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

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one. The

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one you trust, Wendy Steerman for
Senate, is in the studio. And

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how you doing, miss Wendy.
I'm doing very well. Thanks for having

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me. Well, it's always great
to have you in here. And now

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you've already been a tour of duty
in the House. You're running for state

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senate. How's it been going so
far? And what are you hearing from

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the folks you're talking with. Well, lots of good information, of course,

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as you would expect. Everyone's frustrated
with just about everything. You know.

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I ask for specifics what issues really
concerned you? And everyone throws up

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their hands, Well where do I
start? Yeah, yes, and it

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seems to happen in election years.
But you've been canvassing a good portion of

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the area and you've been doing that
for a long time. You told me

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what's upon a moon and this is
your favorite thing to do, is just

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to go out and listen to people. It is anytime you start getting discouraged

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by what you're hearing on the news, just going and talking to the people,

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to the voters in the district gives
you a different perspective because you know

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they are frustrated, but they still
have hope, and they still love this

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country deeply and will do all that
is in their power to maintain our constitution

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and our country. And so I
appreciate finding that out. Anytime I start

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getting discouraged, that is always an
encouragement to go and just talk to the

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people. That's good. Now,
you learned a lot about representing people when

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you were in the State Senate at
State House rather in the district eleven.

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Correct, yes, and that was
quite a bit of a marchie had a

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lot of geography there. What did
you learn in your tenure in the House

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that you're going to be taking with
you should you win the Senate, Well,

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you know, just the basic process
of how to move legislation through.

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It's you know, all the channels. There's a huge learning curve there going

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in. So they always tell you
when you get there that it's like drinking

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from a fire hose, and it
certainly is learning. You know what the

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state agencies are, what their responsibilities
are, who's in charge of those state

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agencies? And as you know,
because I came on your show when I

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first ran, I knew very little
about the actual process. You know,

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I've taught I've taught high school government
to homeschooled kids, but I have not

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actually been through the process at the
state. So now going in, I'm

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going in with a much better understanding
of how the process works and just more

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of the the whole responsibility that's involved. Now, we've got a lot of

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things on the table here. What
are going to be your your main points

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that you're running on. What are
the things that you really want to endure

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us fright up front? Sure?
Well, I was asked yesterday by someone

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on the doorstep, give me one
thing, just narrow your campaign down to

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one thing that different differentiates you from
your opponent. And it was a good

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question, because you know, we
all have our three main points or our

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expanded platforms. But the one thing
that makes me different is is I am

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not taking any lobbyist or pack money. And that is because of my experience

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at the Capitol. I you know, we all know that it's there.

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We all have this idea that money
is running everything, But when I actually

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saw it in action, it was
the most disheartening thing that I saw while

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I was there, and since I
was there. I have told everyone from

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the very beginning, from my first
term, first session in office, that

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our voice, the people, the
voice of the people, is being silenced

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by the lobbyists and the money that
is, you know, pushing the legislation

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at the Capitol. So it's very
discouraging. And because of that, I

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want it to be known to everyone
in sin District twenty nine that my vote

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is beholden to the voters only,
that I am removing the voices of the

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lobbyists from my campaign and from the
packs, and I am listening to the

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people. Wow. That is one
thing that I imagine was an eye opener,

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is to see just how much money
can can push a lobbyist or many

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lobbyists and infience legislators. Yeah.
That is discouraging, Yeah, to say

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the least. Now, you kind
of broke history here in the United States

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and around the world with your with
your abortion legislation. Yeah, tell us

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about that. Well. I did
have the opportunity to run House Bill forty

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three, twenty seven through the House
and then it eventually went to the governor's

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desk when he signed it. The
all the abortion clinics that were remaining in

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Oklahoma closed their doors the day that
he signed it. So that was it

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was a an incredible opportunity to be
part of that. Did not expect that

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when I went in and it managed
to do that. It accomplished that through

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the civil side of law. So
it was patterned after the Texas Heartbeat Bill,

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but this one went to conception.
It recognized life from conception, and

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it allowed it gave standing to citizens
to sue in a court of law anyone

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who provided an abortion. And that's
unpredictable. Unlike criminal law, where you

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know the players, you have an
idea how the law will be enforced.

