David Erickson finally found a politically-themed “news” story about a restaurant that his employer, Lee Enterprises, is willing to publish.
For contrast, when Sam Risho, the owner of Silk Road catering, ignored my request to remove an image from the work computer that showed my head on the body of Charlie Kirk getting shot, no one in local media gave a fuck. I guess a hostile work environment with a coke-abusing sex offender kitchen manager who was formally questioned in the death of my co-worker, Leah Hartley, just isn’t newsworthy enough for a retarded liberal town like Missoula.
A much more interesting and relevant story than trying to whip up woke outrage at a private business is the story of what Mountain Line got dealt this month in court.
If you had no idea Mountain Line was fighting AGAINST transparency in court, that’s because the media hasn’t covered this story at all. Maybe that will change now that YOUR taxpayer dollars will go to pay for the legal bill to the tune of $25,592 dollars.
Why would a public service that our idiot officials turned into a zero-fare shit-show be against transparency? The answer is right there in the question: Mountain Line is against transparency in order to PROTECT themselves from the consequences of their zero-fare shit-show. Duh.
To expound on what is at stake here, this is from the Facebook page where you can get the information that our local media, so far, has refused to report on:
The Court ruled that MUTD’s blanket denial of public records I.E. specifically, security camera videos from buses operating on public roads, funded by public dollars and recording in public spaces was a violation of the Montana Constitution, Article II, Sections 8 and 9, which protect every Montanan’s fundamental right to know and right to participate in government.
The Court ordered MUTD to produce the requested videos, and awarded attorney’s fees and costs to the Petitioner. Let that sink in. A public transit agency, funded by taxpayer money, denied a lawful public records request, fought it in court for over a year, and lost. These are public records. The public has a right to see them. We have a right to see how public employees like supervisors handle situations and events etc.
Like so many trends in this town related to the policies our officials have undertaken to help “marginalized” populations–like sex offenders who sometimes masturbate on our local buses in the presence of little girls–I’ve been all over this subject for years.
How did I know going zero-fare was going to increase access for sexual deviants? Seven years working at the Poverello Center, that’s how, so when I read this account from 2023, my long-held concerns were unfortunately validated:
A man has been charged with felony indecent exposure for exposing himself to a minor on a Missoula transit bus.
Jack Alan Mellem,36, is accused of exposing himself and masturbating in the presence of a young girl on a Mountain Line Bus on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
In charging documents, the 12-year-old girl told police she was on the bus when a bald man with a barbed-wire tattoo on his face entered the bus on North Avenue and Johnson Street.
The girl told police the man exposed himself and began touching himself while staring directly at her.
After this incident I wrote a blog post, which you can read here, that includes five other posts about our publicly-funded bus system going back to 2019. My insights come directly from the experience I had as the FIRST (and best, obviously) Homeless Outreach Coordinator, working with Mountain Line BEFORE they went zero-fare, then after, so I saw the changes that using warm bodies to chase Federal dollars produced.
Homeless people are great on paper for non-profit grifters like Susan Hay Patrick, but they can be challenging when they congregate for extended periods of time with booze and meth. That’s why our retarded city placed a hilarious sign by the Courthouse lawn-party that’s been going on as the weather has warmed.
Here is the language I’m sure some toxically empathic cog in the HIC (Homeless Industrial Complex) helped devise.
You must remove your belongings from the site within the timeframe on the notice. You should not leave behind any belongings you want to keep. All belongings left behind will be removed by the City. Items that are clearly discarded or valueless, hazardous, soiled, or subjected to rotting or spoiling will be discarded. The City will store remaining personal property for a period of 30 days. The City will post an Impound Notice if belongings are stored during the clean-up process.
If you think your belongings were stored, you can claim them by following the directions on the Impound Notice after the clean-up is complete. Information about how to claim your belongings is also available on the City’s website. You may retrieve any stored belongings without being asked about your criminal background or outstanding warrants.
And here are three pictures I took yesterday morning of the sidewalk/alley just across the street from the sign.
If Missoula was on trial for being retarded, I might be tempted to rest my case, but later this morning Brandon Bryant will finally get to make a court appearance from jail after an extra day in a cell because all the retarded bureaucrats had a holiday yesterday.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned, I have a feeling this is gonna be a big week.
