Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome.
Speaker 2: Welcome welk.
Speaker 1: I mean it's time now for our community connection right
Speaker 1: here on K one, the one you Druss, we have
Speaker 1: Quinn Ship were in with us today from Republicans and
Speaker 1: other Conservatives Washington County. How you doing, young man?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm doing great today, Thomas. A beautiful morning, and
Speaker 2: it's nice to be back in the studio. It's great
Speaker 2: to have you back.
Speaker 1: We've been We've been missing each other on occasion just
Speaker 1: because of scheduled conflicts and everything.
Speaker 2: But this is great.
Speaker 1: We've got another one of the meetings, a special one
Speaker 1: coming up on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're all specialized. That just kind of extra space. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's April first, No April fools, We're actually meeting
Speaker 2: on April first as usual, six thirty to seven forty
Speaker 2: five at chriss in second And one of our our
Speaker 2: regular features is our story Past, and our historian Kay
Speaker 2: Little always brings a three to five minute or has
Speaker 2: somebody to bring a snippet of something to do with
Speaker 2: a political person, a character, a circumstance. We have learned
Speaker 2: so many fascinating history things about Washington County and state
Speaker 2: politics from that segment. It's been great.
Speaker 1: It is and if anybody would know it, it's kay
Speaker 1: or know the person who knows it can she's connected.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, it's always a great presentation. It's
Speaker 1: always fun, and it's like, wow, I didn't know that, No,
Speaker 1: now you do.
Speaker 2: Now we do. The more you know, well, I kind
Speaker 2: of wondered if we should have had like a musical
Speaker 2: interlude to announce who our special guest speaker is going
Speaker 2: to be. Maybe a good robust patriotic song of some kind, Tom,
Speaker 2: thank you. That'll do it. Senator Julie Daniels is going
Speaker 2: to be driving back from Oklahoma City on Tuesday to
Speaker 2: bring a legislative mid session legislative update here to Washington
Speaker 2: County and Bartlesville and her constituents.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know that's a that's a drive, and then
Speaker 1: she's got to go right back.
Speaker 2: She'll probably turn around and drive back that Charlie. They'll
Speaker 2: probably meet for lunch or dinner or something. Crossing a second.
Speaker 1: By the way, folks, you can go in and order
Speaker 1: a meal to before the meeting gets started. Sharon and
Speaker 1: Donn and the whole staff. I tell you they love
Speaker 1: you for it, and you'll feel loved once you have
Speaker 1: that one of the small plates. My golly, they're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can also order during the meeting if
Speaker 2: people want to come and eat or get them to
Speaker 2: drink during the meeting, people can do that. It's a
Speaker 2: great place to bring friends, to make friends, meet your
Speaker 2: friends there and we're can have a really special meeting
Speaker 2: as always.
Speaker 1: Oh god, well, this meeting is going to be nice.
Speaker 1: If you want to know a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: you tease it a little bit when you said about history. Now,
Speaker 1: Julie Daniels has got a great history with this community.
Speaker 1: For people who've only been here a couple of years,
Speaker 1: you might know that the Senator just hasn't always been
Speaker 1: the senator. She was actually the mayor of Barnellsville eight
Speaker 1: years on the city council.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she knows her way around and she can
Speaker 1: answer a lot of questions on a lot of different
Speaker 1: levels as it pertains to different parts.
Speaker 2: Of governments well, and not just government, the community. And
Speaker 2: she and Charlie both for over three decades have been
Speaker 2: tireless volunteers serving on boards. They've been very committed to
Speaker 2: things like the boys and Girls clubs. I know she
Speaker 2: was on the Harvest Bank board for a season, both
Speaker 2: of them. I mean, the list is endless, and so
Speaker 2: much of it is behind the scenes, and they're just
Speaker 2: out there loving on people, caring for the community, caring
Speaker 2: for the state, caring for the district and getting stuff done.
Speaker 2: So go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right. They're very quiet about it. It's
Speaker 1: like you'll see them not gonna get up there, you know,
Speaker 1: and start kicking the bull horning. But they're good facilitators,
Speaker 1: the good partners, the good people to have on.