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Civil law is a little bit trickier
because you're dealing with people and so it

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is and you never know. People
are unpredictable. So that's how why it

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was effective. And yeah, so
that's essentially when abortion stopped the surgical abortions

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anyway in Oklahoma. And this you
were getting telephone calls and in camera opportunities

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from places like Australia, France and
all over the United all over the world.

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Yes, that was a I mentionined
you didn't see that common did not

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at all. And as you know, you know how I feel about microphones,

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and they're not my favorite. So
that was that was a learning experience.

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Lots of people were interested. And
the thing that I found most interesting

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in those interviews from all over the
world is although we think differently in the

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United States, we see how far
our moral standards have fallen, people around

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the world still view the United States
as a Christian nation. And I thought

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that is that's that's incredible, that's
significant, that's encouraging. Now you're you're

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out and about and you're doing a
lot of listening and a lot of walking.

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You do have some help, and
thank goodness for that, and you've

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got a great team. But if
folks want to assist you in any way,

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shape or form. You're not taking
pac money, you're not taking big

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donations from dark sources, but you
will accept individual donations. How can people

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you know work through that with you? Well, were there the website.

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There are opportunities to volunteer, and
it is steermanfor Senate dot com. And

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my my phone number is nine one
eight three nine eight one nine six two,

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call me, text me, it
comes right to me. Those are

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ways to h to contact me.
You know something, I've lived in a

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lot of different places, but Oklahoma
is the only place I know where everybody

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who ran or will run for office
has been in this studio gives out their

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home cell phone number because they want
to be that exccessible. And Oklahoma's a

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darn fine state and you have a
lot of darn fine people in it.

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And I just find that refreshing that
that is a way to get a hold

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of you. You don't go through, you know, circuit city, as

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they say, line one, line
six. You know, yes, Hi,

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this is Wendy. Yes. The
people of Oklahoma are wonderful people.

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They are. And one thing that
you probably will be carrying back with you

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to Oklahoma City should you win in
this upcoming election in the July. Yeah,

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yeah, there you go. There's
jays. They just get with me.

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It's coming quick, Yeah it is. So what are you What are

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you telling the folks as you're getting
ready to leave when you're visiting them and

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you know you've told them that you
heard them, But yeah, how do

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you get them to remember? Well, that's a good question. I mean

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lots of visits. So I am
visiting the people who tend to vote in

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primaries more than once. Oh yeah, just for a name recognition. But

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what do I want them to remember
about me that I love individual liberty more

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than anything else, and that that
defines how I view legislation. That defines

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my policy positions is how can we
support the individual? So I have when

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I'm reading legislation, I ask three
questions, and that is does this legislation

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limit the individual? Does this legislation
limit private businesses? And does this legislation

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limit government? And you can probably
guess the answers they need to be no,

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no, yes, definitely limiting government. That is our role as legislators.

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When we were going through COVID,
you were in office and you were

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the biggest, one of the biggest
watchdogs on overreach. Tell us a little

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bit about that experience. Well,
it was largely that time that encouraged me

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enough to put my name on the
ballot. When everything was shutting down and

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I was told that, you know, our rights are not during an emergency.

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Our rights are not the constitutional rights
that we've always stood on. I

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knew that I had to do something
because I love our constitutional rights. I

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love the understanding of our inalienable rights. So I did put my name on

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the ballot to stand up against that
government overreach. And then when it came

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to the mass mandates and the vaccine
mandates. So many people called crying because

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either they were going to lose their
job, or their daughter or their son,

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their family member was going to lose
their job. It was a horrific

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time because of essentially government overreach.
The departments of health were putting out misinformation,

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which caused businesses to then react to
that, and and you know,

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it just it was. It was
one government overstep followed by another, and

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ultimately it hit the people very hard. And that is my goal is to

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always represent the people's rights and their
freedom. Again, how can people get

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a hold of you and find out
more? All right, the easiest way

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to reach me is my phone nine, call me, text me, I

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always have it with me and uh
and then my website steermanfor Senate dot com.

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And I'm on Facebook, so you
can contact me through Facebook as well.