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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for part two of
our community connection. Here on K one,

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the one you drush. We have
Julie Quinn in which is today,

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and I understand that we're running.
We're running, We're running to do something.

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Somebody might be running, somebody might
be run running. All right,

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good running to win? I like
that. Here we go, tell us

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more about it. Well, this
coming Monday, we have our next ROCWC

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meeting. That is our Association Republican
and Other Conservatives of Washington County, and

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so our run to win is we
are bringing a group of elected officials together,

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school board, city council, county
officials, state officials. They're ten

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of them over eighty years of experience
serving in their respective areas, and they're

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going to illuminate us about what are
they really like? Word of qualifications?

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Where does the criteria? Before you
even think about running? What should be

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thinking about what it's like on the
other side of winning? And did you

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know all that kind of stuff.
I think a lot of people get the

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idea that once you're in, you're
in, and once you win, it's

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you know, you see them in
the prey they're cutting ribbon here and there,

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and I guess some folks don't realize
there's a lot of work. There's

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a lot of work, and a
lot of them are volunteer positions and some

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of them are paid, you know, at the city level, at the

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county level, and even if someone
doesn't want to run for an elected position,

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there's plenty of opportunity to serve on
committees within our city. Governor Stitt

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has a lot of committees at the
state level, and so do some of

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the other elected officials. And so
if that's something you're interested in, we

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might even talk about that as well. How do you apply for that?

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Because if you have a thought maybe
I would like to be involved in,

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you know, the political arena,
well, do you really know what you're

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prepared for? And then do you
know where to go and seek those opportunities

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out? And so we're going to
cover all of that on Monday night.

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This is really good for folks who
really want to be a change, an

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agent of change for the good.
Yes, and because most of these positions

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are nonpartisan, we're taking a non
partisan approach for our panel discussion or presentation

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and just hear those different perspectives and
again a lot of people don't really know

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what happens once you say yes,
or what campaigning is like, or what

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it might cost, the time commitments, the scrutiny that you're under, as

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we put here, like, do
people know that the Open Meeting Act is

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well, it might be good to
know something about that. I get something

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about that. Yeah, And the
scrutiny, you know, that's a big

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time. And so when you're a
public officially, you can be asked all

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sorts of questions and be held accountable
for those things. And so we'll talk

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about accountability and then the positions that
they hold, how they're responsible to we

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the people. This is going to
be an eye opener, not only for

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those who wish to run, just
those who are just curious as to how

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this all operates. You listen to
it on the radio, you hear about

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it on the TV, you read
about it on the online, and you

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kind of wonder, well, what's
the nuts and bolts of all of this

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and what really goes on? That's
right, And so for those of us

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who are, you know, sitting
in our regular job during the week and

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still interested, it's important that we
understand their perspective and what they do for

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us, because really they're they're there
to serve us and be our voice,

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and so how can we interact.
We shouldn't look at one of our senators,

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our representatives, or even our county
officials and go, oh my gosh,

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I can't even approach them. You
can build that relationship by understanding where

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they came from, how they got
there, and then you know, work

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on the relationship to drive change and
that makes change even better. Now,

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Quinnway, I like what you said
about having you know, that that great

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institutional knowledge it's going to be there
and all that experience to speak to these

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questions. Yeah, we're not disclosing
who all is going to be on the

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panel, who's moderating, but I
can assure you it's going to be informative.

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Huh, it's going to be entertaining, and I'm going to draw a

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lot of people. We only have
about forty five to fifty minutes for the

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actual presentation. We have, you
know, elections coming up, and a

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lot of people don't even understand something
like you have to file. What is

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that process like? So for example, for the school board, filing is

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the first week of December. I
don't know the exact date, but there

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are three seats that could potentially rotate
in the school board this next year,

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so people realize they need to file
before they can do anything else. And

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then there's ethics and reporting and all
kinds of stuff that goes along with that

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whole process that some people just think
I can run for the school board,

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but you have to back it up
a little bit. And while we're so

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focused on the November fifth, twenty
twenty four presidential election, we've got the

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presidential preferential election in March. There's
the primaries in June, the runoffs in

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August. There's school board election,
special election, county county commissionery elections.

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There are a lot of different elections, it's not just the November fifth one,

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and a lot of opportunities for people
to be informed to think about surfing.

