by Travis Mateer
I tuned in to City Council last night after a hiatus of subjecting myself to this body of performance artists, and I’m happy to report that our local officials seem to have successfully DISengaged some persistent critics, like myself, from dragging that pesky thing called “reality” into this horseshoe of illusion.
If you think I’m the only one NOT impressed by our new Mayor, then check out this comment from a disappointed voter on Reddit who admits that genitalia was the major deciding factor in choosing Davis over Nugent.
While I appreciate the honesty of this comment, it’s beyond irksome to me that people have expectations regarding those they put into office with their hallowed vote. It’s like witnessing the process of a sinking ship from the lower decks and hoping a new captain will fix things instead of doing the more sensible thing: find something that floats and prepare for the worst.
Some people like to go down with the ship while steadfastly performing their role, like fiddlers on the Titanic and Bob Campbell, who made a HILARIOUS inquiry about $43 dollars spent on COFFEE by our water company. Maybe being a former cop, Bob is just sensitive to the obvious path from caffeine to meth, but while Bob scrutinized that expenditure, Ellen Buchanan was busy throwing TIF hush money at the Missoula Public School system.
Here’s a screenshot from the email telling the public about this remittance bribe.
Another performance I enjoyed from our elected performance artists was Mike Nugent’s promotion of infrastructure, like parks, and all the GREAT things happening at our parks on a busy weekend. Clearly Mike wasn’t visiting public masturbation park where the boat-ramp we got with the baseball stadium deal provided a sitting rock for a public masturbator recently.
From the link:
An officer located the female, Jane Doe. Doe stated she took her daughter to the river to throw rocks. Doe observed Keown sitting on a rock near the river and advised he was somewhat behind a bush. Doe observed Keown glare at her and her daughter but believed he was fishing and had a pole.
About five minutes later, the witness told her she needed to leave due to Keown masturbating. Doe could not see Keown’s genitals but stated that she could see some movements that made clear that he was in fact masturbating.
After reading this, Nugent’s comment hits just a bit differently, dontchya think?
Since Council members got nostalgic over Mike’s Daddy, Jim, as they announced their reorganization of city attorneys under civil/prosecution divisions, I’ll get nostalgic over the baseball stadium where our former Mayor, John Engen, was memorialized, a stadium a bank had to sue some Missoulians to finance. Isn’t that appropriate?
Play Ball formed to raise funds to build the stadium and transfer it to the city of Missoula. The nonprofit raised some $6 million and opened Ogren Park at Allegiance Field in 2004, and earlier this year, the city took ownership of the ballpark, according to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.
But the project dragged on and has been controversial.
Along the way, the city contributed land plus an estimated $4 million of urban renewal funds to the ballpark. Opponents of the deal have noted that money could have been used for things like sidewalks and affordable housing, but others point out that typically, baseball stadiums are built with public money instead of through private efforts.
For a variety of reasons, the stadium also cost more than expected, and at one point, Play Ball found itself drowning in $7.3 million of principal and accrued interest. A finance team worked out a complicated set of transactions to clear the debt, prevent foreclosure on the stadium, and transfer the ballpark free and clear to the city of Missoula as planned.
The deal involved payment on guaranties, and out of the 19 guarantors, 15 honored their commitments, paying an estimated $1.1 million to the bank.
Our former Mayor was also referenced last night, sort of, when the ENGEN building was mentioned. For reasons like “convenience” and “efficiency”, Missoula citizens will have BOTH city and county bureaucrats under one roof. Isn’t that exciting?
Before I get to my infrastructure song, where I imagine throwing a County Commissioner into the river then urinating on him for his role in the Maclay Bridge fiasco, I’d like to thank Daniel Carlino for his performance opposing the ANTI-public engagement measures taken by our elected wussies. Here are his suggestions:
With both city and county cogs operating from the ENGEN building downtown, maybe the MANY problems we have with bridges in Missoula will finally be addressed. Here are some of the posts I’ve written over the years about our bridges, then the song which is EXCLUSIVELY about bridge infrastructure.
Dave Strohmaier Has A Bridge Problem And That Means I Have A Problem With Dave Strohmaier–BUILD THE BRIDGE! (March 13th, 2019)
County Commissioner Dave Strohmaier Is Supporting The Agenda Of The South Street Bridge Obstructionists (October 14th, 2019)
A Retired Civil Structural Engineer Claims Maclay Bridge Should Be Condemned In Letter To Editor (October 28th, 2019)
Countering Maclay Bridge BS (November 20th, 2019)
Why Are Missoula Bridges Plagued With Problems? (July 14th, 2021)
Zoom Town Shorts: Smetanka In The Wild, A Shutdown Bridge And Crisis Advocates Panhandling For 5 Million (July 21st, 2022)
Beer Truck Soldiers And Bridges That Send Strong Signals Of Virtue (October 8th, 2022)
On The Bridges You’ll Be Driving, Walking, And Biking Over This Black Friday (November 25th, 2022)
A Surprising New Use Of Electricity In Zoom Town You Have To Read To Believe (December 21st, 2022)
For Southwest Airlines And A Missoula Pedestrian Bridge, The Problem Isn’t The Weather (December 30th, 2022)
Bridge Or Blackhole, It Doesn’t Matter, Council Member Heidi West Wants A Coffee Shop There! (February 9th, 2023)
Bridges Of Missoula, Past And Present (January 8th, 2024)
Now, here it is, my BRIDGE SONG!
Thanks for reading!
