Out of all the “serious” people who have announced they are running for governor, the one we know the least about is former Oklahoma State Sen. Mike Mazzei.
A relative unknown outside of inner Oklahoma GOP political circles, he served in the Oklahoma State Senate from 2006 to 2018, and then made a super brief stop as Stitt’s budget director in 2019 and 2020. After all that, he faded out of the government and public eye and built a private financial planning business, before resurfacing this year with his own gubernatorial campaign.
Here’s one of them:
In all honesty, I don’t know a lot about Mike outside of the fact that he comes across as a stiff Oklahoma conservative.
I don’t know if he’s a good dude, or if he has what it takes to be a good governor – his big campaign pledge is to eliminate the property tax and bankrupt the state, so probably not – but he does appear to have one skill that is imperative for politicians to be successful in this idiocratic day and age – the ability to take stupid people seriously.