Mary Kinda Contrary: Episode 9 – I Was Targeted By Proud Boys and the Far Right After Speaking at a School Board Meeting and You’re Next – Part 2 of 3
On Election Day 2024, Mary Lemanski is hanging out live on Facebook and sharing some of the things she has been through for the past 3 years after speaking at a school board meeting with Proud Boys present and being targeted by them afterwards. Part 2 of 3.
Transcription
So we’re at the school. Um, it was funny because, uh, some of the proud boys actually walked right by me. Um, they came down the wrong side or I don’t know if they came down that side on purpose, just to try to intimidate us on that side. But they came by and they were going to walk down my aisle and I don’t know, I, I must have an intimidating look.
They’re intimidating.
I must have had an intimidating look or something, but they, they were going to walk down. They took one look at me and they went down and crossed where there was nobody. And they went over to the other side where all of their buddies were sitting. Um, so I’m going to read you from, from the Chicago Sun Times.
So if you look up Chicago Sun Times, Proud Boys, Downers Grove. You will see this
and it’s dated November 21st, 2021,
which I think was when it was updated last because this was a week. This was a week before my tweet went viral and my tweet went viral.
Yeah, they were on November 15th. It was when they, when this actually all went down. November 15th. Um, 2021 was the date of the, um, school board meeting that the Proud Boys were at. And then a week later, the 22nd, was when my tweets went viral. We’ll get more into that here in a bit.
Um, okay. So here’s,
let’s see, all right, let me read to you. Proud Boys join efforts. Effort to ban genderqueer book from school library rattling students in suburban Chicago. The Sun Times has confirmed that members of the far right group attended a school board meeting in Downers Grove last week. One allegedly called a student who spoke in favor of the book a pedophile.
Um, the uh, if you go you’ll see that they’re holding up these, these signs with genderqueer on it in there and no porn signs and stuff like that and um,
They all have, well, everybody has masks on because it’s the pandemic, um, but, um, uh, CNN was there as well. They were there with their, um, TV cameras. So, um, all right, let me continue reading. When a group of conservative Downers Grove parents organized this year to oppose mask mandates and equity initiatives at schools, it led to some tense school board meetings in the western suburbs.
Yet, students at Downers Grove North and Downers South, at Downers North and Downers South high schools said they didn’t see a big impact on their lives until the parents sought to remove a graphic novel by a non binary author from the school libraries. over concerns. It included a few sexually explicit illustrations, a fight that caught the attention of the Proud Boys, a far right gang that has recently seized on the culture play wars playing out at school districts across the country.
A Proud Boys contingent ultimately showed up for a board meeting in Downers Grove last Monday where the book was discussed. The Chicago Sun Times has learned they were there. Actually, I’m pretty sure they were there. Edgar Remy del Toro, del Torre, a leader of the group’s Northern Illinois chapter who was at the January 6th insurrection in Washington DC said he was among roughly 10 Proud Boys in attendance.
They were joined by Proud Boys associate Brian Kramer who has appeared at demonstrations with members of the group and who was charged with brandishing a knife at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Joliet last summer. Their presence at the meeting Where students said the men jeered at them, even called them pedophiles for supporting keeping the book in the library, was unnerving and intimidating, they told the Sun Times.
It has led to rifts among students in the school, including one who wore Donald Trump garb to class this week while arguing against the book. Politics has never caused division in the school setting before, said to Tabitha Irvine, a Downers North junior, but it kind of fell apart after the board meeting.
Earlier this month, signs of the tension began leaking from Community High School District 99 board meetings into high school hallways. An article in the Downers North student paper, the LGN Omega, led to some student chatter about the parents attack on board policies, primarily by the conservative group Wake Up D99.
Wake Up D99, that was it. Not DG99, as I said earlier. Um, as did a lawsuit over mask mandates that some parents joined against 145 Illinois school boards and Governor J. B. Pritzker. Then some area. Proud boys caught wind at the complaints against genderqueer. A book that has been targeted by conservatives nationwide.
Genderqueer is an autobiography about non-binary author Maya. Um, co Coba Cobe Journey of Gender Identity. as a teenager and young adult. A few pages that include illustrations of sex acts have drawn the bulk of the ire while other students, parents, and community members see the book as a vital tool for youth discovering their identity and efforts to ban it as censorship.
The District 99 November board meeting was promoted on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app favored by extremists and others on the far right, a flyer advertising a school board showdown. Was posted to the telegram channel for the Northern Illinois chapter of the Proud Boys, which has more than 280 subscribers.
Please join the parents of District 99. Fight to keep pornography out of Downers Grove schools, the post said. A telegram account apparently belonging to Kramer also urged other telegram users to join him at the school board meeting. I will be speaking against child porn in my kids school. The left is planning to show up strong, he wrote.
Kramer wouldn’t say if he has children, and he lives in New Lenox, about 30 miles from Downers Grove. At the meeting, members of the group joined parents and others in the audience. Holding sign saying no porn and jeered at the board and any students or parents who spoke in support of the book But the group of men largely did not make any public remarks themselves They also didn’t appear to wear Proud Boys regalia or clothing with the group’s signature black and yellow colors.
In a series of Twitter messages, De La Torre confirmed to the Sun Times that he and other Proud Boys attended the meeting. But he insisted his group isn’t homophobic, and that he and the other Proud Boys were merely standing against the sexual imagery portrayed in genderqueer, which I isn’t required reading or part of the district curriculum.
The group’s telegram channel, however, includes multiple recent posts that appear to be homophobic and transphobic. He added that some Proud Boys are parents concerned on what is being shown to their sons and daughters, though it’s unclear whether he has children or not. Delatorre’s 34 of Chicago was previously seen outside the U.
S. Capitol as rioters stormed the building January 6th. Other Proud Boys have since been ensnared in the sprawling federal investigation into the insurrection and its planning. De La Torre was later arrested in connection to a March dust up at an anti Biden rally in Schaumburg. The charges against him were ultimately dropped.
