Rep. Mike Shelton
by Barbara Hoberock | Tulsa World
A controversial hate-crimes bill did not get a hearing Monday in a House committee.
Rep. Mike Shelton, D-Oklahoma City, became the House author of Senate Bill 1965, by Sen. Steven Russell, R-Oklahoma City. Shelton said he took control of the bill to kill it and asked that the bill not get heard in the House Judiciary Committee.
