Speaker 1: And good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome to this edition of Community Connection on our Thursday
Speaker 2: before the Labor Day holiday. I'm Nathan Thompson's seventy eight
Speaker 2: degrees outside. It is eight thirty five, and we have
Speaker 2: some great guests in for today, with the Republican and
Speaker 2: other Conservatives of Washington County, former Senator John Ford. We
Speaker 2: go back, We go back a long time, John, and
Speaker 2: of course Quinn Schipper as well. Gentlemen, how are we
Speaker 2: doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm great.
Speaker 3: I was a beautiful morning, and it's August, and like
Speaker 3: I said, we have a holiday weekend coming up.
Speaker 1: You can't beat that.
Speaker 4: No, I can't beat that at all.
Speaker 5: And I was just listening to your introduction, and Nathan,
Speaker 5: you ought to run for office.
Speaker 4: You would make a great politician. You've got that spiel.
Speaker 2: Oh that's still a way too many skeletons that anyway, Well,
Speaker 2: John and Quinn. Lots of things going on right now
Speaker 2: as well. Senator Ford, you are one of the founders
Speaker 2: of Republicans and other Conservatives of Washington County. And again
Speaker 2: just kind of maybe for the audience that they're not
Speaker 2: they may not be familiar with.
Speaker 4: What your organization is about.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about who the r OCWC
Speaker 2: is and what you guys, what it is that you
Speaker 2: guys do was our administrator?
Speaker 1: Would you like?
Speaker 3: We we because I was part of that early on,
Speaker 3: but John and others were leading that formed about this
Speaker 3: time last year. We actually had our first launch meeting
Speaker 3: in September last year, so it's a full year anniversary,
Speaker 3: I guess of meeting and a lot of our goal,
Speaker 3: Nathan has been to inform people about political issues.
Speaker 1: We want to educate people.
Speaker 3: We bring in guest speakers, we have interesting topics, we network.
Speaker 3: We are Washington County based, but our meetings have all
Speaker 3: been here in Bartlesville across in second which is a
Speaker 3: great host place, and we're just making some great relationships.
Speaker 3: And because we are a Republican and other conservatives, we
Speaker 3: have all kinds of people from all different kind of
Speaker 3: political backgrounds join us and they're always welcome.
Speaker 1: Our meetings are free, they're welcome.
Speaker 3: We're here to inform and educate and engage people in
Speaker 3: Washington County.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, And you have a great guest speaker getting ready
Speaker 2: to come up. And John, this is somebody that you
Speaker 2: and I are both familiar with. Your time obviously in
Speaker 2: the State Senate in my time with another organization covering
Speaker 2: a lot of politics at the state capital. We have
Speaker 2: Brian Bieman, who is the former Oklahoma Senate President pro
Speaker 2: tim and Secretary of State, and he is actually running
Speaker 2: for office.
Speaker 1: He is running for office. He's running for Corporation Commission.
Speaker 5: And I've known Brian for a long time. We were
Speaker 5: both elected in two thousand and four, although Brian ran
Speaker 5: for the House of Representatives stayed there two years, and
Speaker 5: then Ted Fisher, who had been in the Senate forever,
Speaker 5: a great, great Democrat, good representative of the Senate, was
Speaker 5: term limited and Brian ran for his seat and was successful.
Speaker 5: So Brian and I served in the Senate for ten years.
Speaker 5: But Brian, he's from Tulsa, born and raised, married, got
Speaker 5: three children, but graduated from University of Oklahoma and he
Speaker 5: has a degree in petroleum land management. Brian was in
Speaker 5: private industry's been in nineteen ninety two, he was in Sapulpan.
Speaker 5: He ran for city council, served two years as a
Speaker 5: city councilman, and then after the first two years he
Speaker 5: was elected as mayor and served ten years as mayor.
Speaker 5: So he had a lot of experience at local politics
Speaker 5: where you really get the important of knowing your community
Speaker 5: and what people want and a lot of interaction. Then
Speaker 5: in two thousand and four he ran. It was twenty
Speaker 5: and eleven that we elected Brian to be our pro
Speaker 5: tem and he's served there for six years. It's great
Speaker 5: to have someone that can serve that long, and it's
Speaker 5: somewhat unusual when you have twelve year term limits for
Speaker 5: someone to be at a top leadership for that long,
Speaker 5: but it helps have continuity long term. So then Brian
Speaker 5: was term limited in twenty sixteen, same time.
Speaker 4: That I was.
Speaker 5: Shortly after that, it was secretary of State for Governor Stitt.
Speaker 5: And now he's thrown his hat in the ring for
Speaker 5: Corporation Commissioner. And with Brian's background and experience, I think
Speaker 5: he will be a wonderful asset to that agency.
Speaker 2: And it sounds like an absolutely wonderful guest speaker as
Speaker 2: well for the community to get to know who he is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if a lot of people
Speaker 2: really understand what a corporation commissioner does. They have a
Speaker 2: lot of oversight. A lot of the time we hear
Speaker 2: about the Corporation commission it's.
Speaker 4: Dealing with oil and gas.
Speaker 2: I know that whenever they were having those earthquakes related
Speaker 2: to the fracking, the fracking of the water injection, they
Speaker 2: were making some very difficult regulatory calls on that. They
Speaker 2: also regulate our power. You know how much APPSO can
Speaker 2: raise our rates. Michael Gordon, I say that kids linging,
Speaker 2: by the way, but you know it's really an intensive job.
Speaker 2: So Quinn, is that part of what we're going to
Speaker 2: be talking about. But at this meeting, and again, tell
Speaker 2: me when the meeting is going to be.
Speaker 1: Our meeting is going to be.
Speaker 3: We meet the first Tuesday of every month, so it
Speaker 3: be September, third of the day after Labor Day. We
Speaker 3: meet across in second here in down town Bartlesville. We
Speaker 3: start straight up at six thirty. We end crisply at
Speaker 3: seven forty five. So people can come early if they
Speaker 3: want to order meal dine in before the meeting, or
Speaker 3: they can order a meal and dine during the meeting.
Speaker 3: That's welcome as well. And so yes, we always start
Speaker 3: with a storied past. Kay little oversees that we learned
Speaker 3: something interesting about our history here in Washington County. We've
Speaker 3: been introduced to a lot of great historical people and
Speaker 3: then as soon as we can get through some of
Speaker 3: our initial things, if you announcements, whatever, we get straight
Speaker 3: to our speaker.
Speaker 1: And this will be our first time.
Speaker 3: I was our first time to have a corporation commissioner
Speaker 3: or someone running for that here, and we're excited because
Speaker 3: again we want to inform people and educate them. I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to what I'm going to learn and to
Speaker 3: get to meet mister Bingleman. I'm not met him myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we have some We've had some really good speakers.
Speaker 1: Our first speaker was Lieutenant Governor Matt Panel.
Speaker 5: So I think it's important that the listeners realize the
Speaker 5: quality of speakers we have and also our organization. You know,
Speaker 5: we're not competing with anyone. But it started out kind
Speaker 5: of as a gathering of friends, was a loose term.
Speaker 1: So it's in four.
Speaker 5: It's friendly, a lot of conversation, and that's kind of
Speaker 5: the atmosphere that we're trying to create, letting people that
Speaker 5: have like views politically to get together to discuss how
Speaker 5: we can further those views and work as a team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I've been to a couple a
Speaker 2: few of those meetings for RCWC and You're right. It
Speaker 2: is a very casual, non threatening environment where you can
Speaker 2: learn and discuss ideas and philosophies openly.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think that that's so.
Speaker 2: Important to have constructive dialogue, even if you have opposing viewpoints,
Speaker 2: because I mean, Senator fod, I mean you were in
Speaker 2: the Senate to chair of the Education Committee and all
Speaker 2: of that. I'm going to share some of my opinion
Speaker 2: right now. I think a lot of that, having constructive dialogue,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that is an almost a
Speaker 2: lost art form anymore in today's political and having RCWC
Speaker 2: here openly saying let's talk about.
Speaker 4: It, I think that's a huge benefit for the community.
Speaker 5: Because I think is a political official elected official, you
Speaker 5: don't always have the only in the right idea. You
Speaker 5: get better ideas. If you lay something on the table,
Speaker 5: you open it up to a lot of input, both
Speaker 5: constructive and negative.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if people are willing.
Speaker 5: To set around and have that discussion, I think as
Speaker 5: a group we end up with much better policy.
Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, and it is important to just to have
Speaker 2: that respect. It really is it really is. Well another
Speaker 2: thing again, not only are you holding these monthly meetings.
Speaker 2: But RCWC is very involved in the community as well.
Speaker 4: I understand Quinn, you've we've got the.
Speaker 2: You're a table sponsor for the Forum series as well well.
Speaker 1: For the Chamber series.
Speaker 3: And so that next meeting is on September tenth, a
Speaker 3: week away.
Speaker 1: This time is going to be a brunch.
Speaker 3: Those who are Chamber members will have received the information,
Speaker 3: but that is going to be out at Tri County Tech.
Speaker 3: This time is at ten o'clock to eleven thirty. It's
Speaker 3: not a lunch meeting. That can provide a really nice brunch.
Speaker 3: And it's Ryan Lance who is the chairman and CEO
Speaker 3: of Knaco Phillips and so as table sponsors, we have
Speaker 3: eight spots. We have a few spots still available, so
Speaker 3: if people are interested in registering and paying for one
Speaker 3: of those seats from us, they can certainly do that.
Speaker 1: Would love to have them at our table. You've been
Speaker 1: to those meetings. The room fills, there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of energy again, a lot of information, a
Speaker 3: lot of engagement, a lot of networking. And so you
Speaker 3: can reach out to us at info at OROCWC dot com,
Speaker 3: not just for this, but if people have other questions
Speaker 3: or to sign up for our newsletter. We send that
Speaker 3: out about once a month update people, or you can
Speaker 3: find us on Facebook at Republican and Other Conservatives of
Speaker 3: Washington County dot com.
Speaker 2: Lot of type op but you'll get just type it out,
Speaker 2: type it out.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Again, we're visiting with a Quinn Shipper and Senator former
Speaker 2: Senator John Ford with the Washington Republicans and other Conservatives
Speaker 2: of Washington County and got the upcoming event on Tuesday
Speaker 2: again at Crossing Second.
Speaker 4: Free event. Coming out, come out and meet Brian Bingman.
Speaker 4: Open to the public.
Speaker 2: Starts at six thirty going until about seven forty five
Speaker 2: at Crossing Second in downtown Bartleszow. I mean Sharon Hurst
Speaker 2: and Don Laughlin. They're doing an amazing job. They're Crossing Second,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite places and two of my favorite people.
Speaker 4: By the way, and come out.
Speaker 2: It's a free event, but you're also encouraged if you
Speaker 2: want to get some food, beverages, whatever you might want
Speaker 2: to do while you're out there as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, come out early, come out at five point thirty
Speaker 5: and there will be several there. Get to meet a
Speaker 5: few people and have something to eat and drink, and
Speaker 5: then you're ready for the meeting.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely all right, So Quinn Shipper, john Ford, Republicans
Speaker 2: and other conservatives in Washington County. I always want to
Speaker 2: say Washington County Republicans and other Conservatives.
Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I mean the rock w C.
Speaker 3: That that that rock us.
Speaker 2: All right, gentlemen, thank you so much for your time today.
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