According to fact checking by The Frontier, an Oklahoma news site, state Attorney General and governor hopeful Gentner Drummond’s boasts of being an entirely self-made millionaire are “mostly false.”
During a recent debate among GOP gubernatorial candidates, Dummond stated that he “disclaimed” any inheritance from his extremely wealthy parents, major landholders in Osage County.
“Everything I have is made by my own sweat, hard work and grit,” Drummond proclaimed.
According to The Frontier’s fact checkers, records indicate that Drummond actually inherited, through a company of which he is “at least partial owner,” large tracts of family ranch land, separate from the significant assets he has acquired independently.
Why lie?
He appears to be constructing an image of himself as a rugged, self-made man who created all his wealth “the hard way,” involving lots of manly perspiration and vertical self-propulsion via bootstraps.
To a large degree, this may well be a genuine reflection of the hard work he has invested in his own wealth building.
Still, the land he inherited from his late parents is also a part of his assets portfolio, whether he wants to admit it or not.
If he makes it to the general election [in my view he is the best Republican candidate, but that bar is set pretty low], Oklahoma voters should keep in mind that he is not above making claims about himself that are Mostly False.
Democrat Cyndi Munson is by far a better choice, for this and many other reasons.
