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And good morning, Welcome to Community
Connection. On this Friday morning, I

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have Nathan Thompson. We are here
this morning talking with candidates for Washington County

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District to Commissioner Daryl Worley. Good
morning, Daryl. How are you.

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I'm good. How are you?
Oh, I'm doing great. I'm doing

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great. So again, we have
this election that's getting ready to come up

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on the eighteenth of June, and
you are one of three candidates running for

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the position of county commissioners. So
for those who don't know who you are,

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let's give yourself a brief introduction please, Okay, Well, my name

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is Daryl Worley. Obviously I was
born in Clamore, and I was born

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in Clamore, but I grew up
in the rural area between Clidmore and Pryor.

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I've and while we was there,
we had a county commissioner that was

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not very responsive to the needs of
the people out outside the city. And

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it's always kind of been a dream
of mine to be a county commissioner.

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And when Mike Movie decided not to
run again, I thought if not now

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when so I jumped in. I
got you, I got you, And

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a little bit about your your background
as well, that that makes you feel

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as though you are qualified for this
position. Well, first and foremost,

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I'm a professional engineer. I have
road designs experience, road building experience,

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and project management experience with large private
projects in the millions of dollars. And

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I also worked at the City of
Bartlesville in the engineering department where I manage

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projects in the millions of dollars.
So I have a budget to experience,

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and I've just kind of been working
for this towards this all my life.

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So you said, kind of the
impetus of you wanting to come and run

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for offices, your experience with a
county commission that was not as responsive in

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your opinion that as that person needed
to be. So if you were to

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be elected, how would you make
a difference in being responsive? Well,

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I would go to the people.
If they had a question, I'd go

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to them and we would discuss it
first. And if I could help them,

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I would help them as much I
could. And if I can't help

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them, I'll tell them and I'll
tell them why I can't help them.

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We don't have the funds or whatever
the reason is. But I will go

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and talk to them. Well,
in your understanding, what are the primary

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responsibilities of a county commission. Well, the county commission sets as a three

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member board that kind of, in
my little feeble brain says that they are

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the strong mayor for the county.
They are in charge of all the administration

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that boards is that they take care
of all the property and each individual county.

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A commissioner has responsibility for the roads
and they appoint people to different committees

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in the county. So yeah,
so yeah, it's very it's a multifunctional

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thing. A lot of people think, you know, a commissioner their biggest

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responsibility is taking care of county roads
and all of that, And I wouldn't

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say that that's not their biggest responsibility, but there are other things there that

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a lot of folks don't have them
in consideration. Well, I wouldn't say

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it was the largest. It's probably
about ten to fifteen percent of your time.

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But you know, with my road
experience already, I think I can

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do that very use that time very
efficiently. And that they do. Of

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course, budgetarily in Washington County have
a budget board that kind of sets the

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budget for the county itself, and
then it's the commissioner's job to look at

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those budgets to come in from different
organizations within within the county and make sure

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that those funds are being appropriated and
appropriately. That's correct. And you know

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another thing that the commissioners are responsible
for all the property, you know,

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fair grounds, the you know they
have, that's that's part of their If

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there's county property, they are responsible
for, sure. Sure. And another

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thing here now, one of the
things that you talk about here, Darryl

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on your on your your platform is
property rights within within the county. Now,

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of course Washington County does not have
a zoning uh in the county itself.

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So because there's no regulation of zoning
in the county here, how would

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you protect people's property rights as a
commissioner? Well, people, Uh,

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all zoning is is don't what's nice
word, don't do bad things against your

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neighbor. There's a colloquial term for
that which I'm not going to use,

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but it's, you know, be
nice to your neighbor. And that's all

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zoning laws are. And if the
neighbors, if they have a dispute,

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that's what the courts is for.
It's not it's not part in my opinion,

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that's not really part of government.
Okay, it should never have been.

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Okay. So so your your position
of defending personal property rights, how

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again would you do that as a
county commissioner. Well, for one thing,

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there's some stuff coming down the board
called thirty by thirty which they're going

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to take thirty percent they want a
federal government wants to take thirty percent of

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the land and put it in conservation
or buy it or take it from the

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property funder my owners under what's the
what's the word where they go to court

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to take it domin domain, that's
the correct word. Yeah, And I

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will oppose any anything in that county
in the county that pertains that, okay,

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okay. And of course in Washington
County, the only federal land that

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we actually have is right around Cope
l. So does the thirty by thirty

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even apply here in Washington County?
Yes, because they're going to put like

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property in conservationsement. They want like
along creeks and streams, they're wanting to

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build a buffer in there, and
there want thirty percent of the land to

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be in conservation isment? Okay?
Okay. Now, another thing that you

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talk about on your website. Here
is individual rights. Another platform that you

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are talking about in a role as
a county commissioner. So talk about individual

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rights and what you would do as
a county commissioner to protect individual rights.

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Well, for one thing, back
during COVID, there was mass mandates mandated

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by some of the governments. I
think the only thing that the county did

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was in their buildings, and which
you know I would I would have opposed

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that. So I do not believe
the mass mandates and the mandates for vaccinations,

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which I don't think they imposed,
but I would have opposed that for

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sure, and I would oppose any
mandated medical procedures. Okay, all right,

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So yeah, again, there were
some masked items during during the pandemic

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that that were implemented in some public
buildings. You are correct about that,

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but never any individual mandate for for
vaccines in the state of Oklahoma. That's

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correct. But we got another pandemic
coming, looks like, and I would

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oppose that in the next one as
well. Okay. Well, and again

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talking about road maintains as well,
you kind of touched about that. You

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know, there's you know, several
hundred miles of county road in Washington county.

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So talk about your commitment to road
maintenance. Well, for thank and

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talking to some of the people out
in the county, I would put a

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schedule on road grade, the grading
of the of the gravel roads. I

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would get put together a schedule and
make sure that and then we would,

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you know, put a schedule for
going and patching potholes and a schedule for

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repaving if need be. So I
I think that already exists in District two,

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but you would just yes, okay, And then of course the budgetary

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process. Now again, Washington County
is a budget board county, which means

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the commissioners are not the only folks
who have voice over budgetings. Yes,

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it's an additional safe I think that's
what its purpose, as additional safe spot.

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There After the county commissioner scandals that
we had, you know, in

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previous years, forty fifty years ago, so Washington County made the decision to

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become a budget board county, which
the three commissioners are part of that.

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So talk about your your your philosophy
on budgeting. Well, my philosophy,

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of course, you can't spend more
than you get, so yeah, right,

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and you know it was you know, I'm not. I don't think

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that the budget has been way out
of whack in Washington County. So I

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would not want to to come in
and make any major changes there, but

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I would always I would always lean
towards spending less if possible. Okay.

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And that your final platform here on
your website is dealing with election integrity,

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and you're talking about making sure that
you are ensuring safe and secure elections.

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Do you believe that Washington County does
not have safe and secure elections? I

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believe we have room for improve and
has that Okay? Well, I don't

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think we have really good transparency.
Okay. It was specifically, well,

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what are you talking about from again, as from a county perspective, from

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a transparency standpoint, how would you
be able to impact that? As account

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cant? I believe that there should
be open audits, okay. And for

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any election that there's any question on, there should be you should be able

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to to inspect the ballots and do
an odd on the ballots. Okay.

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And so is it that you don't
feel us that that exists as a constitutional

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provision in Oklahoma? No? I
do not. Okay. All right,

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So again Darryl worry for Washington County
Commissioner. Again, the primary election is

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coming up on June the eighteenth.
Now, we do have a couple of

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forums that are also coming up as
well. I know the Washington County Republican

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Party is holding a forum as well. I believe that's on Monday. Is

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that correct? It's Monday, June
tenth at six thirty pm, and it'll

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be held at the Ramona American Legion. Okay, and then of course we

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hear it came one. We have
our own forum that mister Warley will be

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participating in. That's coming up on
Tuesday evening six pm at Barlollsville City Hall.

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So if you have questions with our
forum, you can certainly go in

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and submit your questions to our moderator, Tom Davis. You can email him

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at Tom at Barlowsville Radio. Get
that done before Sunday and those questions will

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be considered to be asked during the
forum with your candidates. Again, there's

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not an incumbent running in District two. There are total of three candidates,

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Darryl Worley being one of them.
So again, Darryl, if people want

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to learn more about you and who
you are, where can they get that

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information. Well, they could go
to Worleyforecommissioner dot com and worry for Commissioners

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all run together. We have a
Facebook, a Facebook page which is worthy

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for Commissioner, and they could email
me at Worley. This is long Worley

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dot for dot Washington dot County dot
CD two at gmail dot com. You

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probably want to go to the Facebook
page to find that email address. There

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you go, there you go.
Well, the most important thing we can

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say again the Republican primary coming up
on June the eighteenth. If you are

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a registered Republican in Washington County,
you are eligible to vote in that election.

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We do always encourage folks to let
their voices be known at the ballot

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box. Early voting begins on Tuesday, sorry, on Thursday and Friday of

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next week, and of course election
day is on Tuesday, June the eighteenth.

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Daryl Worley, candidate for Washington County
Commissioner District too. Thank you for

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joining us this morning on our community
connection. Thank you for having me.

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You're very welcome. Have a great
day. We'll be back with another community

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connection after these messages