A school board official in the Deer Valley neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona is facing outrage and calls for censure after she protested the direction of a meeting by giving a Nazi salute.
According to local news station 12 News, Kimberly Fisher “held up a Nazi salute and said ‘heil’ at the end” of the meeting on Tuesday night. She then doubled down when she “took to Facebook after … and expressed her displeasure with how the end of the meeting was handled, even calling the board president a ‘dictator.’”
Fisher’s office in the Deer Valley Unified School District is officially nonpartisan; however, she has previously run for other partisan local offices as a Republican.
Her Nazi gesture triggered an uproar in local politics, and local Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Simacek put out a statement on Thursday calling for her sanction.
“I am someone who believes, to my core, that our schools must be safe places for every single child, regardless of their background, their religion, or the color of their skin,” Simacek wrote, adding, “What happened in that room was not a joke. It was not a political statement or an expression of frustration. It was a deliberate invocation of one of the most evil ideologies in human history on display in a building where our children come to learn.”
“I am calling on every parent, educator, and elected official, Republican or Democrat, to stand up and say clearly: THIS HAS NO PLACE HERE,” Simacek continued. “Our Jewish students, families, and community members deserve better. Every student deserves better. We will not normalize this. Not on my watch. Not in our schools. Not in Arizona.”
Arizona has had to deal with a number of extremist elected officials in recent years, including Wendy Rogers, a state senator with overt ties to the white nationalist movement.
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