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Jake Zuckerman| Ohio Capital Journal

A state Board of Education member organized a bus trip to Washington D.C. to participate in a Stop the Steal event, which descended into a chaotic, seditious mob raid on the U.S. Capitol as Congress voted to affirm the presidential election.

Kirsten Hill, who waselected to a four-year term in 2018, organized for a bus to travel from Elyria, Ohio (departing at 3 a.m. Jan. 6) to arrive in Washington D.C. to join the event, according to anonline event pagehosted by a group she runs.

The site, ran by theTEA Party of Lorain County, hosts links to the now-defunct site http://www.wildprotest.com in encouraging signups. It lists Hill specifically as the organizer.

#DoNotCertify #Jan6 #StopTheSteal #WildProtest, an event graphic states. President Trump wants you in DC January 6.

The event and riot are inextricably tied to the untrue assertion that President Donald Trump won the November election, not Biden. Supporters of this theory have baselessly alleged election fraud in several states Biden won despite a lack of evidence, increasingly unhinged theories of fraudsometimes linking state governors to Hugo Chavez, ordozens of courts rejecting the claims.

Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebstold CBS' "60 Minutes" the election was the most secure in American history.Trump then fired him.

On Jan. 6, a day likely to live in infamy in U.S. history, a crowd of hundreds, if not thousands,rushed the U.S. Capitol. Five people died, including Brian Sicknick, a Capitol police officer who was reportedlystruck in the head with a fire extinguisher, and Ashli Babbitt, a womanshot by police trying to breach a door within the Capitol. Dozens of police officers were injured in the raid.

The insurrectionists assaulted officers, destroyed historical property within a beacon of American democracy, and delayed a Congressional certification of electoral college votes by a few hours via brute force as lawmakers were evacuated.

Its unclear what role the Ohio bus patrons played in the riots, if any. Hill did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails Monday.

The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, whichfirst reported Hills participation in the rally, quoted her saying no members of the Ohio bus group entered the Capitol.

Were not damaging property, she told the outlet. Thats high on our list. We respect peoples property and the public property.

A link on the TEA Party of Lorain Countys homepage directs users to another website,www.OHpatriots.orgwhich states it is possibly organizing a trip to Washington D.C. for President-Elect Joe Bidens inauguration Jan. 20.

If by chance (or design) President Trump will be the one getting inaugurated on the 20th, our fleet of buses is ready to go, it states.

The sites Who We Are page states it is a declaration of independence from New World Order written Dec. 20. The site is rife with conspiratorial misinformation.

We recognize that our country is LITERALLY AT WAR and the enemy has penetrated behind our lines of defense, through the means of corruption an over an extended period of several decades, it states. This war is first ideological, as much as it is political, economic, technologic, biologic, and cybernetic. It is a silent war with the most devastating effects of take-over and control masked by the misinformation campaign unleashed by the globalist media empire.

Hill is also one of several plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Healthchallenging the absolute tyranny of state health orders like the mask mandateissued to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The lawsuit is predicated upon conspiracy theories related to COVID-19, including that the government is knowingly suppressing the relative harmlessness of COVID-19 compared to other diseases.

Several other bus trips transporting Ohioans to the nations capital on Jan. 6 were promoted by county Republican Party organizations.

The Republican Parties inAshtabula,PortageandTrumbullcounties shared a flyer for one overnight trip costing $219. The flyers name the trip organizer as Cathy Lukasko, identified in various 2020 news reports as the auxiliary chair of the Trumbull County Republican Party.

In a separate post, the Ashtabula County page noted Jan. 6 as the date of a Wild Protest in D.C.

The Republican Party inGeauga Countyshared sign-up information at the http://www.OHpatriots.org link, while the Republican Party inVan Wert Countyoffered details of a trip originating in northwest Ohio. On New Years Eve, theJefferson CountyRepublican Party asked supporters interested in taking a trip leaving from Steubenville to contact the party by email, so it can be determined if there are enough people.

We are posting this, but it is not being sponsored by the Jefferson County Republican Party. We will forward your information to the organizer,the post states,noting a cost of approximately $50-75 per person.

TheHocking CountyRepublican Party shared its own flyer advertising a gathering on Jan. 6 in the capital with the header TAKE AMERICA BACK.

BE THERE, the flyer reads. WILL BE WILD.

Tyler Buchanan contributed to this report.

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Ohio Board of Education member Kirsten Hill organized bus trip to DC for 'Stop the Steal' rally - The Columbus Dispatch