Angela Yarber
Hartland School Board Candidate
Angela & Clean Slate 2.0 lie about their opponents being liberals and falsely claim they are the only “conservative” candidates
As a non-partisan position, a school board member should have the ability to separate their personal partisan interests from their decision-making in order to make leadership choices that put learning and students’ best interests first. This apolitical partnership between teachers, administrators, and the school board that puts students first has resulted in Hartland Consolidated Schools being recognized as one of the highest-achieving public school districts in Michigan.
However, Angela Yarber, a delegate of the Livingston County Republican Party, is not only proud of her political endorsements but also openly criticizes Hartland families who support Campbell/Shaw/Tucker by alleging that Campbell/Shaw/Tucker must be Democrats based on other signage in their supporters’ yards. It might surprise you to learn the truth that this is yet another distortion: Campbell/Shaw/Tucker are all registered Republicans.
BUT WAIT!: ANGELA YARBER’S QUIET PRO-PRIVATIZATION AGENDA:
Angela has worked hard to demonize marginalized families and their allies in the school district and greater community. But is it possible this is all part of a wider strategy to destabilize and disparage the reputation of a top-performing public school district (Hartland) by using confusing narratives to achieve a different series of ends? We will let you decide after presenting the facts.
Angela (and her Clean Slate pals who are already on the school board - can’t forget them!) has been making many friends among Big Money lobbyists and donors from the GLEP Betsy DeVos school voucher inner circle, including media personalities like Dave Bondy linked to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, as well as wining and dining with voucher supporting Great Education Initiative (GEI) formerly known as GSI. Yarber, Gogoleski and Keller are proudly pictured here with the founders of GEI, Monica Yatooma & Nathan Pawl. GEI is an ANTI-public education organization with national dark money connections. “GEI exists to transform public schools and is designed to produce a more orthodox education.” More info here.
Because Michigan is a state that roundly rejected a school voucher ballot initiative by over 65 percent in 2000 and didn’t even make the ballot when they tried again in 2023, one cannot simply go on Dave’s podcast and overtly shill for rich people (whose kids are already in private schools) to get even richer off the cash cow such privatization opportunities would present for their already bursting portfolios at the expense of Public Ed. One must be more subtle and conniving.
Ergo, it becomes necessary to create a Big Scary Bad (i.e. innocent trans children trying to exist in the schools), which is what Angela seems to be doing here when she went on Dave’s show, which has since been put behind a paywall, it seems. Wait? Do people pay for this? lol
Bondy is the communications guy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which is funded by Betsy Devos, the Queen of school privatization, which seems to be Clean Slate 2.0’s end goal. If you don’t know about the massive movement to privatize public schools, please review this information.
Sneaky Betsy and her GLEP text endorsing Scott/Baird/Yarber 😬
We shouldn't need to pull out an electron microscope to be able to tell who paid for something.
The Clean Slate 2.0 are puppets of billionaires striving to starve public schools!
Hartland families should be aware that the Great Lakes Education Project endorsed candidates are Scott, Baird, and Yarber. Instead of being champions for public schools that serve all students in our community, GLEP’s candidates will do the bidding of a West Michigan billionaire to take money from our public schools. GLEP is the creation of Betsy DeVos, the West Michigan billionaire and former Trump Education Secretary, and is one of the wealthiest political action committees in Michigan. DeVos is one of the nation’s staunchest advocates for privatizing schools and spent millions of her own money on a ballot proposal that wanted to use taxpayer money for private school vouchers. More info in the comments of this post.
‘THAT'S NOT WEIRD’:
Angela Yarber admits her goal is to “replace every progressive dem on the school board” while agreeing with comments in the same convo claiming that her campaign is up against “Satan” and that she’s “fighting against evil,” laying out her views that Democrats are the party of the devil which need to be defeated. Good can not unify with evil, so in these extremist’s minds, there is no way of coming together. Instead, it is “we have to take a stand against this, and we must defeat it.” Such deep Christian nationalist views have no place on a non-partisan school board, but also, that all just sounds extremely weird by any normal person's standard.
