Solomon Yue
Solomon Yue | |
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| Republican National Committeeman from Oregon | |
| Assumed office 2000 | |
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| Born | May 8, 1959 Shanghai, China |
| Citizenship | American |
| Political party | Republican |
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| Education | MBA, Alaska Pacific University |
Solomon Yue Jr. (Chinese: 俞怀松, born May 8, 1959) is an American Republican Party activist and businessperson.[1] He is the founder and vice chairman and CEO of Republicans Overseas[2] and a Republican national committeeman from Oregon Republican Party.[3][1]
Early life and business activities
[edit]Yue was born in China and immigrated from China to the United States in 1980.[4] He is a medical equipment wholesaler,[4] based in Salem, Oregon.[5][6]
Republican Party activities
[edit]Since 2000,[7] Yue has been a Republican National Committee member from Oregon.[5][7] As a Republican committeeman, Yue is part of the party's right wing, closely allied with the archconservative Jim Bopp, an Indiana RNC committeeman.[5][8] In 2009, Yue and Bopp co-founded an RNC "conservative steering committee" and co-drafted a resolution that accused Republican President George W. Bush of supporting "socialism" by endorsing the federal rescue of the financial industry and auto industry, and criticized then President-elect Barack Obama for his economic stimulus plan.[5] Yue also criticized Bush for his support of the Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit.[5] Yue later supported an RNC resolution that would require Republicans candidates to meet a purity test before obtaining party support,[6] and another resolution in 2009 that claimed that the Democratic Party was "dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals"[8] and sought to require Republicans to label the Democratic Party as a "socialist" party.[6] Yue clashed with RNC chairman Michael Steele and Oregon Republican Party chairman Bob Tiernan, who opposed many of his proposals.[8][6] Yue and Bopp spearheaded an internal party fight to oust Steele from the national chairmanship.[9] In 2010, Tiernan accused Yue of stirring up discord within the RNC and Oregon Republican Party; Yue, in turn, accused Tiernan of requiring "absolute loyalty."[6]
Yue was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, where he praised the party's ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.[10] In the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, he endorsed Mitt Romney, and was a superdelegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.[11]
In April 2016, as a member of the Republican National Committee's rules committee, Yue proposed a change to the party's procedural rules that would make it more difficult for Republican leaders to place in nomination, at the 2016 Republican National Convention, the name of a candidate not already in the race. The debate over the proposal occurred as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battled for the presidential nomination, raising the prospect of a contested convention.[7][12] Yue wrote a 1,300-word email accusing RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other party leaders of "institutional tyranny" over their opposition to his proposal.[7] The rules committee rejected Yue's proposal to change the rules.[12] After Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, Yue maneuvered to ensure Trump's nomination at the convention over the last-ditch objection of anti-Trump Republican holdouts.[13][14]
After a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 in a failed insurrection, Yue and most other Republican Party figures remained loyal to Trump, and sponsored a state Republican party resolution condemning the ten House Republicans who voted in favor of Trump's impeachment.[15][16] Yue played a key role in getting the Oregon Republican Party to adopt a resolution claiming that the storming of the Capitol was a "false flag" intended "to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans."[17] In March 2021, Yue also appeared on a YouTube show hosted by Greyson Arnold, who has praised Nazi Germany and espoused racism and anti-Semitism; on the show, Yue said that far-right and white nationalist activist Nick Fuentes should have a role in picking Republican candidates.[16] After his appearance attracted scrutiny, Yue said that he was unaware of the views of Arnold and Fuentes at the time of his appearance on the show.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Goldmacher, Shane; Isenstadt, Alex. "RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny'". POLITICO. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ^ "Trump or Biden? China expects no favours either way". BBC News. August 28, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ^ "Leadership". Republicans Overseas. February 15, 2017.
- ^ a b Zachary Petrizzo, RNC Members Accuse Fellow Member of Being a Chinese Spy—Just Because He's Chinese, Daily Beast (September 3, 2022).
- ^ a b c d e Jeff Mapes, Oregon's Yue in middle of RNC leadership fight, The Oregonian/OregonLive (January 6, 2009).
- ^ a b c d e Jeff Mapes, Tiernan-Yue spat roils Republican Party, The Oregonian/OregonLive (May 26, 2010).
- ^ a b c d Shane Goldmacher & Alex Isenstadt, RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny', Politico (April 18, 2016).
- ^ a b c Jeff Mapes, GOP fights over labeling Democrats as Socialists, The Oregonian/OregonLive (April 23, 2009).
- ^ Jonathan Martin, As RNC conservatives launch Dump Steele effort, race returns to fore, Politico (December 26, 2010).
- ^ Harry Esteve, Oregon delegates say GOP convention will "energize people", The Oregonian (August 31, 2008).
- ^ Jeff Mapes, Republicans cancel first day of national convention as Isaac approaches, The Oregonian/OregonLive (August 25, 2012).
- ^ a b Jonathan Martin, Republicans Reject Effort to Alter Rules on Allowing New Candidate at Convention, New York Times (April 21, 2016).
- ^ Ed O'Keefe & Dan Balz, GOP moves closer to the base, and away from the broader public, in party platform, Washington Post (July 12, 2016).
- ^ Kyle Cheney, Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention, Politico (July 17, 2016).
- ^ David Sider, The GOP's answer to its post-Trump blues: More Trump, Politico (January 27, 2021).
- ^ a b c Andrew Kaczynski; Drew Myers (June 29, 2021). "Top Oregon RNC official says he was unaware of pro-Nazi host and White national activist they discussed during YouTube chat". CNN.
- ^ Grynbaum, Michael M.; Alba, Davey; Epstein, Reid J. (March 1, 2021). "How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 1, 2021.