Month: July 2026

In 2024 Missoula’s Mayor, Andrea Davis, split the City Attorney’s Office in two, putting Ryan Sudbury in charge of civil services and Keithi Worthington in charge of criminal prosecutions. Here’s how the Missoula Current reported on this change at the time:

Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis on Wednesday detailed her plans to reorganize the City Attorney’s Office after appointing Ryan Sudbury as City Attorney for Civil Services and Keithi Worthington as City Attorney for Prosecution.

“This recognizes that in a modern city attorney’s office, there are too many substantive areas of law for one person to be an expert in both civil and criminal matters,” Davis said. “Separating them allows for more efficient and effective decision making focused on the needs of each department.”

Worthington, who graduated from the University of Montana School of Law, worked in private practice until 2006, when she began working with the city. In 2016, she was appointed Chief Prosecuting Attorney and will now serve as the City Attorney for Prosecution.

The position will oversee all prosecution services including DUI, criminal and misdemeanor crimes while also supporting the city’s crime victim services. The job will also advise the city on matters concerning criminal law and serve as a member of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

Since getting elected in 2021 as a package deal, there has apparently been “tension” between the three Municipal Court judges and Keithi Worthington, the Mayor’s pick to oversee prosecutions. After an investigation into Worthington’s conduct, the completed report is NOT being shared with the Municipal judges, so now the judges are using the tool they know best–the law–to compel disclosure:

There has been some long-standing tension between Missoula’s municipal court and the City of Missoula’s city attorney.

The tension largely stems from what three municipal court judges say is unprofessional conduct that has in turn impacted the court’s operations.

Missoula municipal court judges Jennifer Streano, Jacob Coolidge, Eli Parker and court administrator Kari Dady have now filed a legal complaint in Missoula’s District Court over the matter.

The complaint is seeking injunctive relief from Missoula District Court Judge Shane Vannatta to release a report that was performed by a Great Falls attorney over Keithi Worthington, Missoula’s city attorney.

The report was the result of an investigation into Worthington and her conduct between her office and the municipal court.

As a former city insider invited to be a member of the Mayor’s Downtown Advisory Commission, I worked closely with Keithi Worthington and other “stakeholders” over a decade ago to address “chronic homelessness” in the downtown core. Last night I spent a few hours reading through old minutes to find examples of my previous work coordinating the Homeless Outreach Team for the Poverello Center. Here’s a great example:

How did I go from working with Keithi Worthington to being prosecuted by her office 14 years later? Maybe the answer is hiding somewhere in this screenshot from the Jail Diversion Master Plan Update (PDF):

While I’m admittedly biased from the “lived experience” of lawfare, I think it’s statistically relevant that “violation of protective order” entered this top 15 list in 2022. Previously, as you can see, it did NOT make the top 15 list of charges “at admission by volume” for the Missoula County Detention Facility.

Being on the receiving end of Keithi Worthington’s criminal charging decisions is obviously not fun, but I take some solace in knowing I’m not the only one being targeted by this “liberal” city. Veteran and drone whistleblower, Brandon Bryant, is ALSO being targeted (and prosecuted) by the same interests, and for similar reasons. Combined we represent pushing back against narrative control in two key areas of authoritarian sensitivity: housing/homelessness for me, and technology/surveillance for Mr. Bryant, who looked like this after cops had their way with him last summer:

Going back to my previous life with the Downtown Advisory Commission, it was there, in the Jack Reidy conference room, where a former Sheriff with his own Mayoral ambitions was making his pitch to use the kind of technology I now have around my ankle to violate me and send me back to jail if I enter any of the four Travis Exclusion Zones (TEZ), like this protective bubble around the Capitol building, in Helena:

To wrap this post up with the kind of context that has earned me my targeted status, there’s another sad I TOLD YOU SO regarding the person who once ran the Transitional Safe Outdoor Space, which the Union Gospel Mission just announced they’re pulling out of.

For those unaware of Missoula’s inadequate patchwork of homeless service bandaids, like TSOS and the failed Authorized Camping Site near gang territory on Mullan road, then you might not know that they sprang up, in part, to address the sprawling encampments under and around the Reserve Street bridge, an area I was doing good, collaborative work before leaving my position at the Poverello Center in 2016, which the Mayor’s Downtown Advisory Commission acknowledged.

A few years later, someone who supposedly possessed a comparable skillset to do the kind of work I was doing arrived on the Mayor’s commission to help inform what was happening at Reserve Street.

Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I can say this group of influential people ultimately FAILED to accomplish, with public dollars, what an unpaid group of citizen volunteers ended up doing themselves, for years, until the COUNTY stepped up with the heavy equipment needed to address the problem.

