by Travis Mateer
After getting her marching orders from Harvard, Mayor Davis paid Susan Hay Patrick for a photo-op, but I suspect Mayor Davis will be getting MUCH MORE from this “donation” of excess campaign funds than a mere image because, in my opinion, this photo signals Davis’ willingness to work with Missoula’s cabal of NON-elected influencers.
Crossing this cabal is not advisable because they LOVE using asymmetrical methods of retaliation, like when Susan Hay Patrick told a NBC Montana reporter that I was mentally unstable because she didn’t want that reporter getting too close to the PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP enjoyed by another influential entity, and that’s Blue Line Development, a business I recently compared to a cancerous growth.
What did Susan Hay Patrick know about the LifeGuard Group in September of 2022? Did she know about specific concerns related to their activities? Hell yes she did, but schmoozing opportunities, like this Chamber of Commerce event featuring BOTH the LifeGuard Group and the United Way, appeared to take priority. Here are some screenshots from the link (emphasis mine)
I wrote about the “Sentinel Project” and the absurd plan to transform alcohol distributors into some ridiculous first line of defense against human traffickers, but what I did NOT write about is how Susan Hay Patrick was given VERY specific information about the LifeGuard Group around this time and, for a short minute, she even pretended like she was going to do something about it. When I started realizing it might be a set-up to ensnare me in something, I shifted away from doing anything disruptive at the Chamber event.
I took my TOLD YOU SO tour to the Chamber yesterday and showed off the Missoulian article about Lowell’s family-run “non-profit” to some nice folks who were careful to say that they aren’t a political organization, and so have no official comment, but they DID seem to enjoy LISTENING because I can be quite entertaining, especially when I’m feeling cautiously optimistic that a shift is happening toward transparency and exposure after years of sounding like a crazy person when I describe local corruption in direct conversations.
Today the Public Safety Committee is meeting, so I might take my TOLD YOU SO TOUR out for a three minute public comment. Last week I entertained the committee with the beginning of my Libtard/Lawcuck poem, but today I think I’ll take a less poetic approach, since this bullshit is being discussed today:
Yes, we don’t want to disturb chronic addicts and their cartel-supplied dealers from their liberally-enabled destiny of living in meth-fueled outdoor drug colonies when it’s raining. Right, Missoula?
Do our elected leaders need another reminder that nature abhors a vacuum, meaning vigilantism WILL FILL THE VOID left by the slow-motion collapse of our criminal justice system? I think maybe they do, and I am happy to oblige.
Stay tuned for more local perspective from a zero-fuck giving journalist with 23 years of living and working in Zoom Town as I look to help this shift along with a few strategic shoves in the right places.
Thanks for reading!
Thankfully (for the committee) I was too involved in a really good conversation to attend today, and I think next week is Spring Break, so my absence is kind of like giving Council an early vacation from reality. I hope they make good use of their time 😉
For the proposed ordinance for camp cleanups, it looks like 32 degrees is the bottom threshold temperature (during the removal or within 8 hours after removal). How much of the Missoula year would that exclude? One-fourth? One-third? Regardless of that, it appears that this ordinance/resolution item will stay in committee and possibly be discussed in the next scheduled meeting.