Republican Mayor of Oklahoma City says he can't vote for that vile thing.

A Republican Mayor’s Unexpected Presidential Vote

Hint: It has to do with character, competence and commitment

By Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt
October 24, 2024

“Hold fast to what is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21

On January 20, 1989, I was so supportive of George H.W. Bush in his quest for the presidency that my fourth-grade teacher pulled me out of class and rolled a television in front of me so I could watch his Inauguration. As an adult, I have continued to take more than a passing interest in who serves as President of the United States, that person we choose from 337 million Americans to become the face of this great nation.

In 2000, I cast my first presidential vote for George W. Bush. From 2002 to 2004, I spent two years serving in President Bush’s White House, and then returned home to Oklahoma to manage what little effort was needed to re-elect him there. I attended the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Republican National Conventions. In 2012, I served as a member of the Electoral College from Oklahoma, voting for Mitt Romney. As an Oklahoma state senator, I successfully authored a law to eliminate the possibility of Electoral College members not voting as they had promised.



During this time period of my adult life that I am describing — across four presidential elections — I viewed policy as the differentiator between candidates. Issues like a strong national defense, limited and competent government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, and a free-market capitalist economy all weighed heavily on my vote. It is only in 2016, 2020 and 2024 that I have been forced to recognize that there are criteria inherently more important, criteria that I took for granted. These criteria could be thought of as the three Cs: CHARACTER, COMPETENCE and COMMITMENT to our form of government.

The three Cs represent virtues, not policy positions. It is highly unlikely that the nominees of the two major political parties are going to hold the same policy positions, but it is entirely possible that they possess almost identical virtues. In fact, I realize now in retrospect that for the first four presidential elections of my adult life, I thought very little about these virtues. I simply took for granted that both leading candidates possessed them.

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Although he never mentions that vile thing (or Harris for that matter) by name, it's crystal clear who has his vote..