State Parole Board member resigning post due to time constraints

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ A member of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has resigned, saying a new job has kept him from making the necessary time commitment to the board. <br><br>The resignation letter from

Wednesday, March 27th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ A member of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has resigned, saying a new job has kept him from making the necessary time commitment to the board.

The resignation letter from Flint Breckinridge arrived at the governor's office on Tuesday.

Gov. Frank Keating's spokesman, John Cox, said Keating asked Breckinridge to step down, although Breckinridge said that was not the case.

``I have been on record and off record talking about resigning for a long time due to my personal life and new career, things that have kept me from being able to commit to the new conditions that expanded from what they used to be,'' Breckinridge told the Tulsa World's Capitol Bureau. ``So I have voluntarily resigned from the board.''

Breckinridge is pursuing a career in commercial real estate.

He had served on the five-member board a little more than three years. Board records show that in 104 days of meetings from July 20, 1999, to Feb. 21, 2002, Breckinridge was absent 23 full days and missed two or more hours of about 20 more days.

Cox said the governor's staff had talked to Breckinridge about his meeting attendance.

``We told him we thought it was in the best interest of the board'' for him to resign, Cox said. ``It is not a board where you can afford to miss a lot of meetings. It is one of the most difficult boards and one of the most important. We need people that can be there full time. He understands it, like any person serving on a board with another life as well.''