrong?

 

>>9669283

http://archive.vn/YG0Wi#selection-139.1-207.335

 

like G. T., and he's always been accessible to respond to questions. I appreciate his leadership on the city's "rainy day" (economic stabilization reserve) fund and the proposal to require city lawsuit settlements above a certain value to come to the City Council for approval. He loves public policy and respects the City Council's institutional role in city government. But I've got concerns.

Bynum's defection from conservatism on a key cultural issue, equating sexual orientation to race and ethnic origin in city HR policies a capitulation to the cultural imperialism of the Left ought to draw a primary challenge from a social conservative. Bynum's support for the County River Tax increase and the inequitable downtown ballpark assessment undercuts his claim to libertarianism as well. Bynum's backing for the Economic Stabilization Reserve (Rainy Day) Fund deserves praise, but it's puzzling that Bynum never backed Councilor John Eagleton's efforts to hold departmental budget increases to the rate of inflation.

But perhaps the biggest problem with Bynum as a councilor is his day job as a lobbyist. Bynum founded a Federal lobbying firm, G. T. Bynum Consulting, in 2009, with Williams & Williams, his former employer, as his first client. Sometime this year, Bynum's business name on disclosure forms changed to Capitol Ventures Government Relations LLC, a name registered with the State of Oklahoma in 2009; Bynum's title is now listed on disclosures as managing partner.

In 2010,Bynum's single biggest client, according to U. S. Senate lobbying records, was the George Kaiser Family Foundation,which had Bynum and his partner Stuart McCalman lobbying Congress regarding female incarceration rates, the OSU Medical Center, trail rehabilitation, and Arkansas River low-water dam development. At least two of those items have direct public policy implications for Tulsa city government. (Bynum's lobbying relationship with GKFF came to an end last December.)

As I wrote last year:

 

> To clarify my concern about Bynum representing GKFF as a lobbyist and serving on the City Council: GKFF is actively engaged in civic and governmental issues here in Tulsa, as are closely related individuals and entities. George Kaiser is a significant political donor in local elections, as is the BOK Financial Political Action Committee. Kaiser and GKFF were heavily involved in the 2007 Tulsa County sales tax increase for river improvements and in the downtown Drillers stadium deal, to name two recent examples of their engagement in local political issues. I cannot think of another example of an elected official at one level of government simultaneously serving as a lobbyist at another level of government. It would be a different matter if Bynum limited his lobbying practice to organizations and businesses that had no interest in City Hall affairs.

 

Bynum now lobbieson behalf of Family and Children's Services, a Tulsa non-profit, regarding female incarceration rates, one of the issues that Bynum worked on for GKFF. Family and Children's Services are 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 recipients of Emergency Shelter Grant funds, a federal block grant that the City Council allocates.

None of this is to condemn Bynum's clients or his work on their behalf, but there is the potential for a conflict of interest when a city councilor serves as a federal or state lobbyist for clients who have a substantial involvement in local public policy. The question is unavoidable – just what do your clients think they're buying?