Cook County Records Kramer 31 was seated in one of the first rows right behind the microphone stand where speakers addressed the board. Reached by phone and text message Tuesday, Kramer threatened to call the cops and declined to answer questions, but acknowledged he was at the meeting. He questioned whether, where a Sun Times reporter found his phone number because Quote, he did not put it anywhere at the meeting last night.
He was arrested last July in Juliet when he allegedly disrupted a Black Lives Matter demonstration and, quote, brandished a hunting knife and held it in a threatening manner, police said. Will County court records show he was charged with misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct and disorderly conduct in that case for allegedly aggressively pulling his vehicle into a crowd of protesters before displaying the knife and yelling obscenities at protesters.
A jury trial is scheduled 4th, record show. Activist Candace, uh, Quinterly, one of the listed victims in a charging document, told the Sun Times that Cramer, Cramer initially drove past her group and yelled, you all are going to die. That wasn’t their first interaction. Quinterly had seen Cramer pulling, mulling around other protesters and just a few weeks earlier, allegedly had called her a black Antifa B word.
It just freaks me out that he’s just out here doing this to people, she said.
Josiah Pointer, an 18-year-old senior at Downers North told the Sun times that after he addressed the board, a man in the audience repeatedly told him, you’re a pedophile. You pro promote pedophilia, and threatened to call the police on him. And the parking lot later, the man allegedly drove up to point pointer shouting, pedophile at him, pointer said, shown a photo of the audience.
Pointer, pointed to Kramer as the man who made the comment. The last thing we need is some 30 or 40 year old man who lives in the middle of nowhere to be calling some kid a pedophile, Pointer said. That’s not okay. Lauren Perrette, a senior at Downers Grove North, said, It made me very uncomfortable that there were men in the back yelling things out for no reason when she and her friends addressed the board.
The school board president threatened to adjourn the meeting several times because of shouted interruptions, jeers, and comments to speakers. Having an adult man behind me saying things to me was very unnerving, she said. Hank Thiel, the district superintendent, didn’t respond directly when asked whether he was alarmed that Proud Boy members and associates attended the meeting.
All District 99 Board of Education meetings are open to members of the public and there are always equal opportunities for attendees to address the board, he said in a statement. Divide a student body. Perrette said she had been surprised by students togetherness and supportiveness so far this school year as they grappled with the return to in person learning during the pandemic.
But students have been divided since last Monday, she said. Even the students whose parents were part of Wake Up D99. They didn’t really make it a big deal or a big issue, Parrott said, but then when the Proud Boys, this big intimidating group, came in and made this issue so big, it forced students to look at what’s going on.
Irvin said several of her classes have discussed the week’s events, she said, and she noticed for the first time a student wearing a Trump 2024 hat as he voiced his dislike of genderqueer. Students are now getting really caught up in the political controversy. And that’s exactly what fuels groups like the Proud Boys, she said.
We can’t stoop down to their level and engage with them because it only strengthens them. Smart girl. Parents distance themselves from Proud Boys. Parents who want to remove the book sought to distance themselves from the Proud Boys. The Wake Up D99 group wrote in a Facebook post that it will never, never be associated with the Proud Boys and that his flyer was used in combination with the Proud Boys flyer without our permission.
Terry Newsome, who spoke at the meeting, ha, there’s our guy again,
said he didn’t want his concerns as a parent of two high schoolers to be conflated with Proud Boy messaging. Uh, yeah, he’s distancing himself after he was the one giving them the signs.
Newsome said he and another parent have a meeting scheduled with district administrators this week to discuss the book. You got the politics of the left and the right with the Antifa and Proud Boys, who have their own political agendas, I guess, Newsome said. Referring in part to the decentralized anti fascist activities who track and protest extremist groups.
But he said that doesn’t have to do with, anything to do with his complaints. Um, and just for the record, Antifa, is not really a group. The FBI has come out and said that it is an ideology. It is not, Antifa is not an organized group. And in fact, I will look these up maybe here shortly, um, polls will be closing in five minutes in Illinois, so get in line and stay in line if you want to vote.
Um, anyway, um, I can. Uh, I can, I can, well, let’s just do it now.
Uh, so, uh, back in June, uh, on June 2nd, 2020, CNN reported that white supremacists pose, um, as online and cause, as white supremacists pose as Antifa online and call for violence. Um, a Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of Antifa was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday.
The company removed the account before it emerged the account was run by white supremacist Donald Trump Jr. Uh, President Donald Trump’s son pointed his 2. 8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example how dangerous Antifa is. The account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts.
I remember back when Twitter cared about fake accounts. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement, We took action after the account sent a tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter rules. Although the account only had a few hundred followers and is an example of white supremacists seeking to inflame tensions in the United States by posing as left wing activists online.
The revelation of the account comes as President Donald Trump increasingly blames left wing activists for violence occurring at protests across America. How, how convenient. He’s buddy buddy with these guys who he later plans January 6th with. He’s buddy buddy with them and he, he, he has them pretending to be left wing radicals of a fake boogeyman called Antifa.
And, uh, which, anti fascism, Antifa, anti fascism, America’s always been anti fascist. We’re not the bad guys, the anti fascists aren’t the bad guys, the fascists are. And that’s the one, and those are the ones that want to take away your rights. Just listen to the last four episodes. So anyway, um,
so, so here’s this fake group Antifa and these white supremacist groups that have ties to Donald Trump are promoting these themselves as being Antifa when they’re actually not. And so then he can blame this fake boogeyman for all of these riots, um, when it’s actually white supremacists starting the riots and pretending to be Antifa.
And then on Sunday, Trump tweeted he would designate Antifa a terrorist organization despite the U. S. government having no existing legal authority to do so.
And Antifa is not even a group.
