I had a great opportunity a few days ago to start an interview that will hopefully have a part 2. For part 1, you have to click this link, which will take you to Substack.
For a look at how collected and coherent someone being heavily targeted can appear, here’s a screenshot of me in my natural element, with books and Legos:
When I inquire about “following” me to Substack in the title of this post, it’s not because I’m planning to abandon Zoom Chron. Instead (and maybe for a modest price), I’m thinking of using Substack for the many pages of of unpublished writing I’ve done since last fall, which most recently includes a thorough decoding of Twin Peaks.
If you’re unsure about paying for content during these unsure times, maybe my appearance on PsyOp Cinema (episode 96) decoding Eddington will inspire you to cough up some digital coins for what I have to say about Twin Peaks, because I’m pretty sure what I’ve put together about David Lynch’s enduring contribution to “television” is significant to what’s unfolding, right now, in real time today.
Today, August 9th, when the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
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What do I have cooking for next week? A few things, including an example of when I’m wrong, and a prediction that I hope isn’t right.
It wasn’t just the graph on Facebook that reminded me I hadn’t looked at A Better Big Sky’s 990 form yet, it was the comment from Alice Boyer, director of Forward Montana, that inspired me to dig in for a little perspective on what the Piggy Bank run by Stacie Anderson is up to.
Let’s begin.
This very simply graph, and a pretty tame comment asking a question about it, seemed to raise the hackles of Forward Montana’s Alice Boyer, who quickly referenced being a young queer as a sort of identity politics cloaking device intended to evade and shut down a curious member of the public from asking questions.
I hate to break the bad news to Alice Boyer, but winning is NOT what anyone on the left has been doing recently in Big Sky country, where A Better Big Sky is throwing money around to Forward Montana, Big Sky 55+, and MontPIRG, among other groups.
When you follow the money upstream, to the 1630 Fund, you get to billionaires, like Hansjörg Wyss, who are willing to fund RFK for President before opposing RFK for Health Secretary, which is exactly what the 1630 Fund did, showing off its “flexibility”, according to Wikipedia:
In the 2024 election cycle, the Sixteen Thirty Fund funded efforts to bolster the presidential bid of Robert Kennedy Jr., then, in 2025, spent money trying to prevent his confirmation as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Axios wrote that this strategy “shows how the dark money group takes a flexible approach to countering” Trump’s agenda.
Another function of the 1630 Fund I’ll mention before returning to local influencers was first reported on by WIRED last August, and that’s the effort to bring digital influencers into the Democratic fold with a secretive program called the “Chorus Creator Incubator Program”. And, like Fight Club, the CCIP even has a rule that you DO NOT TALK about the CCIP:
After the Democrats lost in November, they faced a reckoning. It was clear that the party had failed to successfully navigate the new media landscape. While Republicans spent decades building a powerful and robust independent media infrastructure, maximizing controversy to drive attention and maintaining tight relationships with creators despite their small disagreements with Trump, the Democrats have largely relied on outdated strategies and traditional media to get their message out.
Now, Democrats hope that the secretive Chorus Creator Incubator Program, funded by a powerful liberal dark money group called The Sixteen Thirty Fund, might tip the scales. The program kicked off last month, and creators involved were told by Chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part. Creators told WIRED that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program. Some creators also raised concerns about a slew of restrictive clauses in the contract.
Returning to Big Sky territory, a quick scan and subsequent online search of just Big Sky 55+ should give readers a good impression of what local political influencer look like.
Ken Toole is the influencer from this screenshot worth scrutinizing because he was a Public Service Commissioner on the PSC, which is the agency making critical decisions right now regarding energy companies and data centers, and he was the founding director of the Montana Human Rights Network, which I connected to the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal earlier this year.
The other person from Big Sky 55+ worth mentioning is Executive Director, Trent Bolger, an advocate for keeping the courts non-partisan and victim of a literal political crook, Abbey Lee Cook.
