election and should ve outside her house when she was putting her son to sleep and putting up christmas decorations, or when criminals who thought they were liberating michigan covid restrictions wanted to kidnap gretchen whitmer, the governor said in a statement, threats continue, i have looked out my windows and seen large groups of heavily armed people within 30 yards of my home. i have seen myself hung in effigy. days ago, at a demonstration, there was a sign that called for burning the which. governors have security. local election officials do not. school board members do not. jennifer jenkins this is not. heather raymond is the president of the school board and national in new hampshire, and a recent meeting, two police officers needed to be on site because of the harassment
democrats in 2018 and that huge wave, so i m really grateful to you tonight for this topic, specifically. thank you, especially in the way donald trump has created essentially a permission structure, that has nazis showing up at school board meetings. let me say, as i ve prepared for this interview, i thought about what you wanted to focus on tonight, my thanks goes to you, thank you for focusing on this, thank you for talking about how heroic school board members, who s focused is our children and our education, there couldn t be anything more important, i ve talked to many school board members and in fact if you don t mind, behind me i have the map of my district and all the school districts within it, the school board members that we see in front of us, heather raymond,
are volunteers for our children and care about our children and they should not be subject to the horrendous vets that you are absolutely right, are the limits of donald trump and those who support donald trump. you know, heather, i honestly didn t know but that group was, they had to tell me, i had to google that, and it is the locals national socialist club, aka, nazis. so, again, the nazis are showing up at your school board meetings, how does that make you feel? well, first, thank you so much for having me and including me in this conversation. it was pretty hairy there for a while. i didn t think that our community would have these kinds of events happening, so
dollars. they are not getting these little ten and 25 dollar donations from local people in the community and as of yet i don t know where their money is coming from. i haven t seen any reporting in our filing period with the city was last week to report our two nations, it ll be interesting to see what has been reported when that becomes publicly available. we should definitely all pay close attention to that because i do believe some of these decisions are being exacerbated by outside forces with an agenda, and it is not just some naturally occurring thing. donald trump, i believe, was the catalyst. congresswoman madeleine dean and heather raymond, thank you very much for being with us tonight, please stay safe. joining us now anne-marie cox, a veteran political journalism host of the podcast with friends like these.
i ll go back to heather to say thank you please god and jennifer jenkins and so many others including my very own set of school districts, and many women, zerlina you are thinking about that as well. women, public servants, under attack thank you for what you are doing our children deserve you and they do not deserve the vile attacks that are happening. heather, what are you gonna tell oh, go ahead, go ahead. i was just gonna say that the congresswoman is correct. many of our people who yell out during our meeting and disrupt our meeting are people who are against masking and some of them are parents who have been led astray by misinformation. a lot of them are people who travel from place to place, particularly to disrupt those