Jason Farrell has rebuffed the Moline-Coal Valley school board’s demands he resign, so they upped the ante—censuring him on Monday night with an eye toward having him tossed off the panel.
Farrell did not attend Monday’s meeting or return calls from The Daily Beast, but he previously denied the allegations leveled against him by veteran Mathew Harris. In a 17-minute video posted to YouTube in March, titled “Moline Coal Valley School Board Member Pretends to be Military Veteran on Tinder,” Harris said he first learned about a “Matt Harris” Tinder profile from a woman who messaged his current fiancee.
Harris said Farrell sent the woman a selfie that revealed he was not the man in the photos before arriving at the date, which was partially recorded. “He’s married, and he's very very poorly trying to tell stories of my life, playing them off as if they were his,” Harris said in the YouTube video after showing the restaurant recording.