Bank records, official meeting minutes, and a trail of un-returned funds tell a story not shared with voters and a powerful ally is helping make sure they never hear it. Osage County, Oklahoma is a place that tends to mind its own business. Its rolling prairies and oil-rich past have produced a stubborn streak of independence that runs through the county’s Republican majority like a vein of crude through shale. County elections, in a place where…
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