J.C. Watts dismisses governor talk
MINNEAPOLIS – Former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts from Oklahoma says it’s too early to be thinking about the Oklahoma gubernatorial race.
Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman and former member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, said he has been busy trying to launch a television news network aimed at a black audience.
He said people have talked to him about running for governor in 2010.
“Even if I was, it would be way too early in my opinion,” said Watts, who has lobbying, consulting and public affairs businesses in Washintong. “I don’t need to be an elected official. I think I can serve in my business, in my church. I’m not so driven by the cheer of the crowd.”
Watts, who didn’t seek re-election to Congress in 2002 so he could spend more time with his family, said he is “not driven to run for anything.”
“I’ve got enough wisdom, however, to say – and I learned this in athletics, I didn’t learn this in politics – you never say never or you never say always,” Watts said in an interview after speaking today to the Oklahoma and Louisiana delegations attending the Republican National Convention in nearby St. Paul, Minn.
“I can tell you it’s not on my top five things to do before I die list, to run for public office again,” Watts said.
- Michael McNutt, Capitol Bureau
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