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Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome,

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welcome man. It's time now for
our community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, and it's
brought to you by Arnold Morton.

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He can't beautiful home. Good morning
everybody, and we've got our friends here.

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We're rocking today, Republicans, other
Conservatives, Washington County, and we

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have Quinn Schipper in here today,
and we also have Jessica Cross in here

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today too. And first of all, tornado boy, I tell you what

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that that'll change everybody's a point of
view about everything, wanting it will.

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You know, we woke up to
such a beautiful day of those who aren't

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here we get to see outside it's
a beautiful morning. But last Monday was

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another story. On Tuesday and Wednesday, and we just wanted to knowledge like

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the tremendous outpouring of support and help
and aid in our community, Barnstall,

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the area around us, send you
guys, by no sleep that night.

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People were just working around the clock. I went past the Baptist Church,

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the disaster relief group. They were
out there this morning loading up onto a

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bus and getting ready for their days. So it continues and we just want

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to acknowledge, you know what a
great community community, Yeah, to live

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in it is. It truly is, and it really doesn't take a tornado

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to for our community to come together. But it is a very good thing

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to realize that we do live in
a very special place right here. Yeah,

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we're great from Bartlesville and Washington County. Got big to dos coming up

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on May twentieth. Cool, that's
correct. We want to invite everyone to

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our next meeting is next Monday,
May twentieth, six thirty at Crossing Second

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downtown Bartlesville, with the topic of
talking politics without losing your cool, and

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we're going to have a moderated discussion. Well, okay, this won't be

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a referee. Then we're not going
to lose our cool. It's not going

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to be you know. That's right. We're hoping fifteen yards and we're not

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gonna be doing that. That's good. That's really going to be good.

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Now, for folks who are not
familiar with the Republicans other Conservatives Washington County,

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give us a little, a little
thumbnail sketch. What are we all

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about. We're in association and we
welcome everybody. We are free flank friendly,

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and we have a great time.
We meet at Crossing Second. Our

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mission is to promote Republican and conservative
values through an informed, active electorate.

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Oh good, So our next event
is this coming Monday, the twentieth.

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We meet at six point thirty.
We start right up at six thirty.

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We've finished by seven forty five,
and there's a lot of funds, so

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people can come early, order food
or eat during the meeting if they want

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to, that's fine. And they
just do a great job at Crossing Second,

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serving us and supporting that small business. Yes, yeah, come support

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small business. Now, it looks
like we're gonna have a little shifting things

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coming up here next month. Not
next month, we're actually shifting our regular

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meetings to the first Tuesday of the
month, okay, And there are number

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of reasons for that. We don't
have to get into the details of that,

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but we're moving to the first Tuesdays, same time, same place,

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across the second and that Tuesday,
we are going to be hosting a candidate

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form that's June fourth. Now,
this is going to be an interesting set

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up here. We've got Senator Daniels, Representative Stram County Commissioner District two candidates,

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Michael Klaw and Corey Schiffl. But
we have some candidates that our mission.

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Yeah, we extended invitation to all
the candidates who are running for offices

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here in the county or in the
state, and so I'm candidates Wendy Steerman

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and Chad McCarthy and Darryl Worley refuse
the invitation, and so we're not having

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a debate. We were never having
a debate. Is this going to be

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a forum? People are going to
the candidates are going to come, They're

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going to share their platform, offer
Q and A, and then we're going

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to wrap up the evening with Senator
Daniels and Representatives Strom and Cain are going

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to give a bit of a legislative
update for us to wrap up the evening.

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So it's gonna be a great evening
to come out or meet the candidates

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learned about the wrap up and we're
gonna have a fun time what we do.

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Yes, and if they're interested,
the candidates are welcome to have promotional

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materials out there, answer questions,
yard signs, sign up for the mailing

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lists. I want to go back
to what's going on here on the twentieth

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if I could, because just talking
without losing your cool? Where was this

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around Thanksgiving? Man? There are
some passive aggressive Thanksgivings where folks who had

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divided houses because of political beliefs or
whatever. I mean, there's a lot

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of turkeys being car chainsaws, folks. It is one of the topics you're

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supposed if you're aware that what you
want to ask. Okay, we're hoping

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some of this will stick for like
by fourth of July and oh we won't

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have any of the chains lastady.
There we go and you got that,

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and then the Labor days, then
we get into Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everybody's

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like all goods get Yeah, well
we have John Roberts were bringing in for

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this, not that John Roberts.
John Roberts here from Oklahoma, and he

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is a Republican chairman of Oklahoma's fourth
Congressional District and he served as an Oklahoma

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Republican Party state committee. So he's
bringing with him a mixed panel of political

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people from different political parties to get
a perspective. And he's in a moderated

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discussion and hopefully give us good pointers
and model what it is to have a

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conversation without losing your cool. Yes, to be respectful and civil. And

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one thing I've learned about covering different
state houses in my fifty almost fifty your

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career of doing this the broadcast stuff, is that for the most part,

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there are some disagreements that happened at
your say, state capital, but it's

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nothing like that gets played out on
the media for ratings. And what happens

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is some of that stuff gets amplified
and then it's really not pretty. And

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I'm not saying that you can't have
opposing views, and you probably should if

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you believe strongly in things. But
the thing is, what you're doing here

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is this is how we talk about
it. Yeah, and this is how

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we do without loads that are cool
and I really like that. I think

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that's going to be good. And
Tom, I brought this up before in

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our community connections with you. One
thing I value so much about Bartlesville is

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we do have different political positions.
We do have different you know, backgrounds

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and interests. But when I look
at say the city Council, the commutittioners

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for the county, or all the
county officials for that matter, the BDA

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Chambers of Commerce, not everybody agrees
on everything, but they know how to

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be agreeable and come to an agreement
and then show support for one another in

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that And I think we see that
model in many ways in our local city

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and county government. There's a bigger
picture that others like myself can learn from.