In September, September 17, 2020, FBI Director Chris Ray, who was under Trump, told lawmakers Thursday that Antifa is an ideology, not an organization. Delivering testimony that puts him at odds with President, uh, Donald Trump. His own FBI director was saying that Antifa is an ideology, not an organization.
And then you have these white supremacists pretending to be Antifa. Um, the fake account Antifa. underscore USA, or U. S., sorry. Tweeted Sunday, Alert, tonight’s the night. Comrades, tonight we say F the city. And we move into the residential areas, the white hoods, and we take what’s ours. Black lives matter. F America.
Absolutely insane, Trump Jr. wrote on Instagram, sharing a screenshot of the tweet. Just remember what Antifa really is, a terrorist organization. They’re not even pretending anymore. You’re pretending they’re an actual group. Your own FBI is saying they’re not. A spokes, uh, A spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr.
did not provide comment to CNN Tuesday morning, but later the post was removed from Trump Jr. ‘s Instagram feed. There is no indication whatsoever that Trump Jr. knew who was behind the account or that it was fake. Twitter said that the account was in fact linked to identity, uh, Uh, Europa, a white power fraternity, though Twitter referred to the group as an identity of Europa or Europa, whatever, however you say it.
It’s got a, it looks like Europa, but with a V instead of a U. When discussing the accounts removal, the Anti Defamation League states that the group dissolved and reformed under the name the American Identitarian Movement. Which is also, which it also calls a white supremacist group. The group promotes themselves as identitarian, that white people should preserve their racial and cultural identity.
The American Identitarian Movement says it prohibits violence and illegal activity, but then they pose as a group inciting violence. CNN, CNN has reached out to the group for comment. Twitter said it had shut down other fake accounts linked to identity Europa 2. The phenomenon of people on the right creating anti.
Fake Antifa accounts predates the current wave of protest. The takedown Monday is not the first time a fake Antifa account linked to white supremacists has been suspended by Twitter, the spokesperson confirmed.
Um, so there you go. Antifa is fake. And now you’re gonna say CNN’s the fake news organization. So back, back to the Downers Grove um, sorry, I got something on my lip. Back to the Downers Grove, um, Back to the Downers Grove school board meeting. And then, so Newsom is trying to, um, distance himself from these Proud Boys, um, uh, um, after giving them signs, after giving them signs to hold on to.
So, okay, continuing on. The national effort, the Proud Boys have recently joined. School board protests across, across the country appearing at a North Carolina meeting against mask mandates and forcing another in the state to move this meeting online, similar to what happened at a meeting in Oregon. So just going around terrorizing school board meetings, um, forcing people to, to have them offline.
I mean, this, this is how democracy stops and this is how they’ll do it. If Trump is elected tonight, the polls are closing in Illinois.
Um, okay. David Goldenberg, regional director of the Anti Defamation League’s Midwest office, said it’s now a common trend for members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups. to attend school board meetings and other public events to either recruit, to antagonize, or to engage. Meanwhile, state and federal lawmakers have taken notice of the Proud Boys presence.
Illinois General Assembly’s five member LGBTQ caucus urged district officials to protect queer students from hate and censorship by immediately rejecting calls to censor a queer positive group in the high school library. Theil said at the meeting, the book will remain in circulation while administrators review parents complaints.
U. S. Representative Sean Caston, the Democratic congressman who represents the district, said he has talked to board members since last Monday about student safety. I think the Proud Boys are reprehensible. They’re part of the biggest threat to our country, domestic terrorism, and they are part and parcel of that, Kasten said.
Let’s be blunt about this. If you are a grown adult and you are walking through a library in an elementary school or high school and having sexual thoughts, you are the problem. It ain’t the book.
Um, so that was what went down at the school board meeting. Um, I will actually see if I can find My speech from that night, and I will deliver it, although I think I might have done that before. Um,
let’s see.
Oh, is this it?
Oh, yes. Okay. So, so here’s the, here’s the speech that, um, and this is the three minute version. I think I did a two minute version. They, they cut down everybody’s time at the um.
At the school board meeting to from 3 minutes to 2 minutes so that everybody could get up and be able to speak. So this is the long version of the speech. I I didn’t cut too much out of it, but I did paraphrase a lot of it. So anyway, this is 3 minute speech that I gave at the school board meeting where proud boys were present.
Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a Prussian military man hired by George Washington to whip the Continental Army into shape during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, is known for his bravery and the discipline and grit he brought to the American troops. Historians also think he was homosexual and served as an openly gay man in the military at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime.
Von Steuben was a strict drill master, but he also socialized with the troops. One of his aides, Pierre Etienne Duponceau, recalls a particularly wild party given at Village Valley Forge. I don’t believe I read this paragraph. His aides invited a number of young officers to dine at our quarters, he wrote, on condition that none should be admitted.
that had on a whole pair of britches. The men dined in torn clothing, and he implied no clothing at all. Though his name is little known among Americans today, writes Eric Trickey for Smithsonian, every U. S. soldier is indebted to von Steuben. He created America’s greatest Professional Army. I wonder what he would have thought of Bill Clinton’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
We have all heard of the Underground Railroad. Downers Grove itself played a role in the Underground Railroad. We often hear how white people would help and harbor black people to safety. But wait, Often never learn the genius way in which black people communicated where the meetup point was and when.
They had to hide their communication, so they did it right out in the open. The slaves would often sing in the fields as they worked. These work songs and field hollers were used to communicate many things, but one being where and when the Underground Railroad was supposed to meet. These field hollers were the precursors to the call and response of American spirituals and gospel music and to the blues.
The blues form the basis of jazz, rock and roll, R& B, funk, and even hip hop. And who can even stand country unless it is laced with blues? To me as a professional musician, singer, songwriter, and composer, American music is black music because it certainly would not be the same without their influence.
Unfortunately, that beautiful music was born from pain and suffering and denial of freedom. Real denial of freedom. Not asking you to consider the public health and having you wear a piece of cloth on your mouth.
The most patriotic person I ever knew was my father who served for four years in the United States Air Force. He voluntarily signed up when the government was drafting men for the Korean War. He would never let us wear t shirts with the American flag on it because it is a violation of the flag code to wear the flag except as a pin or a patch.
Even if it was a screen print, he said we could not wear it because it could be mistaken for the real flag. Kind of like how flag waving can be mistaken for real patriotism.
I learned from my dad that it is not important to march around with a flag. What is important is doing what is needed when the health and safety of Americans is at stake. Doing what you can for your country. So right now, the most patriotic thing you can do is to wear a mask and get vaccinated. Thank you.
That was the speech that I gave at the school board meeting.
And then, um, so then a few days later, the Downers Grove Township Integrity Project, um, had our weekly meeting. Hey, one second. You gotta go outside? You gotta go outside? I think my dogs might need to go outside. I might need to take a break here in just a minute. Um, but maybe I’ll, maybe I’ll see if I can play, play the music, um, for Karma, um, while, while I’m taking a break.
Um, where was I?
Uh, oh yeah, so that was the speech that I gave at the school board meeting, and okay, so then like a few days later, um, the Downers Grove Township Integrity Project, we had our meeting, and, um, at the meeting, one of the women in our group said, um, you guys, um, Just be very careful and watch your back. Um, she said that, um, she, she has a church job and that, or she, she teaches at a church and, um, church school.
And the, um, Proud Boys were calling up her work and trying to get her fired for supporting porn. And so, you know, she’s, she’s like, just, just watch yourself. And I was thinking, Oh, well, I don’t work for anybody. How are they going to get to me? I work for myself. I’ll just work from home rather than go into my office and I’ll be fine.
Um, and, um, it was weird because I saw this, this train of white vehicles go by my house one day shortly after this, um, it may have even been that later that day. Um, but it was a train of white vehicles. There was a white. van and a white car and a white truck. Um, and they all drove by my house. And at first I was like, cause we have a car show in Downers Grove.
And I was like, well, maybe it’s for the car show. And then I was like, wait, it’s the middle of the week. Why are they walking, driving by my house? I was weird. I wish I would have filmed it. Um, and so anyway, um, That, that becomes pertinent later. But, um, so anyway, I, um, I didn’t think they could get me to, to me.
And they must have been following me around. Um, Then they must’ve been following me around online on all my social media, waiting for me to mess up and say something controversial and then blow it out of proportions because that’s exactly what they did. Um, I’d been up late at night and I explained this in the first video, so I’m not going to go too much into detail, but, um, I, I had been up late at night and I was working on stuff.
I was tired and. I saw the headline about Waukesha and I made the comments I made. But the thing is, if you look at my stats on all of my social media at that time, it was pretty low because I wasn’t really promoting anything. So, you know, I was working, it was the pandemic. So like the stats were really low.
And then all of a sudden, it’s like 14, 000 people were on my page just all of a sudden at two o’clock in the morning. My, my tweet went viral and by four o’clock in the morning, um, Fox News had it on their website. Um, I wouldn’t say exactly four o’clock, but the four o’clock hour they had it on their website.
Um, so it’s breaking news that this, this little social media, um, county person said something. Um, Um, it’s, you know, that’s breaking news by Fox News at four in the morning. And the thing was, um, you know, I, uh, that, what am I trying to say? So it, it, it started going viral and I was like, oh, great. Um, and I just kind of shut down.
Um, it would happen to be like, Like five and I was just like, I’m going to bed. And I went to sleep. I knew I was going to hear it. And, um, the phone rang at eight o’clock in the morning. And it was the head of the DuPage County Democrats. And at first it was like, Oh, we’re going to, you know, send you away and maybe you can get you back.
Um, And in a, in a few months after everything’s died down and then it turned to, um, later on in the day that, um, Washington, DC got involved. Uh, Democrats in Washington, DC got involved in, in the, um, governor. And I kind of feel like the governor threw me under the bus because he was having some controversy too, around comments he said about Walker child too.
At the same time, if you go and like, look at the. The newspaper. So I think I was a convenient target, um, to throw under the bus. And then also, um, I, I found, I came across this graphic that somebody put together and it’s all these people that made a similar comment to me. There’s like influencers and media people that made a similar joke to me that, that I made, I guess it was self defense.
They all had made some kind of similar self defense joke. And, um, yet, and they were much more famous than me too, which was weird. And yet my tweet was the one that went viral, even though they said a similar thing and they were much more popular. Why did they, why weren’t they like, Oh, look at this, this influencer.
No, it was because they wanted to target me for either, um, turning, being sick, uh, an integral part in turning. Um, DuPage County from completely red, almost completely red, to almost a majority blue. Um, the, or they targeted me because they saw me as an up and comer in the Democratic Party, or the, um, they targeted, the Proud Boys targeted me because they didn’t like what I said about, um, LGBTQ and, um, and, um, people of color and freedom.
I don’t know. One of those reasons is why they targeted me. Um, and, and then they started following me around everywhere. After that, um, they created that Facebook group. I just told you about, um, Oh, I wanted to also, I’ve got some stuff on my phone and stuff like that, but right now my puppy dog needs to go out.
So, I think what I’m going to try to do,
I’m going to play for you my song. So, because I’m guessing you can hear it. While I let the dog out. Who let the dog out? Who let the dogs out? Me. Alright, let me find, I’m going to play you, um, So, this, I’m going to play you this, this seems like a good time to play this. Um, because, Um, my tweets went viral.
And so this is what I, these were messages, actual messages that I received and like, you could hear them, you know, hang up the phone and stuff. I, so I took those and I made it into beats. Um, like sounds that were in the background and stuff. I use them in, um, as, as percussion to, to create the beat, um, for this song.
Um, Okay. And then all of, if you go to YouTube, or actually if you go here, I think right here on Facebook, if you’re right here on Facebook, I believe somewhere in the videos you’ll find the video. And if not, it can be found on YouTube or, uh, yeah. Um, let’s see. See if I can play you the music and I’ll black out my camera and I’ll come back in a few minutes after I take care of my puppy dogs.
