Tom Gann stands where Oklahoma values still matter: no lobbyist money, no lobbyist gifts, no strings attached. He reads the bills, exposes the bad deals, and fights for taxpayers when insiders would rather keep quiet.
"When you don't take their money, you don't owe them anything."
Tom Gann's record is direct and documented: he rejects insider pressure, reads the bills, fights utility hikes and corporate welfare, and works to drag hidden conduct into the open.
In a Capitol culture built around catered meals, favors, and pressure from insiders, Gann always draws a clear line and refuses to play along. He does not live the Capitol nightlife. Instead, he reads the bills, catches bad proposals, and leads the House in voting no.
Gann did not just fight utility rate increases in the Legislature. When he saw what he believed was corruption, he personally went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court to challenge the conduct at the Corporation Commission.
The Oklahoma Constitution's Conservative Index, the gold standard of legislative grading since 1979, has regularly awarded Gann a 100% conservative score, reflecting his consistent voting record and commitment to the conservative principles of the people of House District 8.
Gann has built a reputation for studying legislation line by line and spotting the problems others miss before they become expensive mistakes.
Gann warned early about risky corporate welfare schemes like Canoo and was proven right when the deal collapsed.
He consistently argues that government should stop picking winners and losers and stop shifting private risk onto the public.
Gann is known for being willing to stand against bad proposals instead of drifting with the Capitol crowd.
Because he does not take lobbyist money or gifts, Gann can confront insiders when others stay quiet.
Gann's work is rooted in a simple premise: House District 8 comes before the interests that profit from big government.
Tom Gann's priorities are grounded in smaller government, taxpayer protection, clean government, rural Oklahoma, and conservative values. Click any issue to read his full position.
Tom Gann has always been independent-minded. In his 20s, he owned his own gas station and learned early that numbers matter, waste matters, and excuses do not balance the books.
Later, as an auditor for the Tulsa Airport Authority, he sharpened the habit that still defines him: read the fine print, follow the paper trail, and ask who benefits when a deal does not smell right.
That same auditor mindset now serves House District 8. At the Capitol, Gann keeps track of special interest schemes, catches bad proposals buried in legislation, and repeatedly exposes them on behalf of the people he represents.
Owning his own gas station taught Gann discipline, independence, and respect for every dollar.
At the Tulsa Airport Authority, he developed the detail-first habit of checking the books and catching what others miss.
In the House, that same mindset helps him spot special-interest schemes and expose them before taxpayers pay the price.
Read commentary, business reporting, energy coverage, and official releases following Tom Gann's work on transparency, utility accountability, corporate welfare, and conservative reform. Each story opens in a new tab.
The Journal Record covered Gann's Open Legislature Initiative as a bid to bring lawmakers under open meetings and open records laws, highlighting his effort to end secrecy, expose lobbyist influence, and force the Legislature to live under the same transparency standards it imposes on everyone else.
Read StoryOklahoma Energy Today focused on Gann's argument that the public deserves a more open Legislature, tying his transparency push to broader concerns about hidden decision-making and insider influence in state government.
Read StoryIn this official release, Gann announces a transparency package to bring the Legislature under open meetings and open records standards, require disclosure tied to lobbyist influence, and void secrecy practices that keep lawmakers from the public they serve.
Read StoryThis report follows Gann and fellow lawmakers in their Supreme Court challenge to OG&E rate hikes and storm-related bonds, outlining how the case could unwind charges and put more than $300 million in refunds back in play for Oklahoma customers.
Read StoryOklahoma Energy Today highlighted Gann's court filing against utility-rate decisions at the Corporation Commission, including his argument that void orders must be reversed and that alleged coverups and unlawful audit practices cannot keep standing.
Read StoryThis opinion piece looks back at Gann's early floor fight against legislation requiring "implicit bias" training for prenatal professionals, casting him as one of the few lawmakers willing to push back when woke ideology had real momentum in the House.
Read StoryIn this House release, Gann explains his vote against SB987, calling it government by nondisclosure agreement and warning that it expands closed-door bureaucracy, entrenches corporate welfare, and shields major public-fund decisions from taxpayers.
Read StoryJason Murphey's January 29, 2025 column argues that Gann's influence comes from independence, not rank: reading the details, spotting bad deals early, and forcing attention onto problems like Canoo and the concentration of power inside the chamber.
Read StoryRead, share, and print the official campaign pieces that lay out Tom Gann's record, message, and priorities for House District 8.
The short, hard-hitting piece built around the no-gifts message, the Capitol game contrast, and the "Raising the Standard" campaign identity.
Longer-form campaign literature covering the re-election message, the fight against corporate welfare, the ratepayer challenge, and the conservative scorecard message.
Tom Gann supports the Save Oklahoma Plan because it lines up with the same principles he has carried at the Capitol: local control, secure borders and jobs, medical freedom, clean government, and an end to taxpayer-funded insider schemes.
Built as a statewide grassroots conservative agenda, the plan takes aim at the land fights, food and water protections, worker protections, and anti-corruption reforms that matter to rural Oklahoma and to the families of House District 8.
The Save Oklahoma Plan goes directly at the kind of insider games Gann has already spent his time fighting: corporate welfare, hidden bureaucracies, taxpayer-funded lobbying, and government systems that put connected interests ahead of the people.
The official Save Oklahoma Plan centers on seven statewide fights: land protection, clean food and water, secure jobs, toll-road accountability, medical freedom, and shutting down taxpayer-funded insider influence.
Stop perpetual tolls and force transparency on agencies that act like they answer to no one.
Taxpayers should never be forced to finance lobbyists who work against their own communities.
Back local control over massive wind and solar projects, with setbacks that protect homes, schools, and property values.
Protect food, soil, and water by prohibiting biosolid sludge and human waste from being spread on agricultural land.
No foreign adversary should own Oklahoma land. The state should defend its sovereignty and future.
Protect Oklahoma wages and lawful employers by making sure every business follows the same hiring rules.
Roads that have already been paid for should not stay under endless toll collection while agencies hide behind bureaucracy.
No Oklahoman should be punished by government, employers, or schools over private vaccination choices.
The Save Oklahoma Plan draws a bright line against using public money to hire lobbyists who then turn around and pressure government on behalf of the political class instead of the people paying the bills.
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The case the campaign makes is simple: if the people want an independent conservative voice that refuses the Capitol's gift culture and fights bad deals, they need to stand with Tom Gann now.
