DURANT – Rancher, business owner, and former state Senator Josh Brecheen earned the trust of voters in Oklahoma’s Second Congressional District to advance to the Aug. 23 Runoff Primary Election.
“I want to thank God for His blessing and leadership in this campaign, and I thank all the voters who supported me in the Primary Election,” Brecheen said Tuesday night.
“Tonight’s election results show that the people of the Second Congressional District are hungry for real leadership in Washington, D.C. They see that our nation is in trouble. Career politicians have given us a $30 trillion national debt. Medicare and Social Security are facing insolvency in the coming years. People want a leader who will stand up in Congress to fight. This is about the next generation. This is about securing our future for our kids and our grandkids.
“As I’ve traveled the district and listened to voters the past several weeks, it’s clear they want to elect someone who is talking about the real issues and willing to make the tough decisions we face as a nation. Voters are looking for someone who is not afraid to speak the truth and put the interest of the country above personal political interest,” Brecheen said. “We look forward to continuing this message and winning the support of the voters of the Second Congressional District.”
According to preliminary results, Brecheen took 10,573 votes or 13.75 percent of the turnout to advance to the August 23 Runoff Primary Election. Brecheen was the last to file to run in the Republican Primary Election field of 14 candidates in the Second Congressional District.
Brecheen formerly worked as a staff member for former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 2010 to 2018, keeping his promise of a self-imposed eight-year term limit. He has made the same promise to term limit himself and serve as a citizen legislator if he is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Brecheen vowed to follow the example of Coburn epitomized a selfless leader who led by conviction and not political calculation. Coburn built a reputation for ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse perpetrated by both sides of the political aisle. And it’s all done in the name of reelection, according to Brecheen.
“We keep sending people to DC to keep bringing us back free candy,” Brecheen said. “We are a boundaryless, borderless nation.”
Brecheen said professional politicians have stoked factionalism as a means of maintaining their own power. While they blame each other for runaway spending and debt, Brecheen said both parties are to blame. According to Brecheen, Republicans reward their constituents with tax policy and Democrats use government benefit programs to win votes. But regardless of who holds the reins, the effect is the same.
“Both Republicans and Democrats are spending us into oblivion. Both are wrong,” Brecheen said.
He told the group that political leaders can’t solve the problems on their own. He pointed out that the founders stressed the importance of morality and self-discipline when it comes to making a country successful. For America to return the security and prosperity it has known, Brecheen said citizens must be forthright and honorable people who trust in God.
“If we’re going to turn our nation around, we have to turn to self-governance,” Brecheen said.
Brecheen, a committed Christian, husband, father and fourth-generation rancher, served two terms in the Oklahoma State Senate. Since leaving office in 2018 he has owned and operated a small excavation and trucking business.
Brecheen established one of the most conservative voting records in the Senate. He authored legislation to cap state debt, save tens of millions in taxpayer funds, to ban dismemberment abortions and to repeal/replace Common Core educational standards. But his commitment to fiscal responsibility meant he lost a coveted committee chairmanship.
This was an example of what Brecheen called the “prison rules” used in legislative bodies. He said new legislators are approached as soon as they arrive. They are subtlely, and sometimes not so subtlely, told they are expected to cooperate with political leaders if they hope to be successful. And in government success is often determined by who brings home the most pork.
Brecheen said this way of doing things flies in the face of the Constitution and what the founders had in mind. He promised to only support plans and programs clearly spelled out in the Constitution’s 18 enumerated powers.
“My team is ‘We the People,’” Brecheen said. “I’m going to be the Constitutional candidate.”
The coming insolvency of Medicare and Social Security, social unrest, political factionalism, the immigration crisis and faltering morals are all troubles the founders tried to prevent by designing the nascent United States of America as a Republic rather than a pure Democracy. Brecheen said the solution is to steer the country back the enumerated powers listed in the Constitution.
He said that many of America’s leaders are ignorant of what the Constitution says and many of the rest simply don’t care. According to Brecheen, voters need to educate themselves so they will send leaders to Washington who led by the Constitution and not their own experiences or ideas.
“We don’t need to send people to Washington to do what they think is right,” Brecheen said.
The congressional hopeful reiterated his vow to stand against special interests and entrenched political machines. He said he did it in Oklahoma City and he is committed to the same type of governance in Washington.
What you want in Washington D.C. is someone who knows how to say ‘no’,” Brecheen said.
In addition to his public service, Brecheen is a graduate of Oklahoma State University where he majored in Agriculture. He also served as state president of the Oklahoma FFA Association in 1998. Since 2018, he’s owned and operated an excavation/trucking business, Rawhide Dirtworks L.L.C
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