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: