Solomon Yue

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 the voter advocacy group Republicans Overseas[2] and the National Committeeman to the Republican National Committee for the Oregon Republican Party.[3][1]

Solomon Yue
Born (1959-05-08) May 8, 1959
Shanghai, China.
CitizenshipAmerican.
EducationMBA, Alaska Pacific University
Political partyRepublican
Parent
  • Solomon Yue, Sr. (father)

Early life and business activities

An immigrant from China, Yue became a businessman in the United States, based in Salem, Oregon.[4][5]

Republican Party activities

Since 2000,[6] Yue has been a Republican National Committee member from Oregon.[4][6] He is 10th in seniority among the 168 members of the RNC. As a Republican National Committeeman, Yue is known as a staunchly conservative grassroots supporter. In 2009, with attorney Jim Bopp, an Indiana RNC committeeman,[4][7]they co-founded the RNC "conservative steering committee" and co-drafted a resolution against Republican President George W. Bush's endorsement of the federal rescue of the financial industry and auto industry, and criticized then President-elect Barack Obama for his economic stimulus plan.[4] Yue criticized Bush for his support of the Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit.[4] Yue later supported an RNC resolution that would require Republican candidates to meet a purity test before obtaining party support,[5] and another resolution in 2009 that claimed that the Democratic Party was "dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals"[7] and sought to require Republicans to label the Democratic Party as a "socialist" party.[5]

Yue clashed with RNC chairman Michael Steele and Oregon Republican Party chairman Bob Tiernan, who was known in Republican circles as Steele’s attack dog.[7][5] Yue and Bopp spearheaded an internal party fight to oust Steele from the national chairmanship after Steele was caught using donor funds to take staffers to a California lesbian bondage-themed strip club.[8] [9][10]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."[5]

Yue was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, where he praised the party's ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.[11] He was Oregon superdelegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention, pledged, in accordance to Oregon state law, to Mitt Romney.[12]

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.[6][13] Yue wrote a 1,300-word email accusing RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other party leader of "institutional tyranny" over their opposition to his proposal.[6] The rules committee rejected Yue's proposal to change the rules.[13] Yue maneuvered to ensure Trump's nomination at the convention over the last-ditch objection of anti-Trump Republican holdouts.[14][15]

After a pro-Donald Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, 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.[16][17] 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."[18] 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 activist Nick Fuentes could one day have a role in picking Republican candidates.[17] 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.[17]

In 2022, Yue was the Chief Sponsor of the RNC's Resolution in Support of Taiwan[19] and the Resolution to Hold China Accountable for COVID-19.[20]

References

  1. Goldmacher, Shane; Isenstadt, Alex. "RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny'". POLITICO. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  2. "Trump or Biden? China expects no favours either way". BBC News. August 28, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  3. "Leadership". Republicans Overseas.
  4. Jeff Mapes, Oregon's Yue in middle of RNC leadership fight, The Oregonian/OregonLive (January 6, 2009).
  5. Jeff Mapes, Tiernan-Yue spat roils Republican Party, The Oregonian/OregonLive (May 26, 2010).
  6. Shane Goldmacher & Alex Isenstadt, RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny', Politico (April 18, 2016).
  7. Jeff Mapes, GOP fights over labeling Democrats as Socialists, The Oregonian/OregonLive (April 23, 2009).
  8. Jonathan Martin, As RNC conservatives launch Dump Steele effort, race returns to fore, Politico (December 26, 2010).
  9. "Michael Steele and the strippers". The Guardian.
  10. "Foster's Daily Democrat".
  11. Harry Esteve, Oregon delegates say GOP convention will "energize people", The Oregonian (August 31, 2008).
  12. Jeff Mapes, Republicans cancel first day of national convention as Isaac approaches, The Oregonian/OregonLive (August 25, 2012).
  13. Jonathan Martin, Republicans Reject Effort to Alter Rules on Allowing New Candidate at Convention, New York Times (April 21, 2016).
  14. 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).
  15. Kyle Cheney, Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention, Politico (July 17, 2016).
  16. David Sider, The GOP's answer to its post-Trump blues: More Trump, Politico (January 27, 2021).
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. "RNC" (PDF).
  20. "RNC" (PDF).
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