Roth Personally Contacted Arcadia Land Owner

Then-Oklahoma County Commissioner Jim Roth's determination to build a bridge and improve a roadway leading to Aubrey McClendon's Deer Creek Tree Farm property in Arcadia was such that he personally called on a property owner to tell him to accept a monetary settlement for easements or face condemnation by eminent domain.

Fox 25 reported the encounter last night in a story about the tree farm. McClendon was a maximum donor to Roth's county commissioner campaign and subsequently, was named by Roth as co-chairman of his campaign for the Corporation Commission, which regulates McClendon's Chesapeake Energy Corp. McClendon is a maximum donor and top fundraiser for Roth's campaign.

Without declaring his alliances with McClendon, Roth voted against a coal-power plant opposed by McClendon when the matter came before the Corporation Commission.

Stanley Kolar, identified in county records as the owner of several parcels of property along Anderson Road in Arcadia, settled with the county for $36,000. Fox 25 reported he told its reporter that Roth personally contacted him and told him if he didn't accept the county's offer on easements, the property would be taken by eminent domain.

Read all the details about the tree farm at http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/10/roth-sponsored-roadway-bridge-to.html.

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