Rumor has it that School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen “put his Hot Dog in the WRONG BUN!!!” Lawsuit could end up costing Taxpayers $Million$ “Fixed” TEA-Party School Board Candidates Forum triggers a trip to the Courthouse!! Rumor report, eye witness observations and Public Documents provided by Robert A.
Folks, there is no doubt that I have written many articles that are critical of School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen. And, I believe every word of criticism of Mr. Queen that I have written is based on a certain code of conduct. My Code of Conduct.
MY Code of Conduct calls for me to write about government issues that are based on laws and evidence. And If an elected official refuses to discuss public business with me, or lies to me, or lies to the public, I am free to form my own conclusions and my own opinions,
As such, I have NOT written much about anyone’s personal sexual behavior or rumors about anyone’s sexual behavior unless they involve illegal acts against school children or interfere directly with public business. Like a supervisor sexually forcing themselves upon a subordinate.
Therefore, I have NOT written a word about the “rumors” swirling around School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen on Facebook and other places until now. Rumors that I have heard, names included, that I have just sat on because they were not relevant to anything. Rumors that I have recently seen on Facebook that give the details but not the names-but fit exactly with what I have previously heard, with the names. Now the rumors are relevant. And I am about to tell you why NOW is the appropriate time to turn over the information I have to the appropriate authorities. The appropriate authorities are law enforcement, the District Attorney, the North Carolina Attorney General, and YOU, the people!!!
First, some background. In general detail here. Specific details are included in public documents that I will attach at the end of this article. (A NC Superior Court Lawsuit.)
A severely autistic (can’t speak) teenage boy was in attendance at North Shelby School. The boy was allegedly pushed down and backward in the playground by a teacher. The boy’s head struck an exposed iron drainpipe, splitting his head wide open. I have a picture that I will also attach.
Instead of taking the badly bleeding boy immediately to the emergency room, CCS personnel physically restrained the boy on the ground until the boy’s mother arrived, even though the mother had instructed CCS personnel she was more than 30 minutes away and to take the boy immediately to the Emergency Room.
When the mother arrived, she again instructed CCS personnel to take the boy to the emergency room. And EMS was called.
Then, a series of events took place where many improper things happened.
The mother was not told the truth about what happened to the boy becoming injured., CCS personnel lied to the mother about lots of details, the boy’s IEP had been violated, The officer the Shelby Police Department sent out to investigate about 11 days after the incident was the husband of Jennifer Wampler, the CCS HR Director. The mother met with various CCS officials, including Superintendent Stephen Fisher. Never getting correct answers or anything resolved.
The mother began coming to many School Board meetings and speaking under Citizens Participation (which limits the speech to only 3 minutes) telling the School Board the details of her son’s treatment by CCS Personnel. And NOTHING was ever done. No disciplinary action was ever taken. I was personally convinced that the mother had a Multi-Million Dollar lawsuit against Cleveland County Schools. If she could only find a lawyer that wouldn’t sell her out.
Eventually, the mother spoke to the school board many, many, many times and I was sitting right there listening.
Others in the audience were there listening too. One is Mr. TEA-Party, Guy Smith. And I personally observed and heard Mr. Smith “hitting on” the mother several times. Now, I hear rumors that the Mother and Guy Smith have been seen together in such venues as the Don Gibson Theater as late as just a few weeks ago. Good for them were my thoughts at the time.
Rumors also have it that the mother and School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen were involved in sexual liaisons over a period of time.
I heard these rumors about the mother and Robert Queen in relatively specific details. However, I did NOT write a word about it at the time because it was not the kind of writing that I do. People’s personal life that has nothing to do with public affairs (pardon the pun).
All that changed for me at the February 14, 2022, School Board meeting.
I had not noticed the mother at school board meetings for some time now and had not noticed her at the February 14th meeting either. Until during the meeting Closed Session. I thought I was all alone (as I usually am) in the General Offices Auditorium during closed sessions. Most of the time, well almost all the time, everybody leaves for good when the School Board goes into closed session, almost always held at the very end of School Board meetings. Right before the meeting is adjourned. The School Board comes back into open session, and takes whatever vote, if any, that is necessary. Then the meeting is adjourned.
But I never leave when the school board goes into closed session, I have watched governmental agencies enough, and read the laws governing closed sessions enough to know that closed sessions are often misused. They are often used to discussing things that are not allowed to be discussed in closed sessions, but they do it anyway. Secrets, cover-ups, and such. But no actions can be taken in closed sessions. The Boards have to come back into open sessions to take a vote on anything they plan to do. Or to approve anything they plan to do.
So, I stay and pick up on lots of things the Boards would rather I not know about. And write about it. I tell on them for their illegal ways. One of the most recent being the vote on Superintendent Stephen Fisher’s evaluation and pay increase. That vote was in closed session and therefore illegal. But you can bet the Cleveland County District Attorney will NOT prosecute.
But, on February 14, 2022, the School Board meeting’s closed session, before the School Board came back into the auditorium, I am sitting there thinking I am alone. I am writing up an article or a To-Do list for the next day. Or something. Then I happen to turn to the left, I had a reason to turn to the left that is totally different from what this article is about. Something that is important for totally different reasons that I will discuss at another time.
