SaysWho? Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Oklahoma official with white nationalist ties is ousted in recall vote WWW.NBCNEWS.COM Judd Blevins, who marched alongside neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, lost his fight to remain on Enid’s City Council. Quote Voters in Enid decided by a nearly 20-point margin Tuesday to remove a City Council member over his ties to white nationalist groups. Judd Blevins lost his seat on Enid's six-member City Council by 268 votes, according to unofficial results from the Oklahoma State Election Board. Nearly 1,400 people turned out, about a quarter of Ward 1's registered voters and hundreds more than voted when Blevins was first elected last year. Quote Blevins has denied that he has ever been a white supremacist, but at a candidate forum last week he defended marching in Charlottesville and said his activism was motivated by "the same issues that got Donald Trump elected in 2016." Quote The reporting, verified by NBC News, was sound. From 2017 to 2019, Blevins was an active leader in Identity Evropa, a group that privately advocated for the superiority of the white race but sanitized its messaging to break into conservative politics, adopting descriptors like "identitarians" with a mission to preserve "Western culture." Blevins had flyered cities and universities with Identity Evropa stickers, banners and pamphlets and helped the group grow, recruiting new members and planning activities. He marched in Charlottesville and remained a member for at least a year after. Identity Evropa dissolved in 2019; its leadership splintered to other white nationalist groups. Using a pseudonym, Blevins posted in 2019 that fellow white nationalists — "our guys" — should be supported as they ran for local elected offices "such as city council." "Basically positions where one can fly under the radar yet still be effective," he posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 So much for tolerant liberals amirite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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