Representative Dan Sullivan wants to continue his proven, common sense approach to leadership in representing the people of District 71. Dan values his experiences in being a life long native of Oklahoma. He is grateful for the opportunity to serve as State Representative for District 71. He wants to continue to keep the legislature focused on what is important to the people he represents. Public safety, job growth, education and family values must continue to be top priorities. Dan has been committed since day one to represent true conservative values and keep his district as the top priority in every decision he makes at the Capitol.

Representative Dan Sullivan believes we must keep state government focused on core issues.

The Legislature must prioritize:

• Keeping and increasing quality jobs.
• Fixing our roads and bridges.
• Improving our education system and increasing standards.
• Ensuring a safe place to live and work.
• Economic growth through lawsuit reform

Representative Dan Sullivan believes in less government.

We need to be able to control more of our own hard-earned money. For far too long, we have continued to be represented by politicians who allow special interest groups to control their priorities. Dan believes people want representation that prioritizing them and their issues! Dan has continued to listen to the people who will he represents.

Representative Sullivan believes we cannot continue to be satisfied with ranking near the very bottom nationally in several of the most important categories including:

• Secondary Education ( 47th nationally in average teacher salaries and 48th in expenditures per student)
• Economy ( 45th nationally in median household income)

Representative Sullivan has lead the charge to change the old way of doing things at the Capitol.

For too long the Democratic lead legislature in Oklahoma has put their own agenda ahead of what’s best for our citizens. Oklahoma has the opportunity to bring more common sense, pro-business leaders to the Capitol. Dan is one of those leaders and wants to continue to work to help make Oklahoma even better for future generations. P

EDUCATION

Representative Dan Sullivan is a champion for education. As a member of the House Education Committee, he voted to increase teacher pay and increased standards for student achievement. He wants to ensure that every child is equipped with the tools needed to support themselves and lead productive, independent lives. Dan was the House author of a bill that would help protect teachers from frivolous lawsuits and that bill was vetoed by the Governor.

Representative Sullivan believes in and has voted for:

• Increased standards for a strong curriculum based on the core subjects of math, science, English, and social studies.
• Targeting a greater percentage of existing school funding directly to classrooms, rather than pay for layers of administration, where it is needed most.
• More funds to ease the burden of unfunded state mandates on schools.
• Making schools accountable to the parents and students they serve.
• Funding support for the Endowed Chairs program at our state’s colleges and universities.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Representative Dan Sullivan believes Oklahoma must continue to improve our business environment. We must make Oklahoma more attractive to the existing business community and new businesses to protect current jobs, ensure future job growth and provide for a better quality of life for our citizens.

Representative Sullivan accomplishments include:

• Lead the successful passage of a historic bond package this past session bringing $25 million in funds to build three low-water dams on the Arkansas River to enhance our greatest natural resource.
• Author of lawsuit reform bills each of the four years he has served in the legislature
• Reducing barriers to business expansion and encouraging job creation

PUBLIC SAFETY

Representative Sullivan is a proven advocate for safety. His dedication to justice, security, and the well-being of the public is clear. Representative Sullivan has a long and passionate commitment to public safety. He understands the hard reality of crime, and the impact it has on our community. Dan has served Tulsa County as a Reserve Deputy since 1999.

Representative Sullivan has lead many efforts to improve safety in Oklahoma:

• Working with law enforcement, he helped increase penalties for crimes against the elderly and incapacitated.
• He is working to expand the state’s DNA database so law enforcement can solve crimes more efficiently and improve conviction rates of criminals.
• He authored the law that relieves some of the financial burden borne by the Tulsa County Jail when facing rising medical costs for inmates.

Representative Sullivan believes in:

• Quick and efficient exercise of justice in our legal system.
• Capital punishment for convicted first-degree murderers, major drug traffickers, and killers of public safety personnel including police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, and emergency medical responders.
• Strongly supporting efforts to combat domestic violence and child abuse.
• Putting the right people behind bars. Those that commit minor offenses can become professional criminals when sent to prison. We should prioritize those crimes that require prison time.
• Making people that commit crimes be responsible to pay restitution to their victims.

TAXES & REGULATIONS

Representative Sullivan firmly believes that the revenues of government should not exceed the cost of government.

Furthermore, spending should only grow at a rate required to fund a small, efficient and effective government. Our state government is the largest employer in Oklahoma. Representative Sullivan believes it’s clear that our state government is too large and costly. We must prioritize spending so that our tax dollars go to programs that work rather than being wasted on bureaucracy and programs that don’t help people.

Representative Sullivan is a leader who invests in people:

• He helped lower income tax rates for hard working Oklahomans.
• He helped pass legislation that raises the standard deduction and eliminate estate taxes.
• He worked to invest $2.3 billion in our state and county roads over the next eight years, without raising taxes!

Representative Sullivan believes in:

• Supporting efforts to stimulate economic growth by cutting fees and taxes for all individuals and businesses.
• Reducing the tax burden on working families by cutting or eliminating income taxes.
• Ending the death tax. It is unfair and requires families pay taxes on the assets of a loved one when that person dies.
• Lowering taxes over continued expansion of state bureaucracy. Revenue in excess of government expenditures should be returned to taxpayers.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Representative Sullivan co-authored legislation HB 1804

Every day, thousands of people risk everything to cross our borders illegally. Most of these people are not bad people; they are simply in search of a better life. However, if they are coming to the U.S and land in Oklahoma illegally, they are hurting hard working Oklahomans.

Unfortunately, our current system rewards their illegal actions by providing services, which are subsidized by Oklahoma taxpayers. Representative Sullivan favors comprehensive immigration reform and encourages immigrants to follow proper legal channels to gain citizenship.

Representative Sullivan believes:

• The first and best step to curbing illegal immigration is to secure our American borders. Representative Sullivan believes as long as both of our borders remain unsecured, our country is vulnerable to terrorists, drug traffickers and other criminals who intend to harm our people and our way of life.
• Dan believes that we need to instill a better respect for the law in the next generation of Oklahomans and Americans.
• Dan believes that by taking action on the part of the State of Oklahoma and other states that the federal government will be forced to create a guest worker program that will allow people to legally cross our borders to pursue employment.

Even when doing so would be difficult, time-consuming or inconvenient, Dan believes that those living in America must abide by our laws and be here legally

Representative Sullivan, will always approach the issue of immigration with common sense and respect. However, he firmly believes we must secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws.