Trans activists vandalize Rep. Proctor's business, again

LEAVENWORTH – The Baan Thai Restaurant in Leavenworth was targeted back in April of this year by a trans activist who spray painted the words, “TRANS UNFRIENDLY DO NOT SHOP” on the side of the restaurant. Baan Thai is owned by Rep. Pat Proctor (R-Leavenworth) who has been dealing with a controversy in the town after he and local school board member Vanessa Reid exposed “transgender indoctrination” at David Brewer Elementary School in Leavenworth.

The controversy began after Rep. Proctor took a tour of the elementary school where he was accompanied by Reid. In the library, Rep. Proctor had taken a photo of student artwork for an assignment called, “Our Library is for Everyone.” The artwork included images associated with the LGBTQ+ community. Parent Courtney Ricard initiated an effort to recall Reid from the school board after Rep. Proctor shared the picture, which featured her daughter’s artwork in his online newsletter.

Ricard had until Monday, July 24 to submit the 1,200 required signatures needed to force a recall election of Reid’s school board position. However, according to County Clerk Janet Klasinski, no signatures were turned in by the deadline.

We reached out to Reid for a statement, however, she never responded.

We also reached out via email to Rep. Proctor who had this to say about the failure to initiate a recall election:

“Conservatives in Leavenworth have been saying for years—despite Democrat denials—that the woke agenda has infiltrated our school district. And when conservative school board member Vanessa Reid and I provided hard, photographic evidence, a small cabal of leftists tried to cancel us both.

“Our community rejects the sexualization and indoctrination of our children. That is why they roundly rejected this effort to oust Vanessa. I just pray that the mainstream media will cover Leavenworth’s repudiation of radical gender ideology with half as much enthusiasm as they covered the effort to silence us.”

Rep. Proctor also said it was a huge victory for Kansas parents and kids. He also took to Twitter on the issue, challenging the Leavenworth Times Newspaper to give the failed effort the “same front page, above-the-fold treatment” that they gave the three people who started the recall effort.

The effort to recall Leavenworth School Board member Vanessa Reid failed today.

The group circulating the petition had until 5pm today to turn in the over 1,200 required signatures to trigger a recall election. They failed to turn in ANY signatures before the deadline.…

— Pat Proctor (@RealPatProctor) July 25, 2023

The paper did do a writeup of the story, which Rep. Proctor shared on his Instagram.

He captioned his Instagram post with the following statement:

“The effort to recall Leavenworth School Board member Vanessa Reid failed earlier this week. The group circulating the petition had until 5pm Monday to turn in about 1,200 required signatures to trigger a recall election. They failed to turn in ANY signatures before the deadline.

“This is clear evidence that, despite their howls of “transphobe” and attempts to intimidate, silence, and cancel their opponents, this tiny handful of leftists is out of step with the vast majority of people in our community who agree that radical, woke, gender ideology has no place in our schools, especially our elementary schools.”

Then, at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Baan Thai Restaurant took to their Facebook page to inform their followers that they had been vandalized again by “three militant trans activists” who defaced the sidewalk outside their restaurant with “hateful comments.”