Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on K one. The
one you trust, Wendy Steerman for Senate, is in the studio. And
how you doing, miss Wendy. I'm doing very well. Thanks for having
me. Well, it's always great to have you in here. And now
you've already been a tour of duty in the House. You're running for state
senate. How's it been going so far? And what are you hearing from
the folks you're talking with. Well, lots of good information, of course,
as you would expect. Everyone's frustrated with just about everything. You know.
I ask for specifics what issues really concerned you? And everyone throws up
their hands, Well where do I start? Yeah, yes, and it
seems to happen in election years. But you've been canvassing a good portion of
the area and you've been doing that for a long time. You told me
what's upon a moon and this is your favorite thing to do, is just
to go out and listen to people. It is anytime you start getting discouraged
by what you're hearing on the news, just going and talking to the people,
to the voters in the district gives you a different perspective because you know
they are frustrated, but they still have hope, and they still love this
country deeply and will do all that is in their power to maintain our constitution
and our country. And so I appreciate finding that out. Anytime I start
getting discouraged, that is always an encouragement to go and just talk to the
people. That's good. Now, you learned a lot about representing people when
you were in the State Senate at State House rather in the district eleven.
Correct, yes, and that was quite a bit of a marchie had a
lot of geography there. What did you learn in your tenure in the House
that you're going to be taking with you should you win the Senate, Well,
you know, just the basic process of how to move legislation through.
It's you know, all the channels. There's a huge learning curve there going
in. So they always tell you when you get there that it's like drinking
from a fire hose, and it certainly is learning. You know what the
state agencies are, what their responsibilities are, who's in charge of those state
agencies? And as you know, because I came on your show when I
first ran, I knew very little about the actual process. You know,
I've taught I've taught high school government to homeschooled kids, but I have not
actually been through the process at the state. So now going in, I'm
going in with a much better understanding of how the process works and just more
of the the whole responsibility that's involved. Now, we've got a lot of
things on the table here. What are going to be your your main points
that you're running on. What are the things that you really want to endure
us fright up front? Sure? Well, I was asked yesterday by someone
on the doorstep, give me one thing, just narrow your campaign down to
one thing that different differentiates you from your opponent. And it was a good
question, because you know, we all have our three main points or our
expanded platforms. But the one thing that makes me different is is I am
not taking any lobbyist or pack money. And that is because of my experience
at the Capitol. I you know, we all know that it's there.
We all have this idea that money is running everything, But when I actually
saw it in action, it was the most disheartening thing that I saw while
I was there, and since I was there. I have told everyone from
the very beginning, from my first term, first session in office, that
our voice, the people, the voice of the people, is being silenced
by the lobbyists and the money that is, you know, pushing the legislation
at the Capitol. So it's very discouraging. And because of that, I
want it to be known to everyone in sin District twenty nine that my vote
is beholden to the voters only, that I am removing the voices of the
lobbyists from my campaign and from the packs, and I am listening to the
people. Wow. That is one thing that I imagine was an eye opener,
is to see just how much money can can push a lobbyist or many
lobbyists and infience legislators. Yeah. That is discouraging, Yeah, to say
the least. Now, you kind of broke history here in the United States
and around the world with your with your abortion legislation. Yeah, tell us
about that. Well. I did have the opportunity to run House Bill forty
three, twenty seven through the House and then it eventually went to the governor's
desk when he signed it. The all the abortion clinics that were remaining in
Oklahoma closed their doors the day that he signed it. So that was it
was a an incredible opportunity to be part of that. Did not expect that
when I went in and it managed to do that. It accomplished that through
the civil side of law. So it was patterned after the Texas Heartbeat Bill,
but this one went to conception. It recognized life from conception, and
it allowed it gave standing to citizens to sue in a court of law anyone
who provided an abortion. And that's unpredictable. Unlike criminal law, where you
know the players, you have an idea how the law will be enforced.
Civil law is a little bit trickier because you're dealing with people and so it
is and you never know. People are unpredictable. So that's how why it
was effective. And yeah, so that's essentially when abortion stopped the surgical abortions
anyway in Oklahoma. And this you were getting telephone calls and in camera opportunities
from places like Australia, France and all over the United all over the world.
Yes, that was a I mentionined you didn't see that common did not
at all. And as you know, you know how I feel about microphones,
and they're not my favorite. So that was that was a learning experience.
Lots of people were interested. And the thing that I found most interesting
in those interviews from all over the world is although we think differently in the
United States, we see how far our moral standards have fallen, people around
the world still view the United States as a Christian nation. And I thought
that is that's that's incredible, that's significant, that's encouraging. Now you're you're
out and about and you're doing a lot of listening and a lot of walking.
You do have some help, and thank goodness for that, and you've
got a great team. But if folks want to assist you in any way,
shape or form. You're not taking pac money, you're not taking big
donations from dark sources, but you will accept individual donations. How can people
you know work through that with you? Well, were there the website.
There are opportunities to volunteer, and it is steermanfor Senate dot com. And
my my phone number is nine one eight three nine eight one nine six two,
call me, text me, it comes right to me. Those are
ways to h to contact me. You know something, I've lived in a
lot of different places, but Oklahoma is the only place I know where everybody
who ran or will run for office has been in this studio gives out their
home cell phone number because they want to be that exccessible. And Oklahoma's a
darn fine state and you have a lot of darn fine people in it.
And I just find that refreshing that that is a way to get a hold
of you. You don't go through, you know, circuit city, as
they say, line one, line six. You know, yes, Hi,
this is Wendy. Yes. The people of Oklahoma are wonderful people.
They are. And one thing that you probably will be carrying back with you
to Oklahoma City should you win in this upcoming election in the July. Yeah,
yeah, there you go. There's jays. They just get with me.
It's coming quick, Yeah it is. So what are you What are
you telling the folks as you're getting ready to leave when you're visiting them and
you know you've told them that you heard them, But yeah, how do
you get them to remember? Well, that's a good question. I mean
lots of visits. So I am visiting the people who tend to vote in
primaries more than once. Oh yeah, just for a name recognition. But
what do I want them to remember about me that I love individual liberty more
than anything else, and that that defines how I view legislation. That defines
my policy positions is how can we support the individual? So I have when
I'm reading legislation, I ask three questions, and that is does this legislation
limit the individual? Does this legislation limit private businesses? And does this legislation
limit government? And you can probably guess the answers they need to be no,
no, yes, definitely limiting government. That is our role as legislators.
When we were going through COVID, you were in office and you were
the biggest, one of the biggest watchdogs on overreach. Tell us a little
bit about that experience. Well, it was largely that time that encouraged me
enough to put my name on the ballot. When everything was shutting down and
I was told that, you know, our rights are not during an emergency.
Our rights are not the constitutional rights that we've always stood on. I
knew that I had to do something because I love our constitutional rights. I
love the understanding of our inalienable rights. So I did put my name on
the ballot to stand up against that government overreach. And then when it came
to the mass mandates and the vaccine mandates. So many people called crying because
either they were going to lose their job, or their daughter or their son,
their family member was going to lose their job. It was a horrific
time because of essentially government overreach. The departments of health were putting out misinformation,
which caused businesses to then react to that, and and you know,
it just it was. It was one government overstep followed by another, and
ultimately it hit the people very hard. And that is my goal is to
always represent the people's rights and their freedom. Again, how can people get
a hold of you and find out more? All right, the easiest way
to reach me is my phone nine, call me, text me, I
always have it with me and uh and then my website steermanfor Senate dot com.
And I'm on Facebook, so you can contact me through Facebook as well.