Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome,
welcome man. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust, and it's brought to you by Arnold Morton.
He can't beautiful home. Good morning everybody, and we've got our friends here.
We're rocking today, Republicans, other Conservatives, Washington County, and we
have Quinn Schipper in here today, and we also have Jessica Cross in here
today too. And first of all, tornado boy, I tell you what
that that'll change everybody's a point of view about everything, wanting it will.
You know, we woke up to such a beautiful day of those who aren't
here we get to see outside it's a beautiful morning. But last Monday was
another story. On Tuesday and Wednesday, and we just wanted to knowledge like
the tremendous outpouring of support and help and aid in our community, Barnstall,
the area around us, send you guys, by no sleep that night.
People were just working around the clock. I went past the Baptist Church,
the disaster relief group. They were out there this morning loading up onto a
bus and getting ready for their days. So it continues and we just want
to acknowledge, you know what a great community community, Yeah, to live
in it is. It truly is, and it really doesn't take a tornado
to for our community to come together. But it is a very good thing
to realize that we do live in a very special place right here. Yeah,
we're great from Bartlesville and Washington County. Got big to dos coming up
on May twentieth. Cool, that's correct. We want to invite everyone to
our next meeting is next Monday, May twentieth, six thirty at Crossing Second
downtown Bartlesville, with the topic of talking politics without losing your cool, and
we're going to have a moderated discussion. Well, okay, this won't be
a referee. Then we're not going to lose our cool. It's not going
to be you know. That's right. We're hoping fifteen yards and we're not
gonna be doing that. That's good. That's really going to be good.
Now, for folks who are not familiar with the Republicans other Conservatives Washington County,
give us a little, a little thumbnail sketch. What are we all
about. We're in association and we welcome everybody. We are free flank friendly,
and we have a great time. We meet at Crossing Second. Our
mission is to promote Republican and conservative values through an informed, active electorate.
Oh good, So our next event is this coming Monday, the twentieth.
We meet at six point thirty. We start right up at six thirty.
We've finished by seven forty five, and there's a lot of funds, so
people can come early, order food or eat during the meeting if they want
to, that's fine. And they just do a great job at Crossing Second,
serving us and supporting that small business. Yes, yeah, come support
small business. Now, it looks like we're gonna have a little shifting things
coming up here next month. Not next month, we're actually shifting our regular
meetings to the first Tuesday of the month, okay, And there are number
of reasons for that. We don't have to get into the details of that,
but we're moving to the first Tuesdays, same time, same place,
across the second and that Tuesday, we are going to be hosting a candidate
form that's June fourth. Now, this is going to be an interesting set
up here. We've got Senator Daniels, Representative Stram County Commissioner District two candidates,
Michael Klaw and Corey Schiffl. But we have some candidates that our mission.
Yeah, we extended invitation to all the candidates who are running for offices
here in the county or in the state, and so I'm candidates Wendy Steerman
and Chad McCarthy and Darryl Worley refuse the invitation, and so we're not having
a debate. We were never having a debate. Is this going to be
a forum? People are going to the candidates are going to come, They're
going to share their platform, offer Q and A, and then we're going
to wrap up the evening with Senator Daniels and Representatives Strom and Cain are going
to give a bit of a legislative update for us to wrap up the evening.
So it's gonna be a great evening to come out or meet the candidates
learned about the wrap up and we're gonna have a fun time what we do.
Yes, and if they're interested, the candidates are welcome to have promotional
materials out there, answer questions, yard signs, sign up for the mailing
lists. I want to go back to what's going on here on the twentieth
if I could, because just talking without losing your cool? Where was this
around Thanksgiving? Man? There are some passive aggressive Thanksgivings where folks who had
divided houses because of political beliefs or whatever. I mean, there's a lot
of turkeys being car chainsaws, folks. It is one of the topics you're
supposed if you're aware that what you want to ask. Okay, we're hoping
some of this will stick for like by fourth of July and oh we won't
have any of the chains lastady. There we go and you got that,
and then the Labor days, then we get into Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everybody's
like all goods get Yeah, well we have John Roberts were bringing in for
this, not that John Roberts. John Roberts here from Oklahoma, and he
is a Republican chairman of Oklahoma's fourth Congressional District and he served as an Oklahoma
Republican Party state committee. So he's bringing with him a mixed panel of political
people from different political parties to get a perspective. And he's in a moderated
discussion and hopefully give us good pointers and model what it is to have a
conversation without losing your cool. Yes, to be respectful and civil. And
one thing I've learned about covering different state houses in my fifty almost fifty your
career of doing this the broadcast stuff, is that for the most part,
there are some disagreements that happened at your say, state capital, but it's
nothing like that gets played out on the media for ratings. And what happens
is some of that stuff gets amplified and then it's really not pretty. And
I'm not saying that you can't have opposing views, and you probably should if
you believe strongly in things. But the thing is, what you're doing here
is this is how we talk about it. Yeah, and this is how
we do without loads that are cool and I really like that. I think
that's going to be good. And Tom, I brought this up before in
our community connections with you. One thing I value so much about Bartlesville is
we do have different political positions. We do have different you know, backgrounds
and interests. But when I look at say the city Council, the commutittioners
for the county, or all the county officials for that matter, the BDA
Chambers of Commerce, not everybody agrees on everything, but they know how to
be agreeable and come to an agreement and then show support for one another in
that And I think we see that model in many ways in our local city
and county government. There's a bigger picture that others like myself can learn from.
