Diane Wernick Benjamin – The Other Side Dallas

Wernick Files For 108: How Does The “Other” Wernick Shape Race?

Another question in his bid for the 108th is his mother, Diane Benjamin.

In 2021, she claimed on Nextdoor someone decapitated a squirrel and placed it on her property. Benjamin was then credited with hurting Candy Evans’ campaign for city council after hijacking a meeting on public safety.

Benajamin has been active in GOP politics for decades, but it isn’t clear what role, if any, she will play on the campaign.

In a Best of Nextdoor post, local Republican Precinct Chair, has started a squirrel murder manhunt after claiming a sick neighbor left a decapitated squirrel on her back porch.

Squirrel Murder Manhunt

While local police are hunting for the person responsible for a triple homicide in Garland, Ms. Benjamin is aking Dallas Police to investigate what many in the now deleted or removed thread to believe an animal on animal attack.

Dallas County Republican Party officials did not respond to an email requesting comment, but another Republican who sent Other Side Dallas the screenshots said, “the wannabe victimhood of someone who lives in a million dollar home is appalling.”

She continued, “Diane is living in fantasy land. She lives paranoid Joe Biden is going to order an illegal alien to force her to take a vaccination which she will be taxed more for receiving.”

Locally, QAnon has taken over more grassroots leadership positions in the Dallas area despite the clear correlation to losing general election votes because of their actions.

Their actions led to local realtor Jenna Ryan going to Washington for the January 6th insurrection and famously claiming she would not go to jail because she is white before ultimately being sentenced to jail.

It has also led to multiple protests at Dealey Montessori by local activists with no connection to the school other than anger at the mask mandate that exists district wide.

Ms. Benjamin signs her posts GOP Precinct Chair 2021. She is the mother of D11 city council candidate Barry Wernick who lost earlier this year to Jaynie Schultz.