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I think so too. You know, if you don't have to go

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very far to see how it's really
done down well, very well, then

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yeah, but this is really going
to be good. And this would be

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great for you know, couples and
what have you. Maybe bring your brother

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in law that maybe can be a
little cantankerous a chip come with us.

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You know, we'll feed us some
nice food and listen to a few diverge

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into, you know, opinions,
but we'll get along here. Good.

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I like this. Now. I
understand that you have a Facebook page where

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actually folks give you some suggestions sometimes
right, or we asked questions or whatever.

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Do you want to speak to that, please have Facebook page, Yes,

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roc WC. And we also welcome
people to email us if they're interested

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in enjoying our newsletter or a mailing
list at info at ROCWC dot com.

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Okay, I want to go back
down to the meeting coming up on June

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fourth. I'd like you said we
have the candidates there, but you have

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bonus content. Bonus my guts.
You know, we didn't even ask for

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something a little on the extra,
but we got it anyway. I like

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that. That's what you call overserving
your customers and you know, super selling

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them all right. And one of
the fun things about the meetings is you

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do get to interact with people who
are the elected officials or people who are

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involved in a variety of things in
the community that come in. And so

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people come early to hang around after
world words and it's informal, very nice

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environment. You've been I believe church
of our meetings as well. So and

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so, yeah, it it really
works out pretty dark good. Now when

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we get ready for the election,
boy got it. I'm ready for it

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already. One thing. You're ready
for it to be over. I'm ready

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for it to happen. Oh yeah, okay, it gets exciting. And

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then the next day I get a
nap. But we've got the primary coming

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up on June eighteenth. And you
know, it doesn't matter who you are

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what you are, but if you're
over the age of eighteen, you're a

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citizen of the United States. Been
living here in Oklahoma for a bit what's

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your problem with not what's your problem
with voting? Huh? I want to

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you got your card? Come on, man. That was one thing I

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do want to point out here is
on Friday, May twenty fourth, that's

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the last day to apply for voter
registration in order to be eligible for the

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June eighteenth primary. So people haven't
done that, they can contact the Washington

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County Election Board. I do have
a number there, nine to one,

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eight three three seven two eight five
zero. And while we're talking about the

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election board, I just want to
I bought some show and tell. I

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like, just for a moment,
everybody's going to be able to read that.

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But what I have in my hand
is there was an audit at the

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Washington County Election Board last week and
there were four of us who attended as

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observers. It was mind numbingly interestingly, but it was interesting to watch the

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process. It was a random selection
of two the presidential preferential primary. I

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said that correctly, Oh yeah,
and then what are the propositions from just

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two precincts? So they opened up
the boxes in front of us, they

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did a hand count. They have
they verify all of it, so you

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know, people have questions about election
integrity Washington County. If you don't know,

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Yvonne House and her team do a
remarkable job and got a unsurprising A

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plus and that there was no discrepancy
whatsoever. And not only was she and

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her team observing and citizens were allowed
to come. As I said, I

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was one of them. It was
overseen also by an officer from the Sheriff's

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department. Was there overseen and so
there was no question about what you were

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watching and the results of that.
So I just want to reassure people.

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Man, we've got a great team
up there, the Washington County Election Board

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much to be grateful for we do. They of course allow us up there

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whenever there's an election, and you
know, you get to see a little

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bit of that going on from where
we are, and it's wow. Do

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you folks ever know? They don't
rest. They're hopping all over the place

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getting things done. But there's just
so thorough Yes, and you know,

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my kids could learn from this.
They're very thorough, detail focused, very

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detailed focus, and very security focused. And all the pacinct workers are trained.

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They have to go through a training. There's a training coming up later

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this month. I don't have that
information fund me. People call the Washington

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Contellection Board and ask about that.
But they actually have to be trained,

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and the security and all the things
that moving parts to make an election happen.

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It's astonishing. And they do all
this without losing their cool. They

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do, you know the ones that
I say there, you know, it's

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all about the chain of custody and
things like that, and nobody gets you

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know, flustered or upset because everybody
knows what they're supposed to be doing.

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They fall in line, They do
it meticulously as prescribed, and there are

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no problems. There's really no room
for monkey business either. There really isn't

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here in Oklahoma. It's very straightforward. It's there's none of this hey going

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on. I lived in Illinois,
by the way. Yeah, amazing where

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you can have voter turn out at
one hundred and six percent. Oh wow,

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that's never happened here that I know
of. No, well, the

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dead haven't come to life here.
Don't blow me. It's just one of

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those things. But no, you're
absolutely right, Yvonne, and everybody down

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there at that office. They're very
helpful too. If you have a question,

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you know, they will very calmly
walk you through the steps, and

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sometimes it can get frustrating, but
you know, they do their very best

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to keep it simple, keep it
straight forward, and put you on the

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right path to where you need to
be. So once again we've got the

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twentieth coming up here, we've got
the talking politics without losing your cool,

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and that's going to be at crossing
seconds across the seconds. The big room,

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the big room in the back of
the garage. I like that big

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room. It's really cool. And
then of course we're going to switch to

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choose to day June fourth for the
candidates of meeting. The forum here that

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we're going to have with the candidates
who've agreed to be here, and the

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bonus content is there. You go, all right, so what's Everyone is

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welcome to join? All right?
How do we get a hold of you

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again? In case folks have questions, our email is info at r OCWC

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you for coming in. Thank you