Walters In National Democrat Hot Seat

By Randy Krehbiel/Tulsa World ~ Former Oklahoma Gov. David Walters has been known to stick his face in a propeller before, figuratively speaking, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that he’s about to do it again.

As the governor from 1991 to 1995, Walters took on what were then unpopular causes, including a state lottery to benefit education and a health care tax to pay for uninsured care. He challenged Jim Inhofe for a U.S. Senate seat and ventured into Pakistan, where his company is about to build its second electric power plant.

Now he may have to help referee the fight over the Michigan and Florida delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Walters is the “principal chair” of the convention rules committee, which ultimately will have to ratify a solution to the dilemma.

“It’s a serious issue,” Walters said by phone last week in his Oklahoma City office. “As a practical matter, we don’t want to disenfranchise several million voters.”

Read the entire story at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20080407_1_A1_spanc50377.

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