When party leadership changes, some people naturally leave. This time, it seems all of them have left.

Jun 14, 2005: The Oklahoma Democratic Party, dealing with an undisclosed debt, no longer has a paid staff at its headquarters, party Chairman Lisa Pryor said Monday.

[…] Some of the party's six or seven paid staff members left when she was elected May 14, Pryor said. The others left recently.

The party usually had volunteers answer telephones, but she said she heard at a meeting last weekend that the paid staff is gone and the party is depending on volunteers to do filing and other office chores as well, Hogue-Downing said.

People may volunteer by calling the party headquarters at 427-3366 or filling out a form at the party's Web site, http://www.okdemocrats.org.

Costs from Brad Carson's disastrous "I'm not a Democrat!" campaign left the party with some debt. That's not unusual, but the people responsible for the disaster have all quit now, so there's no money to hire new folks yet. Perhaps Dr. Dean can move Oklahoma up a little bit on the list in his 50-State Strategy.

(Via The Daily Disappointment.)