The one you trust and in studio with this is Senator Julie Daniels. How
are you, good morning, Tom. I'm just fine. Well, it's
good to be home. Oh, it is, it is, it is.
It's been busy. And first of all, I thank the House and
Senate for the forty five million dollars in relief that was passed yesterday. And
now onto the governor's Yes, we did that. We've confirmed the new Emergency
Management director who's done such a good job in the aftermath of the two storms.
And yeah, we're you know, following through with the Oklahoma standard and
making sure that we take care of people the best of our ability. And
so that was a very good use of one time money. Is to get
those into the those dollars into those communities and help those folks. And I
will say to anybody no matter where you live, but particularly in the Barblesville
area, if you have deeds, do call my office four oh five five,
two one six three four. I know. I talked to the deputy
director of the Department of Human Services the other day and they have some programs
that could be helpful. And he just said, if you don't necessarily think
of reaching out to DHS. He wanted me to know that sometimes there are
things they can do to help. So anyway, whatever your need is,
call and we will try to get you connected with the right entity. But
certainly putting that money into those two disasters and creating that revolving fund for Oklahoma
disasters was a very good thing that we did. This week, Senator,
you are running for re election and we've got the primary coming up, and
just a little bit to a little bit about the books about why do you
want to do this again? Well, I am thoroughly enjoying being allowed to
represent the citizens of Senate District twenty nine. This is my eighth year.
I've been highly successful in advancing good policy. I've had some opportunities while in
the Senate to be in leadership positions, which has also increased my ability to
be effective for my constituents. And I am a very hard worker and a
committed conservative, have been my whole life. And so what I've done is
take a conservative philosophy and apply it to government, and it's working very well
in my view, and certainly I'm able I think to address a lot of
the issues my primary voters are concerned about, and the Senate district itself.
Beyond that, I want to say before I do, before I forget,
how to be in touch with me. My website is danielsokasenate dot com danielsokasenate
dot com. You can write to me there, or you can text or
call me at nine one eight three three one seven two six seven, or
my personal email is Julie Daniels seven nine eight eight at gmail. So those
are three ways to be in touch with me, and I try to be
responsive. Yes, I've also got my Facebook Senator Julie Daniels, which is
my personal campaign Senate page, and you can message me there, and I
try to get round to looking at all those things multiple times a day.
I want to cover two things in particular this morning. First, the immigration
issue, which just continues to escalate and become more troublesome to Americans nationwide.
And I know when we passed our bill a couple of weeks ago, we
knew that it was bold saying that if you are in our state illegally,
you are subject to a misdemeanor, and if you are apprehended a second time,
it's a felony. And if you are apprehended you have seventy two hours
to leave the state of Oklahoma if you are here illegally, and we know
that's bold. As I am saying about my vote on that is that we've
had enough, the states, the nation as a whole, we can't take
this anymore, the failure to enforce our laws, the failure, if necessary,
to work together to reform the laws. But we are being overwhelmed,
and it is also creating a division between US and legal immigrants, and that
I think is one of the sad repercussions of this vote. But I voted
for that bill. I had already voted for any opportunity to get law enforcement
to cooperate with ICE and to ban sanctuary cities in Oklahoma. And also when
we took up that immigration bill, someone tried to amend it to allow tax
paying illegal residents to have the option to apply for a driver's license, and
I voted against that amendment, so that option to allow some illegal residents to
be eligible to apply for a driver's license fail, and I was part of
that vote. The issue of uninsured drivers and the problem that causes for law
enforcement is indeed an issue that is taught up somewhat with illegal immigration. But
we in the Senate and the House have determined that we've moved well beyond being
able to address that issue, because the problem with illegal immigration has just continued
to escalate. So I opposed that amendment. It did fail. We now
know that there is a lawsuit, which certainly is no surprise to any of
us. A lawsuit has been filed challenging the authority of the state of Oklahoma
to do anything to try to enforce immigration law, because that is completely within
the purview of the federal government. So we will see how that goes.
