Former MAGA allies on an Ohio school board are stuck in a legal war that’s culminated in a judge ordering one not to come within 500 feet of the other.
Darbi Boddy, a member of the Lakota Board of Education, was told not to go anywhere near fellow member Isaac Adi after complaints of stalking and harassment that Adi said caused him so much anguish he was hospitalized.
The spat was reported by the Daily Beast.
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The judge’s civil stalking protection order was the latest chapter in a saga surrounding Boddy that includes accidentally posting pornography on her social media, trespassing at a school, comparing a suicide prevention program to a “Nazi handbook” and bullying a former school superintendent, the Beast reported.
“Over time, those issues will start to fracture what is fundamentally good about the district, because board policy affects district practice. And district practice affects academics and what’s happening in the schools,” a parent in the school district, Benjamin McCall, told The Daily Beast. “It’s a nice little box of chaos, that if not addressed, could be a big blow-up.”
“I think what this order is about is silencing Darbi Boddy,” her lawyer Robert Croskery told The Daily Beast. “School boards around America need to be occupied by conservatives as well as those who have been somewhat co-opted by the teacher’s unions.”
Adi complained that Boddy had started victimizing him after he disagreed with her.
“[Boddy] testified that she was concerned that Petitioner no longer espouses the ideas he took office with, ideas which were in conformity with her own beliefs,” according to paperwork that accompanied the protective order.
“Rather than try to work through their differences, or respect Petitioner's possible change of beliefs, Respondent took every opportunity to exert pressure, bully, and, at times, punish Petitioner by embarrassing him in front of others.”
He said it got so bad, he was hospitalized for three days.
The pair had run together for seats on the school board in 2021, running on an anti-mask mandate and supporting critical race theory in schools.
But a rift soon emerged between the two, starting when Adi called for a vote on a COVID resolution Boddy introduced which was then unanimously struck down.
Then, in 2022, Boddy accidentally posted a link to a porn site on her Facebook page, intending to link to a sex education site. Adi voted with other board members to censure her.
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Adi and Boddy’s disagreements continued, resulting in a series of “harassing confrontations,” Adi said in his filing.
“In one incident,” the Daily Beast reported, “Boddy got up on stage in front of conference attendees and made a speech criticizing Adi. In her testimony to the magistrate's court, Boddy admitted she had made the remarks, even reading them out to the court."
"This man right here is not a conservative,” Boddy said of Adi in her speech. “He voted to harm our children by voting to mask our students and push vaccines. He supported a pedophile superintendent, voted to get rid of public comment in a board meeting, and is currently allowing boys to use the girls’ bathroom, and will not protect our daughters’ competitive athletics and is allowing the indoctrination of our students through SEL and DEI.”
“It’s putting the district at harm,” a former student Landon Meador, told the Daily Beast. “Everyone is laughing at us.”
