In 2018 supporters of Seth Bodnar had to do some damage control for his wife, Chelsea, and the impression that she was deploying her pal, Jim Messina, to help her husband in the monumental task of reversing the student enrollment carnage at the University of Montana. Part of this damage control included going to local media to tell Missoulians that Chelsea never had access to student info.
The University of Montana and the Montana University System stand firmly in support of Dr. Chelsea Bodnar, spouse of University of Montana President Seth Bodnar, for her efforts to assist the university in enhancing its recruiting efforts.
“We were delighted to know Chelsea would be a strong advocate for the University of Montana alongside of Seth when we hired him as President of the University,” Board of Regents Chair Fran Albrecht said. “The University has always had active spouses who contribute in a multitude of ways. Chelsea’s excitement and enthusiasm for increasing enrollment is to be celebrated and commended. She is contributing her time and resources to helping the University of Montana and I am grateful for her commitment and support.”
After trying to positively frame the appearance of spousal overreach as “excitement” and “enthusiasm”, UM’s legal counsel, Lucy France, explained how Chelsea didn’t have data access, and that the University didn’t have a formal relationship with the Messina Group, which represents the kind of people who consulted with Epstein about slipping antibiotics to spouses after getting STDs from Russian hookers.
Chelsea never received student data, nor has any unauthorized person or entity used student data. Lucy France, Legal Counsel at UM, confirms that UM has not shared any data with The Messina Group to date.
“Of course, before we shared anything we would ensure that every protection was in place regarding privacy and compliance with all applicable state and federal laws,” France said. “Chelsea followed the right steps in connecting the appropriate people at the university to explore TMG’s generous offer of assistance.”
The Messina Group is a communications and marketing consultant to Airbnb, ESPN, Google, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many more clients. Thanks to Chelsea’s friendship with Jim Messina (UM Class of ’93; UM Distinguished Alum Award ’09; UM Commencement Speaker ’13), UM is in a unique position to receive top consulting services at little to no cost. This service will allow the university to recruit more competitively, save money, and reach more potential students. All are needed for UM to thrive.
France–the European nation, not the UM lawyer–is the country where a guy named Olivier Colom is from. Who is Olivier Colom? He’s the French diplomat asking Jeffrey Epstein if he knows Jim Messina. Hmmm.
Last month Politico reported on Olivier Colom’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein during the year 2013, after Jim Messina helped Barack Obama get reelected. Here’s how Colom was trying to help out his buddy, Jeffrey, 13 years ago:
When Jeffrey Epstein wanted an introduction to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, he turned to a well-connected friend.
“Id like to meet him,” the disgraced financier wrote to Olivier Colom, a former French diplomat, in October 2013. “If you think fun.”
“I’ll ask,” Colom replied. “He can be fun. And he can speak English now!”
What was Jim Messina’s role as one of Barack Obama’s top 2012 campaign managers? He was the guy who went to Wall Street to assure them Barack Obama was a safe corporate whore who would do NOTHING to challenge the bankster status quo destroying America. That’s who this sniveling piece of shit was sucking off in 2012 before offering the Bodnar’s his “services”.
Jim Messina, one of the president’s top political advisers, met privately with financial services industry executives — big banks, money managers — and promised them Obama will not demonize Wall Street as his reelection efforts unfold. Not demonize Wall Street? Hasn’t that been a consistent theme of the Obama presidency?
Messina provided big donors with a private briefing at the members-only Core Club in Manhattan, a nice perk for the rich and powerful.
While this fealty to the real power controlling America was on display over a decade ago, it’s the Messina Group’s 2024 merger with “Global Counsel” that I find to be the most problematic for the Bodnar’s good friend, Jim.
The Messina Group (TMG) and Global Counsel (GC), two of the world’s leading strategic advisory and policy firms, have announced a global partnership to align their businesses through a minority investment by TMG in GC.
TMG and GC will collaborate to align operations across offices in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia and to deploy 150 employees globally across several key markets. The global partnership will allow both firms to better serve clients by responding to the growing demand from organizations seeking counsel in increasingly challenging political environments around the world.
Why is this relationship a problem? Just ask Peter Mendelson why and the answer is a resounding JEFFREY EPSTEIN!
A former No 10 aide has quit as chief executive of the influential lobbying firm he co-founded with Peter Mandelson following revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Ben Wegg-Prosser stepped down on Friday as the head of Global Counsel after emails revealed the extent to which he and Mandselson had involved the convicted child sex offender when they were setting up the company in 2010.
The fallout from the release of the files in the US has triggered a crisis at Global Counsel, which has had close ties to Labour and lobbied the government on behalf of clients including the controversial tech firm and government contractor Palantir.
With all this context in mind, what will candidate Seth Bodnar do? My hunch is nothing, because he doesn’t have to.
I don’t think Kurt Alme will use this line of attack against Seth Bodnar because US Attorneys are the kind of political operators who understand their job is to PROTECT the rich and powerful, not prosecute them. That means if Alme doesn’t make a big deal about any of this, I doubt Montana’s legacy media outlets will take the initiative and ask the questions themselves.
Kurt Alme, as the former state budget director for Governor Oracle (Gianforte), also understands the benefit of having people like Palantir’s Peter Thiel feel comfortable enough in Big Sky Country that he invites some of his “friends”, like Elon and Sam, out to Paws Up for a little R&R in the woods before flying off to the Bilderberg meetup in Sweden. Somehow I don’t think any of this will benefit your average Montanan.
Before I wrap this post up I’m curious if any local readers have some context on our Mayor’s husband and what he does for a living, since there is virtually nothing I can find online about him. Is his name Denison? Is he from Sweden or some other European country? And why does it matter?
As this post shows, spouses can be VERY influential when they have friends like Jim Messina, and Montana seems to have more than a few “teams” of spouses getting involved in politics, so this line of inquiry is one I see to be relevant and it’s one I’m going to pursue, especially considering how another simple house wife is now officially boosting morale for America’s Holy War.
Thanks for reading!
Your time on target on this one is pretty damn impressive. Like you, I’ve been watching Messina and Bodnar closely. One thing that you keep ignoring though is Bodnar’s time in the Special Forces.
Every time you talk about Bodnar, I remind you that he was U.S. Special Forces in the 1st Special Forces, a PSYOP Unit. It’s the sole reason he was hired at UM, where ironically he initially applied for a job as the Dean of the Business School, right when the Gallagher business building was just being opened. He wasn’t hired, but caught the eye of the Montana Board of Regents, Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian.
Remember that at the same time, UM was also being criticized heavily for the Rape Nation attention folks like John Krakauer and Reddit were bringing to the University of Montana. They NEEDED someone who understood psychological warfare, to try and limit the damage and return the school too glory and sustainable enrollment.
Bodnar also speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, from his time in 1stSPC. Coincidentally the same year he was hired is the same year UM shutdown the Confucius Institute. Also shortly before Bodnar was hired, was when around the time that Montana was giving out long term visa’s too Chinese investors that invested in the Sawmill District.
Was some sort of Chinese Intelligence operation going on in Missoula?
References:
University of Montana shutters Confucius Institute
https://archive.is/bv6Vs
Foreign investors fund Missoula Sawmill District projects
https://archive.is/nt7Rg
I’m not ignoring that aspect, I just don’t have the context you seem to have, so thank you for sharing. There are obviously “happy ending” parlors with Chinese nationals in Missoula, but other than one arrest a few years ago, they continue to operate in plain sight.
Western Montana has nuclear sites in the north and a BSL-4 lab in the south with Missoula in the middle, so it’s safe to say lots of shit is happening under the noses of the low-info public. It doesn’t pay to notice this shit.