As a downtown business owner, I’m running to create real change for our community.

I’ve been a downtown Shawnee business owner since 2007, my company GO Consulting IT Services first started on Main Street and is now located off Union and 9th Street. Since I’ve been in business, I have seen tremendous changes downtown, but there’s so much more to be done. I’m running to continue the work of progressing our downtown, supporting small businesses, and making Shawnee a community where young people want to raise their families.

Contact Team

Chris Odneal

info@chrisodneal.com

(405)585-6863

Mail Checks and Candidate Surveys to:

PO BOX 3786 Shawnee, OK 74802

Get to know Chris

I was born here in Shawnee at Mission Hill Memorial Hospital. My mother and father met here working at Mazzio’s Pizza together while they were in college. My great-grandmother raised dairy cows in Bethel Acres where I spent my childhood summers tending the garden and helping raise chickens. After graduating High School in Houston, my Oklahoma roots called me back home. I put myself through college at Seminole State while working full-time.

I worked for Exxon-Mobil within their Technology department through the dot com bubble. I decided to branch out and begin my own business at the height of the technology boom in 2007. My wife Lauren and I live in the heart of downtown with our children, Kay, Riley, Silas, and Ellis along with our two yellow dogs, Goldie and Maible. As our friends will tell you when you visit our home, our cat Vernando Santiago Escobar will be the first to greet you.

Our loud and vibrant family loves to be outside, any given day you’ll catch us walking the dogs or playing in the backyard. We love to go on camping trips or ride our bikes around town. My wife and I host all of our family’s events, birthdays, and holidays. Our kids play sports with the YMCA and belong to clubs here in town. We have had the incredible blessing of living close to my maternal grandparents, my grandmother, uncle, and great-uncle still residing on the family farmland in Bethel Acres.

My family has strong ties to Shawnee and this community I want to take my experiences growing up here, living here, working here, raising kids here, and put that to work on our City Commission.

Chris on the issues

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  • Small Municipalities like ours are founded on trust. Too often residents of Shawnee feel like their priorities a concerns aren’t being addressed by our leaders. Too often, residents receive little to no information on how their tax dollars are being spent. I want to change that.