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Now. I lived in Illinois and
people voted a lot there, but

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not legally. But we have a
lot more elections and opportunities to vote legally

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sanctioned here in Oklahoma, and I
don't think a lot of people really realize

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that we do. That. We
are going to have a handout on Monday

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to show exactly when those dates are
good because that's important and so that's that's

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going to be available and we want
to get that in the hands of everybody

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so they know when to show up
legally and how to vote. And it

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will always have voter registrations at our
meetings because we that's one of our core

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kind of opportunities and actions that we
take to get people registered to vote.

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Now, where are we going to
do this again? This is going to

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be a crossing second in the garage, the back room in the cross the

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second downtown and we meet every third
Monday at six point thirty. It'd be

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six thirty aven Now, having said
that, we're not going to meet in

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December, but we already have a
lineup for our programs in the new year,

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tom because we're being very strategic about
the information, the opportunities, the

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education, because our vision really is
to develop, elect and support conservative political

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leaders for our community and our state
and everywhere in between. And if it's

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not a topic that gets us to
that, then we're probably you know,

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going to wait till after twenty twenty
four to bring those those speakers and those

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opportunities in because we want to be
very purposeful. And the education and the

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opportunities that are that are facing us
in twenty twenty four. Now, recently

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you had our Lieutenant governor Yes in
town and that was standing roomotely and you

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know, people didn't know really what
to expect, but what they got out

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of it was a little bit of
an education and it didn't take long.

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And by golly, there was a
lot of levity to kind of break up

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the serious and I anticipate we're probably
going to use a similar formula this time.

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Yeah, I think we have again. We have some really great lineup

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in the new year. And when
we're talking about the election, we have

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the election Board is going to be
doing a presentation. I spent a couple

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of hours with Yvonne House and I
had no idea what goes on behind the

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scenes. Idea, Now, she
won't be talking for two hours, but

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there's a lot of that goes She
could, but there's a lot of things

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that go on there that people want
to can be made aware of. I

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want to plan on something that Julie
said, often we think these elected officials

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are unapproachable. We're in a smaller
community and a lot of these people are

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in our community. We see him
at Walmart, We see him at the

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street. You can attend these meetings, their public meetings, and they're all

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very approachable, So I encourage people, You'll get to know the people,

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get to know the positions they have, and if you're seeking election for a

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certain position, and get to know
the people who've been part of that,

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and they'll have an opportunity to interact
with at least ten of them. And

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we always have other present or former
elected officials at our meetings that people can

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visit with. People will be surprised
to know that your elected officials have homes,

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families, and they drive many of
the same streets you do, and

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they have a lot more in common
with you than you would think. Absolutely,

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and they're more than willing to listen
and you know, collaborate and work

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with others. I mean, they
don't want to be disrespected or you know,

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anything like that. We definitely wouldn't
do that. But if you build

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that relationship, then you can drive
some change and sometimes they'll call you.

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If you know, if you're in
banking or real estate or agriculture, they're

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going to reach out to you to
get your perspective on those things. And

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so having that relationship is important as
they're representing our voice very good. So

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this is really going to be a
very friendly, a very open, a

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very I guess learning experience that we're
going to have here. This is really

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going to be great. I'm looking
forward to that. Yes, we're getting

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the word out. We've invited Leadership
Bartlesville classes young professionals. You can find

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information on our Facebook page. We're
getting the word out because again it's something

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for the community to benefit from.
That will I think contribute to the present

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future story of leadership in our community, Absolutely absolutely, and we want those

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future leaders Leadership Bartlesville has been great
and we want to pull them in as

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well as our young professionals. So
you know, they might be working a

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job downtown or you know, somewhere
south of here, and we want them

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to be thinking about could this possibly
be part of my future? Because usually

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you have that kind of interest or
inkling or what if or could I?

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Or should I? Or you know, do I even want to? And

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those are the questions that we'll approach
and we'll have fun at the same time

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and we'll do a lot of education
and who knows, you know, maybe

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one of them ten years from now, fifteen years from now, although our

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Lieutenant governor was very young, he's
still very young. You know, it

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might be their time. And if
it's their time, we want to get

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them educated and we want to get
them involved and make sure that they're ready

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to step into a role like that. You mentioned a Facebook page. Where

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do we find you on Facebook?
Yes, it's Republican and other Conservatives of

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Washington County. Spell it all out. That's our Facebook page. You can

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also contact us at info at ROCWC
dot com. Our data base, our

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mailing list is growing, people are
showing interest, and we're just very excited

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about hosting this on Monday. Well, very good. Thank you for being

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with us today and thanks for sharing