Senator Clark Jolley of Edmond said today he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the 5th District.
Jolley joins Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas, also of Edmond, former Rep. Shane Jett and former Senator Steve Russell as among those in the race on the GOP side.
On his new congressional race website, it is written, “Clark Jolley has a proven record of conservative accomplishments as an Oklahoma State Senator. With your support, Clark will bring his record of common-sense solutions to the fight for lower taxes, balanced budgets, protecting innocent lives and fighting ObamaCare in the U.S. Congress.”
Here’s an excerpt from Sean Murphy’s AP report:
Jolley, 43, gets to keep his state Senate seat while running for Congress since he’s in the middle of a four-year term.
The 5th District congressional seat, which includes most of Oklahoma County, along with Seminole and Pottawatomie counties to the east, was thrown open when two-term Republican U.S. Rep. James Lankford announced earlier this week he planned to run for Coburn’s U.S. Senate seat.
Jolley, the chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, was first elected in 2004 and has twice been re-elected to his Senate seat in the conservative Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond. During his 2012 campaign, he faced a well-funded tea party-aligned challenger in the primary, who attempted to paint Jolley as a moderate political insider. Jolley won with more than 56 percent of the vote.
Jolley sponsored a tough anti-abortion bill in 2011 that makes it a felony crime for doctors to perform abortions after a woman reaches 20 weeks of pregnancy. He also fought for several years to secure a $38.5 million bond issue to build a new facility for the Medical Examiner’s Office at the University of Central Oklahoma campus in Edmond.
Jolley is the latest on the list of GOP contenders for the seat that also includes Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas, former state Rep. Shane Jett, and former state Sen. and Army veteran Steve Russell. Other Republicans considering the race are state Sens. Greg Treat and David Holt, and state Reps. Paul Wesselhoft and Mike Turner.
Democrats considering the race are former Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth, Senator Al McAffrey, Rep. Anastasia Pittman and multi-time candidate Tom Guild.
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He’s as far from conservative as they get in the party. We don’t need him in the office.
Oh no we do NOT want him as our congressman! Just getting a robocall tonight announcing he was running was enough to say NO WAY!!!!!
Clark Jollley is NOT a conservative and I will add he does not listen to his constituents, in fact he blocks them if they try to pin him down on an issue! He’s definitely NOT working for the people of Oklahoma!