The forced masking of grade schoolers during the COVID-19 pandemic ignited a peaceful political uprising that swept eight incumbent, establishment GOP Ottawa County commissioners from office in the August 2022 primary election.
The electoral coup, which is still commanding statewide attention, was engineered by a handful of angry parents who banded together to form a grassroots group called Ottawa Impact (OI).
After careful vetting, Ottawa Impact put forth a slate of nine county commission candidates concerned about the disregard for parental rights and the promotion of a woke agenda in their solidly Republican and very Christian community.
The woke agenda, which locals said crept in gradually over the past 10 years, includes things like supporting the sexualization of children as young as 3, promoting the use of condoms, and assisting young girls to have abortions without parental consent….