Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
Speaker 1: in his time now for our community connection and on
Speaker 1: with his today we have Earl series and he brought
Speaker 1: a friend, Earl.
Speaker 2: How are you doing today?
Speaker 3: Well, Tom, I'm just delighted to be here, and thank
Speaker 3: you for aliving us and just the Potter family and
Speaker 3: this program of community connections. It's just just it helps
Speaker 3: our community and we just greatly appreciate the allow people
Speaker 3: just what we're going to do today to bring in
Speaker 3: guests and members, you know, people that are running for
Speaker 3: other offices around the state, and just giuse people an
Speaker 3: opportunity to let our community know.
Speaker 2: What's going on and what is going on.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm here today with a just a great friend
Speaker 3: of mine that I met when I served in the
Speaker 3: House representative. His name is Marty Quinn. Just a great
Speaker 3: friend of mine, and he is going to announce on
Speaker 3: Monday that he's going to be running for a particular office.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let him.
Speaker 3: Talk about that, okay, and but.
Speaker 2: And again he'll set all that up.
Speaker 3: But we are just delighted for him to be in
Speaker 3: Barswell today, and I want our community to know that
Speaker 3: we have an outstanding individual that's getting ready to run
Speaker 3: for an office that is very important in our state.
Speaker 3: And he's the man as far as I'm concerned, that
Speaker 3: can take care of the job. So Marty, this is
Speaker 3: Marty Quinn. Welcome to Barsweel and tell us what you're
Speaker 3: getting ready to do on Monday.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Earl. Appreciate you and community of
Speaker 4: Bartlesville and Potter family giving us an opportunity to be
Speaker 4: here this morning in some more rainy weather.
Speaker 2: I haven't had enough of that. No. Now, we first
Speaker 2: got introduced to you here a little bit ago when
Speaker 2: he ran from Congress, and he made many trips in here,
Speaker 2: so you're a familiar face to a lot of folks,
Speaker 2: but to those who might not know you, tell us
Speaker 2: a little bit about what you got going on and
Speaker 2: what you're run for. Well.
Speaker 4: Appreciate that we ran for Congress a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: but our career has been spent in insurance industry, and
Speaker 4: so Glenn mull Rady is your current insurance commissioner. Glenn
Speaker 4: turns out in twenty twenty six, so next June will
Speaker 4: be the Republican primary. So we have basically a year
Speaker 4: from now to get ready to you know, earn people's
Speaker 4: vote and Borrowsville's a strong community and full of good
Speaker 4: people and a lot of good things going on, and
Speaker 4: we want to build a good network here. But it's
Speaker 4: our plan next Monday to announce that we're running for
Speaker 4: insurance commissioner.
Speaker 2: That's the plan.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The job of the insurance commissioner you hear insurance and
Speaker 2: then you hear commissioner is to pretty much oversee how
Speaker 2: things are running as far as insurance correct or correct me, I'm.
Speaker 4: It's you know, the insurance commissioner is you know, he's
Speaker 4: responsible for the statutes and the regulations that are in
Speaker 4: place and whether that's you know. Another part of it
Speaker 4: that people forget is you want to competitive marketplace. So
Speaker 4: you want an environment that people in the insurance industry
Speaker 4: want to do business in Oklahoma. Currently, for example, we
Speaker 4: have about one hundred companies that are able to write
Speaker 4: homeowners insurance. There's only probably fifty plus companies that are
Speaker 4: currently engaged in writing homeowners But you want that market
Speaker 4: competitive because, as in any other marketplace, the more competition
Speaker 4: that you have, the better the price is. Now, having
Speaker 4: said that, everybody that's listening to this radio station knows
Speaker 4: that their homeowners' rates have went up, and we want
Speaker 4: to make sure in the future, especially in my opinion,
Speaker 4: the consumers where everything starts. If you don't have a consumer,
Speaker 4: whether that's an agency for us or whether that's the
Speaker 4: people that are buying the products, you don't have a
Speaker 4: good consumer foundation. You don't have companies to do business with.
Speaker 4: But the office, in my opinion, is kind of like
Speaker 4: a scale. One day you're dealing with corporate rations and
Speaker 4: trying to create an environment that they want to do
Speaker 4: business in, and then the next day you're dealing in
Speaker 4: an environment that you're making sure that the consumer is protected,
Speaker 4: making sure that the consumer is covered properly when claims
Speaker 4: time comes. You want to make sure that those companies
Speaker 4: are financially stable, got enough reserves that they can fulfill
Speaker 4: the promise that they've made to that consumer a few
Speaker 4: years back when they sold them that product.
Speaker 2: Don't think you're going to be busy, be a little busy.
Speaker 4: I think you can be as busy as you want to.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that go on in other states.
