Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on kay Well and Mondy
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get Real Ministries. And we have Wendy Steerman who's running for Senate in House
along with her sun Gabe, who is a mighty fine actor. I might
say, yes, thanks. How are you doing today? Doing very well?
Looking forward to next Tuesday? Hey, that's the big primary and nobody
gets any sleep for about thirty six to forty eight hours. That's right.
How's your shoe leather? Oh? You know, I'm wearing it out obviously,
trying to hit every county every week and talking to a lot of great
people. We're actually going through a second and third time through the precincts,
either me or there are a lot of volunteers that have signed up lately,
and so just trying to get the word out. You know, a grassroots
campaign require, as you say, a lot of shoe leather, Well it
does, and a lot of face to face And you've told me every time
you've been here that that's what you like, is the face to face You
really like talking to the constituents and picking their mind a little bit. I
do what are been telling you well, as you know, as there is
always a case they're always very frustrated with the way things are going. You
know. Lately there have been a lot of mailers coming out about me,
specifically not from me, but about me. So that's been a probably the
number one question in the last week, which which I'm happy to answer.
Yeah, those and those mailers are discussing a vote that I made on h
Jr. Ten, which was a resolution to require voter ID be added,
the requirement of voter ID at a polling place be added to the state constitution.
Great idea. Love election security, I mean, I fully support election
security. However, there was another piece to that bill which I opposed,
and the negative of that outweighed the good of the rest of the language,
and that was to put into the state constitution that tribal IDs would be acceptable
I d which if a tribal member is a citizen of the United States and
a resident of Oklahoma, they're going to have the same idea as the rest
of us. Because I want secure elections. I don't like broadening the definition
of what is acceptable. ID so that was my vote. I appreciate the
opportunity to explain that that's good because a lot of people wouldn't know, Yeah,
because they only go about so deep, maybe two paragraphs, and they're
off to the funny papers and things like that. But yeah, good that
you explain that it's really awesome. And now you've been picking up a lot
of steam, a lot of volunteers, as you said. I see the
pictures every now and then and looks like everybody's just working really hard. They
are really hard. Oh yeah, there are some great volunteers. And Saturday
was a big door knocking day, and goodness, how hot did it get?
My car throw monitors at one hundred, so I wondered how accurate it
was, Yeah, ninety five at some places one hundred and another because I
remember pulling back into Yes, Benita, it was one hundred van, you
know, and it was hot, and yet, golly, yet there were
people out there door knocking. I appreciate it. Great group of volunteers.
My goodness, we've got the election coming up here. What do you want
to the voters to know about Wendy Steerman that they don't already know, or
perhaps if they're just now getting to know you for the first time, tell
us about Wendy. It's all about one Well, I was in the House
Representatives for one term. While there, I was ranked the most constitutional conservative
by any scorecard that you look at, because I went there to represent the
citizen, the people, not to vote special interests, not for the re
election, but just to represent the people. So I voted the way I
believed, and I'm happy to always discuss any vote that I make because I
have a reason why, and I am happy to always discuss my voting record.
So that's one thing about me. The other is based on what I
saw while I was in office, with lobbyists and packs and consultants really having
a lot of influence in what policy is pushed through. I am not taking
any of it. It offended me greatly to see the voice of the people
being overshadowed by the money in the political process. And I know it's there,
I know it's legal, and the only way to get it out is
to elect people who refuse to take it. And so I have not taken
any I will not take any This has been an absolute grassroots campaign. I've
been knocking doors since last summer, and the money that we have to spend
on mailers and billboards has come from people, from voters who are interested in
this campaign being successful. So those are a couple of things about me,
A little bit on homeschool and because you've done that, Yes, yes,
those gates is one of them. Yes, one of many. Yes,
I am a homeschool mom. Huh. My oldest will be thirty this summer,
so we've been We've been homeschooling all the way through, and the youngest
is twelve. Gabriel is second to youngest. He's almost sixteen, and he's
with me because he likes to participate in CMT, the Children's Musical Theater here
in Bartlesville, and rehearsals start today. So that's where we're headed. Next.
Busy, busy. Yes, Mom's taxi never stopped, does it?
Oh goodness. So when you're out there, anybody ask what you plan to
do on tax cuts for the income tax year. Yes, absolutely, everyone
is interested in income tax cuts, actually removal, eliminating the income tax like
other states, that is one of the top priorities of the people reduced taxes.
The budget for the state of Oklahoma the last two years has been exceptionally
high. It had traditionally been around eight or nine billion, and now it
seems to be settling at thirteen billion this year and last year, and that
is a huge increase. And I understand inflation affects state agencies as well as
the people, but in my opinion, the people's needs come first. Very
good when it comes to the state of Oklahoma. We've got a lot of
good things going on, but we got a little room for improvement. What
do you see things that we need to improve? Really, when I went
into the House, I objected to the number of state agencies and the amount
of control that the state agencies have in legislation. They are making agency rules.
We don't call them legislation, but they operate just like law, and
that removes again the voice of the people from that process. If you put
the process of rule making of law making into the agencies, they are appointed,
they are not elected, and so the people can no longer voice their
objection by saying if you vote for that, I will vote against you,
or if you will support that, I will support you. For reelection,
that isn't available in the rule making of the state agencies. So I prefer
that all of that the oversight needs to be left in the hands of the
legislature, and they have very little oversight in the agencies, and that really
is apparent this session there was a bill that the passed. It changed shape
throughout the session, but it removed the economic Development incentive package process from the
legislature and put it into Department of Commerce. It was one of the most
concerning bills that I've ever seen because that they're negotiating with millions up to well
at one point it said seventy five million dollars would be would trigger an audit.