In an interview after the hearing, an official with one of the political groups defrauded by Cook said the accountability applied by the judge was necessary.
“I think this is just a very good example of why anybody needs accountability, whether you’re the president of the United States, you’re the governor of the state, you’re a U.S. senator who breaks people’s arms, everybody needs to be held accountable, including Abbey Cook,” Trent Bolger, the executive director of Big Sky 55+, told Montana Free Press. Big Sky 55+ says Cook took $18,000 from its political action fund.
“If you’re not held accountable, you get the impression that you can do whatever you want,” Bolger said.
Ah, Trent, what an adorable sentiment. Too bad you’re a well-groomed Democrat operator who does literal candidate endorsements on your Substack while getting a paycheck from a “non-profit” where engaging in overt political activity, like endorsing candidates, isn’t allowed.
Further down, Trent highlights who groomed him, and how proud he is of that grooming:
I have been working in the movement/Democratic/union politics since around 1997-98. Over all that time, the Baby Boomer generation was in charge of politics, and as the Silent/Greatest Generation grew older and passed away, they gained more and more power. About 16-17 years ago, the Boomers started telling me they were getting tired and wanted a new generation to take over while wanting to support new leaders. Everything seemed to be working towards a natural handover of leadership. However, the rise of the Tea Party, Birtherism, and the historic losses of the pendulum swinging back after Obama’s win in 2008 caused this transition to stop. Boomers on both sides dug in and tried to consolidate power.
I count myself lucky to have gotten into the game right before this happened and to have had marvelous mentors who wanted to teach me the lessons they learned through a lifetime of political toil. People like Art Noonan, Dave Hunter and Linda Carlson, Pat and Carol Williams, Mike Meloy, Eric Feaver, Nancy Keenan, Ray Peck, Mike Cooney, Jorge Quintana, Bill Lombardi, Patti Keebler, and multitudes more generously spent their time teaching me valuable political lessons and providing guidance. They knew that by doing so, they would be lessening the load on themselves at some point in the future. Pulling others up the ladder is the way you build a strong movement behind you.
I’m glad I ran across Bolger’s Substack because it helped me understand why my messages to the law office of Mike Meloy have gone unanswered. I should have known.
I guess this is what we get when money is speech, lobbyists circle-jerking each other while pulling in paychecks from non-profit organizations.
Finally, I wanted to include MontPIRG in the grift-grab from A Better Big Sky because Seth and Chelsea’s pal, Jim Messina, is a fan of MontPIRG, and I’m a fan of keeping tabs on walking penis-heads like Jim Messina.
Well, if what Messina says here is true, then fuck you very much, MontPIRG.
With the final weekend before the DROP DEAD deadline of August 10th facing Montana Democrats, an idiotic HAIL MARY is being floated, and that hail mary’s name is Steve Bullock.
Democratic voters and political observers are pressing for one of two candidates to exit Montana’s U.S. Senate race before Aug. 10, warning that a split could hand the seat to Republican Kurt Alme.
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Neither candidate has expressed interest in leaving the race and speculation continues to swirl. According to the Washington Reporter, a conservative news outlet focused on national politics, Democrats are polling former Gov. Steve Bullock, who theoretically could replace Bankhead if she were to withdraw.
Pope notes that election rules permit such candidate swaps, though the circumstances here are unusual.
“The rules allow for these swaps, but now they’re doing them in a more strategic way as opposed to in case of emergency, break glass,” Pope said.
To wrap up this post, let’s remind ourselves that Bullock’s recent legacy doesn’t just include being a political loser, it also includes being a dark money hypocrite who was called out by Ochenski in back in 2021:
Speaking of political rhetoric, if politicians want to restore trust a good starting point would be to play it straight with the public. Unfortunately, as reported late last week, former Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock just went to work for a super PAC with a troubling “dark money” reputation. And poof, just like that, his “legacy” of fighting to get rid of “dark money” in politics vanishes in a cloud of money-fueled hypocrisy.
