Brent VanNorman
Brent VanNorman ran for election for Mayor of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He lost in the general election on August 27, 2024.
VanNorman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Brent VanNorman was born in Muncie, Indiana. He earned a high school diploma from Union City High School, a bachelor's degree in accounting from Anderson University in 1982, and a law degree from Regent University in 2000. His career experience includes working as a public accountant, patent law attorney, adjunct professor, pastor, and the manager of a certified public accounting firm. VanNorman has also worked in executive management for a title insurance company and a software company.[1]
As of 2024, VanNorman was affiliated with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Virginia State Bar Association, and Hope Fellowship Church in Tulsa.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Mayoral election in Tulsa, Oklahoma (2024)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Mayor of Tulsa
Monroe Nichols defeated Karen Keith in the general runoff election for Mayor of Tulsa on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Monroe Nichols (Nonpartisan) | 55.6 | 76,467 |
 | Karen Keith (Nonpartisan) | 44.4 | 60,986 | |
| Total votes: 137,453 | |||
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General election
General election for Mayor of Tulsa
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Tulsa on August 27, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Monroe Nichols (Nonpartisan) | 33.1 | 18,752 |
| ✔ | | Karen Keith (Nonpartisan) | 32.6 | 18,458 |
 | Brent VanNorman (Nonpartisan) | 31.8 | 18,021 | |
| Casey Bradford (Nonpartisan) | 1.5 | 824 | ||
| John Jolley (Nonpartisan) | 0.6 | 366 | ||
| Kaleb Hoosier (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 106 | ||
 | Paul Tay (Nonpartisan) | 0.2 | 87 | |
| Total votes: 56,614 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for VanNorman in this election.
2013
VanNorman ran in the 2013 election for Virginia House of Delegates District 78. He did not appear on the general election ballot.
Campaign themes
2024
Video for Ballotpedia
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brent VanNorman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by VanNorman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Tulsa needs to become more business friendly. a. First, City Hall must become customer centric - citizens are our customers. Second, we must incentivize new businesses coming to Tulsa and existing businesses expanding in Tulsa. Third, is to minimize red tape, including compressing the permitting process.
- Address Public Safety Issues of high crime and homelessness. First, is a major recruiting effort for hiring police officers. Second, we must recognize homelessness is primarily a drug addiction and mental health issue. Yes, the homeless need a place or they won’t go to appointments. But we must enforce Tulsa's no-camp ordinance to ensure the streets are safe and our homeless have a facility they can sleep safely in that offers care.
- Making Tulsa a more affordable place to live and raise a family. Generations of Tulsans have built families, started businesses, and invested in the future. We must lower housing costs through new home ownership incentives, reduce the tax burden for hardworking families, and bring new opportunities to Tulsa.
Competence. Elected officials should bring a skillset to the office that allows them to perform at a high level. No official knows it all. But great leaders know when to ask questions and bring in others with expertise to address problems and create solutions.
Answer: Their personalities.
John O'Connor, Former Oklahoma Attorney General
Mark Tedford, Oklahoma House of Representatives
Dana Prieto, Oklahoma Senate
Chris Banning, Oklahoma Senate
David Been, Former Tulsa Chief of Police
Paula Marshall, CEO, Bama Companies
Michael Krimbill, CEO, NGL Energy Partners
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2013
VanNorman’s website highlighted the following campaign themes:[2]
Excerpt: "I believe in marriage – between one man and one woman, ideally for a lifetime. One of the greatest plagues on our society has been the breakdown of the family. Without question, children do best when raised in a healthy home by a mother and a father."
Excerpt: "The City of Norfolk spent hundreds of millions on light rail (The Tide), yet downtown congestion during the evening rush hour is as bad, if not worse, than it was before The Tide began running (and the delays caused by The Tide stopping traffic appear to compound the problem). ...While I agree we have to address transportation improvements, we need to fund, at least in part, the improvements through spending cuts elsewhere (I will address the “where” in future posts). Second, there is nothing wrong with requiring those that directly benefit from improvements to pay for portions of the improvements."
Excerpt: "What you tax, you discourage. What you subsidize, you encourage. We are taxing, in the extreme, productivity. Many of the hardest working members of our society are worn out and discouraged. Both parents often have to work, a second job has to be secured, overtime must be accepted, etc. And why? Because our government seemingly cannot say “no” to anyone or anything. ...I don’t care what the reason – we cannot raise taxes any further."
Excerpt: "Every year government seems to creep into more and more arenas of society – segments previously considered personal, or serviced by the private sector, or embraced by civic and religious organizations. Yet more and more, I am hearing people of all political persuasions begging for less government invasion into our private worlds."
Excerpt: "If the recipient is over eighteen, frequently the would-be provider deems the one in need as a ward of the state. It’s the government’s job. But a faceless government cannot be intimately involved in the recipient’s life. Thus, entitlement and fraud result. ...Making families struggle together is healthy. Both for the family and society. Sure, we need to give advanced notice. But we need to start down that path now."
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 5, 2024
- ↑ Brent VanNorman for Delegate, "Campaign Issues," accessed September 9, 2013
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