Chris Kennedy for
City Council (and Mayor) 2027
Broken Arrow, OK
Make Broken Arrow
Great Again
Introduction:
I expect to formally announce my campaign by this April for the Broken Arrow “Member-At-Large” Councilor Position on the City Council, and indirectly for Mayor. The election will be one year later in April, 2027.
If/when I formally announce I am running, it will be by video coming down the steps of City Hall this April, with my beautiful wife, released online. Stay tuned.
By the way, the Member-At -Large Councilor represents the entire City, more focused on city-wide policies than are Councilors from each district.
Also, I’m Seeking a Clear, Public Mandate for a Strong, Elected Mayor:
I am seeking to gain a clear, Public Mandate from The People for the city council to elect me to the office of Mayor (current model is 2 years, elected only by the city council from among themselves), and for us to permanently establish a direct election of Mayor (4 year term). I can do this by defeating the incumbent by a landslide with 2/3rd of the vote or higher, assuming he runs.
And then God willing the council listens to that Public Mandate, so that they vote there will be a city referendum in July, 2027, to decide if the office of mayor should be an elected office. And then have a special election for mayor in November, 2027.
"I Like Your Style, Okie."
Considering what a proper American strong Mayor model would do for this City, it is worth trying! To lead the charge.
Consider the fact the incumbent is very establishment, politically correct, a very long term local career politician (over a 45 year period) and seemingly bought and paid for by establishment special interests. Therefore, with me running against him as an unknown Average Joe, coming out of obscurity, a politically incorrect underdog seeking major reforms, if The People elect me by a landslide they will have indirectly spoken to the City Council to vote for me as Mayor, and more importantly to re-open our city’s executive branch to a democratic election. To make the office of Mayor much stronger and something for which The People vote, to be a true Voice of the People for the critical changes we need.
Consider also that the incumbent has held the position of At-Large councilor for the last 15 years, being now in his 70’s. He voted yes to the: a) mosque building permit in south BA , the only yes vote, despite the group’s links to global terrorism, b) socialist covid mask mandate, despite calls for liberty, and c) a drag queen show in front of little children on city property, despite it being a form of child abuse meant to indoctrinate children, etc, etc.
If elected in April, 2027 as described, I would then rally for a Special City Council Meeting to hear the Voice of The People confirming this clear, public mandate, for the council to vote for a referendum. I would be seeking to replace our current mayor Debra Wimpee (LINK), also a very questionable career politician insider, whose mayoral term ends in 2027. Otherwise, the Council would be voting against authentic reform and against allowing The People to elect their Mayor. Against restoring traditional American democracy.
Against you.
About Me/My Platform:
I would be running as a traditional, very conservative Christian, independent-minded registered Republican, populist, defender of Western civilization and traditional America, a patriot, and a defender of all those oppressed by the system, including minorities and the poor. Strict constitutionalist. Hard core Pro-Trump, Pro-MAGA movement.
100% pro-life and pro-family. Believe in a strictly small government and free market form of capitalism. That charities and social services that truly best help the poor and those in need are done by the community, especially the churches, and not by the welfare state and big government.
Anti-socialism, but also anti-gigantic, globalist corporations (monopolies). Anti-materialism. Anti-consumerism. Pro-religious faith in God being central to life. Husband, allied health care professional, former teacher and coach, outdoorsman.
Graduate of Broken Arrow High School, Tulsa Community College (A.A.S.), the University of Oklahoma (B.S.), and Holy Apostles College and Seminary (M.A.). Born and raised citizen of Broken Arrow, OK, lived here most of my 51 years of life.
I believe that I have an edge as a passionate, unknown political outsider, Average Joe, a Voice of the People, a Vox Populi, like David against Goliath, one quiet man running against compromised local establishment career politicians and elites (including the local GOP establishment), to help end local government corruption with transparency and constitutional law.
I also plan to help build up a BA coalition of pro-Trump, pro-MAGA local leaders, to effectively establish a kind of local MAGA populist “party” movement here (within the GOP but transcending it, going to the other side of the aisle). Since BA government has been for a very long time very one-sided, often composed of establishment Republican (RINO) Good Old Boys and Good Old Girls, we also need as a counterweight and check on their power, a truly conservative, patriotic alternative, and that is the MAGA movement led by President Trump.
A movement that will continue strong even after he leaves the White House. If I am elected, hopefully a MAGA coalition in BA will get elected MAGA mayors and council members for many years to come.
MAGA vs. the RINOS. Freedom fighters vs. The Swamp.
I am not taking one dime from special interests. Hoping to be able to donate my part-time government salary of either $9,000 or $12,000 to the BA police department, and BA fire department. Unless directly elected as full time mayor by The People, then perhaps only a very modest salary to pay the bills. But seeking personal finances to hopefully allow me to take no salary.
