Chaos erupts after voters unwittingly elect Charlottesville marcher to Oklahoma council

A man who marched at the notorious 2017 "Unite the Right" Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia got elected last year as a councilor in the city of Enid, Oklahoma, and NBC News reports that it has driven a deep rift within the community.

According to NBC News, Enid City Councilor Judd Blevins' ties to white nationalists were exposed by two local residents in early 2023, shortly before voters went to the polls.

Blevins was elected weeks later, and NBC News notes that word of his participation in the violent Charlottesville march hadn't spread throughout most of the community by the time voters went to the ballot box.

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Since his election, however, it has become more commonly known and has led to voters in the city mounting a recall campaign against him.

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"Blevins’ election galvanized an opposition," NBC reported. "In March 2023, around 100 people ... met at a community center. By the end of the evening, they had formed the Enid Social Justice Committee and decided on its first order of business: recalling Judd Blevins."

The recall campaign has seemingly been helped by the fact that Blevins made no effort to distance himself from Nazi groups, and he pointedly said he had "nothing to apologize for" when asked about the campaign against him last year.

In fact, his opponents even said that they would withdraw his recall campaign if he would publicly renounce his past statements in support of white nationalism — but he still completely refused.

That said, the report notes that Blevins has plenty of supporters within the community, including one man at a recent city council meeting who praised him for attending a "demonstration to protect American history" at Charlottesville in 2017.

The election to recall Blevins will be held on April 2nd.

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