An entrepreneur at heart, I began my passion for small business in grade school by going door to door throughout Midwest City, Oklahoma, selling anything I could. By the fifth grade, I was one of the top-selling Grit newspaper boys in the state. There is no question I owe my passion for work and my work ethic to my father, Bob Standridge, who sold Prudential Insurance for forty years in the Oklahoma City and Norman areas.

In 1985, I did not think I wanted to go to college, but with an invitation from my sister, Lori, I joined her in becoming an EMT, training we received at Oklahoma City Community College. I also operated a landscaping company, Good Guys Lawn Service, which I kept until I graduated college. I was the first in my family to graduate college.

In 1995, while on a Sunday drive with Lisa, we discovered a small pharmacy going out of business in Blanchard. I convinced the owner to keep the store open for a few weeks while I tried to obtain the money to purchase the store because I had no money. With the help of Michael Dillinger at First American Bank in Purcell, we were able to obtain an SBA loan for 80% of the business and carried the remainder with the owner, Don Woolley. Lisa kept her job at another pharmacy which paid the bills at home and helped fund the first year of the new venture. The Blanchard pharmacy would become Blanchard Drug & Gift, which allowed us not only the opportunity to own a growing business but also the opportunity to meet all the great people of Blanchard, a community that Lisa and I loved instantly.

A few years after acquiring Blanchard Drug & Gift, I was told by a friend in Amarillo that if I could deliver a software program for managing a compounding pharmacy, he could sell ten copies a month for me. Between mid-1997 and January 1999, I taught myself to write computer programs and produced a program that met the requirement; that program was and is Compound Assist. Since that time, I have written several software programs, including a complete pharmacy management system, Script Assist, and numerous web applications.

In 2006 I began a startup technology and equipment company, Health Engineering Systems, HES. Since then, I sold HES to a Canadian company, and during that time, we grew the company, expanded it into several areas, and developed software programs to support some of the equipment we carried.

It is because of my first child who, because of her miraculous arrival into my life, dramatically changed how I look at the world, causing me to run for public office. The future of my children still drives me to try to bring a very broken and fallen country and state back, at least closer to the narrow way. Sadly, on many days, I fear our country may be lost.

Since first being elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2012, I have served for 11 years, most of that time elected to leadership positions within the Senate.

Legislatively, I have personally led the charge against mask mandates, drag queen shows in schools, child mutilating surgeries and drugs, forced vaccination, CRT, obscene material in schools, indoctrination in common and higher ed, and many other radical leftist ideologies, and currently, I am trying to dismantle DEI before I leave the senate. I believe in smaller government, lower taxes, and letting my faith dictate my direction, which is why those who know me understand my frustration in recent years. What started out as a senate tenure partnered with other conservatives and strong Christians, my last six years have seen the Senate Republican Caucus be the home of primarily moderates that work every day to find more government programs they can spend taxpayer dollars on and more harm to children that we can just overlook.

Having intended to write for many years, I am proud to have just finished my first novel, 2084, soon to be published, and am well into my second, The Meth Cartel. As in other things I have done over the years, I hope to use my writing to inform while entertaining.