Republican Purges and Feuds in Oklahoma Show the Pitfalls of One-Party Rule

In States, Voting On

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The mailers arrived in people’s homes mysteriously, hitting some of the most conservative lawmakers in Oklahoma.

George Faught, a hard-line Republican running for his sixth term in the Oklahoma House, was attacked for not being a true conservative. Another Republican incumbent had a flier accusing him of “working to expand Obamacare.” The men called each other, sharing notes: Who was doing this?

By the time they found out, nearly all of them had lost in primary runoffs in August. The campaign against the hard-liners, they discovered, was coming from inside the caucus.

“Once you cut out the cancer that was attacking us, we’re now in a position to heal and move forward,” said State Representative Chris Kannady, a moderate Republican who has gone public as the ringleader of the internal purge, which he called the Project.

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