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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Politician who attended Charlottesville white-supremacist rally faces recall

Younger white man with brown hair wearing suit coat over blue flannel shirt speaks to older white man with white hair and suit coat over red-patterned shirt.
Judd Blevins, left, speaks to Enid resident Frank Baker in Enid, Oklahoma, on 26 March 2024. Photograph: Sean Murphy/AP

Voters in the north-west Oklahoma city of Enid are being asked to decide whether a councilmember who attended the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 should be removed from his post.

Iraq war veteran Judd Blevins, 42, was elected to Enid’s city council to be the commissioner of its first ward last year. He soon faced an effort by the Enid social justice committee, which claimed Blevins “embraces the same Nazi ideology [the US] defeated almost 80 years ago” during the second world war.

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