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Randy Grellner: “This country's getting in a rut that's quite bad.”

Featuring: Randy Grellner, Republican | Oklahoma State Senate, District 21

Full Episode, Ep. 4: "Dr. Grellner Interview"

Published June 24, 2022 | Video Starts at 06:47

And I'm not saying he didn't do good here in Oklahoma, but, you know, after a while, we need new ideas, turnover, and just, you know, This country's getting in a rut that's quite bad. So I called, you know, Cockburn's office, and my brother and I have a brother. We flew up to Cockburn's office and met with his chief of staff. (06:47–06:50)

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“We were energy independent in 2019, first time in modern history.”
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“Right now we're bringing in 10% of our fuel needs from Russia.”
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“Oklahoma is fifth at this point in time in rural hospital closures.”
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“We ordered in some fertilizer last year. It was $375 a ton. It was a thousand this year.”
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“The top producer of urea or ammonium nitrate or urea in this case is out of Ukraine.”
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“Mr. Inhofe signed up for re-election after 30 years or so. 32, I think, the time.”
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“This country is falling into a rut of just people living off the system.”
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“We have to have turnover. We have to have fresh ideas.”
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“We have to get fiscally responsible.”
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“It's just a wrecking ball in the system that's out there. Which is corrupt.”
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“We have to stop [the World Health Organization] relationship and we have to stop giving them the potential power that they want over this…”
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“Until we get out the system, the bureaucrats that have been up there for 40 years running these organizations or these, you know, agencies…”
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“Corruption is the biggest thing we have to get rid of.”
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“We have to get rid of... redundancy and we're doing things over and over again.”
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“We need people up there that are real world, that have had businesses that have taken care.”
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“We need to be more efficient in government.”
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“I'm also from Western Oklahoma and I understand the oil and gas business probably as well as anybody.”
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“President Biden did in January, writing the amendments to the world to the treaty, and then in April, they're published.”
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“It's just put on hold right now.”
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“It went to actual vote May 22nd through the 28th.”
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“Africa, Brazil, and a couple of countries said, we're not gonna do it. And they were big enough to make a difference.”
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“If we give sovereignty of health care to this country away, I mean, I don't know. I mean, it felt like we had given away to the CDC this…”
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“They most likely don't think [COVID-19] came from a bat, from a wet, you know, market in China.”
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“Shut down the Keystone pipeline, shut down fracking, shut down selling of natural gas.”
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“We have to get energy independence. It's good for Oklahoma.”
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“It's a national security issue.”
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“If you go to war with Russia, you think they're gonna leave the taps on, they're gonna shut them off.”
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“Obamacare was about centralization, bringing people to the big cities and shutting down rural America.”
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“Hospitals in small towns generate so much economic activity for those communities and jobs.”
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“We've lost compassion in medicine, I think, the last two and a half years.”
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“When medicine becomes transactional... you lose good health care.”
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“We have to look at our agencies, how they're deploying stuff... to pick winners and losers.”
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“Whenever they send you some money, they say we have to do this, this and this. They put strings on it.”
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“By the time you get all the strings on it... you spend way more money.”
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“The federal government was set up to help us do some things, but it was not given most of the rights.”
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“The state has a right and the power to say, no, this is not good for Oklahoma or California or Florida.”
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“I do not see this country long term being an independent country.”
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“I've had every vaccine there is, except for this one. Because I have natural immunity.”
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“If you don't want your children vaccinated...it's not any of our business. Parents...they're the boss of the kids.”
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“We had this animosity that built in this country that was all set up by leadership.”
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“In Massachusetts, they're trying [to give driver's licenses to non-citizens].”
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“We're going to start seeing these things because you're going to get rid of some cows because you can't feed them.”
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“The American farmer is resilient, but they can't do it with the bankers saying we can't give you more money.”
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“There will never be another refinery built in the US.”
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“Some of these kids are 6 to 9 years old, and so they don't have a clue.”
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“An educator that goes to an 8, 9 year old and talks about this is not an educator. They're a predator.”
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“If Congress didn't come up with a budget, there's no pay [for] Congress.”
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“Career politicians have filled their pockets and they walk away [to] the head of the Caribbean.”
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“Tom Coburn... didn't walk away with more money than he went up there with.”
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“A lot of people have spent 4 or 5 million in this race already.”
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“We put together a million dollars and... we've raised about 250,000.”
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“We're gonna be in a runoff, and that's gonna cost one and a half, two million.”
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“I've been in a pandemic of coronavirus, now I'm in a pandemic of career politicians.”
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