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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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Members of City Council don’t work their political jobs full time because City Council is not considered a full time job, a fact specifically referenced by Stacie Anderson in this article about attendance rates for Council members:

According to minutes kept for each meeting and recorded by city staff, Anderson has missed roughly 15 meetings between the dates examined, placing her attendance at roughly 75% since the start of the year.

Like most council members, she works a full-time job on top of her work as a Ward 5 representative. Her job requires her to travel at times.

“Because it pays relatively little, most of the rest of us have other jobs. Unfortunately, there will be times where that conflicts. But I try to let the mayor and the council president know when I’ll be gone,” Anderson said.

This quote is from 2023, and the “full time job” Anderson referenced wasn’t specified. Now, three years later, we’re getting some context about what Stacie Anderson does for money when she’s not calling point-of-orders and hanging up on virtual public commenters, like she’s done to ME several times.

Thanks to Griffin Smith’s reporting, I now have a much better idea about how Stacie Anderson is scheming to push HER political vision on Missoula through her full time “job” running A Better Big Sky. From the link:

Following the money in politics rarely leads to a sitting elected official.

A Missoula city councilor helms a political nonprofit that’s grown to a multimillion dollar operation over eight years. In 2024, that nonprofit — A Better Big Sky — distributed millions through other groups that spent on mailers, TV ads and canvassers to help influence elections across Montana.

Tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service show the nonprofit raised roughly $100,000 in revenue in 2018. By 2024, the group’s annual revenue spiked to $7.7 million, and roughly $2 million went directly toward political action committees.

Wow, Stacie! That’s A LOT of money!

One of the efforts that Stacie Anderson is directing a serious flow of money to is the bullshit effort to “keep the courts non-partisan”, a scam I’ve done my part to expose. Unfortunately I’m a broke blogger in the crosshairs of a serious lawfare assault, so I really can’t compete with someone tossing around a half million dollars like it’s nothing.

Data from 2025 has yet to be released by the IRS, but state finance reports showed A Better Big Sky has recently continued advocacy work.

The group paid $500,000 to the Montanans For Nonpartisan Courts ballot initiative in March 2026, which has spent more than $1 million on paid signature-gathers, Lee Montana reported.

Ward 5 Missoula City Councilor Stacie Anderson has served as a councilor since 2017, and in 2018 launched A Better Big Sky as its executive director.

The group has been successful in securing donors to fund other state and regional political nonprofits, such as Forward Montana, Montana Conservation Voters and Western Native Vote.

While Anderson has stood by her work as an advocacy effort, political analysts point to an unusual quandary where an elected official is atop a major player in Montana politics that, in effect, picks winners and losers in state-level elections.

If the hundreds of thousands of dollars that represent Stacie Anderson’s political speech are successful, the total farce of “non-partisan” courts will continue unchallenged, like what’s happening to me with the judge and county prosecutors who attempted to put Brandon Bryant in prison for ten years.

In 2020, Brandon Bryant landed in jail shortly after he brought a wooden Japanese training sword to a council meeting and criticized the use of special property tax money.

Prosecutors used that and an edited video of Bryant to charge him with a felony.

This week, three council members, Bryan von Lossberg, Gwen Jones and Julie Merritt all told the jury Bryant scared them.

But four council members and the mayor testified they did not fear him.

When Bryant was arrested, Judge Shane Vannatta set his bail at $100,000. He spent 30 days in jail before posting it.

While I’m not going to get into a lot of the specifics about my case, I think it’s relevant to explain that the civil process of asking a judge for a restraining order can entail making claims about the defendent that require zero proof in order for those claims to be considered by the judge.

This means you can say–as the petitioner asking for the restraining order–that something happened in a coffee shop that made you fearful and, if that fear is deemed to be the kind of fear a reasonable person would experience, then the “non-partisan” judge can decide whether or not a 1,500 ft circumference of protection around that coffee shop is necessary.

In my case, and without ANY evidence (like a police report or affidavit from the witness the petitioner claimed saw this coffee shop incident), this is what judge Vannatta decided to implement, along with three other TEZs (Travis Exclusion Zones):

I want this image to really sink in because it represents most of the downtown core, meaning I’m not allowed to legally step foot into the courthouse, city council chambers, the public defender’s office, the bus transfer station, or other places where I have products for sale. If Vannatta’s decision stands, this zone, along with three others, will be my reality for the next TEN YEARS.

