The following editorial is written by a current staff writer for Law Enforcement Today.
Editor note: After this story went viral, the Instagram privacy settings were changed in what appears to be an attempt to cover up the evidence. We’ve taken the liberty of sharing some of the original images that were reportedly posted in the public domain by Pranzo and Media Impact below – these are screen shots of the publicly posted images, and being shared under Fair Use Doctrine for journalistic purposes.
PS – The internet is forever.
WAYNE, NJ- When it comes to interesting towns in America, one need look no further than Wayne, New Jersey. Law Enforcement Today received a tip about a local Democratic Party official whose husband runs a fetish video business out of the couple’s home. To make matters worse, the couple has a high school-aged daughter.
Let’s try to unwrap this holiday package. Maria Deluca-Pranzo is the president of the Wayne NJ Democratic Club. Her husband is Gary Pranzo, who owns a company called Media Impact out of Wayne. The official business is referred to as a “video production services” company. Yet a search of Pranzo’s Instagram page discovers the company focuses on producing so-called “fetish videos.”
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Looking at Deluca-Pranzo’s Facebook page, there isn’t much there publicly available. A temporary profile picture posted on August 22, 2021, shows the typical virtue-signaling frame, “Love thy neighbor, wear a mask, get vaxxed.” Sounds like she’s expressing her concern for others, right?
While we will not publish the couple’s address here out of privacy concerns, suffice it to say, the business appears to be located in the couple’s home, which is located in a residential neighborhood. More on the clearly disturbing Instagram account follows further below.
Michael Gottesman is a friend of the Pranzo’s and in fact is vice-chairman of the Wayne NJ Democratic Club. He claims to be a lawyer who we’re now told, for some reason works at Whole Foods, and from all indications likes to bully people with whom he disagrees, especially women. He fancies himself an advocate of education but of course only the education which he approves of…radicalized, left-leaning, public education.
In response to the radical proposals advocated by the New Jersey legislature and far-left Gov. Phil Murphy, a coalition of New Jersey parents formed a group called, The New Jersey Project. They provide information on new policy and laws being introduced on local and state levels as well as issues covering topics such as medical freedom, curriculum changes, parental rights and Board of Education elections.
This is a grassroots organization of concerned parents who are worried about the direction they see public education going in the Garden State. They are not unlike other parent groups that have formed in response to the obsession public schools have developed in pushing radical LGBTQ ideology, as well attempting to instill racial divide in our children.
The coalition came out in support of candidates whose platforms embraced a strong academic foundation in core subjects “without divisive political, religious and social agendas.” They also supported candidates who committed to “rejecting the introduction of age inappropriate sexual content in the classroom” and “protecting parental authority to choose health and wellness interventions for their children.”
Sounds pretty radical, right? Parents who want to decide what is appropriate for their children to learn in school. Parents who want to ensure their children aren’t being indoctrinated into perverted sexual ideology at an age prior to their being able to understand it. Parents who want to make medical decisions for their own children.
Well, for Gottesman, it appears such talk is that of a “right wing hate group.” In a letter written to the Wayne NJ Patch, Gottesman railed against three school board candidates endorsed by The New Jersey Project for not rejecting the public support given by this grass roots, parent-run group.
Gottesman in his letter is of course asking Wayne residents in the district to vote against candidates who realize that parents, not politicians should be deciding what is best for their children, or at the very least, have a significant amount of input.
This seemingly self-appointed, radical town crier also likes to dox people, including contacting an individual’s employer in what appears to be an attempt to get them fired from their job. To make matters worse, the subject of this harassment was home sick from chemo treatment. That didn’t stop Gottesman from calling her employer to slander her.
A message taken at her office from “Atty Michael [Gottesman]” reads as follows, a photocopy of which is found below:
“This retired attorney called Michael (sorry missed his name) I asked him to spell & he said he had another call & hung up. “He said are you familiar with [redacted]. I said she is an attorney here he asked if I was aware she is breaking law & I told him I was not aware. I am the switchboard director. He asked to speak w someone.”
That was apparently when he hung up.
This shameful behavior by Gottesman was in response to the woman in this case having the audacity to speak out at school board meetings. To what extent will radical leftists try to obstruct freedom of speech? Concerned parents, be prepared, because apparently it includes going after someone’s job with unfounded accusations.
More recently, Gottesman somehow got wind that concerned parents were going to petition the school board to hold off on renewing the contract of the Wayne district’s superintendent of schools. The contract is not set to end for another year and a half, yet the board is attempting to vote on it prior to the swearing in of the newly elected trustees. It’s not known exactly how Gottesman became aware of that fact.
Once again, Gottesman took to social media to run cover for the school board. He conflated the intentions of concerned parents in Wayne with a superintendent in New York whom he alleged (without proof) was fired because he was black, while further claiming “they” are trying to do the same to an openly gay superintendent in another jurisdiction. All of course designed to gin up the opposition against concerned parents.
This keyboard warrior alleged in his social media post that the “evil” “right wing” minority was attempting to “challenge the extension of Superintendent [sp] Toback’s contract.” Remember, this guy is (was) a lawyer.