After becoming a hypocrite political whore (with a wife getting that sweet Siebel Montana Meth money), Bullock helped astroturf Montana with out-of-state propaganda for his pal, Jon Tester, another scheming political loser puppet-maxxing whatever waning influence he has behind the scenes of Montana’s Democratic self-immolation. This excerpt comes from the second link:
In online and print editions, the Montana Independent appears superficially similar to many other Montana news outlets. Its stories, authored by named writers and reporters, cover a range of statewide and local political issues, with stories containing quotes, context, and some original interviews.
But Montana Independent writers are almost all out-of-state journalists well-established in the progressive media sphere. (One apparent exception is Montana’s Richard Manning, a former Missoulian reporter and book author married to current U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning.) Some of the officers of the foundation that funds the American Independent are also connected to American Bridge 21st Century, a Democrat-aligned political action committee that receives substantial contributions from a dark money nonprofit of the same name founded by national Democratic operative and media figure David Brock. Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, is co-chair of the American Bridge 21st Century PAC.
For additional context on Richard Manning, Tracy Stone-Manning, and little Joshua, this post from May 2026–when Dick was getting the sads over Bodnar’s “independent” candidacy–is worth checking out.
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A recent article from the Montana Free Press explains how people on the Blackfeet reservation are learning to search for their own missing community members because the authorities in this part of Montana just aren’t good enough, apparently:
Law enforcement in rural and tribal areas is often understaffed, underresourced and tangled in a complex web of legal jurisdictions, sometimes leading to frustrations with the professionalism and pace of searches for missing persons. So when loved ones and community members go missing, Indigenous families and friends often conduct their own searches.
“We shouldn’t have to start an organization for this,” Omeasoo told us on the first day of class. She said she founded Ohkomi Forensics, in part, because her high school classmate Ashley Loring Heavyrunner went missing in 2017. Almost a decade later, Loring Heavyrunner has not been found.
“These cases should have been handled by law enforcement and the people that are supposed to be protecting us and serving us,” Omeasoo told us. “But we still have to keep fighting for justice for all of them, and so we’ll all just keep fighting and keep searching.”
When do local authorities accept help from outside community members? When they aren’t trying to keep things secret from the public, that’s when. At least that’s what I took from Guy Baker’s contribution to this MFP article, which gives, I will note, his new investigation and consulting business some free advertising:
A few days after finishing Omeasoo’s class, I called Guy Baker. He retired from the Missoula Police Department in 2025 after 35 years of service and recently launched his own company, IV0VI (406 in Roman numerals) Investigations & Consulting. Baker has participated in dozens of searches for Jermain Charlo, who went missing from Missoula County in 2018, and said that while community searchers have good intentions, “their lack of knowledge and criminal procedure can sometimes complicate the situation.”
“They could’ve found something, and we say, ‘OK, where did you find this?’” he explained. “But if they didn’t drop a pin and can’t find that location again, it’s not much help to us.”
While searches that combine community manpower with law enforcement resources are ideal, Baker said, they aren’t always possible. Sometimes law enforcement needs to keep a scene to itself to keep sensitive information or leads confidential. And sometimes, he said, community members conduct searches when law enforcement doesn’t have the staff or resources to do so.
Was the disappearance of Leo Wagner one those cases that local law enforcement was just too “under resourced” to respond properly to after family search efforts found a cabin scene with blood and clothing items Leo was wearing when he disappeared?
According to a CBS story examining this case, there were resources deployed by authorities in the search for Leo Wagner, but he remains missing to this day.
In the following days, the family was able to piece together some of what happened after Leo left the house after talking to members of the community. He apparently made a few stops at houses around town before driving to a gathering near Lower St. Mary Lake in St. Mary. The area is about 30 minutes from Browning.
Nicole says she, her brother Billy and other family members searched that area in early May and discovered a cabin in disarray. “We see all the blood in the window. We see all the blood on the cabin, and then my dad and Billy find the sock and a shoe he was wearing,” she recalled. Nicole told “Dateline” she isn’t sure what happened in that cabin but believes Leo may have met with foul play.