But huge package deals for corporations, industries, either to keep them here
or to bring them here, and they're negotiating this. They will be negotiating
this without the legislature. There will be a small leadership appointed committee that will
oversee any big negotiations and they will be under non disclosures. How's that for
a good idea representing the people and their money. But it is a it's
a major shift from what it has been where these packages. I don't even
like these packages. I disagree with these incentive tax incentive packages. But at
least they were going through the legislature and going before your representative. With the
passage of that bill, which it did pass, that that system will change
and so it goes into the executive branch now rather than into the legislature.
That's an eye opener for a lot of people. And wow, that's wow.
You know your voice was heard loudly during COVID about everybody's individual rights as
the first thing you said, you're there to represent the people, the individual
and tell us a little bit about some of the things that you were able
to do bring to everybody's attention during that That was that was something else that
was that was horrible. We never want to have that happen again. And
in the state of Oklahoma, we have not successfully implemented any protections against a
similar situation. So the governor still has extraordinary powers which gives him a lot
of power. Whoever, the governor might be a lot of power over property
rights in an extraordinary situation, and which the legislature can declare, you know,
this is an extraordinary emergency. Therefore we have extra authority. In my
opinion, the people are the ultimate authority. They do not give up their
authority, their rights in an emergency. So I fought hard on that.
Unfortunately, the legislature is not made up of enough truly conservative constitutionalists. We
need more in there in order to be successful. So that's still on my
radar. I brought this. I wanted to be shot light. I like
showing this. I do teach high school government to homeschool students. I've been
doing that for years, and I love showing this next. And I wish
I'd grabbed my little constitution, but showing this next to the US Constitution.
This is the constitution of the state of Oklahoma. It is this is seven
hundred pages long, and this is just the constitution. This is not the
statute. And the administrator rules so and it is supposed to be, of
course, subjected to the US Constitution. So the US Constitution is the supreme
law of land. Nothing can conflict with that. There are things in this
Constitution that do conflict with that, like the Second Amendment portion of this book.
It's not the Second Amendment but in here, but it's the carrying of
firearms. This does allow regulating firearms this book, whereas the you know,
the US Constitution says that our right to bear arms shall not be infringed to
me, that's pretty straightforward. In here it says the legislature shall this shall
not prevent the legislature from regulating the carrying of firearms. So just something to
be aware of this, I am. I want to make sure that our
constitution is in line with the US Constitution and protecting our rights, broadly recognizing
our rights, narrowly representing the powers of government. Wow, now you made
world history with your abortion bill. Yes, sir, tell us a little
bit about it, siphone ringing off the hook, people from Australia going.
What I found most interesting about all those interviews from all over the globe was
people outside of the United States still view the United States as a Christian nation.
And we hear as citizens we often see so much just the the morality
on decline in this country, but outside this country, we are viewed as
a Christian nation. And I loved finding that out as I talked to the
different reporters from from all over the globe. And that bill. You know
that that bill really did nothing in itself. It was not a criminal bill.
It was just in civil It was a civil bill, so it would
allow citizens in civil court to sue an abortion provider. The only punishment would
be fines because it's not a criminal bill. But it was effective because citizens
are unpredictable, and so this bill, because anyone providing an abortion could not
determine how a citizen might respond, it was effective. And the day that
Governor Stitt signed it, the clinics, the remaining clinics in the state of
Oklahoma closed. It was it was wonderful that it was able to go through
the whole process. I'm very grateful for Governor Stitt for being willing to sign
any as he said when he ran, I will sign any pro life bill
you get to my desk, and he did that, and I am grateful
to him for that. And so far, although the Supreme Court of Oklahoma
has ruled several, including this one bills, unconstitutional, the clinics are closed
still and there have been a ten slash year. There was an attempt to
expand abortion through criminal law. Thankfully that failed. That will I would always
oppose that should I be elected. I want I want the every life from
conception until a natural death to be defended. That is, that is the
proper role of government that is declared in our Declaration and understood in our Constitution
that we all have the right to life, life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, lifely being the first word. Absolutely very good Winny.
This is where you get to hop up on the soapbox. Tell us anything
you want to tell us. Here in the last couple of minutes, Okay,
I want to hear from the voters in Senate District twenty nine, that
is Washington County Nowada County, in the northern half of Rogers County. You
can find a map on my website at Goodness Steerman for Senate SdeA R M
A n f O R senate dot com. There is a map of the
district. You can zoom in and see your street and see actually if you're
in the district or not, and if you are, call me. My
cell number is there, my email is there. I've been getting numerous calls
every day from people letting me know of their support, wanting to know about
the negative mailers coming. They're asking, you know, what did you see
in that bill? Can you explain why you voted the way you did?
And I appreciate the opportunity to explain it. I genuinely want to hear from
voters. This is I'll give you my cell number. I'm the one answering
it. I will true, I genuinely want to hear from voters because that's
who I want to represent. I am not taking lobbyist money. I am
not there to represent special interests should I be elected. I am there to
represent the voters. So my cell number is nine one eight three nine eight
one nine six two. All right, Wendy Sterman for Oklahoma Senate twenty nine.
Yes, sir, all right, thank you very much. Thank you
both for being in here today. Okay, all right, we've been watching
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