It seems the Wayne Democratic Club is full of like-minded folks. For example, take Cathy Kazan, a current trustee of the Wayne Board of Education who previously faced ethics charges of which she was eventually cleared. Kazan serves as a nonvoting member of the Executive Committee and was the previous president of the Wayne Democratic Club.
During her time as president of the school board, Kazan filed a police report after parents became upset at a board meeting while voicing their outrage over what they deemed to be a pornographically illustrated book located in a high school library titled, “Gender Queer.”
In the story filed by WPIX-11, the reporter, in speaking about the book, said the station was unable to show images from the book on television because they “graphically depict sex acts.” But children have unsupervised, unfettered access to this material. And they wonder why parents might be a bit upset.
When a parent started reading from the book, Kazan interrupted, and refused to allow them to continue, which caused a bit of consternation among audience members.
When the parent objected to being shut down, Kazan began banging her gavel and demanding that the Wayne police remove the resident from the meeting. Naturally, the police did not comply, as the woman broke no laws by attempting to exercise her freedom of speech.
The reasons given by Kazan and another board member on why the book could not be read from were that there were children in the audience and that it infringed on copy write laws. Ironically, it was discovered that there were a total three students in the room, two of which attended the school where the book was made freely available.
The third student was there with a parent, who stood in support with the overwhelming majority of parents speaking out. Also, according to the Fair Use doctrine, portions of printed material is permissible to be read in public forums, so the reason given about copy write infringement was completely unfounded.
Kazan also claimed that one member of the audience allegedly threatened her. The “threat” involved a resident who went up to the podium and told Kazan that parents would be protesting on her lawn if she prematurely ended the meeting. What looked to be her intent on appearing like a victim, Kazan had the police escort her out of the meeting to her car, which was illegally parked. She then sped off to the police station to file a report.
Charges were apparently lodged, however were later dismissed since the only “threat” was to protest on her lawn. Kazan seemed to be channeling Attorney General Merrick Garland, who believes concerned parents are considered domestic terrorists. Bullying at its best.
Kazan appears to enjoy running school board meetings like a petty dictator. Back in 2021, at a meeting where critical race theory and diversity were being discussed, she twice threatened to clear parents out of the room because, well, debate isn’t allowed and parents aren’t permitted to have an opinion.
In September of this year, Kazan presided over a vote in which the board of education approved a controversial curriculum, which includes topics such as gender expression, pregnancy and puberty, despite vocal opposition from parents. The new curriculum is introduced to students in first, second, fifth and eighth grades, but in actuality ultimately affects all students.
Among the more controversial aspects of the curriculum is the fact second graders will be taught about human anatomy, including the correct terms for genitals.
For Kazan, she claimed the board was “cognizant of what the community wants” when they voted on the curriculum changes. Basically they were cognizant but ignored it, although Kazan claims the board “compromised.”
You can usually tell a lot about people – including trustees, by who they associate with. Kazan included. That brings us back to Gary Pranzo, an individual repeatedly seen in Kazan’s social circle. Pranzo’s Instagram account contains pictures of his young daughter. It also boasts numerous pictures which are borderline pornography. Some of the photos may be found below:
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The issue with this of course is that people who seek out so-called “fetish” sites could easily Google search his fetish page, where there are not only explicit pictures, but also pictures of his minor daughter.
Should sexual deviants seek out his social media content, they could easily find pictures of his young daughter on his fetish site Instagram page as well, possibly putting that child in danger.
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This all addresses the concern that many of these woke politicians and activists, who claim they do not engage in grooming or have ulterior motives in pushing woke sexual ideology, may or may not have more nefarious intentions.
The fact that Pranzo has the poor judgment to post pictures of his minor daughter on the same Instagram page as what can only be described as images of deviant sexual behavior is disturbing. Equally as disturbing is how young some of these models look.
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To that end, Pranzo is a huge supporter of Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and actively worked on her campaign in the past. He is also an apparent sufferer from Trump Derangement Syndrome while also being a supporter of far left causes.
So, to tie this all up in a pretty bow, Gary Pranzo runs a “fetish” video business…his wife Maria Deluca-Pranzo is currently the president of the Wayne Democratic Club, which opposes parental rights, including the ability to have a voice in their children’s education and they are cozy with Kazan and Gottesman.
Together, they have joined forces in pushing a far-left, radical agenda that includes providing overtly sexual, age inappropriate material in school curriculum and libraries to underage children.
We would also be remiss if we didn’t mention Eda Ferrante, president of the Wayne Education Association (teacher’s union). She is apparently very close to Sean Spiller, the New Jersey Education Association president who hosted a drag queen show at the state teacher’s convention last month. I guess they felt this was an appropriate way to spend a large amount of the teachers’ hard earned dues.
Remember…this is just one community in one state. Stories like this are taking place in cities and towns across the US and tragically your children are the innocent victims.
Stay tuned. This is probably not the last we will hear of Wayne, New Jersey.
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