Bill introducing "extreme version" of DADT to Okla. Guard sent to legislative "graveyard"
OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill from State Rep. Mike Reynolds – HB 2195 - that would have reintroduced the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy, was reassigned to the House Rules committee, effectively killing the bill which would have prevented gay and lesbian members of the Oklahoma National Guard from serving openly.
Chairing the House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, was State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft (R-Oklahoma City), who explained to a clearly perturbed Rep. Reynolds , that “the bill was moved to the Rules Committee … a decision made today.”
Reynolds asked Wesselhoft if he had heard from anyone about the bill, and Wesselhoft said he had received several hundred emails in his office asking him “to not hear the bill.”
When asked if he had had “meetings” with other committee members about HB 2195, Wesselhoft said “not meetings, conversations.”
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