After exhaustive searches of the area failed to turn anything up, the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office came in with some toys to play with. Despite these toys, Leo Wagner has never been found.
In June 2021, the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office was brought in to assist with the search for Leo at the lake using its brand-new side-scan sonar. The sheriff’s office posted on Facebook that “although side scan sonar is never a guarantee, it significantly increases the odds of locating drowning victims.” The search did not locate Leo.
In early August 2021, NBC Montana reported that BLES announced that St. Mary Lake would be closed for nine days while it performed searches for Leo. Those searches also came up empty.
Nicole says that in the years following Leo’s disappearance, communication with law enforcement has been challenging. She says the family has yet to receive an official update from BLES. “We never hear nothing back when we report something,” she said. “Like, they don’t call us, they don’t text us or nothing.”
Another unsolved missing person case involving the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office from 2021–the disappearance of 3 year old Arden Pepion–provides a little context to the supposed “jurisdiction” problem conveniently referenced by authorities when they fail to do their job and locate a missing persons:
The lead agency in the search for Pepion is the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, but other law enforcement agencies have been assisting, including the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office.
Detective Justin Kambic of the Sheriff’s Office is working with Burd and other volunteers to facilitate the search taking place next week, with Sheriff Jesse Slaughter commending Kambic on his passion and leadership.
Slaughter said increased collaboration with tribes in the region, especially before a tragedy happens, has helped tremendously in finding missing people.
The lack of coordination among agencies has been a major roadblock in search efforts across the state. Burd said she hopes different jurisdictions will collaborate more in future cases and is encouraged by some of the grants being made available towards such an effort.
What I think this excerpt exposes is the best, most reliable excuse used over and over again by law enforcement to explain away their failures: they simply don’t have enough money to do their jobs properly.
When local authorities are FORCED to respond EN MASSE to a threat, though, the question of money is saved for later, like the 8 day manhunt for Michael Paul Brown after he shot and killed 4 people at The Owl Bar, in Anaconda.
After every possible jurisdiction in the entire region (38 in total) responded to search for ONE man who left the scene of the crime in his skivvies, Montana’s Governor, Greg Gianforte, had to swoop in after Brown was finally found in order to help fund the massive response. Then authorities attempted to HIDE EVERYTHING about the case by having the entirety of the case sealed.
Hmmm.
In the months after the shooting, local officials grappled with covering the costs of the manhunt and were exploring the possibility of laying off four police officers for nine months or increasing taxes by over 20 millage. However, Montana governor Greg Gianforte reached out to Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Chief Executive Bill Everett by phone and offered state funds to cover $450,000 in costs sustained by local law enforcement during the manhunt. In a city-county meeting in November 2025, it was decided to levy two millage onto taxpayers to help cover the costs of the manhunt.
In January 2026, a coalition of media organizations submitted a motion to access court records related to the killings, arguing that an order by the district judge, Jeffrey Dahood, to seal all legal documents in the court case following a request by Anaconda-Deer Lodge county attorney Morgan Smith was in violation of state law and “fails to balance the public and Press’s constitutional right to examine public documents”. Dahood denied the motion, writing that the press had not “established why the court should allow them into this pending criminal case”. An editor of the Daily Montanan wrote in response to Dahood’s decision that sealing entire criminal cases would set a “dangerous precedent” and that it was the “public’s right to observe that helps ensure that justice is carried out without the appearance of something clandestine or prejudicial”.
If hiding failures and crowd-sourcing solutions is the path forward, then I hope the “movement” emerging to help address this issue for Native Americans can settle on an acronym so the virtue-signaling whites with money know who the priority will be.
Is the priority just women, or should a “G” for “girls” be added? And what about “two-spirit” people? And why is the little known fact about men and boys who go missing not a bigger part of this conversation?
