John Sullivan Leaves Oklahoma For South Carolina Money
John Sullivan represents the 1st congressional district of Oklahoma, an area that stretches from the town of Wagoner, up through Tulsa, and then up to the border of Kansas. There is no town of Charleston in Sullivan’s district. Nonetheless, this weekend, Congressman Sullivan will spend a good amount of his time this week – time he’s supposed to use to meet with constituents, in Charleston.
Representative Sullivan has made it a habit to go to Charleston, South Carolina around this time every year. He’s going there to meet with people about how he can meet their needs in Congress. The people Sullivan will meet with won’t be from Oklahoma, of course. Few people from Oklahoma can afford to get on an airplane just for a meeting to talk with their elected representative.
Few Oklahomans could afford the admission price to Congressman Sullivan’s Charleston event this week, anyway. Just in order to step through the door of the room where Sullivan will be, people will have to give Sullivan $1,500, or $2,500 if they’re representing a political action committee.
Since the time he first decided to enter the U.S. House of Representatives, John Sullivan has accepted over five million dollars in campaign contributions – much of it at pay-to-play meetings like the one he’ll attend in Charleston, South Carolina this week, over 1,000 miles away from Tulsa as the crow flies… or as the snake slithers.
