Friday, January 16, 2026
There
are those among us who gossip wildly, recklessly, with no respect for
the facts. Those who are doing this are hereby put on Notice. People
who consistently do this are either not mentally stable, or are doing it
on purpose to obstruct progress.
As
we do not have time to deal with obstruction, grudge-matches or
sophomoric nonsense, any further activity of this kind will be met with a
permanent injunction against the Gossipers participation in Assembly
Meetings and Committee work, at any level, State or County.
Their
birthright will be honored and they will be enabled to vote in public
elections, but they will not have a place of trust or honor and will not
be enabled to continue in this manner.
Our
Forefathers gave us the ability to protect the integrity and
function of the assemblies by various means and we are prepared to
deploy them all.
Let
me unequivocally state that Lisa Schaffer of Ohio has been a very
effective and dedicated teacher and guide and is a reliable and trusted
member of the whole team effort. She has led a successful and highly
informative weekly podcast and hosted our last "Family Reunion" in Ohio,
and she sometimes steps in to help answer questions on the weekly
Coordinator Call when I know I will be a few minutes late. She does
this as a favor to me, so that participants aren't wasting their time
because of my schedule.
The
people of Ohio have successfully navigated the entire process of
standing up their State Assembly; they have generously shared what they
learned and experienced in the process for the potential benefit of all
the other State Assemblies encountering the same challenges --- not to
force the same answers on any other State, but to present answers that
worked for Ohio as a point of departure for discussion and
consideration.
Jealous
people, scheming people, people who are motivated by fear and
suspicion, have tried to detract from Ohio's success instead of learning
from it. They have attributed evil intentions to Ohio's efforts to
share information and they have attacked Lisa Schaffer and made grossly
false statements about her.
Nobody here at the Federation will stand for it.
Louise
Campbell-Anthony moved to Ohio in 2023 and Lisa Schaffer helped her
correct her status. At the time, Louise explained that she was in
transition and intending to return to Illinois once her school and
family issues resolved -- and that is precisely what happened. She left
Ohio voluntarily, according to her own plan, right on schedule, and
nobody "chased her out".
Denise
Miraz of The Nevada Assembly has made very, very irresponsible
statements about this and other matters that are not credible.
While
in Ohio, Louise Campbell-Anthony worked on an IT Committee to develop a
website for The Ohio Assembly. She was one of four members and
contributed her expertise as a website designer, however, neither she
nor anyone else on the committee had the programming skills to develop
the database aspects of the planned new website.
Ohio
pitched their pennies in the hat and raised $6000 and initially
consulted a programmer from India who gave them wildly varied cost
estimates, anywhere from $1500 to many thousands. What Ohio wanted was a
simple start up for the State Assembly. The programmer offered
everything from a Volkswagen to a Lamborghini they couldn't dream about
affording.
Louise
suggested that Ohio could afford a much more expensive design if they
charged each County Assembly $50,000 as they came on board. The other
members objected because --- first of all, nobody can commit someone
else to paying for something in advance, and secondly, having to pay
such a sum simply to gain a spin off website access to the State
Assembly website and data services could be a financial impediment for
fledgling counties.
Other
options were discussed. Alternatives to hiring the Indian programmer
arose along with objections from the General Assembly to the idea of
entrusting the website database design to a foreign programmer. This
was voted on, and the plan to use his services was dropped.
The
problem arose when Louise Campbell-Anthony later sent this same Indian
programmer the database information, even after the General Assembly had
voted to nix the effort. Some members felt that this was a serious
breach of trust, resulting in private information being given to a
foreign vendor even after the General Assembly had voted to end that
part of the initiative and take a different route forward.
Louise
was widely criticized over this in Ohio, but as she left Ohio shortly
afterward, it seemed to be a moot issue--- yet she felt wronged by the
backlash and continued to talk about it and even threatened legal action
against The Ohio Assembly.
The
Federation heard about the situation, considered it a matter of making a
mistake, but nothing so serious, as all the "leaked information" was
already public as a part of the State Credential Verify system. Ohio
settled down, Louise Campbell-Anthony moved on as she intended, and that
should have been the end of it -- in our opinion.
Misrepresentations
of this circumstance have surfaced in the form of wild allegations made
by Denise Miraz, from The Nevada Assembly, who has been known to make
similar "reinterpretations" about other circumstances and people,
attributing evil motivations to others, and "gossiping it up" -- adding
non-existent details, plot twists, and even involving people who weren't
present at all.
This is not free speech.
This
is indicative of a mental/perceptual problem or a deliberate effort to
misrepresent people and circumstances in a way calculated to create ill
will and suspicion and the spread of false allegations and rumors. For
example, in the present situation, Denise claimed to have spoken to Lisa
Schaffer multiple times, but actually spoke to Lisa exactly once about a
different topic.
Is
her memory faulty? Did she think she was speaking to Lisa when
speaking to someone else? We don't know. What we do know is that all
this "faulty information" coming out of The Nevada Assembly has caused
unnecessary disruption and ill-will and suspicion, none of which is
welcome here.
It
also resulted in a discussion of this disinformation in an
international level Marshal-at-Arms meeting, a meeting at which neither
the Ohio Speaker, Lisa Schaffer, nor the Ohio Marshal-at-Arms were
present.
What
should have happened, is that any discussion should have been tabled
until such time as the Ohio contingent was available to speak on their
own behalf, and every Marshal-at-Arms present should have objected to
the consideration of Secondhand testimony from a member of The Nevada
Assembly who wasn't even remotely involved in anything that happened or
failed to happen in Ohio.
We,
at the Federation, who loan the Marshals at Arms positions to the
Assemblies to perform basic security operations for the Assemblies, are
appalled.
It
is not the job of any Marshals at Arms personnel to entertain
Secondhand gossip and it is not the job of the PKTF to promote any
situation like this as "training" for our Marshals at Arms.
The
only possible training this situation offers is the opportunity to
recognize personal grudges, fear-mongering, and reckless gossip being
allowed to interfere with the proper functioning of our Assemblies and
the accomplishment of their own duties.
Now,
we will put it to The Nevada Assembly and the responsible County
Assembly just as we put it to The North Carolina Assembly when similar
problems appeared.
It's
your responsibility to uphold standards of behavior for your members
and to discipline them so as to ensure that their activities are not
causing baseless disruption and unpleasantness.
If
you have someone playing the part of the Unaccountable Source, and
their gossip is causing divisiveness and ill-will in your assembly or
worse, interfering across state lines in anyone else's assembly, they
must be forthrightly addressed. The objectionable nature of their
activity must be explained to them and they must be given the chance to
correct.
If
they do not correct and continue to bring forward baseless assertions
and/or secondhand gossip, they must be disciplined with a time out of at
least three months' duration. The Marshal at Arms, the Coordinator or
Speaker, and the Militia Commander are responsible for preserving the
informational security and standards of evidence for the Assembly at
Large according to American Common Law, our customs, and traditions.
Granna
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