LACONIA A meeting to mend fences between the local Jewish community and State Rep. Dawn Johnson, a candidate for mayor, derailed Friday before it could begin, with sides disagreeing over whether Ira Keltz, who is president of Temple B’nai Israel,.
LACONIA â At an online School Board meeting with roughly 300 viewers and repeated calls for board member Dawn Johnson to step down, residents voiced outrage and loss of trust and faith in Johnson to serve the district after she linked on social media to anti-Semitic material from the neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer.
Much of the criticism came from mothers of school children, who blasted Johnson for what they said were attitudes that run counter to the community s values and school district s mission, and shared goals of fighting intolerance in all forms. At the meeting, Johnson, who represents Ward 4 and is a newly-elected state representative, said she has no intention of leaving the board despite resounding voices calling her out for a lack of judgement, conduct not befitting a leader, and her failure to apologize specifically for the offensive content of what she said was mistakenly linked.
Laconia Mayor, council say Dawn Johnson’s anti-Semitic post gives city undeserved black eye
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Published: 12/16/2020 4:36:52 PM
The Laconia mayor and city council emphatically and unanimously condemned anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice following school board member and state Rep. Dawn Johnson reposting a link on social media to an article that contained a derogatory caricature of a Jewish man.
The comments came during Monday’s city council meeting, three days after Johnson reposted the cartoon from the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. Johnson deleted the post from her Twitter feed on Friday, saying she did not realize the source of the material.
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