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Thanks to several local conservative activists, a proposal to honor deceased convicted domestic abuser Anthony Huber, one of the three men who’d allegedly tried to kill then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 Kenosha riots, has been temporarily tabled.
According to local activist Kevin Mathewson, earlier this month Huber’s girlfriend, Hannah Gittings, submitted a request to the Kenosha Parks Commission asking that a memorial be installed at Kenosha’s Anderson Park in her deceased boyfriend’s honor.
This outraged Mathewson because, as he explained for the Kenosha County Eye, a local publication he runs, Huber wasn’t a victim but rather a violent perpetrator who’d “struck Kyle in his head with a skateboard” before being gunned down.
And he was a violent perpetrator with a horrific record that reportedly included him threatening to kill his brother with “a 6-inch-long butcher knife” and Karate-kicking his sister. He later reportedly told the police that it wasn’t “wrong” for him to attack his own sister.
Despite Huber’s history, the Kenosha Parks Commission agreed to consider Gittings’ request during an April 25th hearing. This further outraged Mathewson, so he recruited his fellow activists and allies in town to attend the meeting.
And that, indeed, is exactly what they did:
But the meeting went off the rails when Mathewson and his allies discovered that the commissioners wanted to table the proposal, a move that would keep the proposal alive so that it “can be revisited at any time,” such at a time when nobody’s paying attention.
Mathewson responded by accusing the commissioners of having “met behind closed doors or spoke on the phone” prior to the meeting to decide their vote. This, according to Mathewson, was a violation of Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law.
“In an exchange that begins roughly 21 minutes into video of the meeting, Mathewson accused the aldermen of violating Wisconsin’s open meetings laws against a ‘walking quorum’ by discussing their decision to table the proposal before the meeting,” according to Fox News.
“Alderman Eric Haugaard, who chairs the commission and said he was in favor of tabling the proposal because of an ongoing lawsuit between Kenosha and Huber’s family, repeatedly slammed his gavel in response to Mathewson and said he was misconstruing what happened,” Fox News reported.
Writing for the Kenosha County Eye, Mathewson claimed Haugaard “slammed the gavel with great force multiple times” and “then tried to clear the room and hold a secret meeting, known as a ‘closed session.'”
He added that the entire room spoke out against tabling the proposal.
“A room full of tax-payers spoke against the measure including emails read into the record. Not a single person was in favor of the proposal. The speakers made it clear – they wanted the proposal voted down, not delayed,” he wrote.
But ultimately, their efforts failed and the commission voted 4-1 to table the proposal, with only one commissioner, Rocco Lamacchia, calling for denying the proposal outright.
According to Mathewson, the vote was inevitable.
“They have all spoken publicly against Kyle Rittenhouse. They think that he shouldn’t have been out there, and it was terrible that he shot these poor innocent people who are just protesting police brutality,” he told Fox News, referring to the commissioners.
He added that the commission is chockablock with “toe-the-line, card-carrying Democrats who want to appeal to their districts,” all of which are presumably far-left.
“I think those five members want the tree and the plaque to go up, but they don’t want the ramifications from the voters,” he said.
He further raised concerns that the commission will just quietly attach the proposal to a future agenda item and pass it under the public’s noses.
“That’s happened before many times with a variety of things in the city of Kenosha and probably every city around the country. It’s just a trick. It’s politicking,” he said.
Regarding Huber, he added, “It’s unprecedented what happened to our city a couple of summers ago. And to memorialize a man who lived a life of violence and crime, and who was one of the ones contributing to the rioting and looting is just unfathomable. It was offensive to the city of Kenosha taxpayers even to consider it, in my opinion.”
Gittings views things differently. In a tweet posted Tuesday, she claimed she wasn’t seeking a “public monument,” per se, but rather just a simple “memorial tree.”
Look:
why are these folks acting like this is a request for a public monument? this is memorial tree for Anthonys life, there are hundreds like it all over the city for various others’ loved ones. none of their requests have ever been called into this level of scrutiny. makes ya wonder https://t.co/dVCS4rjOKf
— hannah gittings (@hannahgitts) April 26, 2022
But how often is it that such requests are made on behalf of convicted criminals who took part in violent riots and tried to kill a 17-year-old kid? Food for thought …
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