Speaker 4: There's a constant pressure or has been at least has
Speaker 4: been a constant pressure from the federal government wanting to
Speaker 4: be involved as much as possible, so we'll have to
Speaker 4: look out for those type of things we're more than
Speaker 4: capable of. In oklahoma've taken care of our insurance problems
Speaker 4: and insurance needs in the marketplace that the commissioner's responsible for.
Speaker 2: Now you've been in the insurance business. Where do you
Speaker 2: see place where we can improve?
Speaker 4: Well, Like I say, I think the most important thing
Speaker 4: is because you'll be in a campaign, you're going to
Speaker 4: kind of be pigeonholed one way or the other, you know,
Speaker 4: or are you gonna be bomped by the legal side
Speaker 4: of things. You're gonna be bomped by the commission corporation
Speaker 4: side of things. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: you have to deal with corporations, the legal system, and
Speaker 4: the consumer base. So there's gonna be that constant battle.
Speaker 4: I think the best way and I think ear old
Speaker 4: with a test to this, the reputation that I've tried
Speaker 4: to build at least is one that can be trusted,
Speaker 4: one that that you can you can talk to if
Speaker 4: you've got an issue, if you've got a problem, more
Speaker 4: than willing to listen to. And then at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, you have to you have to have
Speaker 4: somebody that knows the difference between right and wrong and uh.
Speaker 4: And that's where that's where my base is going to be.
Speaker 4: Is you want to make the decisions that are right
Speaker 4: based off of the information that you're that you have
Speaker 4: in front of you, and at the same time not
Speaker 4: have too much influence from out to sway you one
Speaker 4: way or the other. But you know, in the political
Speaker 4: campaign there'll be there'll be a lot of things out
Speaker 4: there that'll be trying to paint you one way or
Speaker 4: the other. But the insurance, there won't be anybody else
Speaker 4: in the race that'll have more insurance in more areas.
Speaker 4: I've been a legislator, but I've been a consumer longer
Speaker 4: than I have anything else. I've been an agent, I've
Speaker 4: been a manager, been an owner. I tell people all
Speaker 4: the time, I want I want people to really know
Speaker 4: where I started, and that's you started on a poultry
Speaker 4: farm and a cattle farm and then graduated in the
Speaker 4: sixth grade, graduated to flipping hamburgers and waiting table and
Speaker 4: washing dishes. So I can relate to almost anybody out
Speaker 4: out here this morning and listening to us on the radio.
Speaker 2: Well, Earl sounds like you brought in a good one again.
Speaker 3: Well, I just need to jump in here because he
Speaker 3: just said I think Earl will confirmed this and I
Speaker 3: and not only can I confirm it, but I want to.
Speaker 3: I want my my all my friends and my Borerswell
Speaker 3: community to know. Glenn Malready, who is your insurance commission
Speaker 3: right now, has done a phenomenal job serving the people
Speaker 3: of Ooklahoma. Glenn and I are near and dear friends.
Speaker 3: He was my seat mate for a year and a
Speaker 3: half on my last two years in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: A man of integrity has just done a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3: But we have term limits in the great state of Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: which is right, and I really appreciate term limits. So
Speaker 3: now we have an opportunity to put another person in
Speaker 3: that position, which leads to what Marty Quinn, who's setting
Speaker 3: to my right but here in our community today, a
Speaker 3: man of integrity absolutely made the comment he talked to
Speaker 3: anybody and deal with any situation. And that's what I
Speaker 3: just admire about him. Just Marty is one that wants
Speaker 3: to serve the people. He's done it faithfully when he
Speaker 3: was a House of Representatives and he went to the Senate,
Speaker 3: he did run for Congress, but our particular district chose
Speaker 3: another member. Fully understand that, but he ran a good race.
Speaker 3: But now then we have an opportunity to put someone
Speaker 3: in as our insurance commissioner. And you could not find
Speaker 3: a finer gentleman and again a man of integrity. His
Speaker 3: work ethic is just above and beyond, and he will
Speaker 3: serve the people of Oklahoma. And I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: bringing him back to Bartersville. And I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: his announcement on Monday in regards to running for this office.
Speaker 3: So Marty, all the best to you, and I want
Speaker 3: you to come back to Barsville.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, I guess next time we see you you'll
Speaker 2: have a website of right exactly.
Speaker 4: That's all going to be official on Monday.
Speaker 2: We'll wait then. I don't want to get into the weeds,
Speaker 2: all right, Well, thank you very much, Marty Quinn, and
Speaker 2: thank you very much Earl Seis for dropping by today.
Speaker 3: And again, thank you to this radio station, in the
Speaker 3: Potter family and the entire staff that allows this community
Speaker 3: connection which allows us to come in and do these
Speaker 3: kind of things. Take care, Tom, We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
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