Maybe some of that failure occurred because of the caliber of people who informed the policy makers and influencers about the problem.

Long time readers of this blog might remember the year Joey Thompson went missing after a night of teenage partying in the woods and, like so many others, he “accidentally” ended up dead in the river.

Since this death seemed to intersect with the kind of Christians more interested in searching for Jermain Charlo than they were for Rebekah Barsotti, I did what I could to look into this “accidental” death and what I found was the suspicious involvement of April Seat’s son, Dylan.

Despite my obvious frustration, clearly and not always constructively articulated, about what local media does NOT do, I’m encouraged to see some unusual interest in where political money is flowing, and how local prosecutorial power is being used, or abused, by those more worried about what their actions LOOK LIKE than the people being harmed, as evidenced by this gem about the Mayor’s Downtown Advisory Commission’s “No Sell” effort to stop transient alcoholics from getting shit-faced on Steel Reserve before noon:

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Alani Bankhead’s campaign is pretty simple: Seth Bodnar and Kurt Alme are men, and men are bad.

One candidate, the campaign claims, implied a woman was fat and failed to protect a female student on Missoula’s campus, while the other candidate is soft on sex offenders. Let’s take a look at the evil men who Alani Bankhead is pretending she can beat by running a sexist campaign against them.

One thing I’ve learned about Democrats running political campaigns is how much they love dragging their children into the fray. That’s exactly what Bill Foley did this month by using his daughter’s experience in Missoula to suggest Seth Bodnar’s administration failed to keep his daughter safe from her roommate.

It should be noted that Bill Foley ran a failed campaign to become Mayor of Butte before entering the world of content creation, where he made claims against Bodnar that go something like this:

Perhaps my best decision as a father was to take my daughter to Rocky Mountain Martial Arts when she was in the second grade.

There, Delaney got to study under the late, great Master Jim Miller. He taught his students to never be a bully. He also taught them to never put up with a bully.

Master Miller taught his students self-defense, but more importantly, he instilled in them a sense of self-worth. He taught them to stand up for themselves and for others.

He taught them to never be the kind of people who look the other way when the going gets tough.

My daughter clearly took Master Miller’s teachings to heart. She has a keen sense of social justice, and she has never shied away from standing up for herself or for others.

When she was in eighth grade, Delaney punched out a boy who thought he could get away with calling her horrific names every day in class.

During her second year at the University of Montana, she punched a bully who had been threatening her and her roommates for several months. When the university would not protect her, she protected herself.

And Seth Bodnar punished her for that.

While Bill assumed that teaching his daughter to use violence as a way to solve her problems was the right thing to do, perhaps he should have considered first explaining to his daughter that the political party they are BOTH supporting cannot see women as being aggressive perpetrators of crimes, so maybe THAT is why a new roommate who aggressively masturbates in public while engaging in other disturbing behavior wasn’t treated as a potentially dangerous person committing crimes.

In January of 2024, my daughter and two roommates got a new roommate at their apartment in the dormitory Pantzer Hall. From the start, her words and actions were troubling, to say the least.

She treated the women like they were her property. If they went to a basketball game without her, she would threaten them like she was a jealous husband.

Immediately, she made threats of violence against these young women. Some were not-so-veiled threats. Others were not veiled at all. She made it known to them that she was possessed by a demon and was very capable of killing them.

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By the time April rolled around, this roommate was known widely by UM students as the “Pantzer Hall Masturbator.” That is because she set up in one of the study lounges and masturbated so everyone walking by could clearly see her and what she was doing.

When my daughter and some of the other young women who were exposed to this scene went to the University of Montana campus police, they were quickly dismissed. Officer Mark Horner yelled at them for wasting his time, telling them it was not a crime.

I’m confused, isn’t this what progressive Democrats WANT a woke administration to do with a female student like this?

Sure, if it was a young MAN masturbating in public, it would obviously be easier to identify said masturbation as a criminal act–since men are inherently violent, abusive creatures who must be destroyed for the crime of making a woman feel even the slightest bit of discomfort–but when a WOMAN is the one doing it, well, maybe it’s just the result of patriarchal repression manifesting in a pathology of not wanting, but needing to be seen flicking her bean and moaning like a bitch in heat?

Before we get to the part of the story where Delaney Foley assaults the compulsive masturbator, let’s check the temperature of the broader political dynamics informing this young women’s entry into the “real” world of mean-ass politics:

Losing friends is one thing, but losing your FREEDOM because you think violence is the answer is quite another. For Bill Foley, I suggest that instead of inquiring about losing friends, he should be helping his daughter more maturely deal with the kind of mentally ill women we ALL have to artfully deal with in the real world.