To help investigative journalists use the correct acronyms, and care about the right kind of missing human, this Global Investigative Journalism Network article is a great tool (please note I’m being sarcastic here):
Reporters have delved into cold cases, documented the disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous persons, and identified underlying causes.
This GIJN/NAJA guide provides examples of good journalistic work done in this area, suggests new avenues to explore, and provides tools and techniques that are useful in covering this issue.
In North America, this topic often goes by the acronym MMIW (murdered and missing Indigenous women) and sometimes MMIWG, with “girls” added. (On Twitter, the hashtags used are #MMIW and #MMIWG.) Largely unknown is the fact that men and boys go missing in greater numbers.
Isn’t it curious that this “largely unknown fact” about missing men and boys hardly ever makes into the larger conversation about missing Native people? Maybe Guy Baker can make this “largely unknown fact” one of his talking points as he appears on podcasts, woos Native women, like Nora and Connie, and gets the Montana “Free” Press to give his new business free advertising
Connie Walker, the Cree journalist who platformed Guy Baker’s failure to find Jermain Charlo for a national audience, discusses “crime-solving” in the Global Investigative Journalism Network article, and what she says is a good enough answer to explain public ignorance regarding missing men and boys than anything I could say:
Yes, being respectful is very important, and being respectful is probably something I was lacking in March of 2024 when I attended a MMIW/MMIWG fundraising event at the Butterfly House in Missoula. Perhaps my lack of respect has something to do with Lowell Hochhalter, the Chaplain of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, and his curious disinterest in missing persons cases like Rebekah Barsotti’s and Joey Thompson’s.
I know! Maybe, if the public gives ME enough money through donations to my new GoFundMe page, I can afford to take etiquette classes to help address my disrespect problem! I mean, it couldn’t hurt, right?
Did you know five years ago Dr. Anthony Fauci had coloring books and children’s books made about him? Yes, it’s true, but if you don’t believe me, here’s part of a book review from that time period explaining to terrified Americans that our heroes would now be the nerds in lab coats who declared their fealty to the new, cult-like religion called TRUST THE SCIENCE!
Over the past year, that expression has taken a more somber meaning than its usual, ironic use in meme form. Essential workers such as frontline retailer employees that are keeping us fed and medical staff literally fighting the pandemic have become the champions most of us now truly admire, while the fictional ones have ironically been sidelined by COVID due to cinemas closing for the better part of 2020. The real superheroes now wear lab coats, scrubs, and whatever Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available. For once, humanity is looking towards the nerds to save us, one of those being Dr. Anthony Fauci, the current Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and a literal Mr. Wolf when it comes to immunology and pandemics.
Closer to home, in Montana, a fat fuck by the name of Darrell Ehrlick spouted bullshit about a death cult from his perch editing the “Daily Montanan”, part of a wider propaganda project known as the “States Newsroom”.
Here’s a portion of Ehrlick’s “commentary” from September 23rd, 2021, to give readers a sense of what “health” measures this fat fuck was trying to impose on the population of Big Sky Country:
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte continues an approach to COVID-19 and governing like it’s some kind of death cult, insisting that personal responsibility will somehow cure the menace of disease, despite every example to the contrary. Just Tuesday, Montana lost its 1900th person to COVID as we speed toward the 2,000 mark.
Gianforte’s hubris, or as Demosthenes said better, his “demon of arrogance,” has driven him to call out the National Guard to help the hospitals cope with the crushing tide of COVID-19 patients, most of whom self-stubbornly refused the best medical advice in the world. Last week, Gianforte did nothing while at least one hospital requested extra morgue trucks to deal with the overflow of dead bodies, a sentence so bizarre to type that it seems surreal.
Yes, it certainly was surreal to have a global pressure campaign deployed against global citizens using every manipulative tactic possible to coerce, ridicule, and threaten humans into taking an experimental jab, but that’s what happened, and it wasn’t just Anthony Fauci who was responsible, as evidenced by the most important document that exists about what happened (before it happened), and is STILL HAPPENING, with pre and post-pandemic narrative control, and that’s the SPARS document (PDF):
Before I get to this document, here’s a link from 2021 that highlights how my criticism of the fat fuck writing for the Daily Montanan was taken by a local Covid true believer who can STILL be found on Facebook defending Fauci:
For those who might still be trapped in the TRUST THE SCIENCE cult, the odd fact that John Hopkins developed a very accurate script years before the pandemic probably won’t seem significant. But, for those who REFUSED to suspend their critical thinking faculties in 2020, this document is one I think we might still be able to learn something from, so let’s take a look, starting with the preface:
After setting the scene with this excerpt from the preface, lets jump ahead to Chapter 4. Here’s a passage that anticipates natural health advocates and minority groups resisting “THE SCIENCE’S” solution to a novel coronavirus:
An excerpt from Chapter 5 anticipates how “going viral” on social media would be a threat to getting everyone jabbed with experimental “medicine” because the counter-messaging could lack the necessary “empathy” to be convincing. After reading the following excerpt, I thought to myself, are they trying to teach psychopaths how to act like humans? (emphasis mine):
True believers won’t be disturbed by these excerpts because, for them, when there’s a HEALTH CRISIS, the ends justify the means. Critics, though, might appreciate how much they were being thought about before the REAL “pandemic” hit.
For the John Hopkins crowd, one strategy considered (and then used in real life) for addressing the “challenges” of communication entails using celebrities and experts to convey the official messaging. Yes, they really do come right out and say this shit, probably because they really do think you, the skeptical public, are that stupid:
While there’s more I could say about what this SPARS document predicted, I find this topic to be depressing, demoralizing, and ultimately counter-productive to the local issues I purposely focus on. The commenter I called out above, for example, is someone who I know mostly agrees with my local criticism, and he’s someone who has assisted me (to the extent that he’s able) with the lawfare I’ve been dealing with now for three hellish years.
That’s why I’m going to conclude this post on a positive note, and the positive note I’d like to conclude with is referencing the following book, one that ANY victim of the TRUST THE SCIENCE cult should read, because I think it will help:
Today’s post is about MORE than just numbers, it’s about a bathing suit called REMITTANCE that’s intended, as a funding “tool”, to provide cover for the body politic. Here’s how they do it.
First, it’s VERY important to conduct government business about the budget when the LEAST likely amount of people are paying attention, which is why I suspect Missoula officials use what I’ll call the “middle” strategy, scheduling the first opportunity to see the Mayor’s budget in the middle of the day, and in the middle of the week, and in the middle of summer.
For those who didn’t know about the mid-week committee hearing, here’s the breakdown in three graphs of where the 3.8% tax increase will be going:
Do you see the sleight-of-hand at work in the last two graphs? If not, let me try to explain what I think is going on here.
The second graph claims to be the parts of the budget that appear on your tax bill, while the third one claims to include ALL expenditures, with the additional $70 million coming from entities “with their own revenue”. Since the Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA) is NOT included in the second graph, that leads me to believe MRA is one of the entities, like the Parking Commission, that is said to have its “own revenue”.
Ok, but does it?
While this might be seen as quibbling over a definition, my perspective of MRA is that it legally STEALS money from the General Fund through Urban Renewal Districts and, unlike parking violators paying tickets, Missoula taxpayers in those districts DO NOT GET A CHOICE about it the way a car commuter can choose not to park where they might get ticketed.
The REAL fun, though, comes when you try to understand how the remittance strategy from MRA intends to cover the bloated body politic with a skimpy bathing suit that STILL lets taxpayers see how fat and disgusting our local government has become. Thankfully, for our elected braintrust, local media is more than willing to help out with misleading headlines downplaying the 3.8% tax increase:
Isn’t this an amazing example of local media manipulation? Instead of acknowledging reality, which is that the budget DID CHANGE by increasing, this KPAX reporter seems to be suggesting that a 3.8% tax increase is not a notable change to the city’s budget.
