Bartlett Nixes Debate Date For Bush Event
Bartlett cancels mayoral forum appearance to attend Bush gala by ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
Mayor Dewey Bartlett has canceled his participation in an upcoming mayoral forum to attend a gala in Tulsa that will feature former President George W. Bush, he said Thursday.
“It’s the president of the United States – the former president of the United States,” he said. “I consider it an honor as mayor to be able to welcome him to the city of Tulsa.”
Bartlett said organizers of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs’ annual Liberty Gala invited him to attend this year’s Oct. 17 event, which begins 15 minutes before the League of Women Voters forum his campaign had committed to attend that day at 6 p.m.
Bartlett said he is attempting to reschedule the forum but could not bring himself to refuse an opportunity to meet the former president.