Dan Boren Nominated For NRA Board Of Directors

Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren has been nominated for membership on the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors.

Boren is one of 34 nominees, from which 26 will be elected in balloting later this year.

Oklahomans now serving on the NRA Board include Joe Allbaugh of Blackwell and Washington; Cleta Mitchell, former Oklahoma legislator now a Washington attorney; John Burtt of Shawnee; and Bill Brewster, former congressman now a Washington lobbyist.

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Cleta Mitchell Joins Allbaugh, Brewster, Burtt On National Rifle Association's Board Of Directors

Former Oklahoma legislative leader Cleta (Deatherage) Mitchell has been elected to the board of directors of the National Rifle Association.

Mitchell, an attorney and conservative legal activist in Washington, joins former FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh, former Democratic Congressman Bill Brewster and Shawnee businessman John Burtt on the group's governing body.

Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House from 1976 to 1984. At the time a liberal Democrat, she was chair of the powerful Appropriations and Budget Committee. Since leaving Oklahoma in the early 1990s, Mitchell has represented numerous conservative entities, including the NRA and several national Republican associations, in legal actions.

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