Collins did not return phone calls Sunday, but political consultant Don Hoover said the candidate is ending his campaign and endorsing his opponent, Ron Millican.
The two men earned a spot in an April 6 run-off by defeating the incumbent in the Feb. 9 school board election.
In the news release, Collins, 44, is quoted as saying he has met with Millican, 72, since the Feb. 9 election and is "convinced that he will do a great job on the school board for Southeast Oklahoma City.”
Collins, who vowed to focus his efforts on vocational education, received 31.8 percent of the vote in the election. Millican, a retired assistant superintendent from the Midwest City-Del City School District, received 48.6 percent of the vote. Incumbent Wilfredo Santos-Rivera came in third with 19.6 percent of the vote. Millican was nine votes shy of winning outright.
Collins was on the Feb. 9 ballot even though he didn’t meet all the requirements for candidacy.According to the news release, it is too late for Collins to have his name removed from the April 6 ballot.
He registered to vote less than a month before filing for office. State law requires that candidates be registered to vote for at least six months. No one challenged his eligibility.
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