Enemies From Within: GOP Party Leader threatened conservative mom running for school board
And Moms 4 Liberty backed school board members are supporting radical gender ideology in schools.
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Enemies From Within
The sad truth is, when you’re fighting back against the woke left, oftentimes the greatest enemies you have to deal with aren’t on the side you’re fighting against.
They’re on your own team.
I’ve personally been on the receiving end of more smear campaigns from the political right and the so-called “anti-woke” movement than I have been from the woke left. I’ve documented some of my experiences here.
I’ve also documented how New Hampshire’s Republican governor Chris Sununu (who the GOP is currently courting to run for President) undermined the anti-critical race theory bill in New Hampshire in 2021. A watered-down version of the bill ended up passing, but it is completely ineffective in stopping CRT in the classroom because of Sununu’s interference. And today, they are refusing to enforce it even when schools in New Hampshire are posting on their websites that they are breaking the law.
I’m not the only one things like this have happened to.
In fact, oftentimes, the GOP goes after their own with more vigor than they do anyone on the woke left.
Conservative mom Melissa Mason has experienced this.
Melissa Mason is a conservative mom in North Carolina who ran for school board, and ultimately won. But her win was a miracle because her own county GOP sought to undermine her.
In April 2022, Melissa exposed that the schools in New Hanover County North Carolina were hiding their plan to allow children to socially transition their gender without parental consent from parents in the community. This work was later covered in The Epoch Times, and featured in Glenn Beck’s Project Groomer.
During her campaign, Melissa was also extremely vocal in demanding the termination of the Superintendent, Charles Foust, for cause. She laid out the case against him, including the dissemination of obscene materials to children in the county, race-and gender-based discrimination, and violating parental rights.
Now, you would think that these things would be a no-brainer for the GOP. However, Melissa’s work incurred the opposite reaction: Local party leadership threatened to withhold funds from her campaign, and to engage in lawfare and smear tactics against her if she didn't comply with their demands and change her messaging.
And she recorded it.
Meet Wayne Gibson.
Wayne is the executive director of the New Hanover GOP in North Carolina.
Here is the audio of Wayne threatening Melissa Mason that if she didn’t adjust her messaging to make it more moderate and centrist, he would pull all of her funding. He also demanded that she stop her attacks on the school Superintendant.
Hear for yourself (this was originally posted on Rumble, but I wanted to make it easier to embed here):
Here is the transcript of the above video:
Election season 2022: New Hanover GOP officials attempted to strong-arm their most conservative candidate, Melissa Mason.
They attempted to buy off Mason with campaign funding, while threatening her with lawfare and bad PR.
Here’s how it unfolded…
Upon arriving to a private meeting, Mason was verbally accosted by GOP Executive Director Wayne Gibson.
Gibson (shouting): He’s in here, you’re not Melissa. You’ve got to stand on your own two feet, right now you’re the candidate in the most trouble and trust me I’m right.
Days later, Gibson apologizes to Melissa…
Gibson: Well, Melissa, the first thing I want to do is apologize to you for raising my voice to you and actually saying some of the things that I said to you, although everything I said to you was 100% true. And if you recall some of the things I said to you as you’re the weakest candidate we have and if you don’t come on board with us we’re not going to fund you. And those two things are true. We hope to put $100,000 behind the four of you, so we’re just starting. But we need to solve a lot of issues moving forward. And I want to share with you a couple of anecdotal things from people that I trust immensely. A lot of the concerns are the far right leaning that you are perceived to be, it’s way too far right. The constant fire Faust movement is a big no for a lot of those people. What I’m asking you to do is use language and marketing and messaging that will get you elected.
Mason: Wouldn’t that be changing my message if we’re moving it to the middle?
Gibson: I mean, look at Biden. If he would have said everything that he done to our country during the campaign, do you think he would be president today? The key is to get yourself elected and then you can govern boldly after you get yourself elected.
Mason: I made a commitment and my integrity is more important to me than the financial component and I’m going to let you know that right now. When I make a promise, I seek to complete and fulfill that promise.
Gibson: And before we leave, I just want to share one thing with you guys because I want to be totally transparent and I don’t want to be caught off guard. We have people in another location that are developing a press release. I know five people have already filed or will be filing for a no contact with the court and we will be passing a no trespass at the next board meeting. So, you’re going to be seeing a newspaper article, you might be seeing it on other media outlets. I just want to give you a heads up that that will happen because it certainly could have some impact on your campaign Melissa. I didn’t want you to say ‘oh, they were hiding that from us because that’s not my intent.’
Scott Mason ended the call with: I kind of don’t trust y’all to be honest with you because these attacks have happened and that’s all I gotta say.
Why is this important now?
All of this happened last year, but Melissa sat on the recordings after she won her campaign for school board and didn’t release them. Until now.
So, what happened?
After the election, Moms 4 Liberty touted this victory of taking over the school board in New Hanover County:
Well, perhaps they should have vetted their candidates a bit better. In the last month, two of the people they’ve mentioned - Pat Bradford and Josie Barnhart - have continued to play the same games that the GOP county leadership played during the election.
And those games are leading to alleged conservatives on the school board leaning towards adopting a policy that allows middle school students to play on whatever sports team they want on the basis of gender identity.
She writes the following on her site:
This coming week on February 7, the board will vote on which policy to accept. Melissa is fighting to institute a policy that would require middle school students to play on athletic teams that are consistent with their gender at birth, with no exceptions.
The other “conservatives” on the board are currently leaning in a different direction.
Next Tuesday, we’ll find out what happens.
And there’s more audio where the clip in this article came from…stay tuned!
What do you think?
Have you seen similar things happen in your community to people who are fighting for you? Leave a comment and let me know! And please share this with your friends and family who need to learn this information.
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Karolyn, thank you for covering this. I worked on Melissa’s campaign and the GOP tried to separate me from Melissa by filing 3 spurious no-contact orders against me. Wayne Gibson physically assaulted me when I came to a meeting which Melissa asked that I be present at to take notes, but also because the constant pressure from the GOP made her feel uncomfortable going to meetings at the GOP HQ alone.
When I told Will Knecht, the County Chair, that I was going to file charges against Wayne and a another GOP member, Rick Wilkins (who had assaulted me at a previous event at the GOP; and is now running for County 1st Vice Chair) Will’s response was to coordinate a “first strike” against me which involved Wayne, Rick, and Chelsea Cooley (whom you may remember from The Candace Owen show) to file no contact orders against me, based on the false claims that a) I had assaulted Rick; and b) I had threatened Chelsea, which was why Wayne had put his hands on me.
Rick secured the no contact, but it was stopped after I faced him in court, and destroyed his account. The other two complainants didn’t have the courage to double down on their lies in open court.
I have audio on all this, as well as the file I put together in preparation for my court date, which lays out the cases and points to salient clips from the audio. If you got DropBox, we can rock.
Also, I’m doing a podcast on NHC politics, focusing right now on the lead-up to the county convention, where we will have an opportunity to throw the bums out. I’ll give you a shout-out, would love to have you do the same and maybe check out an episode or two. Here’s Episode 2: https://youtu.be/sG0ZwE2u5BM
Thanks for everything you do!
Many GOP politicians are nothing more than RINOs.