That April 11, my daughter was on her way to class when the roommate quickly approached her in an angry-and-aggressive manor. When she lunged at my daughter, Delaney hit her with a one-two punch. It might have been a one-two-three combination.

The roommate cried and ran away, and my daughter immediately reported the incident to her resident assistant. It was a clear case of self-defense, and the aggressor was not seriously injured. Delaney only punched enough to defuse her assailant.

After temporarily punching away her problem, Delaney Foley did the most threatening thing a person can do in a town like this, and that’s threaten (with Daddy’s help) to turn her private conflict into a public MEDIA SHIT-STORM by going to the University newspaper.

This came as I was reaching out for even more help for my daughter and the other young women. The school still made it clear to us that it was not going to anything about the repeated threats and sexual exposer.

So, my daughter and I indicated that she might talk to the school newspaper about the experiences her, her roommates and other women of the dorm experienced that semester. We suggested that, perhaps, the school did not learn its lesson from Jon Krakauer’s book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” that followed the weak response to cases involving sexual assault by the University of Montana and the justice system.

That finally got the attention of the Bodnar administration, and suddenly my daughter faced disciplinary action for defending herself from the attack. Instead of helping her, they figured they would intimidate her into silence.

Bill Foley’s entitled daughter might want to step back from politics in order to appreciate that she didn’t get arrested and charged with assault when she used violence to allegedly defend herself because, if she had been arrested for punching a crazy woman, I would feel as bad for her as I feel for Scott Wiener.

Ok, let’s move on to the Bankhead campaign’s attack on Kurt Alme for being soft on sex offenders.

Alme oversaw the case of Mychal Thomas Damon, who was indicted in June 2019 by a grand jury on one count of abusive sexual contact with an individual under 12, which carries a maximum punishment of a lifetime in prison, a $250,000 fine and no less than five years to a lifetime of supervised release. The average sentence for this crime is less severe, but still significant: 62 months in prison, no fine and 143 months of supervised release, based on an analysis of 2025 data provided by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Damon, 28, had admitted he touched the 6-year-old’s genitals. But in February 2020, Alme’s office filed a plea deal in his case that reduced his charge to felony child abuse.

The changes in the plea deal raised the alleged age of the victim from below 12 to below 14, stripped out the language of sexual intent and moved the offense out of the federal sex crime framework, meaning Damon would no longer be required to register as a sex offender. It jointly recommended Damon be sentenced to the time he’d already served of 324 days, and required only a sex offender evaluation. Alme’s name appears on the bottom of the document, along with a signature by his assistant U.S. attorney, Cassady Adams.

Let’s strategically ignore the name “Cassady Adams” because SHE isn’t running for office. Let’s also strategically ignore the fact that the ONLY reason anyone is pretending to care about this young victim of sexual abuse right now is because of the political campaigns being run.

If the Huffington Post, or Alani Bankhead, truly cared about victims of sexual abuse, they wouldn’t be using graphic details–like how the abuser digitally penetrated a young girl’s vagina–to score political points.

In June, Alme filed a sentencing memorandum that described Damon’s conduct, which included details of him touching the child’s vagina with skin-to-skin contact, and the adverse effect it had on her mental health. Local reporting at the time said the victim had told a therapist “Mychal touched me” and hurt her by putting his fingers in her “hoo hoo.”

Ten days later, Alme announced Damon was being sentenced to time served of 324 days and two years of supervised release. As of June 2026, Damon is not listed in the national sex offender registry or in Montana’s Sexual or Violent Offender Registry.

To contrast this case with the sex offender I’ve been tracking for years, here’s a local article that references Todd Spence’s incest conviction when he was arrested for meth in 2023:

According to court documents, Spence has two prior felony convictions including incest with a history of revocations, and a felony theft along with a partner family member assault conviction and numerous other misdemeanors.

Spence has a currently pending charge of threats or improper influence in official matters, two pending trespass charges in Missoula County Justice Court, two charges for disorderly conduct, two charges for obstructing, and intoxicated pedestrian pending in Missoula Municipal Court.

If anyone NOT running a political campaign can explain to me why the Missoula Criminal Justice System has been going easy on this piece of shit for YEARS, reach out to me and let me know.

In a sane world, those who harm children, or compulsively masturbate in public, would be dealt with in a non-partisan manner that addresses underlying social factors with the ultimate goal of keeping the public safe, but this is FAR from being a sane world. Using details of an abused 6 year old’s “hoo-hoo” is just the most recent example of how disgusting modern politics has become.

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