Former State Rep. David Derby announces 2nd Congressional District campaign

This 2022 GOP primary in the 2nd Congressional District is going to be w-i-l-d. We have yet another Republican jumping in; this time, it's former State Rep. David Derby, who represented the Owasso-area House District 74 for 10 years (2006 to 2016). He joins ten other Republican candidates: State Sen. Marty Quinn, State Rep. Dustin Roberts, former State Rep. and current OKGOP chairman John Bennett, State Rep. Avery Frix and Police Chief Johnny Teehee and pharmacist Chris Schiller (all three from Muskogee), Quapaw Nation Secretary-Treasurer Guy Barker, and military vets Erick Wyatt and Clint Johnson, and activist Rhonda Hopkins. Derby's press release is below: Veteran Conservative Legislator and Pharmacist from Rogers County, David Derby Announces Candidacy for U.S. Congress, OK-2 Claremore, OK, April 5th – Today, Pharmacist and Award-Winning Conservative State Representative David Derby of Rogers County announced his candidacy for Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District in the open Republican primary created by Congressman Mullin’s declared candidacy for U.S. Senate. Derby, 45, is a family man and an accomplished conservative legislator. During his 10 years in the legislature before retiring in 2016, Derby delivered on his campaign promises, passing oil & gas tax cuts, large state spending cuts, prescription cost reductions, and drug reform, among others. Derby then returned to the private sector because he believes elected office should not be a career. Derby’s anger with Congress is what initially prompted him to step back into the political arena. “Congress is out of control. Inflation is at a 40-year high because of reckless spending by career politicians who wouldn’t know the first thing about hard, honest work. Oklahomans are being squeezed by the record-high costs of gas, groceries, and medicine, and yet the only solutions out of Congress are to spend trillions more and negotiate foreign oil imports, rather than re-opening American drilling. It’s like watching the prisoners run the jail. I’m running for Congress to put an end to this madness,” Derby said. Read more » by Jamison Faught - April 06, 2022 at 07:32AM

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