But I consider it consider this vote a shout out to Congress and to the
President. You have to fix this because we're overwhelmed and it's creating public safety
issues for both citizens of Oklahoma and legal immigrants. And it's just a sidebar
to this time costs more of your tax dollars. The more enforcement that we
have to try and do, the more we have to deal with any public
safety issues that are a result of the presence of illegal aliens, just cost
you, the taxpayer, more money. We know that some of these folks
are engaged in fentanyl trade, human trafficking. The illegal marijuana grows, this
is not to speak of all immigrants. We know that, but to the
extent that illegal immigrants are engaged in these illegal acts, they are costing us
both in terms of our safety and in terms of having to dedicate more and
more taxpayer dollars to trying as a state to overcome or at least deal with
some of the issues related to illegal immigration. So that's a big one.
I know there was a rally at the capitol this week among the Hispanic community,
and I'm sure many of the people there were legal immigrants. There may
also have been illegal immigrants among them. I know it's complicated for those folks
who have both legal and illegal folks in their families. It's just all round
a problem that has to be solved, and the federal government has to do
it. And I'll just end by saying I think the left enjoys this.
The left wants to create as much chaos as they possibly can, whether it's
at the federal level or now at the state level, having legislators be combative
on this issue. This is something that they're doing, I believe intentionally,
and so we as a state are responding the best that we can. Another
thing I wanted to touch on today because I think we have a couple more
minutes, is when you're in the middle of a campaign, you are required
by ethics laws to put anything you send out to the folks the fact that
it was authorized and paid for by your campaign. So anything I send says
authorized and paid for by friends of Julie Daniels twenty twenty four. You will
see that on anything that comes through the mail. You will see that on
anything that comes as a text that is on my billboards. I believe the
only place you don't have to have it is on yard signs, because you
drive by those so fast you can't see them. So if you are receiving
anything that you think is from me and you don't like quite the way I
sound, because I don't sound like the Julie that you usually know, check
very carefully and I will tell you those are coming from independent expenditure groups.
They cannot tell you to vote for me. They can say tell her she's
doing a great job, or call her and say she's doing a great job.
And two of those have come out so far in the form of texts,
and they are causing people to call or text and say I don't like
the way you sound. This isn't this isn't the way you normally talk.
I don't want this text or they call my office, and of course we
are not allowed to campaign from our office, so my assistant either needs to
tell them call her cel phone or delete the voice because she is not allowed
to engage or help me engage in any campaign related work. So if you
see something, go to the fine print see if it's come from me or
from somebody else. I don't know who they are. Now, if it
comes from a group like the American Federation for Children, they will put on
their mailers. We appreciate what she's done for school choice, we appreciate what
she's done for tax credit scholarships. They will put on there. That's one
group. I think Americans for Prosperity is another one who will put on their
mailers. Who they are These other groups, I don't know who they are,
and honestly, I've not had time to go and try to research.
So that's just to clarify. There are some things I can control and some
things I cannot. So before you get a little bit upset about the tone
of something or just that you're receiving it, check to see if it actually
came from me. There you go. There's a lot of that going around,
a lot of AI stuff too, and you got to watch it quickly.
Experience. You got a little bit, don't you, just a little?
I do. I have my experience from being on the city council and
being involved in Bartlesville for thirty five years now, lots of experience within my
Republican Party, but certainly at the Capitol. I know, I've just counted
today. I've had ten bills signed by the governor thus far. I have
another about ten out there. I don't think all of those are going to
make it past this last two weeks. But I've been able to be judged
on I would say, more than one thousand votes in eight years. And
certainly there are conservative groups who rank me very high in terms of my consistent
conservative voting record. And so I will say to the primary voters and other
voters, you have in me somebody who gets results. You have in me
a true trusted conservative leader. You have in me someone who's fully engaged.
This is a full time job, and I do it full time. I'm
already making a list issues I would like to continue to address or address for
the first time. Even as I'm trying to get some judicial reform past this
session, I will be in meetings on Monday. This is not something I
had counted on doing in the last couple of weeks, but we are trying,
and it might be tied up with some budget negotiations. So I just
want people to know that I am always thinking and working towards good policy from
my constituenc and for the state of Oklahoma, and I would certainly appreciate your
vote on June eighteen. The primary election will decide this Senate seat, so
I would appreciate your vote on June eighteen. Thank you, Senator Daniels.
Thank you Tom