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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in his time now to get rocking, and it is also a time for

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our community connection, brought to you
by Arnold Moore DeCamp Funeral Home. And

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with us today we have the Republicans, other Conservatives Washington County rock for sure,

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and we have Quinn Shipper and Jessica
Cross here with the today. How

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are we doing, guys and gals, We're doing a beautiful day. Yes,

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it is sunshine, but I like
that we had, you know,

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some of that the liquid sunshine yesterday, which was kind of rare. Thank

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you, yeah, ver, thank
you Jesus. But we got a big

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to do coming up on April fifteen. But first of all, we want

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to acknowledge someone we lost here recently, someone very dear to all of us.

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Yes, we want to acknowledge the
passing of Billy Rohan. She was

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also a member of our Advisory Council
for ROC but also a valued member of

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our community. And we're going to
be having a celebration of her life.

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Is going to be in two weeks, yes, two weeks, on the

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twenty second, in the evening a
crossing second where we usually have our meetings.

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There's going to be light refreshments.
Pastor Joe Kola will also speak a

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few kind words, so we encourage
people to come by, share their memories

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and stories and join her family.
Very good, Very good. We've got

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a big get together. It's very
informative. From what I can tell coming

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up here on the fifteenth, you've
got quite the program coming our way.

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Yes we do, okay, so
we're calling it Actress Service. And during

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our time here, we've gotten acquainted
with the different field representatives for legislators.

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And what I've learned is there are
a lot of services and resources for consistuent

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that the offices provide that a lot
of people just simply don't know about.

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So some of this is kind of
hear about a day in the life of

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a field representative, what they do, where they go, the areas they

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cover, what they report back to
the congressman or the Senator. So we

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have three of them coming. It's
been kind of interesting trying to get all

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three of them in the same place
at the same time. But we could

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usually get two, but never three. But this is a rarity. It's

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a rarity, So come out and
get all three at once and So we

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have Derek Sisney, who's the field
representative in northeast Oklahoma for Congressman Ricken,

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and we have Max Savalla who is
the representative for James Langford. And we

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have Crystal Campbell, who is a
representative for Mark Wayne Mullen. Now,

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one thing I'd say about these three
young people, these young adults are all

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very intelligent, very motivated, very
sharp people. And again to get them

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all through in the same place at
the same time as rare. But last

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month we were talking about water resourcing, and I have seen all three of

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them at the same place at the
same time at the Water Resource Committee,

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and they're paying attention. They're advocating
for Washington County and our water resources.

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Here, they're taking information back to
their legislators and they hop on stuff like

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bulldogs. They're awesome. Oh indeed, if you think that it's just somebody

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in the shoot that points where the
congressmen or the senator should go, you

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got another thing coming. Then these
people got to be different places where the

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representative where the lawmaker can't get to
sometimes and they're the eyes and ears and

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hands and beat of the lawmaker.
So these folks are really moving and grooving

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Well. The two senators have offices
in both Oklahmoma City and Tulsa, and

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congressmanber Keene has his district offices and
Claremore. And you know, we vote

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for someone to head off to Washington, DC, and we think they're out

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there by themselves, but they have
staff, have a network, a big

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support network, everything from office managers, schedulers. Congress Member Keen has now

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done one hundred in person town halls
around the district, which is very unusual

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in this day and time. And
some's got to schedule all that stuff and

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then all the constituent services. Yes, now when we meet with these folks,

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we can ask them questions. I
know that there's going to be like

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a panel, but will we take
questions from the ground. Absolutely, So

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there again, they're going to inform
the audience about what their roles are and

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the kind of services that are available. Everything from if you got lost mail,

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they might help you track that down, services for veterans, services for

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the aging, for medicare. If
you've got needs in your district or your

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area, your counter, your city
that there could be federal help with in

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some way. If you want to
request a flag that's been flown over the

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United States Capital. I mean all
kinds of things, but they'll have a

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purpose and they're the go to people
for our area. Wow, that is

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that is really tremendous. And Q
and a sorry I got sidetracked, Yes,

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Q and a little mini town hall
maybe at the end for folks who

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are not aware of the group,
kind of tell us a little bit about

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it, you know, kind of
give us a little background here. We

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are the Republican and Other Conservatives of
Washington County and association that we started last

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fall. Our mission is to promote
Republican and conservative values through an informed,

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active electorate. And our monthly meetings
are held the third Monday, usually at

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Crossing Second sometimes adjustments. Yeah,
ice storms, ice storms. Yes.

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We encourage everyone to join us in
anyone Welcome. We try to have programs

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that encourage being informed on what is
going around in our community, issues like

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the water last time. So we're
an election year, and we are in

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an election year. You know.
You know, one thing that I've noticed

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at the times that I've been there, I walk up and I'm seeing people

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that I wouldn't have dreamed in a
millionaires would be there. Folks who would

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probably consider themselves an independent or maybe
even democrat, And they said, you

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know what, it's information, and
that's why I'm here. I'm gonna hear

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what's being said. And that's kind
of you know, that's always been the

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drawer of the information. We're fun, we're friendly. We welcome anyone who

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would like to come. These are
free events, though we do encourage people

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to come early and dine at Crossing
Second. Oh god, yeah, you

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better. It's a delicious, delicious
menu there. I've at it all,

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and people can order and eat during
the meeting as well. And we are

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this is a very nonpartisan meeting that
we're hosting here. Yeah, but like

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you said, it's a great place. We do it in the back,

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and in the back is huge because
there's a game room and there's a place

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where you know, they have a
bands and what have you. But it's

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big enough that it can fit everybody, but it's also small enough that you

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can hear everything that's going on.
That's why I like and get to know

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people. So bring a friend.
Yeah, please bring a friend, and

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you're going to see friends there.
And it's a really pretty much kind of

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an informal town hall when you kind
of describe it as that kind of an

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informal town hall. Yeah, we're
very crisp about a meeting. To start

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straight up, A six throw done
by seven five, and again there'll be

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Q and A at the end of
their presentation. We also have a little

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feature at the beginning called a story
Past, and we bring in a person

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who just shares a snippet, a
snapshot of something political or something that has

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influenced politics in Washington County or the
state, or the role maybe they had.

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And we just had some really fun
and fascinating little nuggets about surprising people

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and things. It's worth it just
for that because that's pretty entertaining. Plus

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you learn something. I love it
when you have funding the accidentally learned something.

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Yeah, started to accidentally learned something. I walked away with some knowledge.

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I thought I was just going to
get a chuckle. But it's really

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a lot of fun. And that
is our Republicans and other conservatives Washington County

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Rock. And once again, this
is going to be April fifteenth. What

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time did you say? We started
six and it's seven right. You got

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a timekeeper, don't we? But
people can stick around afterwards. They usually

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do, Yes, last one.
We didn't get home until nine o'clock because

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people wanted to stick around talk first
about the issues and just make friends chat.

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Yeah, and why not. I
mean it's there, and you know,

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you sharing and her husband really do
a darn good job of making everybody

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if you welcome there, and of
course say, it's kind of like being

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in somebody's you know, uh house
almost you know, if they got a

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big roomato satio area there you go. I just gotta say, but it's

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got that kind of comfort there.
I want to thank you both for coming

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in. And by the way,
where can we find out more information about

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your more information? We do have
a Facebook page you can look for us

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at roc WC and if you have
questions, comments, or to sign up

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com. We would love for you
to join us. Well, you guys

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are everywhere within reason because we are
conservative, all right. Thank you very

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much for being with us. Thank
you