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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome in

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time. Now for our community connection, we have John Strum on with us.

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He is running for re election in
District ten. John, been to

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any good forums lately? Say again, been to good any good forums lately?

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We've been to quite a few forums. People like to get together and

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visit. Yeah, and we like
to get up and tell I tell people

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about what we've done. People like
to hear what we've been doing down at

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the city and invite us to come
to some forums. We've got a you

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know, Republican Women's Afternoon, We've
had Washington County GOP forum, We've had

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the City Forum down here. And
I appreciate the opportunity to get up and

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visit with people. It's kind of
hard to broadcast what you do, you

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know, in a rural district.
We don't have all the TV stations and

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all the big newspapers and all the
big publications. So any opportunity we get

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to get up in front of people
and visit, I tend to take.

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Are you ready to take some rapid
fire? I'm ready to take some rapid

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fires. All right, let's get
it. What is your stance on abortion?

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I am very much pro life.
It's I think, you know,

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abortion is a terrible thing that you
know, we should be ended in Oklahoma

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and really is we As soon as
Roe versus Way fell, we reverted in

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Oklahoma back to a nineteen ten bill
that made it illegal, made it a

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felony and punishable by law, and
I was we were glad to see that.

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I've taken a lot of hits for
voting against I think it was forty

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three twenty seven or whatever that was. But I had a lot of problems

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with that bill. It was a
good red meat bill, but the problem

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was it blended criminal law and civil
law, so you could sue somebody that

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for something that didn't affect you at
all. And in criminal law, you

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offend the state and the estate punishes
you. In civil law, you affect

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your neighbor negatively, and they can
sue you if you back over their fence.

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You know they owe you twelve hundred
dollars. If you run into your

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car, you owe them. But
you can't sue somebody just because you're offended.

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A judge can throw that out and
say, you know, you don't

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have grounds to sue. And that
bill blended those and while it's a powerful

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topic. It's a slippery slope to
start opening our legal system up to that

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where everyone can just sue anybody because
they're doing something that they don't like,

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even if it doesn't affect them.
And so, but we do have the

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toughest laws here in the state of
Oklahoma on abortion, and I'm glad to

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see it. There's a thing called
track in tax when it comes to motor

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vehicles. Tell us a little bit
about that, and where do you stand.

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I'm awful proud of that legislation as
well. I get hit on that.

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As far as it be an Orwelian
government trying to track everywhere you go,

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I don't want that. But in
twenty twenty three they said that thirty

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percent of the new passenger cars were
electric, where they were hybrid, where

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they were some alternative form of gas. Well, we pay for the roads

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in Oklahoma with the gas tax and
the diesel tax nineteen cents a gallon on

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gas, nineteen cents a gallon on
diesel. They don't pay, and if

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they do pay, they pay when
they buy the car. They pay a

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little bit. That says this is
tof set that. Well, it doesn't

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match up and so we've said,
if the gas and diesel people are fine

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with footing the bill for the roads, which adds up to about five hundred

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and eighty million dollars out of those
taxes, we can leave things the way

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they are, but the way it
is now. If they look at the

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price of roads going up, they
say that by twenty thirty four, our

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gas tax will have to be go
from nineteen cents to forty cents a gallon.

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Oh and if they do or they
don't, they project that they'll be

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more electric cars. I don't know
that their will either way. It's twenty

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twenty four now. In ten years, I don't want them more than double

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what I'm paying for gas to pay
for the roads, especially when a good

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part of the population is not helping. And then by twenty fifty gas cars

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will have to have be passenger cars
will have to be getting forty nine miles

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per gallon per the federal government.
So what we're looking at is roads and

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bridges becoming more expensive and fewer people
contributing to pay for that, or the

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people that drive gas and diesel vehicles
will have to foot the entire bill.

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So we've passed a bill to make
a study not to track in tax.

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We put a study on that said, what do we need to do by

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twenty twenty four, now by twenty
thirty four, what do we need to

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do by twenty forty four, just
to look at that and see what's going

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on in the future, and you
know, the alternatives we come up with.

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We're completely get rid of the gas
and elect or gas and diesel tax

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and take that out of say sales
tax, take that out of property tax,

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take that out of you know,
to pay for roads and bridges and

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why is that on your tax.
The study was about nine months. It

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ended. It didn't cost us much. It was all people that already worked

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for the government or agencies that contributed
and they produced the study already it's on

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o dot's website. You can go
look at it and see what the alternatives

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are. But we're not doing anything
now and the bill didn't do anything now.

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But we need to know what we
need to do in the future to

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be able to maintain the infrastructure.
And so it was very important. I

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was glad to be a part of
it. That's from what did you stand

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on in education in Oklahoma? Education? I have in District ten, we

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have in District ten. The district
I represent sixteen public school districts that educate

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our kids. I am a very
strong public education person candidate I suppose representative.

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I want our kids to have every
opportunity in the world. And I

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think we've done a lot of work. We've done a lot of great work

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backing up and looking at looking and
seeing what we need to do to prepare

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those kids for the world. And
some of the greatest things that we've done

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we've done in the last few years, which is to look at like say,

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I cap your individual career path and
a kid in ninth grade that knows

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what they want to go into,
we should get them on that path.

