Organizer, Democracy for America, Tulsa, 2004-present

Candidate, United States Senate, Oklahoma, 2016

Candidate, Oklahoma State Commissioner of Labor, 2014

Democratic Precinct Chair, #121, Tulsa County, 2005-2007

Candidate, Oklahoma State House of Representatives, District 70, 2006

Member, Platform Committee Democratic Party, 2005

No caucus information on file.

Owner, Workman & Company, 1978-present

Distributor, Neways International, 2005-2008

Band Director, Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District, 1975-1976

Assistant Band Director, Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District, 1974-1975

Host, Democratic Party Meetups, Tulsa, 2004-present

Member, American Association of Retired Persons

Member, American Cancer Society

Member, Christ United Methodist Church, Tulsa

Member, Elks

Member, Leadership Tulsa

Favorite Athlete:

Vince Young

Favorite Book:

"I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradburry

Favorite Musician:

Susan Boyle

Favorite Quote:

Voting is like driving: D to go forward, R to go backwards!

I am not a member of any organized political party; I am a Democrat. ~Will Rogers

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." ~Daniel "Pat" Moynihan

"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice." ~Theodore Parker (1810-1860)

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
~E. B. White (1899--1985)

"Plan your work; work your plan." ~John Rogers, former political director for Texas AFL-CIO; one of my early political mentors in 1978

"Them that's talking don't know; them that know don't talk." ~political axiom; I first heard it in Houston from Billie Carr, another of my early political mentors in 1982

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. ~Helen Keller

Happiness can be thought, taught, and caught... but never bought! ~Anonymous

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was. ~Molly Ivins (1944-2007)

Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~Benjamin Franklin

The cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. ~US Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt: speech at Oglethorpe University (1932)

There are two theories about arguing with a woman. Neither one works. ~Will Roger

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience ~Don Marquis (1878‒1937): archy and mehitabel -- certain maxims of archy

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. ~Siddhārtha Gautama [सिद्धार्थ गौतम], called the Buddha

I have never killed a man, but I have read a great many obituaries with great pleasure! ~Clarence Darrow

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends. If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson (1952)

I am not bound to win, but I'm bound to be true. I'm not bound to succeed, but I'm bound to live up to what light I have. ~Abraham Lincoln

We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true. We are not bound to succeed, but we are bound to let whatever light we have shine. ~US President Barack Obama, 3-20-10 to House Democrats on passing health care reform; paraphrasing US President Abraham Lincoln

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. ~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1963]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain

"(A) president is capable of doing more than one thing at a time." ~Barack Obama, 9-25-08

Favorite TV Shows:

NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service)