Findlay Coward Threatens Concerned Mom

BY JEFF SKINNER 

FINDLAY - A local coward in Findlay mailed a nameless letter to a concerned citizen who spoke out against the closed-door data center meeting that council member Dan DeArment attended. 

Local Findlay resident Sarah Pugh, who previously ran a write-in campaign for Findlay’s fourth ward, spoke during the public comment section of the April 7 Findlay City Council meeting, voicing her concerns and frustrations over the members of the city council, namely Dan DeArment, attending closed-door, ‘invite-only’ meetings hosted by data center developers and then ‘allegedly’ attacking members of the public who videotape them entering. 

At the meeting, council was quick to ignore the part of Pugh’s statement regarding DeArment, and instead focused on the term she used to describe the meeting itself, that being the descriptor ‘secret’. It has been noted that the meetings are not secret by definition, as the general public is aware of their existence, but they are not open to the general public to attend, are invite only and details about the actual discussions in the meetings are sparse and minimally discussed. 

Pugh, a local small business owner and contributor to the community, recently posted on social media that she received a threatening letter from an unnamed individual who criticized her public statements on the data center and accused her of attempting to garner ‘sympathy’ support by bringing her child to the meeting, something most working parents understand is often completely outside their control. 

It has been noted that Pugh ran her write-in campaign against DeArment, whom she pointed out attacked the citizen filming him entering into the closed door data center development meeting.

While it is unknown who wrote the letter, as the author, possibly out of fear of public scrutiny, did not sign the letter or write a return address on the envelope, it can be inferred the author may have been strongly motivated to either defend DeArment or the potential development of a data center, if not both.