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And something I've said that is always
that's very important to me that I've worked

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on the whole time i've been down
there, is giving kids an opportunity to

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graduate from high school with a marketable
skill, to get them a certification,

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to get them, you know,
an education that they can come out with

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and feed their family, support themselves. And it's one of the things I

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say, it's kind of a joke, but not really. If you come

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out of high school and you have
an HVAC certification, an HVAC, you

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know, heating and air certification,
or a welding certification or auto mechanic certification

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in two or three years. If
you don't really like what you're doing,

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you're making sixty grand a year and
you can go do whatever you want after

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that. But the real idea behind
that is sixty seven percent of our kids

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never go on to any form of
higher education, so they're limited to a

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high school diploma. That's what they
have to offer the world. Now they've

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got, you know, the sweat
on their back and their elbow grease to

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offer, and that's that's great,
but for the rest of your life,

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you're stuck at that line. Where
a person can come out now in the

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state of Oklahoma with an associate's degree, an associate business degree. They can

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come out with a certification for electronics, HVAC, plumbing, you know,

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the trades things we need, construction, and I'm glad to see those things

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going into our schools. You know, in no uder you can fly an

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airplane and right there in the classroom, and aeronautics are second largest industry in

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the state of Oklahoma. So we're
comparing those kids now for the jobs that

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we have Again, and the jobs
that we're going to have. It's twenty

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twenty four. Now what are those
kids going to need in twenty thirty four,

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twenty forty four, And so we're
looking at those things. But ultimately,

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in education, I want the kids
to have every opportunity they can get

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to succeed. And I want our
schools to be strong. So many of

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our local schools too, and our
public schools are are our communities. You

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know, I'm a bowering wrangler.
I'll always be a bowering wrangler. I

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work for Copan hornets, I work
for ironmen, I work for bruins.

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And these are rural schools that I
think a lot of times don't get the

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attention that they deserve out here in
the country. And I know it's hard

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for a lot of people to take, but Bartlesville is a rural community,

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less than fifty thousand people, and
so they don't get the attention that the

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big city the metropolitan schools get and
I work all the time to make sure

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that they get that attention and get
the resources that they need to succeed.

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You've done some things with frank Anty
Tech. They've been pretty awesome. Absolutely,

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you're a firefighter. So you know, we have a great opportunity.

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Our career techs have blossoms, not
the word, but but have really grown

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to encompass the things the kids need
again to succeed. And you know out

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at Tri County Tech, they they've
got the spread and they ask all the

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time, what can we do to
help? What do we need to do?

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And and I went out one day, you know, with the previous

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president out there, and we had
a good discussion. One of the things

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we needed around here was we were
having to send our firefighters and and EMTs

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and stuff to to burn's flat or
to steal water or to aid it a

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train. And it was expensive to
do that and it was limiting. And

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so we went right out here at
Try County Tech and we built the Burn

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Tower. And you know, they've
extended that into classes for EMTs and emergency

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management and fire training and everywhere I
go, my my guys always run through

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my fire departments and they're excited to
have it and they're able to you know,

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they were just out there last night
night before last doing ropes training and

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doing doing uh you know, burn
training. And again it's a great opportunity.

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We were able to bring right here
to Bartlesville and provokes you might not

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be as familiar with you as as
I am. I tell folks a little

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bit about you. You've been here
for a darn long time. Yeah,

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I grew up. I tell people
I live in the house a mile from

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the house. I came home from
the hospital and I'm right out on the

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Strong ranch on Hulut Lake. My
family out there were very much community oriented.

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We work in the in the rural
fire department, we work in the

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school. My grandpa helped build the
water department out there, and we've you

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know, helped to maintain it.
And we're very community oriented. And so

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this this position to me was an
extension of community service. What can I

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do to go help? And again
it came from that the rural area is

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being left behind. We love being
rural, but we also want opportunities.

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We like clean water, we like
good roads. We like to think that

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our roads are being patrolled at night, you know, and we can sleep

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safely in our beds. We want
those things. And so when I ran,

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you know, I ran against a
I ran against a great man,

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you know, big heart, good
family. I mean, he was a

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great man, but he he's legislated
from a starting platform that was kind of

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limiting to those things. And we
were work and then on getting our fire

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departments built up, and it was
one of the things I couldn't get help

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with and led me into that.
But I still live on the ranch.

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I still run cattle. I'm a
pipeline inspector, kind of an amateur pilot.

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I suppose I've lived here for forty
almost six years now, and I'm

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just a part of this community.
And all of these are my communities.

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You know, I'd say I'm from
Bowering, but you know, my buddies

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and my family and stuff are in
Copaine and Bartlesville and wan and Coffeeville in

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South Coffeeville and the town yeah,
the good towns. So I'm just,

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I guess, kind of a homeboy
here trying to do trying to do my

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best for my people down in Oklahoma
City. Speaking of Oklahoma City, you've

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been in office a couple of terms. I tell us a little bit about

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what you've done in your time in
office, so folks find out about that.

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You know, it's an odd deal. I tell people. I kind

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of fill an odd role in the
capitol. I'm not so many people want

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to pass bills and come home and
say, look what I did. What

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I did, Here's this bill I
ran, And they've got these fancy titles,

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and they do. I spend more
time searching for unintended consequences and killing

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bad bills than ever running good bills, and you don't hear much about mine.

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I passed some incredible legislation that doesn't
exist anywhere else in the United States.

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You know, we had the Marshall
Dillon Bill, which if you commit

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a crime and a DA can offer
you a lesser sentence if you don't return

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to the judicial district you were found
guilty in. And if you remember that

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Marshall dollingy take you to the county
line and say don't come back to whatever

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it was, Custer County. That
benefits on both sides, the people that

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committed the crime. I don't know
if someone stole my lawnmow, if I'd

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want them to sit in a concrete
cell for fifteen years or something. But

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I don't want them around me.
You know, go to go to jail

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for your time, and then go. But the other benefit is that it

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gets those people that did commit the
crime, you know, it gets them

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out of the community that they knew. It gets them away from the bad

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sort that they were running with.
It gives them their opportunity to start fresh

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and new. You know, you
don't have that ego problem. You can't

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come out of jail and be the
cool guy in sweet floors at the little

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job you had at home. But
you can go to Tulsa, you can

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go somewhere else and you don't have
that holding you back. You might as

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well take part in the programs we
have to get you back into society,

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education programs and job programs and stuff
and start fresh and new. So that

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was good. You know, I
worked with Phillip sixty six several years ago.

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You had the big problem with everyone
getting their credit card skinned. We

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went down to the Capitol. I
worked with Phillip sixty six and their Sea

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stores, and we passed legislation that
doesn't exist anywhere else that made the implement

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the item that did the scanning a
felony to possess in the state of Oklahoma.

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Absolutely decimated credit card crime. We've
done a lot of good. You

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know, the emergency happened to Barnsdall, and we were that critical time right

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after an emergency where everyone just you
know, kind of throws their hands up

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and can't do anything. I was
able to go down and pass out a

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legislation that gave the governor fifteen million
dollars in the emergency management thirty million dollars.

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It's just a savings account. But
now we can lend those communities those

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resources, those liquid resources, so
that they can respond to the emergency immediately,

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and then when they're paid back from
FEMA, they can pay the state

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back. It's a savings account.
It's just sat over there to use.

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But those are little things that we
needed. I've worked on, you know,

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water resources issues. I've worked a
lot of water resources issue around here,

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you know, with Barne Doll and
the Waxoma Dam, with with Hula

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and Copainn and Bartlesville on water quality
problems. The people want clean water and

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they want the bad water removed,
and we have to keep that going.

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I mean, those are those are
health things, those are things people want,

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and so those are the things I
work on behind the scenes. You

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know, last year I worked with
the head of the ag the Department of

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bag a good friend of mine,
Blaint Arthur, and we created the Emergency

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Drought Commission. We were three years
into one of the worst droughts that this

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community has ever seen. And what
we were able to go do is put

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together this commission and we came back
and said, what do we need to

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do to help people fix this problem? And we created the Emergency Drought Commission.

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We came up with some solutions.
We we ran pipes, we cleaned

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out ponds, we cleaned out waterways. We worked with some of our local

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water systems to be able to divert
and use water that couldn't move in that

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direction, couldn't get where it needed
to be, so we could get water

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where it needed. You know,
it's just these little things that we could

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do to make things better during the
drought, and then you get busted for

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growing government. Well, that entire
commission, nobody benefited from that more than

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District ten did. Our people needed
that bad and it was needed. We

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used it. It's done, and
so you know, again it's something that

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I always tell people, this job
has absolutely no executive power, but you've

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got a great title and a great
phone list, and I use that for

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the people of District ten, and
so it's great to be able to do

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that. How can people get in
touch with you in case they question any

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any way in the world you want
to. I mean, the the easy

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way is Judd dot Strom at Oka
House dot go. I mean, that's

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that's my official email, and everything
flows right through there. It comes in.

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And the good thing is I know
how to contact people back through that.

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I mean, if it comes through
there, it's all logged and kept

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track of. You know, I
have a Facebook strong for state representative.

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Just I've been you see. The
phone beeps and rattles all the time in

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this position. People say, oh, you only work four months a year.

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I work three hundred and sixty five
days a year. I work for

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forty thousand people in District ten and
I work. A good friend of mine

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told me once that the best thing
you can do in this job would be

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a great advocate for your people.
And I think about that every day.

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And when my phone starts ringing at
six o'clock or six thirty in the morning,

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I get up and I go to
the desk and I start work,

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and I work all day long for
the people I represent for District ten.

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All right, goud, good luck
to you. It's an early voting starts

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today, continues tomorrow Saturday, and
of course, election day on Tuesday.

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Thanks for being with us, you
bet. Thanks for having me all right,

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Judd Strong District ten