Um, so that I can continue my story. So, um,
I’ll just play it on my, my cell phone. Um, and you should be able to hear it, I hope. We’ll see. Trying to find the best place to put this. I guess here’s just fine. All right guys, I’m gonna shut off my camera for just a moment and here’s Karma Klansmen are ruining my America. Be sure to watch the music video either on here on Facebook or on YouTube.
It’s a carnival parade, you’re in the grandstand. It’s a carnival parade, It’s a carnival parade, It’s a carnival parade, It’s a carnival parade, It’s a carnival parade. It’s not ready for the parade. You fucked up. You fucked up. Alright, one other thing. I just wanted to make this clear. If you’re a rebel dumbass like me, or like you, How can I trust you?
Word. I mean, you know I am a Jedi. You just have a weak power. So you don’t want to be killed. I hope you’re doing fine, girl. I have some words for you, too. Let’s just put it that way. Well, I don’t know how else. I don’t think you need to go into your soul. It’s in you. So tell me, bitch, how do you want to die?
I’ll rip out the brain, and I’ll wash it, and I’ll throw a bone, and I’ll look around every corner. Let’s just say, you better hang on. Because I’m gonna slice your throat. And I might make a great thing with it, but I’m not gonna let you get inside. I’ll rip out the brain, and I’m gonna cut it, bitch. Let’s just say, you better hang on.
I had one time, I was asleep, but that’s when I fucking hear my jazz music. I had to go to the bathroom, and I just keep eating. I’m sorry about the one you met. You’re the last thing I saw the last day, so that’s why I’m a heavy drinker. I’m a heavy drinker. I’m a heavy drinker. I’m finally back, I’m finally back.
Mama got me back. We had to figure out this karma. This karma, mama, mama. Now, I hope you have a long life. I know you got a long life, but you’ll be fine. I hope you have a long life, but you’ll be fine. But, you’re suffering. I hope for the rest of your life, you’ll be suffering. For as long as you can live.
Mama got you back. We had to figure out this karma. God. I’ll be there in a minute. Karma, Karma, Karma. You have a difficult figure out. This is Karma. Karma, Karma, Karma. I said Karma, Karma, Karma. Karma, Karma, Karma. This is Karma. A fucking slutty bitch. Fucking mouth. You have a difficult figure out. This is Karma.
Karma, Karma, Karma. You are a gross dick. Disgusting, ugly ass dick, and you should do the world a favor and just fucking kill yourself. Comma, comma, comma. Not that difficult to figure out, but that’s what this is. I’m not very smart. Comma, comma, comma. Well this number is all over the web. How can you be so hateful?
Alright, alright. Got my puppy dogs. Put my puppy dogs in. Okay.
All right.
Um, all right. So that was a, um, creative, um, thing that I did with all of the voicemails. And if you watch the video, you can see the texts that I received, um, after my tweets went viral at four in the morning.
Um, see something really quick.
Okay. Um, Oh, I know one thing. So after, after this happened, um, just to let, you know, the, um, um, uh, my tweet went viral and everything that kind of emboldened the people, um, because then they started to go to other school districts. So, um, let me see if I can find this one. Uh, what’s it say?
Okay, so, um,
Um, let me see. I need to do something really quick.
I’m looking something up for us. Um,
so one of the,
oh, okay, here it is.
So Indian Prairie District 204 Naperville District 203 school board meetings disrupted over mask policies. Um, this was in,
um, oops, I just lost my, where I was, one second. Okay.
Okay, so the Indian Prairie School District 204 school board meeting and this was, so ours was in November of 2021. Um, this one was in, uh, on February 9th, 2022. And, um, the heck. It’s already.
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Okay, here it is. Sorry about that. If this doesn’t let me do it, then I’ll find another way. There’s another article I can read it about it. Um, so, uh, the Indian Prairie School District 204 school board meeting Monday evening did not proceed as planned.
It’s like the Chicago Tribune doesn’t want me to read this article. So, um, as the school board adjourned without taking any action or public comment. As some in attendance refused to wear masks. And while the school board meeting at Naperville School District 203 did ultimately run through its agenda, the board recessed multiple times because some of the audience were not wearing face coverings.
I know you’re not happy with it, but this is the rule. Indian Prayer Board President Lori Donahue told the crowd Monday before the board took a short recess for the first time, rather than recess a third time, school board members voted to end the meeting. We are adjourned, Donahue said. Someone in the audience shouted shame on you in response.
The Indian Prairie School Board will meet Tuesday evening with Tuesday’s agenda matching the one from one night earlier. The meeting, however, will be virtual. Donahue could not be reached for comment. About five miles northeast of the Indian Prairie meeting, the District 203 School Board recessed three times as well over some in the public not wearing masks properly or at all.
The district 203 audience, however, followed the board rules on masks, as several in attendance wanted to be heard on the district’s decision on Sunday to keep its mask policy. Most board members agreed. spoke against the district’s decision. What is clear to me is there’s no point in trying to engage with this administration on mass choice at this point, said Dan Jovick, whose oldest son attends Naperville North High School.
Allowing families to choose what is best for the children is not something you’re willing to do, even if a judge rules and issues a ruling voiding the governor’s executive order. Why are you continuing to enforce a mandate that has been ruled null and void? You have not shown, you have all shown your true colors at apparently so rare.
Parent Alyssa Fitzgerald said the mask policy will continue dividing the community. Parents do not want to be on the opposing side of our teachers, we want to keep our teachers that we have. We are now more divided than ever and it needs to be a collaborative effort. If the school board and our superintendent refuse to listen to our needs and ones of our community, do we even need them?
We are spending a lot of money to be ignored, she said. Come on.
It’s a public health crisis, something that happens like once in a lifetime.
