Posted on 10/20/2021 3:18:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
The first Republican candidate to challenge Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he’s leaving the party and will run against Stitt as an independent.
Former state Sen. Ervin Yen, an Oklahoma City physician, said in a statement he disagrees with the state party’s opposition to mask and vaccine mandates, and the insistence of some party officials that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
“I vehemently disagree with these views and that is why I have withdrawn my Republican voter registration," Yen said. “I have not changed, the party has.”
A Chinese-American, Yen was the first Asian American elected to the Oklahoma Legislature and had a reputation as a moderate. He has been particularly critical of Stitt's response to the coronavirus outbreak, especially the governor's opposition to mask mandates.
“I absolutely believe in temporary mask mandates, when needed, to fight this current Covid pandemic," Yen said. “If the state had instituted a state-wide mask mandate in June of 2020, we could have avoided 70% of the Covid deaths that we have suffered since then."
Earlier this month, Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister said she was leaving the party and planned to run against Stitt as a Democrat.
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doing damage as a third party...
Sounds like Stitt is the one to support.
If you want to buy a bridge in Brooklyn.... I have a YEN for you.
The Trump RINO-flush is working Big Time.
Now the little Yen plick is trying to split the Pubbie vote
so the Dems will win.
Make a uge incoming of ridicule happen against Won Hung Lo.
Charlie Chan (a fictional movie character):
Honorable Mr. Yen change name.
Now called “Sum Dum Phoc”.
BS! The way people wear/use masks, they are pretty much useless. They are germ magnets.
During the CA/NV multiple fires, we were warned by state officials NOT to rely on masks for smoke protection (our air quality was in the 400-600 range at times). Pretty telling.
Excerpt from the National Governors Association:
ABOUT:
J. Kevin Stitt is the 28th governor of Oklahoma. Gov. Stitt is an entrepreneur and businessman who founded Gateway in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2000. Starting Gateway with only $1,000 and a computer, he grew his business into one of the top 20 mortgage lenders and servicers in the nation, operating in more than 40 states and servicing more than $20 billion in residential mortgages. Stitt led Gateway through a merger with Farmers Exchange Bank in 2018 and formed Gateway First Bank, which is headquartered in Jenks, Oklahoma, and operates more than 160 mortgage centers across the country and employs more than 1,400 people.
He is a fourth-generation Oklahoman who graduated from Norman High School and is an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, where he received an accounting degree in 1996. Stitt and his wife, Sarah, have six children and have been married for 22 years.
https://www.nga.org/governor/kevin-stitt/
Woman who fly upside down ovah glave yahd have clack up!
At least he has the decency to tell us who he is. Better than most Republicans in Congress.
Air flow and resistant causes extreme flapping of labia?
Brrrrrrrrrrt
WartHog reference.
Admiral Levine is saddened.
We are squeezing them out like the gunk in a boil - get lost maggot.
WHO????
BETTER YET...WHO CARES?????
One of many straight up frauds who pretended to be a Republican so he could some day do exactly what he is doing. These people are garbage with no conscience. Disgraceful that he is a doctor, a man with no honor or trust.
I hear his brother, Itch My Dong, is his campaign manager....
Cletus, you are a hard case, LOL.
Yen say “50 dollah , me lub you loong time!”
heh...heh, heh.
You said “hard”!
heh, heh
- h/t Beavis and Butthead
Follow the money. Campaign finance reform should have been about thwarting bribery of traitorous behavior. Virginia had a history of watered down Republican ballots and paid third party vote earners. Criminal in my opinion to give and receive.
The steal is real and it’s allies use many alleys.
Been saying this since the start. If one pays attention, the majority of mask wearers are unconsciously touching their masks right wear the germs would be assumed to collect. They pull them up at the nasal line and pull them out at the oral line. They take them on and off transferring the germs to their hands. They then touch keypads, store product, microphones, bathroom doors and on and on.
I would guess that in juvenile use, they are not just useless, but harmful. All good though because the sheeple have their feeling of superiority.
Great to see him leave the Republican party as he is a trouble maker who thinks as an odd ball. He will never work as a team member, he is always out in left field.
That would be a NO!
I wish someone decent would run against Stitt, unfortunately this guy doesn’t fit the bill.
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