Shane Jett

[8] In 2008, Jett ran for re-election to House district 27 again and defeated Democrat Cole Koszara, a machinist, of Harrah, Oklahoma by 73% to 27%.

[12] Jett's motivation was to insert Oklahoma pride into the flag and potentially promote tourism.

[15] Jett's biggest focus during his Congressional campaign was getting elected to reduce government spending, supporting a federal balanced budget amendment and a line-item veto.

Steve Russell won the Republican primaries and ended up holding the Congressional seat from 2015 to 2019.

[17][18] After the 2016 Presidential campaign, Jett was appointed by President Donald Trump to the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund Community Development Advisory Board where he serves as chairman.

[27] Jett faced Greg Sadler, a printing company employee from Newalla, Oklahoma, in the general election in November 2020.

[28] In the November 3, 2020 general election, Jett defeated Sadler with about 75% of the vote, to win the 17th Senate district seat.

"[32][33] It came along other anti-DEI legislation from Danny Williams and David Bullard from the Oklahoma capitol after Superintendent and Secretary of Education Ryan Walters "called for a 10-year review of all expenditures related to DEI over the last decade at Oklahoma higher education institutions" in early 2023.

[7][11] Jett graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with a BBA majoring in international business and minoring in Spanish.

[7][11] Fluent in three languages, Jett spent two years in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, working for Global Options International.

Jett at the 2024 Hazlitt Summit hosted by Young Americans for Liberty Foundation