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

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

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you trust and judge, Strum is
with it. He is the incumbent in

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District ten. Tomorrow is a big
day. It's election day and a lot

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of people who've already cast their ballots
for early balloting. He find good on

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you, but I'm kind of a
traditionalist. I do it on election Tuesday.

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That's kind of im important. Even
though this is a primary, it's

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a big day for a lot of
races. It's a huge day. It's

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a big day in this area,
big day in my district, big day.

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You know, when you get up
here, most of these elections,

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most of these seats will be chosen
in the Republican primary. You know,

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there are two Republicans in my race. There's no Democrats. So tomorrow,

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tomorrow's the end. People will say, you know, I don't have a

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voice in government, or I didn't
you know, I didn't didn't have a

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chance to to get someone that represents
me in there. Well, tomorrow's tomorrow.

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You're picking your your state senator,
You're picking your corporation commissioner, you're

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picking your state representative, you're picking
in you O Sage County, you're picking

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a sheriff, you're picking your county
clerk. Uh, these all these races

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are being decided tomorrow and there's yeah, there's commissioners in each county too,

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county commissioners in both counties. That's
right. Uh. People keep asking about

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this thing called dark money that appears
in campaigns, And first of all,

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what is it for the layman who's
not too familiar with that term, you

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know, really dark money. When
we talk about that, we're really talking

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about out of state money that comes
in. And it gets confused. People

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will say, once you hear all
the time, is I'm not taking any

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lobbyist money or I'm not taking any
pack money. Well, first of all,

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lobbyists don't really you know, they're
just an employee of a pack.

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They don't really write checks. But
when it comes to packs, they're political

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action committees. They're the political arm
of organization to reach out and say we

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want to help this candidate. You
know, to me, it sounds great

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when you read it on paper,
but when the ag pack, when Farm

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Bureau's agpack reaches out and says we
support you, and what you're doing and

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we want to help in your campaign. They represent over one hundred and seventy

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five thousand farmers and ranchers in the
state of Oklahoma, and that that organization

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say and we appreciate what you've done
and we want to help you is great.

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You know, I drew a lot
of support from the State Chamber,

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from the Tulsa Chamber, from the
Oklahoma City Chamber, you know, and

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the chambers represent three hundred and over
three hundred and fifty thousand small businesses in

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the state of Oklahoma, and they
said, you know, we really appreciate

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what you've done to help those businesses
grow and thrive. You know, we've

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done a lot in this state to
help individuals or you know, small groups

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of people start businesses, to lend
to you know, a more entrepreneurial spirit

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in this state, give people the
opportunity to go out there and start their

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own business and run it successfully.
And so, you know, I appreciate

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when those organizations reach out and say
we want to help, we appreciate what

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you've done, we want to see
you continue to do the work that you've

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done. And like I say,
I if they support me, you know,

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I'm glad. I think you're doing
something right. And we you know,

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like even here we have the Barbsville
Firefighters. You know, I've done

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a lot of work here to make
sure our fire departments and our police departments

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are well equipped and well trained,
and you know, going so far as

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helping to build the burn tower out
here so that our guys didn't have to

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spend the money and the time and
the effort to go to Ada or Oklahoma

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City or Burns Flat all the way
out western Oklahoma. Those organizations can train

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right here in Bartlesville, and that's
been great for the entire northeast region of

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Oklahoma because those different departments and the
different organizations, your emergency management, your

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fire departments, or police departments can
come right here and train at home.

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And I just I think that's a
great deal. I've been glad to work

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on that kind of deal. Well, you kind of know that one at

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I level. You've been a firefighter
for a long time I have, you

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know, I tell people I was
a certified firefighter before I had my driver's

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license, and it was one of
those kind of loopholes, but they said

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back then you had to go kind
of get certified to drive the brush trucks

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and and we were I think it
was about a week before my sixteenth birthday,

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and they said, well, there's
really nothing on here that that said

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you have to do that. You
know, that was back in the day.

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I guess. I won't say how
long ago that was, but but

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you know, and I tell people
too, it's important, and I'll take

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the moment, take a plug.
Get involved with your local fire department,

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your local volunteer fire department. I
hear people say all the time like,

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well I don't know anything about that. Well, nobody did when they started.

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And it takes a village to run
those volunteer fire departments and so and

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there's so many out here and they
do so much good. And I tell

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people too, you can help a
volunteer fire department. You don't have to

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be on a truck or on a
hose, you know. Come we're out

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there in those departments changing out a
master cylinder, you know, or fixing

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a pump or fixing a motor.
And you got guys that will build hot

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rods in their garage and say I
can't help. No, No, you

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can help, because we've got to
replace a carburetor a on a pump Motor

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and there's yeah. So I love
being a part of those organizations and helping

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those because they really do. I
mean, they helped the community so much.

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Now when people see you back home, they know you as Judd Strum,

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they know you as the District ten
representative. They know that you're going

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to represent their their views, their
issues, their concerns in Oklahoma City.

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What else do you do in Oklahoma
City? You've got a committee that you're

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a part of. So do I
serve on several committees, and I inject

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myself into many many committees. I
try to go to as many committee meetings

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as possible to watch what's coming through
the capital. But you know, when

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I went to Oklahoma City, good
friend of mine set the most important thing

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that you do in that building is
as you decide as a representative, especially

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as representative working on the budget,
how you spend Oklahoma's tax dollars. You

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want the service to create the service
people expect from their government. You want

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to do it effectively and efficiently.
And I took that to heart in just

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my second term. I mean I
work so hard and injected myself into so

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many of those things that it's very
rare, but in just my second term,

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I was named the Chairman of General
Government for the work that i'd done

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there on the budget and on on
taxation and on spending and on you know,

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working in those agencies to help create
a better service. And I've served

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there for four years now and we
have we've been able to make you know,

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we've improved how your government finds and
what we get out of that dollar

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just just leaps and bounds. And
so I'm proud to have been a part

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of that. And you know,
there's still so much more work to do.

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And one of the things we say
in the Capitol were on the in

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session, you know, four days
a week for four months, and I

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think this year it was sixty seven
days we were actually in the capitol and

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we considered over three thousand, five
hundred bills in that time in sixty four

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days. And we build it almost
thirteen twelve and a half billion dollar budget

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from scratch. So we're busy.
But at the same time, if you

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make it your goal to be an
advocate for your people, there are so

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many other things that you want to
get involved in. You know, when

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someone calls me and says, hey, the tax Commission is not answering their

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phone. You can bet I'm going
to be over at the taximission figuring out

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why and trying to fix it.
When when we got word that, you

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know, a young person would graduate
from Career Tech and it would take almost

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one hundred and twenty days to get
your license to go and cut hair,

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you know, or provide the service
you've just learned to get your license from

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the state. I mean on Monday, I was in the cosmetology building down

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there, trying to figure out why
this is taken so long, what can

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we do to fix it? And
within a week you have that shortened down

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to i'd say a more acceptable span
of time. But really, I've told

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people, by the end of this
next year, I want that down to

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where you can graduate, get on
the internet, give them your credentials,

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print off a temporary file or a
temporary certification, and go to work the

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next day. And that's the kind
of thing we need to be working on

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down there. And one of the
things I appreciate about this position is being

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able to advocate for my people and
be be able to advocate for you know,

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not just the people of District ten, which is the job, but

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you really affect the whole state,
and I think we're moving the state forward

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in that. Digitization has been a
big thing. You know, the entire

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state government used to revolve around file
cabinets and file clerks. You went to

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Oklahoma City and you stood in line
and someone will go get your file and

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you get it out and you'd work
on it. We can do that all

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digitally now and to have the opportunity
to change the way the government works.

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Now, hopefully within the next year, you'll be able to go into service

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Oklahoma and stand and talk to a
person right here in Bartlesville and get any

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of your issues handled right there.
And we all thought, you know,

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oh great, this will be on
the internet, and this will be so

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much easier. I don't like doing
things on the internet. A lot of

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times I want to go talk to
a person and I might have two or

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three issues and I want to get
them handled. So I'm glad to have

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been able to handle those kind of
things. Very good, Very good.

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Now with your role as the chairman
on the government General government, you get

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to really look over the budget quite
carefully. You're one of the first people

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that gets to all that. I
always said it was one of the most

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important things to me to have a
seat at the big table. Yep,

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and I do, and I try
to contribute as much as possible. I

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think that you know, some of
your budget directors, especially your chairman,

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probably probably think sometimes I might even
get a little bit annoying in there,

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but it is important. Somebody's got
to say no. Well, somebody's got

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to say no, and always say
and I've got to quit saying it.

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But somebody's got to call the baby
ugly on some of those things. And

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it doesn't doesn't, you know,
hurt my feelings to get up and do

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that, because these the decisions that
are made down there really affect every every

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family in the state of Oklahoma.
And so having a having a seat at

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that table, you know, especially
a rural representative from District ten, having

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a seat at that table is really
a big deal because you're you're you're more

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i say, influential representatives or legislators
you know, tend to come a lot

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of times from your your big cities, your Oklahoma City, your Tulsa,

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you're Latin, and they get a
lot of the attention. And so my

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being welcomed into that group and then
and really trying my best to do the

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job and do it right. Is
is really a big deal? Well,

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one of the things that people will
sometimes say is that, wow, here's

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a big bill with a big name. Oh red meat bills. Yeah,

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And sometimes the devil's in the details. Can you explain that very much?

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So speaking of calling the baby ug, you know, it's hard when you

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walk when we walk into that building, like I said in in in February,

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there's there's three thy five hundred bills
waiting for you this year, and

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it's just you can't cover everything there. There are a group of us that

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trial hardest to read every single bill
and and look and one of the things

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that I try to find all the
time are the unintended consequences and and so

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many bills that run are the result
of of someone saying, well, I

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want to write a big bill that'll
that'll sound great at home. You know,

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my people really want this, and
so they rush in the final hours

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to put a bill up. And
it's got a great title that people love.

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And but when when it comes down
to it, you look through that

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bill in there, it's either poorly
written or all the unintended consequences of that

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bill that that you just you have
to go around and you have to you

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have to either try to fix it
or fight it or kill it. You

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know, I've caught a lot of
a mailer come out against me that said,

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you know, we don't like Strong
because he killed the drag queen bill.

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Well, the reality was, you
know, that was a big topic

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here in Bartlesville going on where the
drag shows, and so someone rushes down

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there and says, I want to
write a bill that's about drag queens,

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because really it's a big hot topic
right now. But what they wrote was

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actually an adult cabaret bill, which
an adult cabaret is a strip club,

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which it's already very illegal to take
a kid to a strip club. We

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have very strong indecency laws in the
state of Oklahoma. You take a kid

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to a strip club, you're going
to jail, the strippers going to jail,

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you know whatever. But one of
the problems I saw in that bill

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was the language of the bill set
out as something harmful to children was men

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or women dressed in masculine or feminine
costumes. So you had men or women

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dressed up masculine or feminine. So
ultimately the language of the law would have

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been a man couldn't dress like a
man and a woman couldn't dress like a

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woman. And when I asked,
you know, I was hit for asking

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questions and debating. I asked,
would make a Dolly Parton concert illegal in

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the state of Oklahoma? You know
that's a woman dressed up feminine costume.

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So well, I don't think so, I don't think they'd prosecute that.

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Well, I don't want to make
everything illegal and then pick who we prosecute

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based on what we like or don't. You know, it's just not a

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great way to write statute. And
then when you get farther down into that,

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that bill would have crippled our film
industry because when you look at Killers

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of the Flower Moon, that was
hundreds and hundreds of people dressed up in

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costume and then given it in our
rating, you could easily argue that that

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would be harmful for children. So
it would have, by the letter of

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the law in the state of Oklahoma, made it illegal to film Killers of

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the Flower Moon in Oklahoma. It
would have made it illegal to film Tulsa

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King. It would have made it
illegal to film twisters here, you know,

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And so you say these are the
unintended consequences, and this is no

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good. Can we fix it?
Can we make it better? Yeah?

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I don't think so this is good, This is what people want. But

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it's a red meat bill. You
know. Always, I've said before on

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our Friday show that you always run
into those save the puppies bills, you

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know, and everybody wants to save
the puppies. And then you read it

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and you're like, now, wait
a minute. You know this says that

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we have to you know, shut
down I, you know, or I

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thirty five for three hours a day
so that these puppies can go play in

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that pond across the room. You
know, You're like, well, that's

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ridiculous. But it's got a great
title. And so then people get mad,

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how dare you vote against that?
Well, it's a bad bill,

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it's bad legislation, it's a bad
statue to put forth in the state of

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Oklahoma. And so out of thirty
five hundred bills, though, those are

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the ones that get the attention,
and those are the ones that you see

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on Facebook or read about in the
paper. So nobody, nobody gets real

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excited about bills that you know,
have something to do with the Oklahoma Water

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Resources Board. I do you know
those are the important states the probably affect

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people's lives. Yeah, you know, and you don't see people out there

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really fighting about those. Those are
boring. But at the same time,

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you know, we face the most
historic drought in this area that we've ever

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had. I worked very hard with
the Water Resources Board to bring resources back

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to District ten to get through that. You know, we've I think we've

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spent over a million and a half
dollars or close to a million a half

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dollars in Copan on the water system. Because the people of Bowering and Whipperwill

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and Copan and Wand want clean water. And it's easy for someone to sit

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in Oklahoma City and say that's not
a problem and the state doesn't need to

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be working on that because they're under
the umbrella of Oklahoma City that's solving all

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their problems. Their day to day
life is all city government. You know,

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your roads, your bridges, your
water, your utilities, that's all

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handled by the city. You don't
have that in Whipperwill, Oklahoma. You

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don't have that in Wand, you
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What you have the assistance you get
has to come from the state. And

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that's really one of the important things
that rural representatives have to have to face

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and have to fight for, is
getting resources out to these areas because we

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want good roads, we want good
schools, we want good utilities, we

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want broadband internet, we want good
well equipped and well trained firefighters. We

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want to think when we go to
bed at night that our treacher being patrolled

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and our our property and you know, our homes are safe. So that's

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those are the things I work on. All righty, well's the last word

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you want to tell the folks before
we sign off here again, it's it's

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very important that you get out and
vote. Tomorrow is the Republican primary,

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and it decides a lot of those
a lot of these offices. And vote

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all day tomorrow. Watch out for
the what they call the October surprise,

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where you get those last minute text
messages that make unfounded, wild claims that

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nobody can disprove until Wednesday after the
election's over. You know, those will

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become very popular. You know,
understand that when you're some of the things

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that people are sending things out that
you know have conservative ratings on them.

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Just understand that I don't. What's
your index, Well, it depends on

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who you look at. You know, if you go with the you know,

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the Petroleum Alliance, I've got like
a ninety eight percent. But if

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you look at Save the Constitution that
they call the gold standard of conservative rating,

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out of thirty five hundred bills,
they picked ten to look at,

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and I'm already out on three of
them because i support public education and I

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support you know, I supported the
towers that broadcast our tornado warnings and our

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amber alerts and all that. Well
they're against those things, and so they

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picked their ten bills and say,
well, he voted against these bills,

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or he voted for these bills that
we don't like. The film tax credit

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brought one hundred million dollars to this
area. That's very important to me to

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support. They don't support that.
That's fine. You have to look at

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where these organizations come from, what
their purpose is, and kind of take

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that with a grain of salt.
Because I'm out in the district all the

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time, I talk to a lot
of people, and trust me, I

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vote for the people at District ten, and I hope to continue to because

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I have to come home every weekend. I don't say in district, I

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say, I have to come home
and face my mama when I get home,

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so I have to do right.
But again, I think the most

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important takeaway is it's important that people
get out tomorrow and vote because there are

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so many very important choices being made
tomorrow for the people that will represent you

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or that will serve you. So
tomorrow's Tuesday, Republican Primary election day,

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get out and vote. Thank you, Jude Judge Strum District ten. Right

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here on our community Connection