Written by Barbara Smith,
Blogger and Social Justice
Activist
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Anna Siedzik, a resident of Hamilton sent the following email to town manager Joe Domelowicz on June 15, 2020. I don’t think that I had ever spoken to her at that point, although I heard her call the people of Hamilton- classists and racists at the All Town Meeting.
As written in the Salem News….Speaking at Town Meeting, Siedzik said the rhetoric around affordable housing had become tinged with classism, racism and “NIMBY-ism.”
Whenever Anna Siedzik does not get her way or someone like me vocalizes dissent, she bullies- calling us “racists”, “anti-human-rights”, “bigoted” , “classists” and “TERFS” . ( I got called a TERF because I did not attend a Pride Party).
I believe that Ms. Siedzik was not yet elected to the Hamilton Wenham School Committee but she already had access to government officials to push her agenda. This agenda involves
- promoting development for the Christian 7-church consortium owned Harborlight Homes – near the Hamilton Wenham high school .Later she became an employee and financially benefited from her politically lobbying which included
- getting Jamie Belsito elected to state representative because Ms. Belsito will be as pro-development as Anna demands…..
- At this point Anna was learning who she could control and who needed to be replaced on the Hamilton Select Board.
- Anna Siedzik influenced town manager to illegally remove Covid Test kits from town offices and gave them to religious organizations to distribute.
Anna Siedzik needed to prevent the Fin Com Committee from speaking out at Town Meeting back in 2020 (and certainly will try again at tomorrow’s town meeting), because the more the public learns about her agenda and the town’s finances the worse for her mission- serving god and pocket book.
Please carefully read, the linguistic calisthenics Anna Siedzik used in 2020 to try to prevent the Fin Com voice from being heard loud and clear.
Now, please read the response from town manager, Joe Domelowicz. He wanted to comply with Anna Siedzik’s demands because she has influence over his job and he knows that if he does not obey, he will be bullied, as I have been.
I don’t understand how Anna Siedzik managed to scare so many people into doing what she demands, nor why she sought out Joe’s job performance. Is that her business? Remember, she was just a School Board member who needed to make sure that her allies were safely ensconced in office. That’s why electing Tom Myers and Caroline Beulieu as Select Board allies was critical, in order to avoid Joe getting fired for ignoring Hamilton bylaws on several occasions including the distribution of Covid Test kits by religious organizations.
The Fin Com asserted themselves, attempting to do what is best for the people of Hamilton, not the Anna Siedzik Evangelical, mission. Why should the FIN COM be silenced???? Did they have financial reports not favorable to Ms. Siedzik’s long term agenda of
- winning the hearts and minds of School Board families by getting a blank check on spending for whatever they wanted?
- Getting herself elected to the School Board to push her social indoctrination agenda, not yet understood by many families.
- Using her position as an elected School official to not only access the Hamilton government email servers, but to send thousands of emails that politically lobbied for her personal gain rather than having anything to do with town business for the residents.
Joe responded, “I’m not quite sure why, but there is a real concern that people not be censored or muted. It has been that way before I got here…
Do the current Fin Com Board members understand that Anna Siedzik had the power to political lobby the town manager using town government email servers, in order to push her personal agenda serving god, creating the Hamilton and Wenham Human Rights Commissions and Hamilton Wenham Human Rights Coalition- all entities made up of the same Evangelicals that have associations with local churches, Gordon College and Gordon Conwell Seminary ????
Please consider what impact these email exchanges, bullying and political lobbying — have on free speech, Democracy and separation of Church and State.
Here are a few more relevant Blog posts written over the past 3 years of reporting. I am banned from the Hamilton Wenham Residents only and Community FaceBook pages…. so please share and if you are on one or both of the FB pages, please post….