You’ll find sore losers in every election year. When it comes to Oklahoma’s June 24 GOP?primary, though, you’ll find one very strange loser. Tim Murray hoped to unseat Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Dist. 3), but finished a distant last with only five percent of the vote. Murray claims the race isn’t over, though; he says Lucas isn’t really Lucas.
Murray claims that Lucas was executed by ?The World Court? three years ago, Oklahoma City’s KFOR NewsChannel 4 first reported. His website bears a press release making the following claim:
(I)t is widely known that Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a look alike. Rep. Lucas? look alike was depicted as sentenced on a white stage in southern Ukraine on or about Jan. 11, 2011. ?
He says Lucas and other members of Congress were executed by hanging, that other Congressional representatives know about it, and that some congressmen even said so on television. Even worse, Murray insinuates that the Lucas look alike might not even be human:
We know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements(.)
From there, Murray’s statements read like the words of a schizophrenic on a combination of espresso and LSD.
I am contesting that this matter has happen [sic] since his election was blocked, because the U.S. Defense Department’s use of Mr. Murray’s DNA. To my knowledge, the U.S. Defense Department has not released to the public that information, as it is their confidential information about many people. Congress is likely wanting me to state that all my DNA used will not result in benefits to people I have never had relations with of a family nature. I have been bound to protect information unless it causes harm to The People.
He also claims the same circumstances were present in Kentucky’s 2012 election for U.S. Senate, but there was no such race; both incumbents were not up for re-election that year.
Murray didn’t return any calls from KFOR, but the local news station did get comment from Lucas.
It does come as kind of a shock to read that you’re not you. ? Many things have been said about me, said to me during course of my campaigns. This is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a body double or a robot.
While Murray did submit his letter to the state’s Election Commission, he needed to file formal petition by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 27. The Commission can’t be contacted to confirm any receipt of such a petition until June 30.
On his website, Murray also claims to be former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, appointed by President Gerald Ford. A directory of all of Ford’s ambassador appointments, including those to the UN, is absent of Murray’s name, however.
Lucas swamped his two primary opponents, taking 83 percent in the June 24 election. Robert Hubbard took 12 percent, leaving Murray in a distant last place.
Murray tried to take on Lucas in 2012, as well, but ran as a Democrat. After he won a poor-turnout primary race to get the Democratic Party nomination, Murray ? who raised only $508 in campaign donations that year ? took only 20 percent of the vote in the general election.
Frankie Robbins, who Murray narrowly defeated in the 2012 primary, is this year’s Democratic challenger to Lucas for Oklahoma’s 3rd Congressional District.
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See KFOR’s coverage of this oddity in the video below:
