WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.000 K one AM, fourteen hundred FM, ninety three point three FM, ninety 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.480 five point one and on KWETV, dot Com, Apple TV, and Roku. 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:14.640 And once again we have Senator Daniels here tonight for our forum. And 4 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.879 first of all, Senator, we're going to start you up with your opening. 5 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:21.359 Stavid, you have three minutes to adorus the crowd. Thank you Tom, 6 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.519 Thank you kwo N and the city for allowing us to use the City 7 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:28.719 Council chamber and everyone here in the live audience. My name is Julie Daniels, 8 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:33.280 and I'm a candidate for State Senate to represent Washington, Nowada and the 9 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:39.240 northern half of Rogers County. Government of buying for the people is about people. 10 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:45.119 This entire job is about people. It's the eighty four thousand different residents 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:49.079 who live in this district, many of them Native Oklahomas. Many more I'm 12 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:55.759 discovering recent transplants to the state of Oklahoma. Just this week, I've met 13 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.600 someone from Missouri and Colorado and a native San Francisco, all of whom have 14 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:06.959 chosen our state as their residence because we represent the values that they hold. 15 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.239 Dear, we believe in limited government, we believe in attracting business and having 16 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:17.200 strong jobs. We are a really attractive place for people to want to come. 17 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.040 And part of this was COVID, but many others are coming just because 18 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.079 they've reached a stage in life that they want to go someplace where they feel 19 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:30.079 that they are unfettered, they can live more freely and express themselves more freely 20 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.840 than where they were before, and for that reason they've come to my state. 21 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.560 I'm a native Oklahoma, born and raised in Oklahoma City. I graduated 22 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.519 from the University of Oklahoma. I attended my first year of law school there 23 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:46.159 before I married Charlie. Charlie who will be here in a moment. He's 24 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:49.400 been out all day doing his thing forty six years ago and he was a 25 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.359 lawyer for Phillips Petroleum Company. So I moved up here and commuted to the 26 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.280 University of Tulsa. For the last two years of law school, I interned 27 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.959 with the DA's off I wanted to be an assistant district attorney. That may 28 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.000 be still why I have some feeling for the das and what they do. 29 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:12.319 But Charlie got transferred to London, so we went there immediately after I took 30 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.800 my last final exam and we came back nine years later with two little boys, 31 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:20.800 and I decided that, being out of Bartlesville for almost a decade and 32 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.039 wanting to stay home and raise my kids, that I would take advantage of, 33 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:28.319 as you all know in this audience, the multitude of opportunities in this 34 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.759 community to be of service as a volunteer, whether it was in the school's 35 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:37.199 parents support group, band orchestra, choir, booster club, many nonprofits, 36 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.360 including my beloved Boys and Girls Club, and then coming here and sitting behind 37 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.439 this table for eight years, a couple of years in tom Seed as mayor 38 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:50.080 and serving on our city council. And I did that intentionally because I'm a 39 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.360 conservative, a lifelong Republican with very conservative values, and I wanted to apply 40 00:02:54.960 --> 00:03:00.159 my political philosophy to governing and I did that here and it worked out very 41 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.479 well. And so when I had the opportunity in twenty sixteen, I ran 42 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:07.879 for the state Senate. And I have had the extreme honor of serving you 43 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.560 for eight years. I would like to serve the last four because all the 44 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.159 things I said about volunteering in this community and all the things I bring to 45 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:20.400 the table, you can add even more to that. After eight years as 46 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.120 your state senator, and I hope to get into more of what I have 47 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.639 been able to do. And I appreciate very much being here, and i'd 48 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.080 appreciate your vote on June eighteen. Thank you. We have our first question. 49 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:35.360 These were formulated and set in via email to us at the radio station. 50 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.639 We've condensed a few for time, and first one is about water conservation, 51 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:45.719 water protection and even perhaps finding new sources of water. It's a big 52 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.080 issue in our part of Oklahoma. As we grow and expand, more people 53 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.879 are finding us here. From the position of a state senator, what can 54 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.680 you do to protect our interest in these efforts? And what can be done 55 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.520 in your position pro active? I took some experience with water issues with me 56 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.560 to the Senate. We all know about the drought of two thousand and one 57 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:11.800 and our twenty plus year effort which is gaining even more steam now to ultimately 58 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.560 resolve our water supply problem up here in Washton County. But I was allowed 59 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:19.560 to serve on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee the first two years in the 60 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:25.839 Senate, a natural fit for somebody from Bartlesville, USA, but also because 61 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.439 of the water experience, I was able to engage on the conservation issues and 62 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.879 the great need to expend dollars on water infrastructure issues in our state. Just 63 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.639 this past session. I do not recall if we ended up putting all of 64 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.399 it into the budget, but we were looking to put an initial one hundred 65 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.439 and twenty five million dollars into water infrastructure repairs and construction in our state, 66 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.160 because the best way to conserve water is to make sure you're not losing it 67 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.199 as you treat it and transport it to people's homes. So it's a big 68 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.519 state wide issue, and it's a bipartisan issue, solder treatment plant upgrades. 69 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.600 And I'm also very very proud of the fact that I've now putting in place 70 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:14.079 the science we're measuring progress of individual students and so in the public education system. 71 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.319 I think that's the best thing we can do for parents, teachers, 72 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:21.079 and children. And also of course always looking at the overburdened side. So 73 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.800 will you ever support driver's licenses for illegal aliens? Thank you for the question. 74 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.279 It's come up a lot. On May the twenty fourth of this year, 75 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.360 we passed the Anti Illegal Immigration Act in Oklahoma. We're already being sued 76 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:41.519 by the Department of Justice which is not a surprise to us, but a 77 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.639 bill to allow people who pay income tax with a taxpayer ID number to become 78 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.120 eligible for a driver's license, so that they would buy insurance and cut down 79 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:56.439 on the problem of uninsured drivers on our roads, which is also a public 80 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.199 safety problem for having people for whom you have no idea when they are stopped 81 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.680 contributing to hit and run accidents. That language was attempted to be put into 82 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:12.480 our bill on May the twenty fourth, and the entire Senate Republican caucus voted 83 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.639 it down, including me. Now, this is the fourth time that bill 84 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.920 has been introduced. It's had three different numbers. But the same subject matter 85 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:24.920 was put before us in twenty twenty two, and at the time, the 86 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:30.480 great concern was making sure if you adopted this policy that those folks would not 87 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.600 have voter registration services, would not be allowed to register or vote. Many 88 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.959 groups were in favor of the policy. Again, looking at the problem of 89 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.079 uninsured drivers in Oklahoma, we have a large percentage of that. It is 90 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:46.759 a problem which I've just described. So I voted to send it to the 91 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.519 House because I thought if the House addresses it, it means both sides of 92 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:57.680 the legislature think it's an important issue and perhaps this is a policy that would 93 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.079 help it. The House didn't act. That bill did not pass. There 94 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.920 are people today who think it is in effect, but it did not pass. 95 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.319 And I told the author in March of twenty twenty two, I won't 96 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.160 vote for this again. I gave you a chance to put the policy to 97 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.120 the House. We all agreed it is a problem in Oklahoma, but that's 98 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.879 not the appropriate way to solve it. In twenty three, twenty four, 99 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.839 I helped make sure it didn't get to the floor as an assistant floor leader, 100 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.240 and then on April the twenty fourth, along with my Republican colleagues, 101 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:32.759 I voted that amendment down. So I'm not in favor of illegal residents having 102 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:39.199 driver's licenses. Senator, the authored bills regarding gender transitioning and children. Can 103 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.680 you explain them to the audience? Yes. I was put as chairman of 104 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.839 the Rules Committee last year specifically to take up legislation where the Republican caucus wanted 105 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:53.639 to speak with one voice, and I had the opportunity to direct the drafting 106 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:59.759 of a bill that would prohibit gender transition procedures in minor children, children under 107 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.240 the age of eighteen, because in Oklahoma, once you're eighteen, you can 108 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.079 make your own medical decisions. And I took great care in crafting it. 109 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.040 My goal was to make sure it could stand up in court, and so 110 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.040 far we have prevailed in federal district court and we're awaiting a decision from the 111 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:22.879 Tenth Circuit right now. We said that we are not doing anything about behavioral 112 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.279 care, mental health care, anxiety depression. Those were not involved in this 113 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:35.360 bill. It was simply the physical treatments on minor children that we wanted to 114 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.960 avoid because you're making adult decisions as a child, and I believe that parents 115 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.240 have been put in a very awkward position. Some of my colleagues actually wanted 116 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.240 the bill to write to be written to prosecute the parents, and I said, 117 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.360 no, absolutely not. The parents themselves are at a loss in some 118 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.840 of these situations, so we need to show compassion for both the kids and 119 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.759 the parents. But just make sure that in Oklahoma we don't to perform these 120 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:05.279 procedures on children. And got that passed fairly handly, and again we have 121 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.720 prevailed thus far, and other states that have done it our way, just 122 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:15.200 clear and not tried to muddy the waters by putting too many other things in 123 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.039 the bill have also prevailed in the courts, and that is my goal. 124 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.600 Good policy that can stand up in a court of law. Senator, can 125 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:30.159 you explain Senate Bill eight thirty four and whether it allows more abortions back in 126 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.120 Oklahoma? Thank you. No, it was not intended to do that, 127 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.039 and we did not take up the bill in the end. I regret so 128 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.480 much that there is a division in the pro life community in Oklahoma at the 129 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.720 time that we are facing two very fierce foes. We are facing the Oklahoma 130 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:54.399 Supreme Court, which declared a right to abortion in the Oklahoma Constitution in March 131 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.519 of last year, at the very same time that I was trying to get 132 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.679 eight thirty four passed. To make all of the language and all of our 133 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:09.039 statutes having to do with abortion and pro life read the same. Every definition 134 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.799 should be the same, every exception should be the same, so that our 135 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.480 state Supreme Court could not pick the laws apart and find a weak link. 136 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.600 But they found a weeklink because we took no action. And now we are 137 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:26.480 facing the abortionists themselves who will be coming to Oklahoma for our unborn children, 138 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.600 and we have not done enough to protect the unborn from the ad campaign that 139 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.240 is going to be coming our way that has swept other states, other pro 140 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.279 life states just like ours. Eight thirty four was intended to say, if 141 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.559 the exception exists in this part of the law, it should exist over here. 142 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.399 I was the author, the Senate author of House Bill for three two 143 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:54.519 seven. That was the Steerman Daniels bill that did shut the abortion clinics down 144 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.519 in Oklahoma. It was because you could sue the abortionist rather than the criminal 145 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:03.159 law you sue. And that was the bill that had the rape and incest 146 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.960 exception in it for the very first time in our statutes. So I simply 147 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:13.679 took that and said, along with ectoptic presidency and our definition of contraception and 148 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.360 our definition of save the life of the mother, we're going to make all 149 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:22.039 of our statutes sound the same so that the abortionists and the pro abortion Supreme 150 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.360 Court cannot pick them apart. We didn't take that action. We've already suffered 151 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.679 in the state Supreme Court, and I fear we will suffer when the initiative 152 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:35.120 petition for abortion on demand up until the time of birth in our constitution comes 153 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.480 our way and we better be prepared to fight for life at that time. 154 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.000 Senator, do you agree or disagree with using tax payer dollars for economic development 155 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:50.039 instead of allowing the free market to function. When I served on the city 156 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:54.519 council, I remember going to our economic development people over the chamber early on 157 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.440 and saying, I don't like incentives. Why can't we get rid of these 158 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:03.279 incentives, to which he said, that's fine. When everybody else gets rid 159 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.440 of them, we can get rid of them. But to be competitive sometimes 160 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.200 you have to have incentives. Here in Bartlesville, we have what a quarter 161 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:15.240 cent economic development sales tax that we have renewed every five years for over three 162 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:22.399 decades, and it has worked exactly as it's supposed to. Jobs, bring 163 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.080 it to the BDA, bring it to the city council, have the format 164 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.000 for the rebate or the incentive baked in before the money goes out the door, 165 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.720 and then if you don't achieve what you said you're going to achieve, 166 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.840 the money comes back into the kitty. It's the same the state level. 167 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.759 It's a little more complicated and the numbers of dollars are larger than they are 168 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.759 for a city. But I believe in certain instances incentives are justified. We 169 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.039 have a Quality Jobs Act in Oklahoma's been here a long long time. That 170 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.799 is all practically on autopilot. Over in the Department of Commerce. I know 171 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.879 Chronicle Phillips benefited from it. ABB's benefited from it. These one off, 172 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.639 one time things do come to us. I much prefer rebates to putting money 173 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:09.000 out the door and then hoping that you get the return on the investment. 174 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:15.840 We are looking at how our Department of Commerce is structured to make sure that 175 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.679 we couldn't do it better. It was proposed that we should create an entire 176 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.639 separate Department of Commerce for economic development this last year. I opposed that. 177 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.440 I told the author I wasn't going to do that, and in the end 178 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.320 the bill was simply to set up a committee to study how can we do 179 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.000 economic development better in Oklahoma? So if we do use tax dollars, we 180 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:41.679 do it in the most sophisticated, well researched way possible. Our next question 181 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.360 came into via email as well. Why is our legislator are allowing a bar 182 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:52.240 association which is a private organization. Why are they given the right to appoint 183 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:58.840 members of the important judicial nominating Commission. Gosh, Tom, I didn't send 184 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:03.559 a question, but it could have been from me. My biggest reform effort 185 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.159 this year, and I've been building on it for several years, is judicial 186 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.360 reform, which is changing the way we appoint our appellate justices in Oklahoma. 187 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.919 I want the people to decide whether or not they'd like to move to the 188 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:20.600 federal system. The President vets and appoints, the Senate confirms, and then 189 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.679 they get life tenure. We have life tenure now with this retention ballot. 190 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.559 We've never thrown any justice off. But given what I've just said about the 191 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.480 pro life issue, I suggest you vote off Couger and Edmondson when you have 192 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:37.240 the opportunity in November. They are two of the five pro abortion justices who 193 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.720 found the right to abortion in our constitution. I want to change it so 194 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:48.799 that we take this unelected commission out of the loop. Right now, people 195 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.279 apply to be a justice, which I've always thought is rather odd. But 196 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.519 you apply to be a justice, you're vetted by this commission that is unduly 197 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:01.159 influenced by the Bar Association because they're the only law lawyers allowed on the commission. 198 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.159 So when you turn to somebody and say you're a lawyer, you know 199 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:11.080 more than me. That's been entirely controlled by the Bar Association electing its members 200 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.159 to the Commission. It's been in place for almost fifty years. Before that, 201 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.480 we had partisan elections of justices. And so I'd like to give the 202 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.440 folks the opportunity to say, yes, the governor's elected by all the people. 203 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:28.000 The Senate is elected by the districts. So you've got the two elected 204 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.720 branches should be the ones making the appointment and the confirmation, and then set 205 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:39.840 this independent judiciary on its way. I think we would get much better decisions 206 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:43.519 from our court. They would be much more reflective of the people of the 207 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.799 state of Oklahoma. Sadly, even though the Senate got it, I'm proud 208 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.919 of by Senate colleagues, the House did not. They it failed. The 209 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.399 House didn't want the people to get to vote on this. But I'll be 210 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.000 back to try again because I think it would get a much better result for 211 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:03.000 us in Oklahoma. Patiently, when they act as legislators in black robes. 212 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.399 I have two more questions for you here before we wrap up. Center. 213 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.000 If a pandemic were to occur again, such as COVID, nineteen, would 214 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.759 you vote to require masks in public building? Thank you. Note I drew 215 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:22.240 the line on telling private employers what they must do, anything that prohibited government 216 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.360 from demanding a vaccine or a mask. I was absolutely all for that. 217 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:30.759 I'm very proud of the fact that we already had in place in Oklahoma very 218 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.200 limited emergency powers for our governor what other states were looking at as model language. 219 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.600 We already had a thirty day emergency. It had to be re upped 220 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.399 by the legislature. They could take it away at any time. So we 221 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.440 entered the pandemic with the tools in place to make sure that our freedoms were 222 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:53.080 not unduly affected by that very tumultuous time. The other thing I was able 223 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:56.080 to do then, with one of my colleagues in the House, was to 224 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:02.480 write the bill that gave liability protecttion to business owners. When we were starting 225 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.279 to open up again, people said, what if we're sued? So we 226 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:10.119 made sure that as long as you were file following one guidance from the Department 227 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:14.680 of Labor or the Centers for Disease Control or the Oklahoma Department Health, if 228 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.400 you were following one of those guidances, you would not be liable if somebody 229 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.440 claimed they contracted COVID in their place of employment or in the business, and 230 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.359 that was another thing that helped get us open a lot quicker than some of 231 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:33.839 the other states. Senator, what steps would you take to end the state 232 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.799 income tax? I have tried to do that already, and along with judicial 233 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.079 reform, I will continue to work on it. I'm frustrated that we have 234 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:48.039 not yet adopted a formula by which we can gradually reduce the income tax depending 235 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.319 on state revenues. We did it before, but did it in such a 236 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.279 way that as soon as revenue went up a little bit, it triggered the 237 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.200 cut, and then we faced the budget shortfall of time twenty seventeen and twenty 238 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:06.319 eighteen, and people got completely cold feet about the trigger that was in place, 239 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.440 and so they repealed it. I've been on a tax reform task force, 240 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.400 hard to say, for the last two years, where we've studied how 241 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.559 all the other states do it, and we've had the Tax Foundation in here, 242 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.880 We've had ALEC in here, We've had the state and the US Chamber 243 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:26.079 of Commerce talking about how different states construct their tax code so as to figure 244 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:30.039 out a way to gradually go to zero. I authored the quarter sent reduction 245 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.920 in twenty three. The ProTem took it away from me, but that's okay. 246 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.240 We got it passed. And this year with the Speaker, I authored 247 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:42.039 that again without the cut but just the formula. But again there's just too 248 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:47.880 much disagreement on which is the right way to go for the Republican Party in 249 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.079 both houses to unite. So I will continue to work on that. Senator, 250 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.880 it's down time for your closing statement. Thank you, so. Tax 251 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:00.720 cuts, judicial reform protecting the Republican reforms were put in place when my party 252 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:07.519 finally took the majority in both houses after one hundred years of rule by the 253 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.279 now minority party. It's important to protect those reforms, lawsuit reform, workers 254 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:17.640 comp reform, pension reform, because they impact every decision that we make, 255 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:22.480 particularly the monetary ones at the state level. And because of term limits, 256 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.599 which I do support and voted for, I am now the institutional knowledge for 257 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:32.359 those reforms, because when the pro tem turns out this year, there won't 258 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:37.359 be anybody left except those of us who were working through the Republican Party to 259 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.759 get legislators to put those reforms in place. So I will continue to work 260 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.960 on those. I'm very interested in rolling back regulations. We have far too 261 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:52.839 many. Even in a state that doesn't overly regulate, we could improve greatly, 262 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.160 and I believe this would be a great help to small business owners in 263 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:02.839 our state who employ most of the people. Standing up for individual freedom will 264 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:07.039 continue to be very important to me. Having passed bills on campus free speech, 265 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:15.119 free exercise of religion, donor privacy, election integrity, I continue to 266 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.640 be asked to run those sorts of bills, and I will continue to work 267 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.680 with all those advocates that want to protect our freedoms and so. In closing, 268 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.119 it's been the honor of a lifetime to serve these last eight years. 269 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.839 I've had some opportunities the last six years to be in leadership which allows me 270 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:36.559 to have a larger voice and input at the table about what happens in our 271 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:41.480 state and therefore what happens in Senate District twenty nine. I think those opportunities 272 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.319 are ahead of me for these next four years, and I would appreciate your 273 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:51.680 vote. On June eighteen, danielsokaysenate dot com Facebook centator to Julie Daniel's message 274 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.200 me, or you can text or call me at nine one eight three three 275 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.880 one seven two sixty seven. Thank you KWN, Thank you Bartlesville. Thank 276 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:03.960 you Senate District twenty nine. Thank you very much, Senator Julie Daniels. 277 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:08.160 Once again, folks, that you can catch all of our podcasts from all 278 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:12.240 of our candidates on our website at Bartlesville Radio dot com. It's called the 279 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.599 campaign Corner. It's enter the demand tab, so if you want to go 280 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.559 there. And also a reminder that we have early voting on Thursday and Friday 281 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.519 upstairs fourth floor. Saturday as well, shortened time. I believe it's eight 282 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:27.839 to two and that's upstairs two on the fourth floor as well. Again, 283 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:32.519 thank you Senator Daniels for being our guest here tonight. Folks, you are 284 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:37.960 watching and listening to our forum for our twenty twenty four primary. It's right 285 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.599 here at City Hall in Bartlesville and it's being brought to you by Phillip sixty 286 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:51.400 six and Susicq's Village Mall on AM fourteen hundred KWON Bartlesville, FM, ninety 287 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:59.480 three point three K one Bartlesville and also at ninety five point one kW and 288 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.000 as well as K one TV dot com. We'll be back with more after 289 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.880 these words on K one, the one you trust