Rebecca Grace
AFA Journal staff writer
August 2009 – “I’m just a mom,” Kimberly Jo Simac keeps thinking as she tries to make sense of her situation. “I can’t tell you how many people are looking to me for leadership.”
A horse trainer by trade, 50-year-old Simac has become the poster child for traditional values in her local town of Eagle River, Wisconsin. Her activism efforts are spurring a patriotic movement in the Northwoods community where she and her husband, who now live in a renovated barn, raised nine children that she now describes as “contributing young adults.”
What led to her present position actually started two years ago when her heart became heavy with concern for the U.S. troops being sent overseas. So Simac wrote a children’s book titled American Soldier Proud and Free to honor the country’s servicemen and women and to explain the cost of freedom to children.
“I self-published the book because I couldn’t find a publisher,” Simac said.
Certain distributors and teachers told Simac that her book was inappropriate because it contained words such as “God” and “pray.”
“That angered me,” she admitted. “You wouldn’t believe how you’re up against people who think that their kids don’t need to read these things. But everywhere I go, everybody wants the book and loves it.”
That’s why Simac is not giving up in her quest to find a publisher.
Activism efforts
But that’s only a small part of her efforts to protect the Judeo-Christian principles on which this country was founded.
Simac also speaks publicly about the importance of God being at the center of America and receives standing ovations for her message.
“I feel that it is my responsibility at least to go out there and fight. … We’re a spoiled generation, and that’s what’s driving me right now,” she said.
In January 2009, Simac became very concerned and frightened by the blatant attacks on Christians in this country.
So in March, she distributed flyers in her community, took out classified ads and ran around town in an Uncle Sam outfit passing out the flyers that said: “Are God and country important to you? If your answer is yes, plan on joining us for three movies that will reinforce your beliefs in Christianity and this wonderful country we call America.”
This was her way of informing local citizens about a three-night movie event that ran for three consecutive Tuesdays in April. She showed Rediscovering God in America, Speechless … Silencing the Christians, and ACLU: At War with America – one film each Tuesday night.
By the end of the showings, a grassroots activist group of over 100 people was formed. They named themselves the Northwoods Patriots, and they are dedicating their time and resources to protecting Judeo-Christian principles and putting God back into the public square.
Specific projects
One of the group’s first projects was to organize a National Day of Prayer service in Eagle River. There was a huge response to the service, especially considering the small size of the community.
Following the National Day of Prayer, the Northwoods Patriots began planning a TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party for July 4 at the Eagle River Snow Mobile Derby Track. Their TEA Party was one of the AFA-affiliated parties held in over 1,300 cities. It was a family-based celebration of America that included patriotic entertainment.
“This fall we are going to become more involved in our school district and work to develop a program that would allow creationism to be offered at our high school as an elective,” Simac said.
In addition to the Northwoods Patriots, Simac also formed a conservative Christian Republican Women’s Club in northern Wisconsin.
“I needed 10 people to start it, and I had nearly 40 women [signed up to] come to the [first] lunch,” she added. “I [also] contacted the Republican Party directly to let them know that they need to re-face themselves to represent the moral majority of this country.”
The Republican Women of the North are presently getting educated and organized to combat voter fraud.
“I have some liberal friends – very good friends – that are probably wondering exactly what I’m doing,” she admitted. “I don’t know how they can argue with me when I just say that I’m doing this because I love my country, and I respect what God has given us.”
Which is why Simac, with the enterprising spirit that she has had since childhood, encourages others to step up and take back their own towns, states and ultimately this country.
“I started a little mini grassroots revolution in our little town that’s just totally dedicated to God,” she said. “You can do exactly what I did.”
To book Kimberly Jo Simac for a speaking engagement: bk951@verizon.net or 715-479-8784. 