This is worse than narrative control this is carrot and stick behavior reaction b*******
She needs to reveal how many LLC memberships her and her husband have from her time at the housing authority and with homeward
These people have evil intent for your money and they don’t want you complaining about it….
I’m a prime example of someone who speaks the truth right to their faces and that’s the last thing they want is someone who reveals their lies and innuendo and their scams and I’ve leveled out scams that have never been divulged by The missoulian you or other people and weatherby what a shyster home Jared Hagan and his wife Jennifer what a bunch of shysters the smile on your face and take your wallet
Look into Jared Hagan and his tax loophole business millions and millions and millions made off the uber wealthy that feed in fund Jennifer’s business endeavors and she never has a dripping supply of money that dries up because the wealthy want to beat the tax system
LLCs are evil incarnate they allow upstanding people to look like they’re upstanding
remember when I talked about mayor LLC when you come out here soon to be rebuilt overpass in East Missoula and you look to the right just past Florence coffee there used to be a convenience store right around that area all that property was owned by an LLC called mayor LLC
Wouldn’t that be weird if it was John engen and somehow the oil company gave him a kickback for all the nice and easy he’s allowed them to build in his City off the books of course cuz LLC don’t have to tell who their members are
The astute thieves the sneaky ones know that they can do this and use this and use this loophole to screw everybody here and the most ready example of how it’s hurting our society is the low-income people falling off the other end of the table as the wealth is pushed onto the table and they need more room what’s got to go that people who can’t afford to live here
That mayor has no desire take care of the citizens she has a pertinent desire to pretend like she’s doing everything she can to help everyone while her and her husband and their friends get fat f and Rich she’s a stinky piece of s*** who fell right out at John engen’s ass
and now she knows that there’s shasty s*** going on cuz if she was at the housing authority when I blew up about how they unceremoniously stole all my rental properties she knows that story and she was in the room when they talked about it how I was being removed from their roles without permission or any justification they pick and choose who gets rich in this town and if they don’t like you they kick your f****** ass right into the God damn homeless industrial complex and claim you’re one of the statistics they need to help it’s a f***** up sick ass f****** vicious cycle by narcissistic psychopaths who have some power and smile in your face while they stab you in the back and steal out of your f****** wallet I f****** hate you Andrea Davis you’re evil incarnate you shut off and cut off your horns every day so they don’t poke through your hair
All the while that nice smile huh if I just keep up this phony plastic b******* mannequin smile people will eat the turds that fall out of my ass
You’re a piece of work all you idiots are pieces of work even Daniel carlino knows that your pieces at work removing the public comment why you don’t like The descent and the honesty and your state of dishonesty
You’re not an honest person Andrea Davis you’re not an honest person neither does Mike Nugent nor Bob Campbell there’s a whole bunch of lions take offense on that council Gwen Jones Anderson you’re all got your oligarch friends huh like add weather be right Anderson he’s your Chum the man who screwed us all out of you before I have money wow what a bastion of society you just got your nose so far up his ass you can’t even see the other way
All of you have agendas except for Carlina was near as I can tell he’s for the Everyman as you all should be
But what the f*** do I know I’m only 5th generation one half law enforcement one half outlaw yeah that’s right my great-grandfather first law enforcement on the border porky sellers
My grandfather arrested by him for moonshining met my grandmother as she served to the people in the jail and East glacier
My grandfather a somewhat associate of some world class gangsters like Lucky Luciano home he sold his property to in eureka for a hideout
Yeah I got some history and some story here my great-grandfather ran with Charlie Russell
So I’m not some Mook some puke some chunk of s*** that don’t know what he’s talking about I watch this town come from an armpit stinky pulp Mill pit of hell with 9 months of cloud cover to Yellowstone’s gym where everyone wants to live here
Well you can come here as long as you don’t bring your outside agendas and your baggage oh no one cannot do that so suddenly my little part of the world is destroyed cuz of other people’s f****** desire to take what I’ve lived in for 60 f****** years
Welcome take what could be mine take what could chance I could gain or leverage my family just to live but by God since you need a place to feel like you really make the world f****** come here take something out of my mouth and then act aghast at why we f****** hate people coming here f****** homeless has never been this high well neither has the amount of wealthy people in this town is there a correlation you f****** know there is
Yeah and if she can keep everybody who has a dissenting opinion or voice down especially the likes of mats Larson myself Travis Brandon you know what you’re talking about you know what you did to us and you know that you just want to walk away like you deserved it f*** you well what does the city deserve when it treats its citizens like that more the truth so I’m never going to shut up and you’re never going to shut me up I’ve not been indoctrinated to follow your heil Hitler edicts I’m not going to eat your s*** no more I’m not going to take your rules and laws and regulations you’re $450 tag and drag orange tickets that you’re stuck on my vehicles in 4 years here maniacal malevolent abuse of power when you can point it at people who don’t have a nickel to rub on another nickel and then you walk away feeling like yeah I’m a f****** man right Patrick erbacher your PTSD no Fix-It mother f****** psycho piece of s***
How many tickets you write me for camping in the city when you or the complainant cuz there was times you showed up and nobody complained and you still wrote the ticket oh but that’s okay because you can f*** the law cuz you are the law you don’t have to follow rules or regulations especially under the old Chiefs do you or blocker you’re a disgusting disgrace as a marine you’re disgusting disgrace as a cop because you won’t get your PTSD treated and you want to be an a****** to the world and then you lie to cover your ass up lying cops should not be cops you get caught lying you lose your f****** certification is how it should go right Bob Campbell