Jim Olsen seeks re-election to District 2 House

Political Party: Republican

Hometown: Roland

Current Town: Roland

Education: B.S SUNY ALBANY

Age: 64

Candidate Background:

In addition to the aforementioned education, I have a diploma from Free Gospel Bible Institute and also a Spanish language school in Texas (Kingsway Missionary Institute).

My wife and I enjoyed several years of missionary work in Latin America.

Presently, I am privileged to be the pastor of Calvary Lighthouse.

I have been serving the people of Sequoyah County for the last six years as state representative for District 2.

1. Have you ever failed to pay any taxes or court ordered judgments? No

2. Have you ever been convicted of a felony? No

What are the top three messages of your campaign?

1. Biblical Principles 2. Conservative Family Values 3. Constitutional Law

What are the top three most pressing issues facing rural Oklahoma? How would you address these issues if elected?

1.) The attack on traditional, conservative family values. Continue defending life, traditional family, traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and the role of Biblical values in the formation and fabric of our nation.

2.) Support of education for all of the families, teachers and schools in our district. Continue to support the educational choice of every family in the district – whether Private, homeschooling, or traditional public schooling. Continue to support public education with historically high rates of funding, and the highest rates of increase for public education in the history of the state.

3.) Roads and bridges – Continue to support proper funding and proper direction of those funds to the needs of Sequoyah County.

Explain your positions on economic development as it pertains to rural Oklahoma in general and Eastern Oklahoma in particular.

As an agent of the government, my role in economic development should be very minimal. The best things that we in government can do to facilitate economic development are to reduce / eliminate regulation AND reduce taxes.

This will free up the resources and innovation of our talented and hardworking people of Sequoyah county to produce and prosper without the government getting in their way.

Those who think the “government should do it” remind me of the old soviet commissars who made their 5 year plans, and thought they were very smart. However, they ultimately produced a wasteful inefficient socialistic system that brought poverty to all.

The free market, restrained by biblical values, will bring the most prosperity to the most people.