The prosecutor in my criminal case–a criminal case enabled by the civil one ordered by the judge who called not mirandizing a citizen a NOTHING BURGER in regards to the fired Sheriff of Mineral County, Ryan Funke–carried some curious legal water for Kirsten Pabst six years ago by telling those who were paying attention why TWO alleged killers were let out of jail without criminal charges. One of those alleged killers, Johnny Lee Perry, was later shot dead by deputies with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

ABC FOX Montana is following up on two different investigations in Missoula — a fatal stabbing on New Years night, and an altercation at the Poverello Center that left one man dead.

In both cases, the suspect was not kept in custody during the investigation.

ABC FOX Montana reached out to the Missoula county attorney’s office to find out why. It turns out, there is no simple answer.

In both of these cases, the suspects claimed they killed the other in self-defense, but self defense alone is not a reason to keep a person out of jail.

Mac Bloom with the Missoula County Attorney’s office said he can’t comment on any current investigations, but he did explain to us that after a person is taken into custody, they can only be held for two days, unless charges are filed.

In many cases, the investigation takes longer than that, so sometimes the suspect must be released before charges are filed.

The suspect in the fight at the poverello is 29-year-old johnny lee perry.

He currently not in custody while police investigate his claims of self defense.

Did the police do a quality investigation into the dead homeless man (Sean Stevenson) who Johnny Lee Perry claimed he was defending himself against when the violence occurred inside the Poverello Center, where I used to work? No, because if they HAD, well, the last six years of my life would look VERY different.

I’ll leave it there, for now.

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In 1948 Leslie Fiedler made a big splash in the academic world by suggesting Huck Finn was gay in an essay originally published by the Partisan Review, a publication discovered to have been partially funded by the CIA–a fact so well known at this point it’s even a part of the Partisan Review’s Wikipedia page:

Although vehemently denied by founding editor William Phillips, following the fall of the Soviet Union it was revealed that Partisan Review was the recipient of money from the Central Intelligence Agency as part of its effort to shape intellectual opinion in the so-called “cultural cold war”. In 1953, the magazine found itself in financial difficulties, when one of its primary backstage financial backers, Allan D. Dowling, became embroiled in a costly divorce proceeding. The financial shortfall was made up by a $2,500 grant from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF), a CIA front organization on the executive board of which editor Phillips sat throughout the decade of the 1950s.

Additional CIA money came later in the 1950s. When the ACCF terminated its operations, half of the money remaining in the organization’s coffers was transferred to Partisan Review. Additional funds came to the magazine to alleviate its financial problems in the 1950s in the form of a $10,000 donation from Time magazine publisher Henry Luce. Luce seems to have been instrumental in expediting contacts between PR publisher Phillips and Director of Central Intelligence Walter Bedell Smith.

Projecting sexuality onto minors–specifically positing the subtext of homoeroticism regarding Huck Finn’s relationship with Jim–wasn’t a one-off for Fiedler, as we shall see regarding this cultural “leader” who spent decades developing Missoula’s humanities program.

After his military service, he joined the faculty of Montana State University. He was appointed chairman of the English department and also became director of humanities studies during his 23 years on the faculty.

Several of his early essays explored the theme of assimilation in Jewish American literature, a topic close to him and several of his Jewish American friends who were up-and-coming authors at the time, among them Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow.

“More than anything, Fiedler was a ‘50s Jewish intellectual who claimed this country as his own, just as Philip Roth and Norman Mailer did,” said Greil Marcus, a critic based in Northern California.

Thirty years after speculating about Huck’s sexual feelings for negro Jim in the CIA/Partisan Review, Fiedler published Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self. Here’s how the New York Times helped frame this book in 1978:

Before anything else, says Fiedler, freaks pose a challenge, a threat to those fragile boundaries upon which our sanity, our sense of identity, our distinctions between reality and fantasy, depend. Midgets, for example, upset our sense of scale:We ‘see-in-them ourselves when we played the dwarf to parental giants. We pretend they are like children, although Ateliotic Midgets age quickly (as though,time shrank to their size), so we see them as old children, childish oldsters, so we see through the man to the unsocialized child who fathered him. Achondroplastic Dwarfs, with their large heads, small limbs and brawny torsos, seem like legendary fantasies of appetite and mischief come out of their grottoes to walk among us in modern dress.