I don’t understand how people can be that ignorant. Naperville School District 203 parent Alyssa Fitzgerald speaks to the, oh sorry that’s a picture. I must have got it taken down. Uh, Naperville North High School teacher Amy Vogelsang was among the minority of people who spoke in support of the district’s decision Monday night.
But she said a significant portion of the district community backs their decision. I want to thank you for maintaining COVID mitigation strategies in the face of enormous public pressure to pretend the pandemic is over. Schools should be a safe place to learn and work, Vogel Sang said. Superintendent Dan Bridges said none of us want the temporary restraining order ruling further dividing District 203 even more.
Let me be clear, I do not And this board does not want to see our students and staff be masked indefinitely, Bridges said. He is asking public health authorities to further update criteria guiding schools on COVID 19 measures. District officials are reviewing the return to school plan they presented in the summer that reopened schools in person, he said.
I also intend in partnership with other superintendents and other advocacy groups to continue pushing for clear guidance on schools that will allow us. To move more freely and make decisions on a local basis, he said.
It really seems silly, looking back at all this, that they raise such a stink about masks. Something that health professionals have been wearing for over a hundred years. I mean, you wouldn’t want to go in for surgery without your surgeon wearing a mask. I mean, use common sense.
Um, So that was district, uh, the school board meeting in Indian Prairie and Naperville. And this is in the February after my, my tweet went viral, um, where I spoke at a school board meeting the week before. And then there’s also, um, here, uh,
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When was this, when was this article published? February 23rd.
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Okay. In Hinsdale District 86, so this is, um, a neighboring, um, a nearby, uh, um, suburb, uh, from Downers Grove. Naperville is nearby too. I guess they all are. Um, so they’re all like. Targeting, uh, schools in the suburbs of Chicago in Hinsdale. This is, by the way, um, this article was from February 23rd, 2022 as well.
So, um, the thing that happened to me was in November after I spoke at the school board meeting was in November of, uh, 2021 and so they were emboldened and so in February 2022, they started back up again. In Hinsdale District 86, alleged equity shaming feels petition calling for superintendent’s removal.
Um, the latest effort from some Hinsdale High School District 86 parents and community members pushing for the resignation of Superintendent Tammy Prentice is a petition. Um, with close to a thousand signatures calling for her removal. The petition was started by former district 86 board president, Kay Gallo, who wrote in part on the website through her deliberate misrepresentations.
Superintendent Prentiss attempted to advance her extreme DE& I agenda by equity shaming District 86 and creating a false media narrative that damaged the reputation of Hinsdale and all other, um, the communities comprising D86. Um, just for the record and just so you know something a little bit about Hinsdale, Hinsdale is very upper crust.
Nouveau riche people. Um, there’s probably some old money there too, but um, it’s very, uh, there’s a lot of wealthy people in Hinsdale. I’ll just say that. Um, opponents of Prentiss have been rallying against her for some time now, but the effort was bolstered by Valda Valbrun, an anti racism consultant from Valdrun, Valbrun Consulting Group, withdrew a proposal to provide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion training to faculty and Prentice read the withdrawal letter.
Excuse me. A letter to January 13th board meeting. I’m drinking soda.
So the letter alluded to disparaging online comments from folks in the community which made Voldrum feel unsafe. Tammy Prentice made a decision to read the letter. What did she think she was going to accomplish by doing what she That, other than chaos and division, I think she’s shown bad judgment, said Yvonne Mayer, District 86 community member who has been vocal about her opposition to Prentiss for months.
Um, she was exercising her freedom of speech. Part of the controversy surrounding the situation is based on two sentences in Valbrun’s letter which many of the petitioner’s website, the petition’s website believed were added by Prentiss. It’s always a conspiracy with these people. People are always out to get you, they’re always adding some little stab and then, you know, nobody has time for that.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a community member, the district released records on January 31st showing that Baldwin emailed Prentiss on January 12th. With her letter of withdrawal, it’s not clear if any correspondence or communication took place outside of that email thread, but the FOIA indicated that Prentiss emailed Valbrun a revised withdrawal statement on January 13th with a note saying, please preview.
The added sentence in question reads, I got several messages yesterday and I really think Hinsdale is a dangerous place. It would not be physically comfortable there. At the time of the FOIA request, district officials said the letter was reworked by Volburn’s, at Volburn’s ask. Nobody knows. This is why it’s so important that the BOE do an investigation and inform the community what are the facts, Mayor said.
How do you go from receiving a letter and then reading a different letter? Was there communication exchange between them? No one knows. Based on previous reporting by Pioneer Press, Valbrun unexpectedly received nasty direct messages on her personal social media platforms on January 12th, which is when she decided to step back and send an email to act as a formal withdrawal.
Valbrun said she received hate mail, threats, direct messages on Twitter, and friend requests on Facebook from those with the Hinsdale zip code between January 12th and January 13th, after a Facebook post in which Valbrun condemned the Republican party. Um, began to circulate around, circulate around the District 86 community.
In the Reasons for Signing section on the change. org petition to remove the District 86 leader, several Apprentice’s opponents cite the handling of the diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant situation, including the altered letter, while several more think she’s not fit to lead a high caliber District 86.
on the basis of credentials. Others in the Hinsdale community like Reed Cullum think the movement against Prentiss is a product of backlash over the district’s diversity and inclusion work as opposed to being rooted in the superintendent’s qualifications. It’s easy for them to go after the superintendent.
They can’t go after a black diversity equity inclusion consultant who wrote a letter because that would be pretty obvious racial backlash. So they go after the superintendent and fabricate some sort of story with FOIA documents that she altered the consultant’s letter. Then there’s plausible deniability for what is just utter white fragility and backlash.
It’s like you’re out of a textbook. McCollum, whose children attend District 181 and will later attend Hinstel Central, He said he’s much more focused on fighting misinformation and the grossly inappropriate accusations than choosing a side. But he’s convinced the most people who are opposed to Prentice’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts deflect the purpose of equity work by making it about the types of people chosen to provide the training.
