Dana Quillman: fighting the Great Reset

CANDIIDATE Dana Quillman, with Paul Pitino. Via Facebook

ARCATA – City Council candidate Dana Quillman is a longtime Arcata resident, having moved here in 1981, purchasing a home in 1987. Self-employed, she has worked as a massage therapist and astrologer, and remains self-employed. She last ran for City Council in 2006, but was not elected.

“I fell in love with it here,” she said, citing the low population density and the quality of life. “It was paradise for me up until things got real political in the last several years.”

She’s not that interested in small talk, or small issues. “I’m not really concerned about potholes right now,” she said. “I’m concerned about losing our freedom of speech and freedom over what goes into my body.”

For Quillman, all roads lead to the predominant issue of our time – the “Great Reset.” This, she says, is a sweeping rollback of basic human rights, engineered by governments and industry using deceptive tactics – the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and more. The aim is to frighten and bully the populace into obedient submission.

She’s aghast that it seems to be working. “This is insane!” is a frequently used expression.

Lately, Quillman has directed much of her abundant energy to alert fellow citizens of the snowballing loss of personal liberties, including control of one’s body and freedom of expression – which a muzzled and submissive press is facilitating. These global and national trends, she says, iterate locally and affect everyday quality of life in Arcata. This has made her council candidacy a matter of duty.

“I’m running because I don’t like the way Arcata is. A lot of people maybe like the way Arcata is. So they may go on danaquillman.com and look at all my opinions and go, ‘Oh my god, she’s nuts, forget her’,” Quillman said. “That’s fine. Because the main purpose for me to run is to inform the public about what’s going on because I can’t even do it through a letter to the editor.” (The Union previously declined to publish submissions from Quillman regarding COVID-19, vaccination and related issues.)

While Quillman used to say she lived behind the Redwood Curtain, she said she now calls it the “Red Iron Curtain” due to local suppression of free speech, imposition of mask mandates and other government overreach.

She’s disappointed in local activists who opposed community water fluoridation and genetic engineering but who haven’t pitched in to fight COVID-related threats to liberty. “A psychological operation that’s been going on that has all of a sudden body-snatched all the hippies, all of the people who lived in a commune.”

“Arcata has changed and it’s really, really sad,” she said.

Quillman opposes what she calls “the Gateway project.” “I don’t like the urbanization that they’re doing everywhere to get everyone out of the rural area into a central location where we’re all 5G’d to death,” she said. The 5G cellular technology is responsible for the decline in bird populations, she believes.

Cal Poly Humboldt’s expansion plans, she said, are too overhwelming for Arcata, she said. CSU vaccine requirements for attendance “need to change,” she said. “A learning institution that is allowing Big Pharma to take over the world like this. This is insanity!” she said.

The deterioration in public safety, she believes, stems from the “defund the police” movement. In Arcata, she said, the killing of David Josiah Lawson was leveraged to further diminish law enforcement. “They threw our first responders under the bus,” Quillman said. “They blamed it on the police.” The goal, she said, is to demoralize the police, saddle them with vaccine mandates and pave the way for establishment of a federal police force.

Quillman favors creation of a dog park on the Little Lake Industries site at the Marsh. She misses the McKinley statue, and opposes the erasure of history. “Compare to what’s going on right now, that guy was an angel,” she said. She would have preferred an interpretive plaque to offer historical context.

She guesses that if elected, she’ll find herself on the minority side of council votes, just as she said her significant other, former Councilmember Paul Pitino was during his service. She’s OK with that since, she said, her campaign for office is really an educational effort.

“I encourage people to become informed,” she said. “Come to my website and you’ll lean everything about me.”