Oklahoma House District 63 race

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) – Democrat Shykira Smith is operating to signify district 63 within the Oklahoma Home of Representatives.

For the previous two phrases her opponent, Republican incumbent Trey Caldwell, has run unopposed for the seat.

Smith says she doesn’t assume that’s how democracy ought to work.

“We’ve 55 uncontested seats,” she mentioned. “That’s as a result of folks have been discouraged from studying run for workplace.”

Smith says she needs to refocus the state’s consideration on the southwest.

“Our elected officers are passing huge metropolis agendas, and so they have forgotten about southwest Oklahoma. They’ve undoubtedly forgotten about home district 63, or not less than these points aren’t on the desk,” she mentioned.

A type of points she thinks she will tackle is water.

“Our infrastructure out right here is outdated or was by no means constructed to par,” she mentioned, “and so with all the warmth and with all the acute climate we’ve been experiencing mainly everybody has been experiencing water shortages, water outages, damaged pipes.”

She additionally says she needs extra sources to assist get covid below management.

“We’re not being well mannered, asking, no,” she mentioned. “We’re demanding that we get the sources that we’d like so we are able to get by means of this pandemic in order that we are able to go on and truly return to normallacy, no matter that will appear like.”

Smith says her precedence would be the folks if she’s elected.

“It’s not about what I would like. I’m a person, however I work for the folks and I do what they inform me to do. That’s the way it’s imagined to work and I really feel it hasn’t been working that approach,” she mentioned.

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