There are people that say, hey, we’re happy with equity, but it can’t possibly be diversity, equity, inclusion consultant that has ever posted anything negative about Trump on Facebook. Come on, really? That’s a classic conservative gaslighting tactic that allows people to To not make it about diversity, equity, equity, and inclusion before Valbram consulting groups stepped down district 86 is effort to hire an equity consultant encountered a previous setback that also had something to do with anti conservative social media posts, causing concerns within the community.
You have to find consultants that are going to bring the community together. So mayor who is Mexican American, and the reality is that we live in a pretty solid Republican area. And so to even consider hiring somebody who is.
It just shows the lack of judgment by the superintendent that she doesn’t understand the community that she would like to bring diversity, equity and inclusion into mayor added that Prentice is not only struck out twice and finding a consultant to do important D. E. S. I work, but has also made generalized derogatory statements about the Hinsdale community to the media.
I really hope she’s looking for another job at this point. It would probably be in her best interest to do so. There are probably districts out there who would think that someone progressive like her, if that’s what you want to call her, would be a great addition to their district. But for this community right now, this moment in time, I think she’s just done too much damage and created too much chaos.
And unfortunately, she’s lost the support of a lot of people. Community members who signed the petition include Including Linda Burke, who has been a vocal supporter of a mask mandate in schools. So the petition is not about a single issue. Prentice has been correct and courageous on COVID mitigations. I deplore the hatred directed at her on this.
However, I decided to sign because she should have not have called out the entire district. She did not merely call out racist behavior where it occurred, which I would strongly support. Also, I signed on the basis of academic policy, Burke said. In November 2020, the board unanimously voted to extend Prentice’s contract.
Which began in 2000 or 2019 by three years in 2021 Prentice earned an award of merit in the administrator category as part of the 2021 Distinguished Service Awards program sponsored by the Illinois chapter of the National School Public Relations Association District 86 declined to comment at the time of publication, and that was originally published on February 23rd, 2022 in the Chicago Tribune, as was the previous article.
about the Indian school and Naperville. So, they’re attacking diversity and inclusion, they were attacking masks at Hinsdale, at Indian, um, Indian Prairie, is that what I said? And, uh, um, and Naperville. So there’s this, this, this common theme going on, uh, with First Stannis Grove, and then Going around to the different suburbs and, and speaking up at the school board meetings, um, and I know that, uh, some of the people at the school board meeting that I was at, um, where the proud boys were present confronted them and they said, you’re, you, you don’t even pay taxes here, you’re not even from the state.
And their reply, or some of them were not even from the city or the town, you know, from the. From the village and, um, And their response was, well, Our federal tax dollars pay for everything. So we can go to any school board meeting we want to And speak up. So, if Trump wins tonight, expect a lot more of that.
Let’s see, what else, what other gems do I have to share with you tonight? Because I know there’s more.
Oh, yes. So what has happened since? We’re just getting into it, I guess. Um, okay. So let me pull up some of my correspondence.
I could read you some of the emails too. I didn’t really publish any of the emails. Um, in my
In my little video, um, I hope you could hear that song when I played it. But one thing I will do is, um, when I forwarded all of these emails to the police, though, I have a ton of emails where they’re, I was being threatened. Um, I emailed those all to the police. Uh, let’s see. Let me see if I can find any like stories of stuff that, you know, Um, and the, and the night, the night that, uh, the night after, um, or the night of that, um, incident, the, the, the night following not the night that I, uh, my tweet went viral, but the night after that, um, I had, uh, somebody tried to deliver a pizza to my house, which was funny because I.
I was talking to a friend who, um, had found some information about me on the black, uh, on the, on the dark web, um, because he used to be a hacker and, and, and still would go into these groups and see what was going on. And he found some threads on me, um, and the dark web and so, um, my, my information had been doxed.
It was doxed, um, and, um, And then later the FBI confirmed this, but the FBI didn’t come and see me until a year later. And then they were like, do you know you were doxxed? And I said, yeah. And then I thought they were talking about the first time. And then they were like, no, you were doxxed again. And, um, And when I had been doxxed again, I hadn’t had as much activity.
It didn’t seem like there, there, there was tons that when it first happened, there was tons of people driving by for like, especially the first 24 hours. And then it was crazy, like almost to the hour. Uh, well, it was like, no, it was like in the morning, it was in the morning. I died. Trying to remember if it was in the morning or the afternoon.
It was like the day, a day after all of this happened. Um, after the, the day after the pizza got delivered and everything. So my one day, let me backtrack. My friend told me, he’s like, Hey, did they, uh, did they send you a pizza yet? And I was like, how did you know? He’s like, that’s the first, one of the first things they do.
Send somebody a pizza. So I had called the police and they had talked to the pizza guy and everything. So, um, I had a pizza delivered to me. Um, luckily it was just me in the house. My kids were with my ex husband, so he wasn’t there. And I, I called him up and I was just like, yeah, I said some things. My mouth got dry.
My mouth is, um, big and I put my foot in it a lot. And, um, this was a time and it was not a good time. And, um, so, uh, sorry. Uh, uh, so anyway, um, he kept the kids for like a week. Um, because I was, um, getting all kinds of phone calls and, um, just weird people driving by the house. And, And all kinds of threatening emails and text messages.
And so anyway, the day after the police, or the day after the pizza came, Um,
it was like late morning. I have it written down somewhere. I have all these notes that I took. Um, Um, saved all these emails that I was emailing, you know, the police and the FBI and everybody. Well, I didn’t, I didn’t email the FBI until later, um, or message the FBI until later. But, um, the, um, I saved all of these and, um, someday maybe I’ll make sense of it and do a book.
We’ll see. But, for now, I’m just talking here because it’s got four more minutes until the, um, the polls close, I believe, in Mountain Time.