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Hermaphrodites epitomize the pornographic allure of all side shows, their kinship to peep shows. In that allure are the kinks of deformity and the solicitations of otherness, which draws white to black, Gentile to Jew, rustic to city slicker, old to young and men to women and women to men. But since “the Cultural Revolution of 1968,” which Fiedler thinks led to a radical alteration of consciousness, we have come to see our secret fears and desires embodied in the Hermaphrodite more than in any other freak, except for the Geek, that bogus cannibal, the character in the side show who bites the heads off chickens and rats and eats them, too. Since the 60’s, says Fiedler, “We have all become a little Freakified.”

To better understand where this Jewish freak is coming from, let’s consult some of Fiedler’s actual thoughts about the “erotic nature” of children from his book:

Do I need to remind readers how much Jeffrey Epstein appreciated Nobokov’s book? Or would you like the New York Times to do an outrage LARP?

To bring this history lesson back to our present day, a recent op-ed supporting Humanities Montana in the Missoula Current tried striking a positive note for the organization amidst drastic funding cuts:

June has arrived with plenty of reasons for optimism at Humanities Montana. Before sharing a few updates from around the organization, I want to thank the many people who have supported our work during a year of transition and change. Whether you have attended a program, hosted an event, made a donation, volunteered your time, or simply encouraged our work, thank you. Your support has helped Humanities Montana continue serving communities across the state, and I am deeply grateful to you.

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This spring also brought encouraging news for Humanities Montana. We received access to a portion of our federal funding through the National Endowment for the Humanities, providing important support as we continue rebuilding our organization and strengthening programs and partnerships across Montana. While Congress approved funding for the nation’s humanities councils earlier this year, the amount currently available to Humanities Montana represents only a portion of our full federal allocation.

As a result, the long-term landscape for federal humanities funding remains uncertain.

What does Humanities Montana do with their funding? They teach teens about Democracy, which I’m sure they do in a very non-partisan way, right?

Is Precious McKenzie running her 2026 campaign as a Republican? Of course not. She’s a member of Slaven Lee’s party, the party that demands millions of dollars in local bond money for their trillion dollar library so they can turn it over to drug addicts and sex offenders.

To wrap up today’s post I’ll link to some of the library articles I’ve written over the last few years as Missoula descends deeper into its subterranean layer of apocalyptic retardation never before seen at these frightening levels! And remember, if you’d like to support my citizen journalism (which is definitely under attack) please click on my GoFundMe link and consider giving a donation today, like the $50 dollar one I just received from a generous donor! Thank you!

Now, here’s the list of library posts:

“On Enduring The Missoula Democrat Mayoral Candidate Forum In The Trillion Dollar Library” (August 1st, 2023)

“My Lego Meth Lab Vs. Their Library DNA Climber” (July 12th, 2024)

“A Dose Of Hope? How About A Dose Of NOPE!” (March 17th, 2025)

“While Missoula Becomes A Hub For VIPs, The Library Continues To Be A Hub Of Embarrassment” (June 5th, 2025)

“Who Supports Urine Testing Library Board Members And MRA Board Members For Being High AF?” (September 17th, 2025)

“More Library! More Virtue-Signaling! More Happy Smiles!” (December 16th, 2025)

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Before a progressive blogger calling himself “The Rooster” got arrested earlier this month in Ohio, the statute used against him–the telecommunication harassment statute–was being used against another Ohioan because he wouldn’t stop emailing a woman about her treasurer role. Seriously.

A Cincinnati-area Republican political operative recently convinced a federal court that Ohio’s telecommunications harassment statute is unconstitutional, at least as applied to his case. But the court refused to throw out the statute entirely.

Plaintiff Christopher R. Hicks is a member of the central and executive committee of the Clermont County Republican party. This case concerns email communications sent to Jeannie Zurmehly, who holds public office as the Clermont County treasurer.

Hicks sent emails to Zurmehly’s government email address raising concerns about Zurmehly’s role as treasurer of the Clermont County Republican party.

Zurmehly objected to Hicks using her government email for matters that she deemed unrelated to her public office and asked him to stop. Hicks persisted.

In April 2020, Zurmehly filed an offense report with the Clermont County sheriff’s office, seeking to press criminal charges for telecommunications harassment under Ohio law. Based on a clear conflict of interest, the Clermont County prosecutor’s office referred the matter to a special prosecutor with the Ohio attorney general’s office.

