In Bizarre Lawsuit, Right-Wing Activist Sues Ankeny Schools For $87 Million Over Drag Show – Iowa Starting Line

Kimberly Reicks, a well known Iowa right-wing activist and Gov. Kim Reynolds’ former unofficial training coverage advisor, has filed a weird lawsuit towards the Ankeny College District within the “Kimberly Reicks Courtroom” and seeks $87,035,000 in damages, in accordance with the paperwork filed in Mahaska County. Ankeny is positioned in Polk County.

Reicks, a part of the “Iowa Mama Bear” duo who claims partial credit score for Reynolds signing a invoice that forestalls Iowa colleges from requiring masking, is representing herself. She is suing the varsity district, superintendent Eric Pruitt, the varsity board, and a number of other lecturers linked to a Might 2022 after-school drag present placed on by Ankeny Excessive College’s Homosexual Straight Alliance.

“I, a lady: Kimberly Reicks, say it comes a time, when these of mankind, from a society not I do trespass upon I, and so comes a time of I to easily be current as a lady in honor, to hunt treatment to open a case at this courtroom home to press a declare trespass between I, a lady, and people of mankind whom I imagine have performed a trespass to I,” the go well with states. 

Reicks needs Mahaska County Clerk of Courtroom Megan Menke to supply her with a courtroom and decide to preside over the trial.

“I require Megan Menke to place forth a person or lady very effectively verse at legislation, I’ll merely want the person or lady to behave as Justice of the Peace who’s competent in property and trespass legislation, who will preserve the peace; as I might be press this matter at trial by jury as I press a declare; if no man or lady needs to simply accept this obligation, I’ll merely require this trial by jury to maneuver and press earlier than these of mankind,” the go well with states.

In her go well with, Reicks breaks down why she must be paid $87,035,000 by the Ankeny College District over an invite-only after-school drag present that she nor her youngsters attended and that was not formally sanctioned: 

• $10 million for “immoral provocative slutty dance efficiency”
• $2 million for “in applicable use of college property”
• $5 million for “unauthorize efficiency”
• $5 million for “sexually oriented enterprise inside (1000) on thousand feed of the Ankeny Excessive College”
• $1 million for “vulgarity in direction of son(s) and daughter(s)” 
• $18 million for “inappropriate interplay with son(s) and daughter(s) (ethical turpitude, obscenity)”
• $10 million for “failure to maintain the Ankeny Excessive College security protocol(s)”
• $10 million for “failure to supply proof of background test”
• $10 million for “failure to carry forth treatment after investigation was full”
• $5 million for “failure to carry forth treatment for verifiable declare”
• $5 million for “grownup theatre”
• $ 5 million for “movie”
• $1,035,000 for “failure to carry forth allow.”

Moreover, Reicks issued her personal courtroom order associated to her go well with:

“It’s hereby ordered upon the decision of the jury within the favor of I, the girl: Kimberly Reicks, that I thus require compensation of $89,035,00 (eight seven million 2 hundred and seventy 5 thousand {dollars}) to be paid out inside (21) twenty one days of this verdict; any bonds might be paid out to the girl: Kimberly Reickes; immediately and to not be paid out to the courtroom of Iowa treasury,” the order states.

The order concludes with “ I, state right here and can confirm at open courtroom earlier than a Justice of the Peace all to be true,” with Reicks’ signature sealed with what seems to be a lipstick-coated fingerprint over it.

Ankeny officers concluded an inner investigation into the drag present final fall and three lecturers who have been a part of the present are suing the district for alleged discrimination based mostly on sexual orientation. 

Because the investigation was ongoing, Reicks demanded solutions from Ankeny officers and pulled a stunt at an October faculty board assembly by stripping right down to a leotard much like the one worn by the younger drag performer.

Reicks went viral and he or she shared texts from Rep. Steve Holt (R-Dennison) and Rep. Jeff Shipley (R-Fairfield) congratulating her for her actions throughout the faculty board assembly. Each males additionally occur to be championing a whole lot of the anti-LGBTQ laws within the Iowa Home.

Two weeks after her faculty board stunt, Reicks was arrested after she allegedly made false studies claiming sexual abuse within the residence of Emily Peterson, her former Iowa Mama Bears companion. That case remains to be ongoing. To his credit score, Shipley denounced Reicks after the fees got here to mild.

Reicks’ allegations towards Peterson have led to her being ostracized from the far-right paid talking circuit she was beforehand a star on. She advised the Every day Beast in January she hopes to regain her standing as soon as she clears her title.

In that very same Every day Beast article, Reicks brags about her then affect on Gov. Kim Reynolds. She recalled the after-midnight invoice signing for the anti-school masks mandate invoice and the way her husband, Jonathan Reicks, questioned her whereabouts after she got here residence so late.

“He’s like, ‘The place are you at?’” she advised the Every day Beast. “And I’m like, ‘I used to be simply within the governor’s workplace getting the legislation handed.’ He’s like, ‘BS what’s the man’s title?’ And I’m like, ‘No, significantly…’ I present him an image of me standing subsequent to Governor Reynolds and he simply seems to be at me and he simply rolled his eyes and went again to mattress. And we’ve been tremendous ever since.”

You possibly can learn each doc associated to Reicks’ lawsuit right here:

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by Ty Speeding
02/27/23

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