If you aren’t sure if that’s the case, no problem! You don’t have to take our word for it - try this test: log off your device for a few (this is a key step), then go stand in the grocery line and start rambling to an actual living, breathing person about how people at your kids' school are “evil” and possessed by the Devil incarnate. Observe their confused expressions, and then it will be obvious. Then spend the afternoon touching grass, far away from your device. Angela should try this.
More here.
Yarber praises ‘great leaders’ who co-host conferences where speakers praise Hitler’s views on education
This is an FEC United/GSI/GEI conference from last year here in MI, where a minister hosted quotes/praises Hitler for his views on education. Read this post and watch the whole video. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE (GEI) THAT ANGELA IS PRAISING ON HER PUBLIC CANDIDACY PAGE - see the Christmas dinner party photo above where Yarber is photographed with the founder, Monica Yatooma, who is also a speaker at this same conference where Hitler was praised.
Angela Yarber and Wes Nakagiri team up to spread fear through blatant lies about boys playing on girls' sports teams, making already vulnerable children targets.
These two have been regularly showing up to events around the community with a petition ‘Prohibiting Boys From Competing in Girls Sports’ This is despite each of them admitting that this isn’t even happening in Hartland schools- short video here. There are not and have never been any boys registered in any girls’ sports at HCS. *See Wes Nakagiri’s profile for more information about this County Commissioner candidate.
February 27, 2024 Angela Yarber polls voters at the Michigan Primary. Did she confirm that only parents were answering her impromptu survey, or is she asking the same general public who previously spread rumors of litter boxes in Livingston County school bathrooms? Hmm….
Angela Yarber brings Turning Point USA’s ‘activism hub’ to Hartland students
Turning Point USA is a Trumpest organization that has ties to a range of right-wing extremists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right. Turning Point recently registered as a club at Hartland High School and meets on school property despite not having a teacher to sponsor it. More here.
How about a side of indoctrination with that pizza?
Here is an example of the values this “wholesome conservative group” brings to Hartland children. HATE is not something our kids should be exposed to while at school! More here.
A carefully coordinated effort
Almost a year ago, Angela launched the Clean Slate 2.0’s campaign, announcing the “Restore Reason” candidates for Hartland School Board (now using the slogan of “Power to the Parents”) with Christine Glowacki replaced by Tyffany Baird, thanks to Len Pitelia. SPOILER ALERT: The “Power to the Parents” slogan comes after meetings with the Thomas More Society-backed group ‘Great Education Initiative’ More info here. “Power to the Parents” candidates are showing up in communities around Michigan as well as throughout the country - it is a well-planned/funded movement.
Angela Yarber shares that the district she teaches in has a safety box containing a long rile in each school building, stating that this information may be “helpful” to the Superintendent and School Board Members.
CANOODLING WITH WHITE NATIONALISTS AND OTHER EXTREMIST LOSERS:
Evidence of Angela Yarber’s attendance at a Grand New Party/Michigan Conservative Coalition Precinct Delegate & Activist Training:
Meet Angela Yarber’s Grand New Party friends (Home | GNPPAC), whose leader Shane Trejo has repeatedly called for violence against LGBTQIA+ community members, praised white supremacists as “civil rights heroes”, and spread vile hate speech and disinformation about the deadly January 6 insurrection, gun safety, climate change, and COVID-19. The Grand New Party has been denounced by Michigan Republicans (Progress Michigan Calls on Republican Leaders to Denounce Grand New Party PAC - Progress Michigan
Yarber defended her attendance at the GNP’s fundraising event in Howell in February 2024. The GNP is a statewide PAC working directly with Turning Point USA so dark money national group’s resources can be funneled directly into local elections with the goal of getting their ‘America First’ extremist candidates, like the Clean Slate 2.0, elected into local governments.
Angela Yarber and the Clean Slate 2.0 are NOT FOR ALL KIDS
They work hard to deny the existence of LGBTQ+ youth in our schools. Let's be clear. The Clean Slate 2.0 claims they “want to protect all children,” which really just means white, straight kids. The Clean Slate has bullied and browbeaten queer students so much that they won’t speak up anymore. These adults are working so hard to make it difficult for marginalized children to simply exist that they don’t say anything about it anymore. Listen as a queer Hartland alum shares their story of being gay in Hartland schools and having classmates follow them home while yelling death threats here.