Getting charged with “telecommunications harassment” is a serious misdemeanor in Ohio, and will earn you a felony for a second offense. Here’s more context on the evolution of harassment law in Ohio, and its expanded application in this particular scenario against a constituent by a public official who didn’t like the emails she was getting:

In 1999, the title of the statute was changed to “Telecommunications [H]arassment,” and the word “telecommunication” was substituted for “telephone call.” An initial violation of § 2917.21(A)(5) constitutes a criminal misdemeanor in the first degree, but a subsequent violation is a fifth-degree felony punishable by a fine up to $2,500.00 and imprisonment of between six and twelve months.

Hicks argued that the statute was unconstitutional as applied to his case, because the state sought to apply §2917.21(A)(5) based solely on the content of Hicks’ emails; and the state sought to expand the use of a “harassment” law to shut down email communication from a constituent to his elected official at her government email address that is not threatening, abusive, intimidating or otherwise “harassing” in any traditional sense of the word.

The court agreed. It noted first that the enforcement of the statute in this case was based on the content of the emails. As it noted, “[the state] puts an unmistakable content-based gloss on the application of § 2917.21(A)(5) to the emails at issue, declaring them as violative of § 2917.21(A)(6) by reference to whether they concern ‘nongovernment business,’ as defined by Zurmehly . . .”

The court was also troubled by the fact that the email was a government email address used by a governmental official. As the court noted, “[the] cases do not support applying the statute to a government email that, by all accounts, is regularly used by Zurmehly and constituents alike to communicate about matters of public concern and/or to petition the county treasurer.” In short, it would not serve the interests of the First Amendment to allow an elected official to make the rules about what someone could talk about on an official account, and criminally prosecute people who failed to abide.

But the court declined to find that the statute was “facially” unconstitutional. In the court’s view, the statute did not violate the Constitution in all circumstances. In considering a facial challenge, the court should strike down a statute that proscribes a substantial amount of protected speech.

Ok, now that you know the kind of telecommunication behavior deemed NOT harassment after public dollars were wasted in the failed criminal prosecution of a male constituent because a female treasurer was eager to claim victimhood and use lawfare to destroy him, let’s check out the legal fallout from the criminal Shrek dick pic that initiated the most recent deployment of Telecommunication Harassment in Ohio.

The founder of The Rooster, a prominent progressive newsletter that regularly criticizes Ohio’s political establishment, was arrested at the Statehouse on Monday.

Officials charged Donald “DJ” Byrnes with a misdemeanor charge of telecommunications harassment. Ohio State Highway Patrol Sgt. Tyler Ross, a patrol spokesperson, said Byrnes was arrested at the Statehouse on a warrant entered by the police department in Kirtland, a small city in Lake County, near Cleveland.

Records show Byrnes is being held in jail by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office as of 6 p.m. Monday on a misdemeanor offense. The records indicate he’s being held on behalf of officials in Lake County, near Cleveland.

Specifics about the charges are not available on the Willoughby Municipal Court’s website as of Monday evening.

For more on the alleged text exchange that provided the justification for the arrest warrant, here’s an excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch:

The Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested him June 1 at the statehouse on an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor. The warrant was signed by Willoughby Municipal Court Judge Marisa L. Cornachio, who is running for an appeals court seat and has been endorsed by State Sen. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland.

Littman said he believes the case stems from Byrnes texting Cirino a photo of cartoon character Shrek’s penis. The warrant says Byrnes allegedly texted

Littman shared what he said was a text exchange between Byrnes and Cirino that included a naked Shrek. Cirino’s alleged reply was “I don’t know who this is but I’m certain you’re a moron.”

Cirino declined to comment on the case.

While Cirino declined to comment, the same can’t be said for Ohio’s Governor, Vivek Ramaswamy, who suggested this blogger has mental health issues, as reported by Signal Cleveland:

This case should be interesting to follow as the tactics of lawfare become more and more common across the country. Hopefully, if I don’t get too bogged down with my own First Amendment challenges, I’ll remember to check back in on this case in a few months.

If you would like to help a much less partisan (but no less prosecuted) blogger, like myself, here’s the GoFundMe link I’m using to raise funds now that I’m facing another criminal charge of violating an order of protection:

Thanks for reading!