Wagoner County Republican Party Newsletter

Next Monthly Meeting Scheduled for Thursday, April 6, 2023

Join us at 6:30 pm for a time of friendly fellowship.

(Fellowship Food Theme: Appetizers)

Meeting at 7:00 pm

(See Map Below)

NEW ROOM
 LIBERAL ARTS - ROOM 212

Northeastern State University Broken Arrow,
3100 New Orleans St,
Liberal Arts - Room 212,
Broken Arrow, OK 74014

• Election Day: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 7:00 am - 7:00 pm at your assigned polling location
              Last day to register to vote: Friday, March 10, 2023
              Deadline to request absentee ballot: 5 PM, Monday, March 20, 2023
              Early voting: Thursday, March 30, 8 AM - 6 PM
                                    Friday, March 31, 8 AM - 6 PM

• If you don't know your local polling location you can visit okvoterportal.okelections.us

PLEASE R.S.V.P.

Guest Speaker: Jim Bridenstine, Former NASA Administrator and Former Congressman of Oklahoma's 1st District

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Jim Bridenstine, was the former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he led the agency’s advancement in American aeronautic, science, and space exploration objectives.

Under Bridenstine’s leadership, NASA launched its new human lunar exploration mission, the Artemis program, which seeks to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the moon by 2024—the first human landing since the end of NASA’s Apollo missions in 1972.

Through the Artemis program, NASA is developing state-of-the-art spacecraft, systems, and a lunar-orbiting space station that will provide the nation’s astronauts greater access to the moon’s surface than ever before, paving the way for a future crewed mission to Mars.

During Bridenstine’s tenure, NASA once again launched American astronauts on American rockets from American soil, something that had not been done since the retirement of the space shuttles almost ten years prior. Partnering with commercial industry, Bridenstine sustained a human presence on the International Space Station and oversaw its continued commercial resupply. NASA’s dynamic science portfolio included the development of a quiet supersonic aircraft and an all-electric aircraft; a life-seeking Mars rover; enhancement of the nation’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites; and final preparations of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Prior to that, Bridenstine served in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represented the 1st District of Oklahoma and served on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He began his career in federal service in 1998 as a pilot in the U.S. Navy, flying combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and, in the process, logging the majority of his 1,900 flight hours and 333 arrested landings on an aircraft carrier. He continued flying at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, the parent command to TOPGUN. Bridenstine then transitioned from active duty to the U.S. Navy Reserve, returning to Oklahoma where he served for two years as executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum and Planetarium.

Bridenstine earned bachelor’s degrees with a triple major in economics, business, and psychology from Rice University, and an MBA from Cornell University.

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Wagoner County Republican Party Newsletter

Next Monthly Meeting Scheduled for Thursday, August 4, 2022

Join us at 6:30 pm for a time of friendly fellowship.

(Fellowship Food Theme: Picnic Foods)

Meeting at 7:00 pm

ROOM 132

Northeastern State University Broken Arrow,
3100 New Orleans St,
Room 132,
Broken Arrow, OK 74014

2022 Candidates for Offices that will represent Wagoner County on the November 8, 2022 election ballot

Welcome to the 2022 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results!  These candidates are for the 2022 Primary Election Cycle.

The Candidate Information Committee is the County Party entity charged to collect, compile, evaluate, and publish findings and majority consensus opinions, as deemed necessary, regarding information collected on challengers and incumbent Republican Elected office-holders seeking re-election, in and for the geopolitical Wagoner County jurisdiction, at all levels of government.  This assessment is performed as a public service to the voters of Wagoner County and falls within the party role of voter education pursuant to our Standing Rule 1.

We will have a Candidate Forum/Monthly Meeting on Thursday, June 2, 2022 in the Banquet Hall at Northeastern State University Broken Arrow, 3100 New Orleans St, Broken Arrow, OK 74014 at 7:00 pm.  We would love to have you there.  More information can be found by R.S.V.P. here.