Further down in this manipulative article about the city budget we get this:
To balance the budget this year, a one-time remittance of $2.5 million from the Missoula Redevelopment Agency will be given to the city.
To simplify, a remittance is essentially a transfer of funds between different government entities.
How many times can a “one-time” funding tool be used before local media stops calling it a “one-time” remittance tool? By my count, this 2024 article about using MRA money to balance the budget makes it sound like Missoula has been using this MRA remittance strategy to balance the budget since 2022 (or the same year Engen’s Missoula came out criticizing Tax Increment Financing).
Hmmm.
In each of the past two budgeting cycles, the city has faced what it has described as a revenue shortfall. To fill the gap between existing taxes and the desired level of service, it has asked MRA to fill the gap by providing a tax remittance.
To do so, Buchanan said the agency has tried to distribute the remittance as equally as possible across its urban renewal districts. It also considered a district’s capacity to surrender funding, and any pending or potential project that might emerge in 2025.
To cover the city’s needs, MRA took a $1 million remittance from URD II and a $3.5 million remittance from URD III, or the Midtown area. Buchanan said that providing the remittance from the more active districts doesn’t currently place any projects in jeopardy – yet.
“Running government on the back of urban renewal districts isn’t sustainable,” said Buchanan. “But we’re fortunate as a city to have this tool available so we can provide the level of service we need to provide. Thank goodness we’re here. I don’t think anything will be jeopardized by this.”
“Thank goodness we’re here“, Ellen Buchanan says? Does she not know that Missoula taxpayers WOULDN’T BE HERE if their tax money wasn’t being siphoned off by her shadow government to run the kind of political slush fund that any mafia organization would be jealous of?
Of course she knows, just like Mayor Davis knows–that’s why Mayor Davis sounds so full of shit in one of the three clips I curated from last Wednesday’s committee hearing. Here’s the first one:
The second clip features a point made by Stacie “A Better Big Sky” Anderson about how Missoula fucks over schools with their remittance scheme tool:
While I consider Stacie to be one of the more toxic characters on Council, she makes a very important point here about the three-way bribe flowing from MRA to the city, the county, and Missoula’s school district, because the SCHOOL DISTRICT portion doesn’t even go to the schools, it goes to the STATE of Montana, since it’s STATE law that delineates how school districts around the state are funded, and understanding THAT process is even more confusing than unpacking the WHITE KNIGHT (Ellen Buchanan) riding in to save the day on her TROJAN horse (MRA).
Did anyone from the public register concern at this committee hearing in the middle of the day/middle of the week/middle of the summer? Yes, of the 78,903 people who are estimated to live within the city limits of Missoula, one person did make a comment, which included an invitation to attend a more dynamic meeting open to the public:
While commenting on city politics is fun and all, my Wednesday last week was dominated by court and trying to understand how there could be “rumblings” that I’ve been sighted in places downtown that I’m forbidden to be, considering pre-trial supervision knows EXACTLY WHERE I AM at every moment of every day, per my ankle-monitor.
This is important to consider because the PUBLIC MONEY at the County level includes the cost of operating the jail and other parts of “justice” system, which pays a County Attorney, like Mac Bloom, to pass along provably inaccurate hearsay at an omnibus court hearing.
I didn’t specify anything about the process I’m going through in my public comment to the County Commissioners. Instead I reminded the Commissioners about what the Sheriff’s Office did three years ago when they collectively sued the County to get more money for payroll.
I’m not bringing up the “parity pay” lawsuit simply because it’s budget season and the timing is right. I’m bringing up the lawsuit, enacted by the Reep, Bell and Jasper law office, because my sources tell me that the JASPER part of that law firm, Lance, is out.
If Lance Jasper fell off the wagon, like I’ve been told, and if he was forced out of his law firm over missing money, which is what the rumor mill thinks, then I think the timing of traveling down parity pay memory lane is perfect, since it leads to Mineral County, where David Barsotti supposedly died sometime last month.
Hmmm.
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