Solomon Yue

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Solomon Yue, Jr.
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Republican National Committeeman
from Oregon
Assumed office
July 31, 2000
Serving with
ChairJim Nicholson →
Jim Gilmore →
Mark Racicot →
Ed Gillespie →
Ken Mehlman →
Mike Duncan →
Michael Steele →
Reince Priebus →
Ronna McDaniel
Preceded byDenny Smith
Member of the Executive Committee of the Oregon Republican Party[1]
Assumed office
1995
ChairRandy Miller →
Deanna Smith →
Perry Atkinson →
Kevin Mannix →
Vance Day →
Bob Tiernan →
Allen Alley →
Suzanne Gallagher →
Art Robinson →
Bill Currier
Chairman of the Polk County Republican Party
In office
2000–2002
Vice ChairScott Powell
Preceded byRon Finster[2]
Succeeded byScott Powell
Precinct Committee Person
from Polk County's 178th Precinct[3]
Assumed office
1996[1]
Personal details
Born
Yu Huaisong

(1959-05-07) May 7, 1959 (age 62)
Shanghai, China
NationalityAmerican (after 1992)
Chinese (before 1992)
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)
Ourania Yue
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(m. 1990; died 2021)​
Parent(s)Solomon Yue
RelativesGrandfather: John Yue
ResidenceSalem, Oregon
Alma materAlaska Pacific University (BA)
University of Alaska Anchorage (MBA)

Solomon Yue, Jr. (Chinese: 俞怀松, born May 7, 1959) is a Chinese American Republican Party activist and businessperson.[4] He is vice chairman and CEO of the lobbying group Republicans Overseas[5] and the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Oregon.[6][4]

Early life and business activities[]

An immigrant from China, Yue became a businessman in the United States, based in Salem, Oregon.[7][8]

Republican Party activities[]

Since 2000,[9] Yue has been a Republican National Committee member from Oregon.[7][9] As a Republican committeeman, Yue is part of the party's right-wing, closely allied with the archconservative Jim Bopp, an Indiana RNC committeeman.[7][10] 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.[7] Yue also criticized Bush for his support of the Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit.[7] Yue later supported an RNC resolution that would require Republicans candidates to meet a "purity test" before obtaining party support,[8] and another resolution in 2009 that claimed that the Democratic Party was "dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals"[10] and sought to require Republicans to label the Democratic Party as a "socialist" party.[8] Yue clashed with RNC chairman Michael Steele and Oregon Republican Party chairman Bob Tiernan, who opposed many of his proposals.[10][8] Yue and Bopp spearheaded an internal party fight to oust Steele from the national chairmanship.[11] 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."[8]

Yue was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, where he praised the party's ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.[12] He was Oregon superdelegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention, pledged to Mitt Romney.[13]

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.[9][14] 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.[9] The rules committee rejected Yue's proposal to change the rules.[14] 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.[15][16]

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.[17][18] Yue played a key role in getting the Oregon Republican Party to adopt a resolution falsely claiming that the storming of the Capitol was a "false flag" intended "to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans."[19] 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 praised far-right and white nationalist activist Nick Fuentes, saying that Fuentes should have a role in picking Republican candidates.[18] 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.[18]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "GOP State Directory Oregon Republican Party". 2006. Archived from the original on February 14, 2006.
  2. ^ Steve Law (July 30, 2000). "Yue Turns Attention to GOP Matters". Statesman Journal.
  3. ^ "Precinct Committee Person Report" (PDF). October 21, 2019.
  4. ^ a b Goldmacher, Shane; Isenstadt, Alex. "RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny'". POLITICO. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  5. ^ "Trump or Biden? China expects no favours either way". BBC News. August 28, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "Leadership". Republicans Overseas.
  7. ^ a b c d e Jeff Mapes, Oregon's Yue in middle of RNC leadership fight, The Oregonian/OregonLive (January 6, 2009).
  8. ^ a b c d e Jeff Mapes, Tiernan-Yue spat roils Republican Party, The Oregonian/OregonLive (May 26, 2010).
  9. ^ a b c d Shane Goldmacher & Alex Isenstadt, RNC member accuses party of 'institutional tyranny', Politico (April 18, 2016).
  10. ^ a b c Jeff Mapes, GOP fights over labeling Democrats as Socialists, The Oregonian/OregonLive (April 23, 2009).
  11. ^ Jonathan Martin, As RNC conservatives launch Dump Steele effort, race returns to fore, Politico (December 26, 2010).
  12. ^ Harry Esteve, Oregon delegates say GOP convention will "energize people", The Oregonian (August 31, 2008).
  13. ^ Jeff Mapes, Republicans cancel first day of national convention as Isaac approaches, The Oregonian/OregonLive (August 25, 2012).
  14. ^ a b Jonathan Martin, Republicans Reject Effort to Alter Rules on Allowing New Candidate at Convention, New York Times (April 21, 2016).
  15. ^ 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).
  16. ^ Kyle Cheney, Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention, Politico (July 17, 2016).
  17. ^ David Sider, The GOP's answer to its post-Trump blues: More Trump, Politico (January 27, 2021).
  18. ^ a b c Andrew Kaczynski and 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  19. ^ 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.
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