If you would be so kind in answering a short survey how you heard about our 2022 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results.

74 Total Candidates filed to represent Wagoner County.  8 candidates ran unopposed.  Questionnaires were sent via certified mail to 66 candidates that appear on ballots across Wagoner County.  A total of 21 candidates returned questionnaires. 21 candidates did the follow up interview.  And 20 allowed the follow up interview to be recorded.

• 0 of the 3 or 0% of Republican US Senatorial - Full Term candidates
• 4 of the 13 or 31% of Republican US Senatorial - Unexpired candidates
• 0 of the 1 or 0% of Republican Congressional District 1 candidates
• 6 of the 14 or 43% of Republican Congressional District 2 candidates
• 4 of the 23 or 17% of Republican State Officer candidates
• 1 of the Republican State Officer candidates ran unopposed
• 1 Republican District Attorney - District 27 candidate ran unopposed
• 3 of the 8 or 38% of Republican Legislative candidates
• 4 Republican Legislative candidates candidate ran unopposed
• 1 Republican County Assessor candidate ran unopposed
• 2 of the 2 or 100% of Republican County Treasurer candidates
• 1 Republican County Commissioner District 1 candidate ran unopposed
• 2 of the 2 or 100% of Republican County Commissioner District 3 candidates

Pursuant to our Standing Rule 1, an objective raw Conservative Index score was derived based on initial responses to the questionnaire and then was adjusted, when necessary, based on the follow-up interview.  The adjusted Conservative Index score below indicates a candidates' consistency with the Wagoner County Republican Party Core Values on page 2 included in our party platform:

2020 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results

2018 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results

Find out which elections are happening this 2022 election cycle

Wagoner County Republican Party Newsletter

Next Meeting Scheduled for Thursday, October 8, 2020

(Please notice it is the 2nd Thursday of the month. We had to do this due to the Congressman's schedule. And also please note we are at a new location.)

7:00 pm

Welcome to the 2020 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results!

The Candidate Information Committee is the County Party entity charged to collect, compile, evaluate, and publish findings and majority consensus opinions, as deemed necessary, regarding information collected on challengers and incumbent Republican Elected office-holders seeking re-election, in and for the geopolitical Wagoner County jurisdiction, at all levels of government.  This assessment is performed as a public service to the voters of Wagoner County and falls within the party role of voter education pursuant to our Standing Rule 1. 

Questionnaires were sent via certified mail to 21 candidates that appear on ballots across Wagoner County.  A total of 8 candidates returned questionnaires.

• 1 of the 4 or 25% of Republican US Senatorial candidates
• 0 of the 1 or 0% of Republican Congressional candidates
• 0 of the 2 or 0% of Republican Corporation Commissioner candidates
• 1 of the 7 or % of Republican Legislative candidates
• 2 of the 2 or 100% of Republican County Sheriff candidates
• 1 of the 1 or 100% of Republican County Clerk candidates
• 0 of the 1 or 0% of Republican County Court Clerk candidates
• 3 of the 3 or 100% of Republican County Commissioner District 2 candidates

Pursuant to our Standing Rule 1, an objective raw Conservative Index score was derived based on initial responses to the questionnaire and then was adjusted, when necessary, based on the follow-up interview.  The adjusted Conservative Index score below indicates a candidates' consistency with the Wagoner County Republican Party Core Values on page 2 included in our party platform:

2018 Candidate Information Questionnaire Results

We in the Republican Party of Wagoner County strive to build a more prosperous local community, state, and nation where individual prosperity is encouraged, a person’s productivity is limited only by his individual ability and personal initiative and where citizens may enjoy the freedom to pursue life as described by the Constitution of the United States of America.

The Wagoner County Republican Party, composed of individuals of many views and opinions regarding the means to achieve that goal, unite with the common belief that those individual rights and the limitation of government set forth in the Constitution of the United States are sacrosanct, and the ideals of moral and fiscal conservatism and individual responsibility are paramount to maintain liberty for all people of our great state and nation.