Furthermore, it appears that Vanessa Ruiz lied to TEA investigators about providing said letter to superintendent of Wayside Charter Schools.

On October 28, 2022, Ruiz said the following to TEA SIU Director Adam Benthall:

However, five days later, on November 2, Superintendent Abbott directly contradicted Ruiz’s claims in an interview with SIU Director Benthall.

This doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of what’s in those investigators’ notes and call records, and from what we’re seeing, it’s entirely plausible – if not a certainty – that Jeremy Story and Jennifer White, the leaders of Round Rock One Family, conspired with Vanessa Ruiz to use an easily-provable forgery to help the candidates they endorsed in their campaigns.

And, of course, they specifically chose Orlando Salinas to amplify their fraud – the candidate opposing Trustee Landrum (Feller).

More to come…

The meeting occurred on the night of January 12th, and leaders Jennifer White and Lisa Lusby ejected Story from the group, only to replace him with loyalist allies.

Losing 2022 RRISD board candidate Jill Farris and Christina Cooper took his place on the board. While Farris is known for having stolen $34,000 and taken deferred adjudication (without restitution) and failing to disclose that on her candidacy paperwork, Cooper’s role with Round Rock One Family is more nebulous. Documents obtained from an investigator show that latter submitted TPIA 2023-258 in an effort to find out if any board members had e-mails with the words “Satanic Temple” in them. However, as Jennifer White paid for that PIA request with a Round Rock One Family card that was tied to their PO box’s address, it was clear that Cooper submitted it at RROF’s request.

More to come as events develop.

Defend Texas Liberty is also known for being funded by the same group of Dominionists who fund the Texas Scorecard and Michael Quinn Sullivan – the two west Texas oil billionaires, Farris Wilks & Tim Dunn.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/23/defend-texas-liberty-nick-fuentes-jonathan-stickland/

Those donations were made not even a fortnight after Jeremy Story – half of the founders and leadership of the Round Rock One Family PAC – led a rally in front of the Hopewell School, which was the first school for African-Americans in Round Rock. This rally had Allen West, who committed war crimes in Iraq, speaking against five of the boardmembers and the Round Rock ISD Police Department. It was covered by the Texas Scorecard, who Weston had been communicating with in secret, and the Scorecard did a fairly in-depth (though very biased) job covering it.

However, their photographer conveniently refused to photograph the individual to Allen West’s left flying the Confederate flag. One also wonders if that’s Jeremy next to him. At no point during the event or afterwards was this individual asked to leave or his action, speech, and flag repudiated or condemned by Story, West, Weston, or Bone. In fact, given the time frame of the donation and how both the Scorecard and these individuals are linked, one wonders their tolerance and implicit acceptance of that individual’s presence is the core reason they received the donations from Defend Texas Liberty in the first place.

From July to September 2022, we see that Weston donates $9,200 from her war chest to the Round Rock One Family PAC – meaning her friend Jeremy Story received a substantial donation consisting almost entirely of white supremacist and Holocaust-denial money.

Mary Bone, too, donated $6,000 of white supremacist money to her associates in the Round Rock One Family PAC.

So, we have to ask:

• Why did Weston and Bone think that taking money from this PAC was okay?
• Why didn’t Weston and Bone publicly repudiate, condemn, or otherwise disassociate themselves from the individuals in the above picture?
• Why haven’t Weston and Bone returned the money they took from Defend Texas Liberty?
• What did Jeremy Story, Jennifer White, and Lisa Lusby (the Round Rock One Family PAC treasurer) do with this money, and why didn’t they return it when they knew it came from Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis?

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/round-rock-isd-trustees-called-to-return-donations-from-embattled-pac/

NOTE: In a previous revision of this post, we printed an incorrect name for the RROF treasurer. This individual is Lisa Lusby, a member of the Round Rock Parent Coalition. We sincerely apologize to the incorrectly-named individual for our earlier error, and we have both updated this post and taken steps to prevent possible future reoccurrences.

2022 was a bumper year for Republicans and conservatives trying to cash in on the culture war in Texas. Moms For Liberty, the True Texas Project, and others were all raking in donations from gullible, easy-to-fool rubes and rich, out-of-town evangelical billionaires like Wilks & Dunn.

Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, had been under siege from these rabid fanatics since 2021 for multiple reasons. Austin was growing (and its – by comparison to the rest of Texas – liberal policies and residents had started spilling over to the suburbs), Round Rock ISD had just appointed Dr. Hafedh Azaiez to the position of superintendent (which enraged conservatives, white supremacists, and other individuals who had tried to smear his name and failed), and two of the board’s trustees, Dr. Mary Bone and Danielle Weston, had been exposed as having hidden their radical conservative beliefs while running as moderates.

Weston in particular was one of the worst offenders, as she had been caught red-handed sending attorney-client privileged information to unprivileged individuals and leaking private e-mails to her political supporters. She even decided to try to cash in on her criminality by going on a tour of the right-wing media circuit, complete with time on Steve Bannon’s podcast “The War Room.”

After seeing how Weston raked in the money, Jeremy Story, Jennifer White, and Stephanie Hughes – three members of the Round Rock Parent Coalition (a conservative parents’ group whose members repeatedly doxxed and harassed its opponents) decided to start a PAC. White was also a member of Moms for Liberty, and Story had frivolously sued Round Rock ISD after getting ejected from a board meeting for disruptive conduct and arrested. Story had also stormed the administration building in August 2021 in an attempt to try to unseat Dr. Azaiez, harassing staff and breaching security, then publicly bragged about doing so.

Campaign finance reports for the first half of 2022 were due on July 15th, 2022. Round Rock One Family was incorporated as a PAC on July 23rd, 2022. That was presumably done in order to ensure that White and Story could accept donations throughout the rest of the year without having to report anything for months. Indeed, the first campaign finance report that the PAC filed was on October 11th, well after the semiannual due date.

So, to sum up, Round Rock One Family was:

• founded in a manner presumably intended to evade reporting requirements for as long as possible
• founded and run by two of the most strident and outspoken culture war activists in Round Rock, one of whom had the possibility of financial gain as impetus to his actions
• a means for out-of-town donors to funnel huge amounts of cash into a school board race and usurp control from local residents

More to come…

They even supported Round Rock ISD trustees Danielle Weston and Mary Bone, who take donations from organizations working with white supremacists.

Unfortunately for them, trying to delete everything was a very bad idea.

More to come.