Obnoxious Non-Profit Panhandling From A Pathetic Non-Profit Professional

by Travis Mateer

Before we get to the obnoxious non-profit panhandler begging strapped Missoulians for money, let’s take a look at the state of homelessness in Montana, since this person (Susan Hay Patrick) was so instrumental in developing and implementing Missoula’s 10 year plan to end homelessness. From the second link (emphasis mine):

The homeless population continues to grow across the Treasure State, keeping shelters busy year-round.

According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Montana’s homelessness population has grown 13% in the past five years, putting the overall homeless population at nearly 1,600.

“There’s been an enormous increase in the homeless population in Montana over the last few years. Especially during the pandemic, and it’s gotten worse during the housing crisis,” said SK Rossi, coalition coordinator for the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness.

So, according to this article, Montana’s homeless numbers have GROWN over the past 5 years. That’s interesting to me, considering it was just three years ago that I wrote an article titled The PR Charade Of Claiming Homeless Numbers In Missoula Are Going Down Is Finally Over.

Once the pandemic hit the PR charade transitioned to blaming the insidious Covid fear campaign for the begrudgingly acknowledged reality that homelessness was getting WORSE, not better. And now here we are, listening to the same pathetic people complain about not having enough money. Here’s one of Missoula’s prime hucksters (Susan Hay Patrick) doing her thing for the non-profit industry here in Zoom Town:

The late-night call came last week from a local business leader. A “household word” Missoula nonprofit was having trouble making payroll. Did I know of any quick sources of last-minute cash to help? Sadly, I did not – and it was not the first time this month I’d received a similar call.

Our local nonprofit community – despite powerful and effective work to improve Missoula’s quality of life every day – is struggling this year. Even though Missoula Economic Partnership data shows increases in overall jobs and average earnings, and even though the stock market is rebounding, this good economic news has yet to reach most local nonprofits.

Good economic news? That’s funny, and also hardly believable coming from this community manipulator. I guess a woman so closely tied to Montana Democrats can’t be too realistic about the shit economy when it’s a Democrat sitting in the titular captain’s chair of this sinking American ship.

The lack of confidence Americans are exhibiting can’t be ascribed to a senile President with a crack smoking son engaging in such high-level favor-peddling that some wonder if we’re not already being governed by the CCP. No, that wouldn’t be a good look for a shameless huckster like Susan Hay Patrick, so instead we get shit like this:

Adding to the uncertainty are worries about wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and a toxic political climate as a presidential election year approaches. A scarcity mentality – not entirely justified, but entirely real – threatens to take hold. We cannot let it take hold in Missoula.

Actually, Susan, to quote a political slogan from your favorite negro, YES WE CAN! And we should, because WWIII is about to go hot with our Nazi allies in Ukraine, and that lovely cauldron of hate boiling over as intended in the Middle East.

Last December I asked Santa for Susan Hay Patrick’s exodus from United Way, but I guess I was a bad boy, because Santa didn’t deliver. This year I won’t be asking, just working to continue exposing the despicable forces in this town so resistant to truth and transparency.

If you appreciate the slings and arrows I’ve taken for my local effort to expose these disgusting people, then consider helping out Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), or making a donation at my about page.

Thanks for reading. Things are going to be getting really interesting around here soon, so stay tuned!