
Members of City Council don’t work their political jobs full time because City Council is not considered a full time job, a fact specifically referenced by Stacie Anderson in this article about attendance rates for Council members:
According to minutes kept for each meeting and recorded by city staff, Anderson has missed roughly 15 meetings between the dates examined, placing her attendance at roughly 75% since the start of the year.
Like most council members, she works a full-time job on top of her work as a Ward 5 representative. Her job requires her to travel at times.
“Because it pays relatively little, most of the rest of us have other jobs. Unfortunately, there will be times where that conflicts. But I try to let the mayor and the council president know when I’ll be gone,” Anderson said.
This quote is from 2023, and the “full time job” Anderson referenced wasn’t specified. Now, three years later, we’re getting some context about what Stacie Anderson does for money when she’s not calling point-of-orders and hanging up on virtual public commenters, like she’s done to ME several times.
Thanks to Griffin Smith’s reporting, I now have a much better idea about how Stacie Anderson is scheming to push HER political vision on Missoula through her full time “job” running A Better Big Sky. From the link:
Following the money in politics rarely leads to a sitting elected official.
A Missoula city councilor helms a political nonprofit that’s grown to a multimillion dollar operation over eight years. In 2024, that nonprofit — A Better Big Sky — distributed millions through other groups that spent on mailers, TV ads and canvassers to help influence elections across Montana.
Tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service show the nonprofit raised roughly $100,000 in revenue in 2018. By 2024, the group’s annual revenue spiked to $7.7 million, and roughly $2 million went directly toward political action committees.
Wow, Stacie! That’s A LOT of money!

One of the efforts that Stacie Anderson is directing a serious flow of money to is the bullshit effort to “keep the courts non-partisan”, a scam I’ve done my part to expose. Unfortunately I’m a broke blogger in the crosshairs of a serious lawfare assault, so I really can’t compete with someone tossing around a half million dollars like it’s nothing.
Data from 2025 has yet to be released by the IRS, but state finance reports showed A Better Big Sky has recently continued advocacy work.
The group paid $500,000 to the Montanans For Nonpartisan Courts ballot initiative in March 2026, which has spent more than $1 million on paid signature-gathers, Lee Montana reported.
Ward 5 Missoula City Councilor Stacie Anderson has served as a councilor since 2017, and in 2018 launched A Better Big Sky as its executive director.
The group has been successful in securing donors to fund other state and regional political nonprofits, such as Forward Montana, Montana Conservation Voters and Western Native Vote.
While Anderson has stood by her work as an advocacy effort, political analysts point to an unusual quandary where an elected official is atop a major player in Montana politics that, in effect, picks winners and losers in state-level elections.
If the hundreds of thousands of dollars that represent Stacie Anderson’s political speech are successful, the total farce of “non-partisan” courts will continue unchallenged, like what’s happening to me with the judge and county prosecutors who attempted to put Brandon Bryant in prison for ten years.

In 2020, Brandon Bryant landed in jail shortly after he brought a wooden Japanese training sword to a council meeting and criticized the use of special property tax money.
Prosecutors used that and an edited video of Bryant to charge him with a felony.
This week, three council members, Bryan von Lossberg, Gwen Jones and Julie Merritt all told the jury Bryant scared them.
But four council members and the mayor testified they did not fear him.
When Bryant was arrested, Judge Shane Vannatta set his bail at $100,000. He spent 30 days in jail before posting it.
While I’m not going to get into a lot of the specifics about my case, I think it’s relevant to explain that the civil process of asking a judge for a restraining order can entail making claims about the defendent that require zero proof in order for those claims to be considered by the judge.
This means you can say–as the petitioner asking for the restraining order–that something happened in a coffee shop that made you fearful and, if that fear is deemed to be the kind of fear a reasonable person would experience, then the “non-partisan” judge can decide whether or not a 1,500 ft circumference of protection around that coffee shop is necessary.
In my case, and without ANY evidence (like a police report or affidavit from the witness the petitioner claimed saw this coffee shop incident), this is what judge Vannatta decided to implement, along with three other TEZs (Travis Exclusion Zones):

I want this image to really sink in because it represents most of the downtown core, meaning I’m not allowed to legally step foot into the courthouse, city council chambers, the public defender’s office, the bus transfer station, or other places where I have products for sale. If Vannatta’s decision stands, this zone, along with three others, will be my reality for the next TEN YEARS.
The prosecutor in my criminal case–a criminal case enabled by the civil one ordered by the judge who called not mirandizing a citizen a NOTHING BURGER in regards to the fired Sheriff of Mineral County, Ryan Funke–carried some curious legal water for Kirsten Pabst six years ago by telling those who were paying attention why TWO alleged killers were let out of jail without criminal charges. One of those alleged killers, Johnny Lee Perry, was later shot dead by deputies with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.
ABC FOX Montana is following up on two different investigations in Missoula — a fatal stabbing on New Years night, and an altercation at the Poverello Center that left one man dead.
In both cases, the suspect was not kept in custody during the investigation.
ABC FOX Montana reached out to the Missoula county attorney’s office to find out why. It turns out, there is no simple answer.
In both of these cases, the suspects claimed they killed the other in self-defense, but self defense alone is not a reason to keep a person out of jail.
Mac Bloom with the Missoula County Attorney’s office said he can’t comment on any current investigations, but he did explain to us that after a person is taken into custody, they can only be held for two days, unless charges are filed.
In many cases, the investigation takes longer than that, so sometimes the suspect must be released before charges are filed.
The suspect in the fight at the poverello is 29-year-old johnny lee perry.
He currently not in custody while police investigate his claims of self defense.
Did the police do a quality investigation into the dead homeless man (Sean Stevenson) who Johnny Lee Perry claimed he was defending himself against when the violence occurred inside the Poverello Center, where I used to work? No, because if they HAD, well, the last six years of my life would look VERY different.
I’ll leave it there, for now.
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