If a full time directly elected mayor, that is a full time job, I would commit to a typical 80 hour work week for the city, and to establishing an office for the mayor in city hall for greater transparency and direct, public communication with The People. I promise to serve a limited period of time within what I would propose for term limits, and then to rapidly fade back into obscurity. Ideally, I would only serve just one period of 4 years, but time will tell.
My campaign: a regular YouTube podcast, regularly talking at city council meetings also posted online with online analysis, public meet and greats, sell MAGA merchandise to self-fund while simultaneously campaigning, challenge opponents to public debates, town hall meetings, rallies, and advertising.
KENNEDY's CORE POLICIES
Elect Our Mayor!
1. Major, sweeping constitutional reforms to local government. Amend the Broken Arrow City Charter asap so The People directly elect their mayor, like all Tulsa suburbs do including Tulsa itself, and most cities, and also to require term limits for council members.
2. Therefore, establish a stronger role of the city mayor to be the central voice of The People, a courageous chief executive, strictly and fearlessly enforcing the Constitution and all laws, in accord with their authority granted by state law and the City Charter. And by God. And to not even show a hint of cronyism, loyalty to special interests, private agendas, or being a mere symbolic head.
3. Dramatically reduce the scandalous salary of the city manager from $300,000 to $150,000 or less. Our unelected city manger makes twice what Governor Stitt makes running the entire state. We need a chief executive who is elected by The People as a modest public servant, and who isn’t excessively paid with your hard earned money.
Restore Small Government!
Establish the BA DOGE!
4. A radical reduction in the size of local government, to be much leaner, efficient, and sacrificial. For this purpose, establish a local equivalent of the new federal and state Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), of deputized cyber investigators and auditors, hopefully full time volunteers, using state of the art technology and methods to identify and eliminate all forms of government corruption, waste, redundancies, excessive government, or anything actually illegal or unconstitutional, coordinating with the criminal and civil courts and police department when needed.
5. Therefore, being able to ultimately reduce sales tax eventually down to zero. Reduce dramatically property taxes, and all forms of business tax and fees.
Dramatic Increase in Jobs and Pay
6. Restore the traditional American philosophy of economics, to therefore greatly increase the number of jobs and high paying jobs through truly small government and truly free market capitalism (not liberal, pro-monopoly pseudo-capitalism), thereby radically stimulating the economy and elevating our quality of life. Our country is on a crash course to become like socialist Venezuela. We need to turn the ship around and restore economic stability and economic freedom more like we once had. But the establishment Republicans just don’t get it.
7. Re-privatize most city government charitable and social services, and recreational services, with churches, non profits, civic organizations, and wealthy large businesses instead funding and running them, with ongoing government collaboration. Incentivize a revitalization of community volunteering, and large businesses happily footing the bill instead of the tax payer. Reducing business taxes and fees is the incentive, once government waste and excess is eliminated.
Infrastructure
8. Emphasize even more than ever before aggressively improving road infrastructure asap with wider roads in critical areas where traffic backs up, more frugal, affordable housing developments, emphasize the building of nearby necessities vs. near endless luxuries, small and medium size businesses, locally owned businesses, while minimizing the negative effects of consumerism, materialism, hedonism, and local control of our economy by gigantic, globalist corporations.
Pro-life
9. Start the Department of the Sacredness of Human Life, to help the community heal from the past scourge of abortion since Roe vs. Wade (1973), with programs of healing and education, to keep defending the unborn by helping to stop the abortion pill now sent in large numbers through the mail, and to stop other ways to murder the unborn child in our town. Also, to promote once again respect for life, and to make sure our nursing homes are more like a proper retirement home than a death camp, by strictly enforcing hard core the law. To protect our seniors. This department will also be charged with preventing alternative, controversial ideologies about sexuality and gender being forced on children and the community. It will mostly be run by volunteers. Never again to allow drag queen shows in front of little children on city property.
Law Enforcement
10. Reform of law enforcement to increase pay. Replace police officers who are consistently substandard or abuse their authority with a police state mentality, with Constitution-loving patriots and civil servants with professional integrity. Dramatically higher pay and benefits for remaining officers (and fire fighters). Elevating professional standards and therefore competition for being hired will result in higher pay and friendship between our police and citizens.
Declarations of Emergency As Needed:
11. If and when it should be needed, I am prepared to declare an ongoing state of emergency coordinated with the courts to bypass certain sluggish red tape, to more aggressively and swiftly wipe out the most heinous of criminals who cleverly evade law enforcement, like the local drug trade and human traffickers, with special, hard core operations carried out within the law. I will join in these special operations as Mayor by giving symbolic moral leadership, giving the officers a speech, then driving in the chief of police’s car leading the charge.
