Fox News: Roth's Bridge To Nowhere

Fox 25 News reporter Nick Winkler last night continued his series of reports on a controversial Arcadia bridge project built by then-County Commissioner Jim Roth that benefited campaign donor Aubrey McClendon, now co-chairman of Roth's Corporation Commission campaign.

The bridge project, and improvements on Anderson Road south of Highway 66, was detailed by The McCarville Report Online in early October. (Read all the details about the tree farm at http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/10/roth-sponsored-roadway-bridge-to.html). The road, and new bridge, opened access to McClendon's Deer Creek Tree Farm which has multipled in value as a result.

Roth initiated the project while he was county commissioner. His alliance with McClendon includes donations from McClendon to his county campaign, a letter defending McClendon that Roth wrote to a Seattle newspaper, McClendon's donations to his Corporation Commission campaign, his role as the campaign's major fundraiser and co-chairman, and Roth's vote against a coal-power plant opposed by McClendon. Roth cast his vote against the project without disclosing his relationship to McClendon, CEO of the Corporation Commission-regulated Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Winkler reports that repeated calls to Roth for comment have not been returned. Roth also has refused comment to KTOK and TMRO.

View Winkler's report at http://www.okcfox.com/players/news/top_stories/kokh_vid_1699.shtml.

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