Current Events > Enid, OK recall election efforts to eject white supremacist Republican

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tl;dr -- Enid republican city commissioner Judd Blevins was documented as being at the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in 2017. After his election to commissioner's office in 2023, a group of citizens had to wait 6 months before they could collect signatures to begin a recall election.

The article goes on to detail and profile the people involved in the recall effort, and then covers the republican running against Blevins in the recall, documents Blevins's membership in white supremacists groups including Identity Evropa and endorsement by neo-Nazi Jason Kessler (a Unite the Right organizer), the attempted censure effort by the mayor after Blevins all but admitted to still being an active white supremacist organization member while serving as commissioner, Blevins's unfounded allegation of having his brake lines cut on his truck, and the lengths that people opposing Blevins have had to go to keep their members and meeting secret and safe because they fear for their safety thanks to Blevins.

It's the biggest of cluster fucks in the smallest of towns.

SOURCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-recall-vote-judd-blevins-enid-city-council-rcna143041

This is a shock.

Cheater87 posted...

This is a shock.

It kind of was to me. You'd think OK would be immune to efforts for recalling republicans at any level of office, but here we are with this small town actually doing it, and a republican in the primary calling him out for past behavior. That was a real shock.

Oh, wait. Did you mean the thing about a republican being an attendee at Unite the Right? Was that sarcastic?

Oh, you. <wags finger>

Judd Blevins is exactly the kind of name I'd expect one of these people to have.