Speaker 2: Board, the great people to have on board. A couple
Speaker 2: like you said, people who are newer to the community
Speaker 2: are relatively new, been here almost five years now, are
Speaker 2: roundabout at Price Road and Silver Lake. I understand Senator
Speaker 2: Daniels then Mayor would have been a big impetus for
Speaker 2: getting that. Now she lived in England. We lived in
Speaker 2: New Zealand where roundabouts were common, and well, I'd love
Speaker 2: to see more of those around time personally, not if
Speaker 2: wod agree with that, but she was behind that, and
Speaker 2: she worked very closely with Representative Kin to get our
Speaker 2: new bridge one twenty three by Johnstone Park named the
Speaker 2: Nelson J. Carr Bridge. Tom that had to go through ODOT.
Speaker 2: There had to be legislation. It's a state highway. You
Speaker 2: can't just slap a name on the bridge. I mean
Speaker 2: it was a very lengthy process. As Debbie Niece wasn't
Speaker 2: on that, I had the privilege of sharing remarks with
Speaker 2: Sender Daniels when it was dedicated, and things like that
Speaker 2: just don't pop out of a box, and people don't
Speaker 2: often know, like how did that actually happen? Who is
Speaker 2: behind it? Little things like that. She's behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: working away, and she's very detail oriented.
Speaker 1: And that's if you didn't know, you wouldn't know. But
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna let you know. Very detail oriented.
Speaker 2: She's been very.
Speaker 1: Just so much of a driving force and trying to
Speaker 1: get you know, water supply for our community for years,
Speaker 1: for years, and the next time you have a bit
Speaker 1: of a drought, just remember it could have a little
Speaker 1: been a whole lot worse because they've done a lot
Speaker 1: of good work. She worked with the Senator and Lankfort
Speaker 1: on making sure we have adequate access to drinking water
Speaker 1: in our community in times of drought, and there's still
Speaker 1: work to be done.
Speaker 2: She's still Yeah, I've been on the Water Resource Committee,
Speaker 2: which Julie. She's back on and again her history brought
Speaker 2: to our current situation when we had the recent rout
Speaker 2: of a year or so ago, was just invaluable and continues
Speaker 2: to be invaluable. So let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: her current position to do that. On the Senate. She
Speaker 2: has been our senator since twenty sixteen, and District twenty
Speaker 2: nine encompasses Washington, Nowada and northern Rogers County, so a
Speaker 2: pretty good area. She has a lot of constituents, obviously
Speaker 2: who believe in her and have continued to support her.
Speaker 2: So she won her primary last June, and she's had
Speaker 2: the honor of being identified as the Senate Majority Leader.
Speaker 2: So I've got a couple of bullet points here to
Speaker 2: help the audience know what it is that she does
Speaker 2: as Senate Majority Leader. In fact, I believe she's only
Speaker 2: the second woman who's ever had that position, So it's
Speaker 2: a big deal for many reasons. That mean one of them,
Speaker 2: but she's one who signs bills to committees, and she's
Speaker 2: response for managing the daily agenda at our Senate down
Speaker 2: at the Okama Capitol. She oversees the legislative process on
Speaker 2: the Senate floor, but I'm going to quote this one.
Speaker 2: She ensures effective debate. Now I do not envy her job,
Speaker 2: but I can't think of anybody who could ensure effective
Speaker 2: debate better than Senator Daniels.
Speaker 1: You've got to have a keen eye and a keen
Speaker 1: sense of the history and the president in order to
Speaker 1: put that all together.
Speaker 2: Well, just to be able to coordinate, to be able
Speaker 2: to hear people's sides, to be able to help facilitate
Speaker 2: that so there can be progress on the bills or
Speaker 2: decisions that need to be made that are in the
Speaker 2: best interest of the state. Obviously representing her district here,
Speaker 2: it's a big job, and I tell you what, she
Speaker 2: is just excited about it. Every single day she takes
Speaker 2: her enthusiasm and positive attitude and hopes for the president
Speaker 2: future story where she.
Speaker 1: Goes, my gosh, it's just incredible. It really is when
Speaker 1: you think of what she does. She brings that a
Speaker 1: little bit to us here on a weekly basis with.