I think so too. You know, if you don't have to go
very far to see how it's really done down well, very well, then
yeah, but this is really going to be good. And this would be
great for you know, couples and what have you. Maybe bring your brother
in law that maybe can be a little cantankerous a chip come with us.
You know, we'll feed us some nice food and listen to a few diverge
into, you know, opinions, but we'll get along here. Good.
I like this. Now. I understand that you have a Facebook page where
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Okay, I want to go back down to the meeting coming up on June
fourth. I'd like you said we have the candidates there, but you have
bonus content. Bonus my guts. You know, we didn't even ask for
something a little on the extra, but we got it anyway. I like
that. That's what you call overserving your customers and you know, super selling
them all right. And one of the fun things about the meetings is you
do get to interact with people who are the elected officials or people who are
involved in a variety of things in the community that come in. And so
people come early to hang around after world words and it's informal, very nice
environment. You've been I believe church of our meetings as well. So and
so, yeah, it it really works out pretty dark good. Now when
we get ready for the election, boy got it. I'm ready for it
already. One thing. You're ready for it to be over. I'm ready
for it to happen. Oh yeah, okay, it gets exciting. And
then the next day I get a nap. But we've got the primary coming
up on June eighteenth. And you know, it doesn't matter who you are
what you are, but if you're over the age of eighteen, you're a
citizen of the United States. Been living here in Oklahoma for a bit what's
your problem with not what's your problem with voting? Huh? I want to
you got your card? Come on, man. That was one thing I
do want to point out here is on Friday, May twenty fourth, that's
the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible for the
June eighteenth primary. So people haven't done that, they can contact the Washington
County Election Board. I do have a number there, nine to one,
eight three three seven two eight five zero. And while we're talking about the
election board, I just want to I bought some show and tell. I
like, just for a moment, everybody's going to be able to read that.
But what I have in my hand is there was an audit at the
Washington County Election Board last week and there were four of us who attended as
observers. It was mind numbingly interestingly, but it was interesting to watch the
process. It was a random selection of two the presidential preferential primary. I
said that correctly, Oh yeah, and then what are the propositions from just
two precincts? So they opened up the boxes in front of us, they
did a hand count. They have they verify all of it, so you
know, people have questions about election integrity Washington County. If you don't know,
Yvonne House and her team do a remarkable job and got a unsurprising A
plus and that there was no discrepancy whatsoever. And not only was she and
her team observing and citizens were allowed to come. As I said, I
was one of them. It was overseen also by an officer from the Sheriff's
department. Was there overseen and so there was no question about what you were
watching and the results of that. So I just want to reassure people.
Man, we've got a great team up there, the Washington County Election Board
much to be grateful for we do. They of course allow us up there
whenever there's an election, and you know, you get to see a little
bit of that going on from where we are, and it's wow. Do
you folks ever know? They don't rest. They're hopping all over the place
getting things done. But there's just so thorough Yes, and you know,
my kids could learn from this. They're very thorough, detail focused, very
detailed focus, and very security focused. And all the pacinct workers are trained.
They have to go through a training. There's a training coming up later
this month. I don't have that information fund me. People call the Washington
Contellection Board and ask about that. But they actually have to be trained,
and the security and all the things that moving parts to make an election happen.
It's astonishing. And they do all this without losing their cool. They
do, you know the ones that I say there, you know, it's
all about the chain of custody and things like that, and nobody gets you
know, flustered or upset because everybody knows what they're supposed to be doing.
They fall in line, They do it meticulously as prescribed, and there are
no problems. There's really no room for monkey business either. There really isn't
here in Oklahoma. It's very straightforward. It's there's none of this hey going
on. I lived in Illinois, by the way. Yeah, amazing where
you can have voter turn out at one hundred and six percent. Oh wow,
that's never happened here that I know of. No, well, the
dead haven't come to life here. Don't blow me. It's just one of
those things. But no, you're absolutely right, Yvonne, and everybody down
there at that office. They're very helpful too. If you have a question,
you know, they will very calmly walk you through the steps, and
sometimes it can get frustrating, but you know, they do their very best
to keep it simple, keep it straight forward, and put you on the
right path to where you need to be. So once again we've got the
twentieth coming up here, we've got the talking politics without losing your cool,
and that's going to be at crossing seconds across the seconds. The big room,
the big room in the back of the garage. I like that big
room. It's really cool. And then of course we're going to switch to
choose to day June fourth for the candidates of meeting. The forum here that
we're going to have with the candidates who've agreed to be here, and the
bonus content is there. You go, all right, so what's Everyone is
welcome to join? All right? How do we get a hold of you
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dot com or they can search for us on Facebook. Very good, Thank
you for coming in. Thank you