by Travis Mateer
The people who keep telling you, the tax-paying public, that we better get this crisis mill levy passed OR ELSE got a reprieve from having to deal with me today thanks to a staff member at the ZACC telling me I wasn’t allowed to attend.
Why wasn’t I allowed to attend? I was told verbally by this staff member that she was
“alone”, which I took to mean the only paid staff on-hand, and because of this, she explained, she simply couldn’t handle “an incident”.
Which begs the question, why would she expect “an incident”?
One of the biggest supporters of this mill levy has turned into one of the fiercest trench-fighters on its behalf. Let’s see if you can guess who I’m talking about by me using a quote from this NBC Montana piece:
The panel went in-depth on why they believe the crisis services levy would benefit Missoula in the long run and what would happen if it isn’t approved.
“We’re going to have some tough decisions to make. We’re going to lose some great services, so I can’t say that there’s a backup plan, but some of these programs will go away,” said Susan Hay Patrick, CEO of United Way.
It’s kind of ironic I’m using an NBC Montana article, considering it was an NBC Montana reporter who confirmed what I suspected about this person’s capacity for nasty, asymmetrical attacks–like telling this reporter untrue and, dare I say, defamatory things about me.
Another BIG problem with what happened today is the fact it wasn’t just me who got denied access to an event billed as “open to the public”. I was going to have, on the phone, the sister of Sean Stevenson listening to the panel of specialists, but obviously that didn’t happen.
If you haven’t heard me reference Sean’s name before you’re probably new to this blog, so let me briefly say that Sean’s death was a major catalyst for the work I’m doing now, and the questions his family have about what REALLY happened to him persist.
As for me, while I have my suspicions about what is happening, and why, it might not be until a process of discovery begins that I’ll be able to more concretely point to the efforts to keep me and what I know from making those in positions of power and influence uncomfortable.
To make a contribution to what might become my legal fund, the donation button is at my about page.
Be safe out there, and thanks for reading!
