New Jersey ‘MAGA mom’ school board member targeted in 'vile' text scandal: ‘They wanted me dead’

Danielle Bellomo, a mother-of-three and New Jersey blimpish school-board member, remembers the infinitesimal she archetypal saw the substance connection that would alteration her life: "She can’t dice soon enough."

"When I work those words, ‘She can’t dice soon enough,' it stopped maine successful my tracks," Bellomo told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview. "I ever knew determination was disagreement politically, but I ne'er truly wrapped my caput astir the information that they really wanted maine dead."

Bellomo, a Marlboro Township Board of Education member, parent of 3 and longtime assemblage volunteer, is present astatine the halfway of a lawsuit that has shaken her suburban New Jersey territory and sparked outrage crossed the parental-rights question nationwide.

A Monmouth County justice this week extended a impermanent protective bid against Mitesh Gandhi, the hubby of different schoolhouse committee member, aft speechmaking aloud a bid of substance messages allegedly written by him. The messages included a radical chat titled, "This B---- Needs to Die."

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Danielle Bellomo, a New Jersey mother, was the taxable of a viral substance connection scandal. (Danielle Bellomo via Facebook)

In 1 of the substance threads, Gandhi allegedly referred to Bellomo arsenic "a lying c---" and wrote, "Mission is to conscionable fto her dice by herself lol."

Another viral message, portion of what was dubbed "Nipplegate" successful October, appeared to amusement erstwhile committee campaigner Scott Semaya typing during a nationalist meeting, "Bellomo indispensable beryllium acold — her nips could chopped solid close n" with a digit astir to property the 'o' connected his phone's keyboard. 

Fox News Digital has reviewed screenshots of the alleged messages.

That representation dispersed rapidly online past month, drafting condemnation from parents and adjacent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who called the comments "wrong and evil." Two candidates progressive successful the chat aboriginal dropped retired of the schoolhouse committee race.

"It amazed maine that it reached that level," Bellomo said. "But it didn’t astonishment maine that conservatives basal down 1 another. The parental-rights question is strong."

Bellomo has spent much than a decennary volunteering successful Marlboro Township schools. She says she ran for the committee to enactment program transparency and parental rights, not to go a target.

"I got progressive successful the schoolhouse boards due to the fact that I’m an progressive unpaid successful our community. I’ve been progressive with the genitor enactment that I relationship for going connected 12 years," she said. "So I saw the schoolhouse committee arsenic the adjacent measurement successful furthering my engagement successful the assemblage and I wanted it to heighten my children’s acquisition acquisition portion they were successful the K-3 district. I ne'er imagined that it would person led to this."

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Danielle Bellomo, a New Jersey mom, was targeted successful a radical chat called "This B---- indispensable Die" for her blimpish governmental views. (Danielle Bellomo via Facebook)

The threats changed everything wrong her home.

"My lad is astir a teenager. He utilized to spell places with his friends — present helium asks if idiosyncratic is going to travel to our house," she said. "My 8-year-old cries if she thinks I person a committee meeting. My youngest keeps asking if I’m safe."

Her oldest lad saw the sum of grown men sharing lewd messages astir Bellomo's assemblage connected societal media.

"That was humiliating for him," she said. "He’s a middle-schooler. His friends saw it. It has affected each portion of our life."

According to Bellomo, online hostility successful municipality isn’t new, but she said she believes this has crossed into thing acold much serious.

"There’s ever been Facebook drama, radical arguing," she said. "When I realized that determination wasn't conscionable one, but 2 antithetic communications and possibly, you know, who knows however galore much wherever 1 connection is simply a radical chat that was titled, 'This B---- needs to die,' and past the different is really plans and that there's a ngo and the ngo is to ticker maine dice oregon to person maine dice alone..... It truly conscionable takes it to a full antithetic level. It's like, this is not conscionable mean disagreement."

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Gandhi did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. (Mitesh Gandhi via Facebook)

The justice overseeing the protective-order proceeding refused to disregard Gandhi’s petition to extremity the order, allowing Bellomo’s protective bid to proceed done January, erstwhile a afloat proceedings volition beryllium held. 

Under New Jersey law, a harassment-related protective bid tin beryllium extended if a justice finds an ongoing hazard to the petitioner.

But astatine the transgression level, Bellomo says the Marlboro Police Department referred the lawsuit to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, which declined charges.

"I was disheartened, but not surprised," she said. "We person a Democrat prosecutor. The constabulary recommended charges, but helium didn’t travel through."

Bellomo says the astir achy portion has been the response, oregon deficiency thereof, from her ain schoolhouse district. One of the substance threads, she claims, was sent during an in-person committee gathering portion she sat conscionable feet away.

"Our township has policies. If idiosyncratic is simply a threat, they’re not expected to beryllium allowed connected schoolhouse property," she said. "Our superintendent, Dr. Michael Ballone, did nothing. Our committee president, Brian Cohen, did nothing. They chose not to instrumentality the policies that are already successful place."

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Lenny Thor, left, Chad Hyett and Mitesh Gandhi are immoderate of those named to enactment successful the alleged radical chat. ( )

"The Marlboro Township Public Schools (MTPS) takes the information and information of each committee members, staff, students, and families highly seriously," Ballone wrote successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"They begged the superintendent to support us," Bellomo said. "They stood up publically and asked for action. Nobody other did."

Bellomo says she has already heard from dozens of women who accidental her concern has frightened them distant from nationalist service.

"They say, ‘I could ne'er spell done what you’re going through,’" she said. "That’s heartbreaking. Local authorities should not necessitate you to enactment your household astatine risk."

"I utilized to spell to each schoolhouse event, each assemblage activity," she said. "Now I support the kids location from things. I nonstop my hubby wrong archetypal to cheque if radical are determination who shouldn’t be. My beingness changed overnight."

Bellomo said she believes the threats stem from her outspoken advocacy of program and parental rights, issues that person divided schoolhouse boards crossed the country.

"I was precise transparent during my campaign," she said. "I basal firmly for parental rights, section power and age-appropriate curriculum. And I’ve pushed backmost hard connected immoderate of the policies coming down from the state." She added, "I deliberation that made maine a target."

Despite everything, Bellomo said she has nary plans to discontinue the board. 

"I perfectly privation to continue," she said. "This ngo is excessively important. And I anticipation the territory yet implements the policies that are expected to support us."

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What she wants most, she says, is to punctual Americans that disagreement should ne'er crook to calling for violence.

"We should beryllium capable to debate. We should beryllium capable to disagree," Bellomo said. "But it should ne'er emergence to the level of wanting to wounded someone. We tin bash amended than this."

Gandhi, Semaya, Cohen and the region prosecutor’s bureau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.