So polls will be closing soon in Colorado and all the mountain states in Mountain Time. So, between 7 I’m not sure which states. It seemed like all the states were closing around 30. Um, okay. So, I just thought, um, so, so that, that all happened. Um, and in the, the video, the music video, I talk about some other of the things that had happened.
Um, uh, one weird thing that I didn’t talk about in the video was, um, the white cars. So like the day after all of that happened with the pizza guy, the three white cars came by the house again. And I just wonder what the symbolism is. I know, um, from my friend, um, that was the Arizona’s, um, hammerskin, um, that he, um, that, that there’s a lot of rituals and stuff that they do in these groups.
So I don’t know if there was some sort of ritual, With the white cars driving by my house. I don’t know. It was weird. It was very weird. And I wish I would have filmed it because I sound like a crazy person talking about it. But, um, I had somebody harassing me on Twitter and his, his, uh, his Twitter profile name was parade driver, parade driver.
And this car, this, this. Parade of white cars going by my house. His name was parade driver. And, um, so yeah, I think, um, maybe there was something weird going on with that too.
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um, so, okay. So at one point in time, um, oh, uh, this was, um, Maybe a week or so after all of this went down. Um, I, I was being followed. Um, I was being followed and it was through my SIM card on my phone. Uh, the hackers were able to track me down and follow me through the SIM card because I’d been doxxed, right?
And I went into T Mobile and Uh, the, the, the woman there told me, you know, I don’t think she understood the severity of what was going on, but she’s like, oh yeah, if you just go reset your phone or whatever, um,
then, then, uh, you know, it’ll get rid of them and then, you know, just restart the phone. And they were still tracking me through my SIM card. And so then, um, I ended up getting a new phone completely. Um, But, uh, there were some weird things that happened. So let me, let me, let me go through these emails that I, that I had sent to the police, um, and see if I can piece together.
So there was one story. Let’s see. Oh,
here’s, okay. This is December 6th. So, Uh, like a couple weeks after this all happened. Um, Hello Detective has been less eventful since I got a prepaid phone to carry around. Oh, so, the reason why I got a prepaid phone, my kids and I went to this T Mobile, right? And the, um, the lady said, you know, do this. And they were still following me around, so I got a new cell phone.
Um, uh, oh, wait a minute. Oh, I had gotten a prepaid phone, that’s what I did. I got a prepaid phone to carry around. So, um, and it says, I’ve had some glitchy things with my other phone, like it won’t update, but the emails and messages have trickled down to next to nothing. So this was, um, just like a week or so later.
We can have later whatever I was not no longer getting as many messages. My friend who watches the conspiracy and hacker websites has said that nothing new has come up in the past couple days. It’s just following up to see where things were with the investigation.
And he said, it’s good thing to hear that, um, good to hear that things are quieting down. We still have an extra patrol for your residence in place for now. I’ve been documenting everything you have shared with me as far as where I am with my investigation. I have subpoenaed Facebook reference, those Facebook profile accounts that sent direct threats just to heads up subpoenas to take some time to get the information back.
Once I get the subpoenas back, I’ll see what information Facebook. Um, I should also say that, um, somebody tried to set up a credit card in my name. Someone, um, reported me to, um, the Department of Children and Family Services for being abusive. Um, so here’s, uh, a transcript. So I had to work with a child protection specialist to get cleared.
Here’s, uh, let’s see what else. I also had one texting my work number multiple times, but non threatening. This is a different email to the detective. I eventually responded about a donation I quietly made to the Waukesha Fund. This was the other day. I just checked my messages and found that they made a mistake forwarding my message and responded to me instead.
This is the second time I’ve caught someone doing this. So, um, this you’ll see in the music video, the guy goes, good morning. This is one of the, the proud boy people messaging me. Good morning. It’s Larry. Please call me when you get a chance. And I, by the way, I looked up this guy’s phone number and he was a tow truck owner in a, in a local suburb close near to near to me.
He owns a tow truck company. So these are professional people. Um, Good morning, it’s Larry. Please call me when you get a chance regarding a road trip to Waukesha. Could save your career. I could leave in an hour’s notice. Yeah, like I’m going to go ride with some stranger to go to Waukesha. Why? The man killed them, and you know it.
Nothing to do with anything more than being a racist terrorist. He should be charged with both, and you know it. He’s a career domestic terrorist. If you don’t want any more communication, then change your email and phone number. I’m not stopping until I get to the, um, there’s a few more. Um, in my music video, I’ve folded out further.
Um, and then he messages me back a few days, a day later. This is November 28th. This is like 7 days after, um, this all went down. Uh, we goin I hope you watched 60 minutes. Specifically. Uh, you have it in you, which I doubt you might give a little insight as to the pain of losing a child looks like, much less a little boy and girl being hit by a 4, 000 pound car.
We need to comfort and support their community. Um, and that’s when I said I did not release a formal statement, but I gave 10, 000 to the United Way Fund for the Waukesha victims on Friday. This was the day after Thanksgiving. Um, that I did that and then he goes, not sure how to respond. She’s definitely doing damage control.
So he, he thinks he’s talking to somebody else. He’s thinks he’s forwarding my messages on to somebody else, but he actually just sent it to me. And then he goes, I’ve held onto a lot of texts and emails overnight and decided not to send them the next day. I got to think about this one. Maybe wait and see what her apology sounds like.
If it’s heartfelt or not. I hope it is. She should be in tears and humble when she does. I sure would be. And then he comes back two minutes later. Wrong person, Mary. FYI, I am done and thank you. Probably are a good person. Good luck and thank you for responding. God bless you and your family and have a merry Christmas.
Life is precious and short and we are only here for the ride. Coward. He got caught.
Uh, oh. I guess I have the more details on that one. I’m not stopping until I get to the bottom of your hatred to good people and the human race regardless of political beliefs of which I have none. I don’t care if someone is left, right, north, south, east, or west. We are all human. Yeah, you don’t have any political ideals that you just like went on and on about, um, people being racist terrorists and stuff.
Um, okay, what else?