I am not closed to asking for some national guard support including tanks during some of these emergency missions, if needed. This is about sending a message, to scare the hell out of them to leave town. A battalion of highly skilled SWAT teams, positioned sharp shooters, overhead drones and helicopters, with state of the art technology, receiving specialized training, will suddenly descend on these sites in the middle of the night. Every precaution will be taken to preserve life.
The criminals will be instructed several times to surrender, but then multiple SWAT teams will rapidly enter the building with a license to kill if necessary. Any dead bodies of drug lords or human sex traffickers will be photographed and shown as a public symbol that Broken Arrow will no longer tolerate even 1% of the killing of our youth through drugs, or the abduction and rape of children for child porn and sex slavery. These demons will be hunted down by me, the city’s Commander-in-Chief, and stopped like never before. Of course all in accord with the law, coordinated beforehand with judges and legal experts. When it becomes necessary because of a dysfunctional justice system which moves so slowly that heinous crimes continue to be common place.
Traffic
12. Major changes to traffic law enforcement, to improve traffic conditions. Zero toleration with stiffer fines for cell phone use while driving, tail-gaiting, and extremely slow driving.
The Homeless
13. Zero tolerance of vagrancy. The homeless and itinerant breaking these laws will be given a strict tough love choice between jail or going to long term rehab. Build private, humane, non profit inpatient rehab farms or the like far outside of the city, built and managed by churches and non-profits, happily funded once again by incentivized wealthy businesses, coordinating with police and the courts. The goal is total rehabilitation through a balanced daily schedule, outdoors work, being part of a community, and eventual re-integration into the community. Profits from the farm help pay for the rehab.
Urgent, Aggressive Reform of
Public Schools
14. Dramatically higher pay and benefits for teachers based strictly on merit. Eliminate asap substandard teachers. Seek total local control of schools. Eliminate moral relativism, radical leftist ideology, and a liberal, soft approach to education. Return to strict, traditional standards of academics and moral discipline. Zero tolerance for disobedience, delinquency, immodest dress and behavior, and bullying. I support prayer in schools, teaching the Ten Commandments, school uniforms, charter schools, school vouchers, and homeschooling. Since Oklahoma is 50th in the nation for education, radical, aggressive reforms are imperative.
Making Modern Life Easier
15. Reduce modern stress through a 4 day work week, more work from home, longer Christmas and Easter/Holy Week holidays, and other holidays, incentivize (not mandate) businesses to provide this. Also, ending daylight savings time, ultra low cost city festivals, less businesses open on Sunday, and build more parks, libraries, and plazas with free or low cost forms of leisure (built and owned by the private sector, with government coordination only, with business elites again incentivized to happily foot the bill).
Illegal Immigration
16. A strict but compassionate approach to deportations in line with the program of President Trump. No mercy for hardened criminals or those just using residency here to make money without assimilating to or showing respect for our traditional culture. Families should not be divided due to deportations.
Upholding the Bill of Rights
17. High priority given to protect our Bill of Rights, especially the first amendment, especially the right to free speech, and the 2nd amendment right to bear arms (to protect us long term against tyrannical government).
Restoring Culture
18. Less hedonistic suburban sprawl, excessively emphasizing restaurants, fast food, dispensaries, and convenience. Fines for extremely immodest dress or behaviors, and extreme public vulgarity, that violates the law.
19. Preserve long term (100 years and more) a down-to-earth, town-like environment, and connection to our natural surroundings. As the city continues to grow, take steps to help keep the city medium size from growing out of control, and town-like, such as encouraging growth also in nearby towns like Coweta for some people, or even the founding of new towns outside of BA city limits. Encourage a return to a more small town way of life, a return to the land, and preserving rural culture.
20. End the unspoken rule that all high school graduates need to go to college, or have a long term “career.” Instead, re-emphasize for many to seek high paying technical occupations and attending vocational, technical schools, avoiding large student loan debt and university brainwashing.
Regarding a Mosque Permit
21. Do not cave to political correctness by granting building permits to any mosque formally affiliated with known terrorist networks. Assist them to first take the necessary steps to disentangle themselves from the likes of the pro-terrorism North American Islamic Trust, and the radical cultural ideology of cultural jihadism and Sharia law. Defend the Christian West, and traditional American culture from movements or groups wanting to see it destroyed.
Placing God back at the Center
22. Make God the king of our government, all members of the Council treating their authority as coming from Him, loyal to His commands, to help ensure the preservation of religion and morality, to help promote a moral culture, that is a culture that truly respects human life, and a culture that honors purity, traditional marriage, and wholesome family life. Every legal, constitutional measure should be taken to restore this model to our local government.
Let's Make America Great Again!
Let’s Make Broken Arrow Great Again!
Chrisbrokenarrow@yahoo.com