Ottawa County’s board was taken over by ultraconservative candidates promising to undo the injustice of COVID restrictions. Now they are targeting public health officials.
. Collectively, the PACs raised $150,000, an unprecedented amount for board of commissioner campaigns in the county.
They fired the county administrator John Shay and replaced him with John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official who worked in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Gibbs ran a failed congressional campaign in Michigan’s 3rd district, losing to Democratic nominee Hillary Scholten in 2022.They also dissolved the county’s DEI office, and changed the county motto from “Where You Belong” to “Where Freedom Rings.
“We will not be demonized for our faith in God and his word. Jesus is lord of Ottawa County!” King said.It quickly became clear that the commissioners sights were set on upending leadership of the health department. In the same meeting, they attempted to fire Hambley and replace her with Nathaniel Kelly, a safety manager at a local HVAC company., a “health freedom advocate” whose campaigns against mask mandates were covered by The Daily Beast in 2021.
Doug Zylstra, the only Democrat on the board of commissioners, says he knew immediately the board did not have the power to remove Hambley. Sarah Riley Howard, Hambley’s attorney, said the trial court had ruled that Hambley is the appointed officer. There will be another hearing in the court of appeals on Oct. 11.
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