Speaker 2: Our with our Capital Call program about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we bring in John Strom, John By Kane, and
Speaker 1: Julie Daniels, lovingly known as the Three Jays, and they
Speaker 1: come in and they give us pretty much a week
Speaker 1: synopsis and the week ahead in fifteen minutes. It's a
Speaker 1: speedy conversation, but they candense it in bite sized form,
Speaker 1: so it's easy to digest as you're making your errands
Speaker 1: and zipping through your day. But they make sure that
Speaker 1: they don't get deep into the weeds. And she's very
Speaker 1: good at breaking down the very difficult, the very involved
Speaker 1: issue and boiling it down the common language. It's like
Speaker 1: an Abraham Lincoln was very gifted in that regard. So,
Speaker 1: you know, any comparison, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think that. I don't think both wear big hats.
Speaker 2: And of course people see someone with a title, you know, senator,
Speaker 2: a representative, mayor, and they think these people are unapproachable.
Speaker 2: Because we've talked before, Tom, people are very approachable, and
Speaker 2: Senator Daniels certainly is that person. If you met her
Speaker 2: on the street, she's a aspproachable as the next person
Speaker 2: you're going to meet, and she just really cares for
Speaker 2: people and is so easy to have conversation with.
Speaker 1: My daughter found that out there, okay, when she was
Speaker 1: in junior high she's a senior now. She met Senator
Speaker 1: Daniels for the very first time and several years ago,
Speaker 1: and Julie says, so, what do you do since I'm
Speaker 1: at Madison Middle School and I'm thinking about running for
Speaker 1: student council. They had a conversation. Boy did they have
Speaker 1: a conversation. And it was good, and you know, Katie
Speaker 1: felt like she learned a whole lot in about ninety seconds.
Speaker 2: Well, our meeting is going to be a little bit
Speaker 2: longer than ninety seconds. Yeah, I realize that's all they had.
Speaker 2: But we have some primary things we do when people arrive,
Speaker 2: but then we want to get to our speaker. Now
Speaker 2: we end straight up at seven forty five, and so
Speaker 2: Senator Daniels is going to come, as I said, give
Speaker 2: a mid session legislative update again in her very succinct
Speaker 2: and unique style communication style. She's going to bring us
Speaker 2: up to speed on things that she's working on, other
Speaker 2: things that she wants our district or her district to
Speaker 2: be aware of, and then have some Q and A.
Speaker 2: So this is like one of these rare opportunities for
Speaker 2: a public meeting. It's free. Anybody can come, and we've
Speaker 2: had all kinds of people attend our meetings, and so
Speaker 2: if you're a constituent out there in one of the counties.
Speaker 2: If you're here in Bartlesville. Just a great opportunity to
Speaker 2: interact one on one with our senator here an update,
Speaker 2: ask some questions and just get to know her personally.
Speaker 1: You're going to be surprised how open she is the questions. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: so bring them. H I get you know, these little
Speaker 1: love notes as I call them, emails from folks. Tom,
Speaker 1: why didn't you ask the senator to this on capol? Okay,
Speaker 1: you can be you can be the person asking the
Speaker 1: question yourself be.
Speaker 2: That person and Tom, whether she's on the Senate floor
Speaker 2: doing her daily orchestration or she's on the living room
Speaker 2: floor with her grandchildren, because we've observed that as she
Speaker 2: is the same person either way, approachable, professional, personable, and
Speaker 2: if I can say she's she's just a classy person.
Speaker 1: This is going to be Tuesday. We get understand at
Speaker 1: six thirty, but yeah, I want to get there at
Speaker 1: six orders of food, sure, and have a little social time.
Speaker 1: But once we get going, we have the history lesson,
Speaker 1: you have a few other formalities, and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: with the senator. This is all going to be great. Now,
Speaker 1: you don't chill.
Speaker 2: Tickets, No tickets, It's free. And come on in. There's
Speaker 2: the overflow room, which we've had to use use.
Speaker 1: I've been in the overflow room. So you thought that maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, media boy might get special prity. No, I
Speaker 1: just I didn't come in on time. I'm busy talking.
Speaker 1: I came in.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, well, the pool table. Yeah. People can
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Speaker 1: Now, when you see this is open, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how you voted in the last election. Where nobody's going
Speaker 1: to ask for a voter ID card. You just come
Speaker 1: in with your ideas, come in with you questions, come
Speaker 1: in with your curiosity and hopefully get some things answered
Speaker 1: and meet some new people.
Speaker 2: And come Senator Julia Daniels if you're not, if.
Speaker 1: You've not, especially, hey, thank you for being with you.
Speaker 2: Here to enjoyed it. Thank you all right,