Full Name:
Glenda K. Puett
Gender:
Female
Family:
Husband: Don Puett; 2 Children
Birth Place:
Mobile, AL
MEd, Education/Teaching of the Gifted and Talented, Oklahoma City University, 1985-1989
MEd, University of Central Oklahoma, 1975
BS, Elementary Education and Teaching, University of Central Oklahoma, 1973
Candidate, Oklahoma State House of Representatives, District 76, 2014
Candidate, Oklahoma House of Representatives, District 76, 2012
Member, Union's Long Range Planning Committee
Former Teacher, Mid-Del Public School System
Former Teacher, Watonga Public Schools, Cleveland
Teacher, Union Public Schools, 1991-2012
Volunteer, Broken Arrow Neighbors, 2015-present
Volunteer, Union Public Schools, 2014-present
Volunteer, Community Volunteer, 2012-present
Volunteer, Tulsa Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, 2012-present
Member, Watonga Teachers Association, 2004-present
President, Cleveland Teachers Association
Sponsor, Peters Student Council
Member, UBest Committee
President, Union Classroom Teachers' Association
Vice President, Union Classroom Teachers' Association
Vice President, Watonga Teachers Association, 2008-present
Hobbies or Special Talents:
gardening, grandchildren, animals, and reading
Priority Issues:
- We want to actively dismantle tax exemptions for the few and put that money back into the state coffers where:
Education funding would be restored and schools could hire teachers instead of letting them go.
We want Oklahoma to accept Federal health dollars which would stop our hospitals and nursing homes from closing and restore health care to the thousands whose services have been dropped
We would invest in children who are hurting in dysfunctional families with more services to wrap around those families to bring them up, instead of tearing them down.
We would pay our bills for public services before cutting taxes.
We would invest in more mental health services to get the mentally ill out of the prison system.
We want to invest in drug treatment programs to get people back on their feet to be functioning citizens
We also want public employees to have their retirement systems in tact without ALEC legislation to try to destroy them.
We want to let towns and municipalities make their own decisions about their employees' pay and benefits.
We want to be a shining star state instead of one which lags at the bottom of comparison lists for supporting its citizens.
-We want to lift our citizens up to stand and thereby lift others up until we are all standing tall in this state!