The interview can be seen here.

There is nothing left to say, but VOTE!

Polls close at 7 p.m., so we’ll be drifting in soon after that.  

Lansbrook Event Center is at 6009 NW Expressway (west of MacArthur, north side of the Expressway), in the heart of the 30th District!

Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The full editorial can be found here.

The full editorial can be found here.

All that hard work is soon to pay off.  We are now just eight days from victory!

We are just 11 days to victory!

If you are planning to vote in the Oklahoma primaries on Tuesday, July 27th, but will not be in town that day, you have options.   However, there are deadlines you need to be aware of now.

You may vote absentee by mail, but your county election board must receive your application by Wednesday, July 21st.  

You may also vote in-person absentee the Friday, Saturday and Monday before the election at the county election board.

More detailed information about these and other absentee options can be found here.

At that link, you will also be able to obtain the appropriate applications.

Voting in primaries is extremely critical, and especially in this situation, where the entire election will be decided on July 27th.

Thank you for your support!

For your reading enjoyment, here is a link to the Declaration of Independence, the existence of which we celebrate today.

George before the deluge

This morning we marched in the Bethany Independence Day Parade.  Rachel, George and I were joined by about 30 family and friends, plus three dogs.  

It started pouring rain just as we started, but the day ended up being one of the highlights of the whole campaign. 

Even as others dropped out, we marched the complete parade route right through the rain.   I ran back and forth, shaking hands with every single person still lining the route (and there were quite a few), while Rachel delivered Twizzlers and our marchers waved flags and spread goodwill.  We were soaked to the bone, but we had a blast.  

Thank you to everyone!

For more information on how to register, click here.

I finished knocking for the day about 9 p.m.  Talked to a lot of great people tonight.

This evening, I participated in the Northwest Chamber candidate forum.   It was an honor.   Many thanks to Jill McCartney, Larissa Rhodes, Mark Williams, Jeff Knapp and Jim Benson for putting it together, and to Alex Cameron for doing a great job as moderator.

Thank you especially to our hosts at The Lunch Box!

If you couldn’t make it, but would still like to donate, you can do so here.

Thanks to Beth Cupp for the invitation and to the Sullivans for hosting!

You can do so by clicking here.

We appreciate your support!

Thank you, honey, for being the love of my life, the mother of our son, and such a wonderful partner on this journey!

It was a wonderful occasion, with much love and family!

Lincoln

It is natural for people to use the occasion of Memorial Day to get away and relax. And if I wasn’t running for the State Senate in 56 days, I’d probably be doing the same thing.   

But I encourage you to take a moment this Memorial Day to remember “the reason for the season” – to recall those Americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice.  They did so to preserve the personal freedoms we enjoy here, and to ensure that societal decisions continue to be made by regular citizens and those who elect them, not dictators or foreign powers. 

Though I know of no personal relative who paid that price, my maternal grandfather was career Army, as was my uncle, and my paternal grandfather served in WWI.   My family fought so that I may do exactly as I am right now – participating in the democratic process. I am so grateful that they did. And I am deeply thankful for those who gave everything for this country, which remains, thanks to them, the greatest and most successful experiment in the history of civilization.

I’ll leave you with the Gettysburg Address, a re-reading of which is an ideal way to spend a few moments marking the true reason for Memorial Day.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”