How the Shooting of His Daughter Inspired Him to Push for Life-Saving Legislation and to Become Broken Arrow’s Mayor | Mayor Craig Thurmond (Part 3)
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Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The founder of The Hub Gym (Luke Owens) & the founder of Spoke House (Zach Pfaff) shares how Broken Arrow has changed for the better under Mayor Craig Thurmond’s leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | On Today's show, we interview Mayor Craig Thurmond as the Mayor of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. |
| 0:07.0 | He is the mayor of one of the safest cities to live in in America, |
| 0:11.0 | and one of the fastest growing cities in America. But what would make this man |
| 0:16.0 | be willing to work for the low-low price of free? |
| 0:19.6 | I had an adopted daughter who was shot in the head and that's how I first got involved in the city government. |
| 0:26.0 | I went and lobbied for a bill over Oklahoma that we don't have an attempted murder law in Oklahoma, |
| 0:31.0 | we still don't. |
| 0:32.0 | And I went and lobbied for a bill that said that if you discharge a fire |
| 0:36.2 | and commission a felony you get 10 years mandatory. |
| 0:38.8 | Her shooter was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and he got two years |
| 0:43.3 | in prison for that two years two years and so that you know that's a felony |
| 0:49.8 | you assault someone that's a felony you do an armed robbery that's a felony so that |
| 0:53.1 | that's when I really thought that we need to make a difference we need to |
| 0:55.6 | really focus on public safety and we really have focused on public safety so |
| 1:00.6 | that's that's how I got involved I knew I can make a difference because I got a law |
| 1:04.6 | change that you really can fight City Hall. You really can get something done. So you just |
| 1:08.3 | have to have that that passion to be able to make a difference and I did have that and we were able to do it. |
| 1:14.8 | On today's show, the founder of the Hub Jim, Luke Owens, shares how Mayor Thurman helped to |
| 1:19.7 | save his business by revitalizing downtown and we share how Mayor Craig Thurmond |
| 1:24.6 | is helping to save lives as a result of the laws that he helped to pass. To make an |
| 1:29.4 | impact you and I must be the change that we want to see. |
| 1:33.0 | And this man, Mayor Craig Thurmond, is doing just that. |
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