Believe The BS, Kristen, It’s Been Getting Shoved In Our Face Long Before You Joined Council

by Travis Mateer

During Wednesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting Kristen Jordan flipped out. Why? The homeless camping ban, of course, and the sneaky way the rest of Council (sans Daniel Carlino) have constructed the “balanced” policy recommendations that will now move to the next Monday Council meeting on June 10th.

Here’s how the Missoula Current reported on Jordan’s freakout:

Council member Kristen Jordan, who has proposed many of the recommendations included in the proposal in the past, including authorized camp sites and needle drops, broke into an outburst on Wednesday, grabbed her purse and darted from the meeting while cussing her peers.

“I’m not voting,” she shouted. “Bullshit. Bull fucking bullshit!”

Over at NBC Montana, the “outburst” from the Ward 6 Council Members was reported like this (emphasis mine):

Jordan, a Ward 6 council member, stormed out before the meeting ended, after Sherill informed her that proposed amendments would be taken up at the June 10 meeting rather than Wednesday.

Jordan called the decision “bulls—,” eventually saying, “I can’t even believe you did this.”

Why can’t Kristen Jordan believe her peers are duplicitous narrative controllers who exploited the Working Group process to create the illusion of inclusivity, then wrote up the policy recommendations outside of public view? Is it because Jordan has spent so much time NOT attending Council meetings?

Ward 6 council member Kristen Jordan has missed 30 meetings since the first of the year, placing her attendance at roughly 47%, according to the city’s meeting minutes.

Jordan said she had a family medical emergency that required her to take nearly a month away from her responsibilities as a Ward 6 representative. She said she followed protocol in doing so.

“Before taking this time, I spoke with our mayor and our Legislative Services Director to ensure that I took the correct steps to do so, obligated by me and according to statutory requirements,” Jordan said. “I followed these steps, took the time necessary to focus on my family, and am now back doing my work as an elected official.”

Jordan asked the Current to respect her family’s privacy regarding her absence and added, “I feel a deep responsibility to my constituents, who voted me into office, to be a faithful, attending representative. I will continue to do so.”

If you want evidence of naiveté, Jordan’s request for respect from the most underhanded Missoula media outlet in existence shows she doesn’t understand what she’s up against. Maybe if Jordan had paid attention to what happened to me around the same time she was no-showing at Council, she wouldn’t be so naive.

For context, here are some links exposing Gomer’s propaganda rag, the Missoula Current:

On Living Life In Double-Standard Town Where Hypocrite Cowards Call The Shots (May 16th, 2023)

Is This What Missoula Current Advertisers Want To Be Paying For? (May 18th, 2023)

Are You Ready For The Weekend In Double-Standard Town? (May 19th, 2023)

What’s Going To Happen At Tomorrow’s City Council Meeting? (May 21st, 2023)

Too Famous To Sue, But Not Famous Enough To Interview? (October 25th, 2023)

The other Council member who often expresses opposition to our local cabal, Daniel Carlino, seemed to better manage his strong opinions by NOT freaking out, grabbing his purse, and leaving, and because Carlino kept his cool, he was able to ask some pertinent questions.

Since I’m not currently allowed to attend Council meetings on either Mondays OR Wednesdays, I have to rely on local media’s account. Here is a Carlino question NBC Montana reported on:

“Who wrote this resolution, and were any unhoused community members of Missoula involved in the drafting of this process? Carlino asked. “And if not, why not?”

And here is the Gomer’s reporting:

“How will people who need somewhere to camp know where these designated areas are without a map?” asked council member Daniel Carlino. “How will our law enforcement know where people are able and not able to camp without bringing out some sort of measuring tool? How will people that need somewhere to camp know what’s outside the buffer zone?”

It should be interesting to watch Monday’s Council meeting, which I’ll be doing remotely if I can find a better internet connection, since my phone’s connection keeps dropping the live stream feed when I try to watch Council meetings. Hopefully Jordan takes a chill pill before the meeting begins.

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