When I turn to the far left, what do I see? No, WHO do I see? It is the mother of the autistic child that I am now writing about. The mother is the subject of rumors about herself and Robert Queen and also her association with Guy Smith. She is sitting there all alone too. I do NOT know if she even saw me turning my head to the left and seeing her. There were no exchanges of glances, nods, or anything else. But my mind quickly turns away from my good purpose for turning left in the first place.
Since it was already nighttime and Guy Smith was NOT present, I can only assume her purpose in being there was in some fashion related to Robert Queen. But folks, remember this. It is February 14th, 2022. Valentine’s Day. Remember that Feb. 14, 2022 date for later in this article.
Now, Fast Forward to the March 14, 2022, School Board meeting. And, there is another Closed Session. I will say at this point that I have been making critical comments for over a year to the School Board Attorney Leigha Sink about how the CCS School Board does NOT properly follow North Carolina General Statutes regarding the requirements to enter into closed sessions. Especially the laws that require adding the names of the parties as well as the case number of any lawsuit that is to be discussed behind closed doors with the school board lawyers. After all these repeated complaints to the School Board lawyers, there has been some improvement. And I always pay very close attention to the motions the School Board has to make to go into closed session. There are lots of good reasons for these State laws, but that will not be discussed here.
Folks, up to this point, I have been pretty general in this article as the real important details would come later. Well, “later” is right NOW!!! This is where the rubber meets the road. Please pay close attention. $MILLION$ of dollars are at stake. And perhaps PRISON TIME for School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen.
So, here we are at the March 14, 2022, School Board meeting. When it is the time on the agenda to go into a closed session, I am sitting in the front row and pay 100% attention. If you check the CCS School Board meeting, you will see me sitting there right in the front row. School Board Vice Chairman Joel Shores makes the motion to go into a closed session. Shores Motion says the School Board, according to… we will be going into closed session to discuss personnel matters and also to discuss the (Wendy) McKinney lawsuit against the School Board. (Another multi-$million$ lawsuit against CCS.) Shores does NOT give the Wendy McKinney lawsuit Case number, even though it is required. And, the School Board leaves the Auditorium for a conference room that is said to be soundproof.
This Closed Session lasts for almost 2 ½ hours. And almost includes a fistfight between Danny Blanton as he is threatened by Chairman Luke Queen. Scroll on back to my March 17, 2022 article titled: Luke Queen threatens Blanton with fist at School Board Meeting!!! 2 ½ hour Closed Session puts pressure on Luke!!! Hot-Headed, Smart-assed Jackass can’t take the heat that he caused!!
Little did I know right then just exactly what had Robert “Luke” Queen so inflamed and upset. And It was NOT Danny Blanton. Hint, something was left off in the Motion to enter into the closed session. Something that was intentionally left off about something that had just come out in that Closed Session. And I NOW have it all. But it took me another month or so to put it all together.
Now, let’s fast forward to the April 11th 2022 School Board meeting. When the minutes of the March 14, 2022 Meeting are set to be approved. Now, I hit the Jackpot!!!
Remember that March 14th, 2022 School Board meeting that I just previously noted. That the Closed Session would also discuss the Wendy McKinney Lawsuit? Another multi-$Million$ lawsuit against the CCS School Board? Here it is April 11, 2022 and I am looking at the March 14, 2022 School Board meeting minutes set for approval (and was approved) that says this about that March 14, 2022 Closed Session: That a “XYZ” vs The School Board case was “updated” by the School Board Attorney.
Folks, I say “XYZ” because I am NOT going to give out that persons name, except to say that “XYZ” is Robert Queen’s rumored paramour and Guy Smith’s too.
What I did next, is make a Public Records Request for the XYZ lawsuit case number. I did that because, first, it was required by law to have been given out during the motion to go into closed session. Secondly, that Case number would tell me if the Case was a Federal Case or a State Case. Federal Cases would be filed in Asheville, a State Case would have been filed in Shelby.
When I received that case number from the School Board’s Attorney, I immediately realized it was a State case and I headed on down to the Shelby Courthouse and paid $5.50 for a copy of the original and stamped lawsuit complaint. Which I will include in this very article. You can get the name of the autistic boy’s mother right there.
But, before we get to the lawsuit, there are a few other weird things that are in play here.
First and maybe the most important regarding School Board Chairman Robert Queen is the fact that the XYZ lawsuit was actually filed at the Courthouse on February 15, 2022. Exactly ONE day after Queen’s rumored paramour appeared in the CCS Central Services Auditorium. Remember my previous discussion about seeing her and to be sure to remember that Date-Feb. 14, 2022. Valentine’s Day.
Then on March 14, 2022, Robert Queen did NOT recuse himself from the Closed Session where the XYZ case was discussed. Clearly a MAJOR conflict of interest. And perhaps a serious felony crime as well. Certainly unethical.
