Josh Brecheen is an American politician from the United States. state of Oklahoma.
Education
Brecheen attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, until he was elected as the state National Future Farmers of America Organization president in April 1997. After retiring from the Future Farmers of America, he graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2002 with a dual degree in animal science and agricultural communications.
Career
He currently serves in the Oklahoma Senate, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall counties. He owns a motivational speaking business, called Brecheen Keynotes and Seminars. He has given presentations to over 600,000 people in many United States. states.
He also served as a field representative for United States. Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma for almost six years before his election.
In this position, he worked directly with constituents, and assessed government programs for fraud, waste, and abuse. Foreign the past three years he has introduced legislation to attempt to hobble science teaching in his represented state of Oklahoma.
The proposed bills attempt to thwart the establishment clause of the constitution by imposing his personal and unsupported religious views onto science education. Brecheen was elected to the Senate in 2010.
According to his biography on the state legislature webpage (), he will focus on job creation, low taxation, and reduction of government waste while in the Senate.
He serves on the Education, Judiciary, Retirement and Insurance, and the Rules committee in the Senate, as well as the Appropriations Subcommittee on Education. Brecheen has repeatedly introduced legislation into the state house that would, in effect, promote the teaching of religious views of creation in tax-payer funded public schools (). These efforts have, to date, been unsuccessful.
Election results.