The recording does, however, stop before the confrontation between Schoening and Davis, where she was asked to leave, refusing at first. For example, she asks for the representatives’ campaign web addresses so she can learn more about their political positions, and what exactly M4L means when it says it has “a lead in a district.” Davis does ask questions of Bottoms, DeGraff and an M4L speaker. “I don’t show up at liberal meetings or drag queen shows and expect the groups to let me record them while I heckle the members,” she claims in her statement.īut nowhere in the audio recording - which Davis shared with Sixt圓5 - can she be heard “heckling” while people are speaking. Schoening says she removed Davis “because she is a far left progressive operative who was there to take notes for the opposition,” and claims Davis “actively heckled” speakers and exhibited “antagonizing and wildly inappropriate behavior.” M4L is “a private group who helps kids,” Schoening claims. Schoening refused an interview with us about the encounter. She’d also addressed a handful of questions to Bottoms, DeGraff and those presenting for the group.ĭarcy Schoening, chapter co-chair, accused Davis of being a “plant,” Davis says, and Schoening reiterated the accusation in a written statement to Sixt圓5. Not because she left - but because she was spotted by M4L members as she recorded and took notes. DeGraff is Davis’ representative.īut Davis didn’t last the whole meeting. Ken DeGraff of District 22 - would be speaking. “All I care about is my grandkid, and a group of children who are growing up in these schools who have the right to be who they are.”Īnd she was troubled to see that two local Republican state house representatives - Rep. “I looked up Moms for Liberty, knew I would never agree with them, but wanted to hear what they had to say,” Davis tells Sixt圓5. It was primarily the group’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that activated Davis, she says - her adult daughter is gay. Davis saw a flyer for the meeting, encouraging people to “come get involved and see what is going on in the area school districts,” which was advertised on the M4L chapter’s website.Īs we’ve previously reported, the chapter has pushed to remove library books with LGBTQ themes (which it calls “LGBTQ indoctrination”) from local schools, expressed anti-teachers union views and has been active in several area districts where conservative-majority boards of education were elected in November 2021. 31 meeting at Valley Hi Golf Course to learn more about M4L. Jill Davis, 60, a local podcaster and self-identified “ex-conservative” who grew up and raised her family in the Springs, says she attended the Jan.
Three elected officials attended the meeting and signed pledges in support of the group, which has expressed anti-LGBTQ views. A Colorado Springs School District 11 grandparent was alarmed by a recent meeting held by the conservative education activist group Moms for Liberty – El Paso County.
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