Now, it is obvious that the March 14, 2022 School Board minutes have been falsified. I was sitting right there when the motion was made to go into Closed Session and there was NO mention of the XYZ Case. Then, 2 ½ hours later the School Board came back into open session in great distress because of Robert Queen’s displays of violence directed at fellow school board member Danny Blanton, Robert Queen did NOT mention anything about the XYZ cases. Although the now approved minutes of that March 14, 2022 Closed session stated that Queen referred to the XYZ case.
Now, consider this, CCS Superintendent Stephen Fisher is the Official Secretary to the CCS School Board. And, as such, Fisher is responsible for keeping and archiving the official school board minutes. Including those minutes for the March 14, 2922 meeting Closed Session minutes. So, Supt Fisher was responsible for inserting the XYZ case notations into the March 14, 2022 School Board Meeting Closed Session minutes. The Minutes where Fisher himself was up for a performance evaluation and salary adjustment. And a controversial entry about Robert Queen issuing a letter critical of Danny Blanton. A letter that was NOT provided by Danny Blanton to the Board that Robert Queen provided a copy to the School Board Attorneys. This Queen provided letter ended up being a part of a political DIRTY TRICK as it was sent to Guy Smith, Kevin Whisnant AND the SHELBY STAR as a public record. And to me also sometime later when I heard about it and made a Public Records Request. And then published it so everybody could see for themselves what a FOOL Robert Queen, Guy Smith and the other Rogue Republicans are/
So, back to the topic, there are various issues here:
1.An alleged illicit and adulterous personal relationship between School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen and XYZ that has just morphed into an item of high public interest and concern.
2.An apparent and big-time conflict of interest with Robert Queen’s role as the CCS School Board Chairman being involved with any sort of decision-making process in a lawsuit against CCS involving XYZ.
3.Robert Queen did NOT recuse himself from an obvious conflict of interest situation.
4.The minutes of the March 14, 2022 School Board Meeting Closed session have been intentionally fabricated and falsified by CCS Superintendent Stephen Fisher.
5.The XYZ Lawsuit may cost CCS and taxpayers $Million$. And rightly so in my opinion. XYZ and her badly injured son were terribly mistreated by CCS Staff; CCS Superintendent Stephen Fisher and the entire CCS School Board-Before Luke Queen was actually on the School Board.
6.And, who knows what else is in play here. Robert Queen, Guy Smith, Kevin Whisnant and others unethical role in the WeRCC (Women Republicans of Cleveland County) Candidates Forum. The TEA-Party Candidates Forum. Facebook and general around-the-town conversations have greatly diminished the reputations of CCS, WeRCC, The TEA-Party, Cleveland Community College, The Commissioners and Cleveland County in general.
Also, Guy Smith, Hayden Soloway, Kevin Whisnant, Robert Queen and other TEA-Party Rogue Republican Political Dirty Tricksters, insert a question into the TEA-Party School Board Forum that asked candidates if they had something in their past that would embarrass them or their supporters. Soloway followed up on Facebook saying TEA-Party Leaders were going to do “background checks” on all the School Board Candidates. Facebook followers then vow to do background checks on all the TEA-Party so-called leaders. And do. Please Note that is where I found the rumor that confirmed what I had previously heard about Robert Queen and XYZ. Hastening me on down to the Courthouse to get a copy of that lawsuit that I am attaching at the end of this article.
Please note that this article is also sent to the Cleveland County Sheriff, The Shelby Police Chief, the Commissioners, the CCC BoT’s, The District Attorney, The NC Attorney General and others as an OFFICIAL COMPLAINT and a REQUEST for a formal criminal Grand Jury investigation. I am also considering turning the article into a formal affidavit and having it entered into the XYZ Case File.
The XYZ lawsuit is provided below. Please note that the text is a mixture of “legal-ese” and a thriller story. As tragic as it is “telling” on Cleveland County Schools as well as those citizens of Cleveland County who continue to allow CCS to operate as corruptly as they do.
When you get to the XYZ Lawsuit, please note that I have the last page first, then the rest of the lawsuit. This scanning error was by accident, but notice the date on the last page and the dates on the first page, when the Lawsuit was actually filed in Court. The last page shows the lawyers signed the lawsuit on February 10, 2022 and the lawsuit was actually filed in Court on February 15, 2022. Was XYZ perhaps giving Luke Queen a chance to settle that lawsuit at the February 14, 2022 School Board meeting?? Perhaps we will never know the answer to that question. But, as of right now the XYZ v. The Cleveland County School Bord is filed and moving along. State law requires CCS to file an answer to the lawsuit within 30 days with another 30 days if they ask for an extension. That time is about up for CCS to respond. Be sure to stay tuned for updates as they come.
But first, I have included a picture of the autistic boy’s injury and the iron drainpipe he hit his head on after being pushed backwards. Remember these pictures when you read the lawsuit.
Now, a picture of the exposed iron drainpipe the autistic boy hit his head on after he was pushed backwards by an undisciplined teacher. Notice that the drainage pipe is raised ABOVE the level of the drainage area. Therefore, no drainage and an accident waiting to happen. Also note the rubber cover for the drain pipe. Perhaps this was added after the autistic boy was injured. A sign of improper installation of the drain pipe and CCS trying to cover-up their guilt. Apparently, CCS never learns from its mistakes. Wait ‘til the jury sees this. $$$$$$
