Reporters with the Bucks County Courier Times this week found court documents revealing that Doylestown MAGA school board activist and failed Republican 2022 lieutenant governor primary candidate Clarice Schillinger was charged with assault, harassment, and furnishing minors with alcohol over her daughter’s 17th birthday party in September that devolved into a drunken melee.
The 36 year-old Schillinger, who like many other Karens of her ilk launched her political career during the COVID-19 pandemic, founding PACs called “Keeping Kids In School” and “Back To School PA” in 2020 and 2021, respectively, for the pretty self-explanatory purpose of backing Republican school board candidates who opposed remote learning, flipping 113 of 182 seats on Keystone State district boards during the 2021 mini-red wave. The next summer Schillinger told a local radio host she was taking her PAC nationally. “Back To School USA is really going to be focused on putting candidates in place that will put our children and their education first,” she told WPHT’s Dom Giordano. “Right now, we are not doing that. We are more focused on these woke and gender ideas.”
This was after Schillinger had launched her 2022 lieutenant gubernatorial campaign and came in 4th in the Republican primary. The winner, now-former state Representative Carrie DelRosso, then got crushed by Dem now-Lt Governor Austin Daniels by 15 percent in the general, so Schillinger was spared further embarrassment… until her daughter’s September 29th, 2023 birthday bash.
Court and police documents state that the liquor-fueled celebration featured entertainment such as Schillinger’s now-ex-boyfriend Shan Wilson grabbing a 16 year-old boy by the neck for intervening in a fight between him and Schillinger, and then hitting a 15 year-old in the face during an argument over football. Schillinger’s mom Danette Bert punched the older kid in the eye and chased him around the kitchen. When some of the kids tried to leave, Schillinger ordered them to stay and ended up punching a boy in the chest, according to cell phone video acquired by police. Wilson and Bert have since reached plea deals with prosecutors with the assault charges dropped down to disorderly conduct, but Schillinger herself still faces a hearing late next month.