Fact-checked: What Mike Mazzei told the Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club
Republican gubernatorial candidate fields questions on taxes, reading scores, marijuana enforcement and rural hospital funding
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Mazzei pitched his plan to eliminate Oklahoma's personal income tax, phase out property taxes for seniors and launch a Mississippi-style literacy program during an appearance before the Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club on Thursday, July 9, at the Best Western Plus Cimarron Hotel & Suites.
Mazzei, a Tulsa financial planner who served 12 years in the Oklahoma Senate and as Gov. Kevin Stitt's secretary of budget from 2019 to 2020 — the first person to hold that cabinet position — faces Attorney General Gentner Drummond in the Aug. 25 Republican runoff. The winner will face Democrat Cyndi Munson, the minority leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, in the Nov. 3 general election.
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