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Posting on behalf of Kim Rosenberg 

Will Stone recently posted about the lawsuit he, Laura Swanson, and Randy Kugler filed to release the report of an employee complaint investigation. The fictional narrative might be compelling unless you know what the facts are and why both the Tillamook County DA and a judge denied the request.
 
The Council that put forth the bond measure for a new city hall is not the same Council that approved the city hall that’s under construction. Councilor Kozlowski was the only councilor on both Councils. Conflating all the past and present Councils into an unchanging monolith of Evil Government appeals to the conspiracy minded. I get it. I used to watch the X Files myself, but I’ve had enough conspiracies for a lifetime.
 
I supported Deb Simmons when she ran for office. At the time, I was writing op/ed pieces for the Pioneer which I was invited to continue on a regular basis. Most of those posts were based on the rules, laws, and procedures of city, state, and national government.
 
A month into her term as mayor and long before any employee complaint was filed, Simmons hired a personal lawyer to represent her personal interests. The city attorney for a town represents the city’s interests and provides legal advice regarding the business of the city to the elected officials. So, if you’re on Council and there’s a legal problem you talk to the City Attorney. That’s how it works.
 
I attended two executive sessions with permission of Laura Swanson, the Pioneer’s editor, and a friend of Simmons. After those meetings, I met with the mayor and encouraged her to resign. I later signed a petition along with other concerned citizens asking Simmons to step away from her advisory relationship with former city manager Randy Kugler. Swanson received messages from the mayor’s supporters asking that I no longer attend executive sessions or write about the city. I agreed that I was now biased against the former mayor and my relationship with the Pioneer ended.
 
I don’t care who the official is, I want them to tell the whole truth, obey all the rules, laws, and procedures of office, and take responsibility when they mess up. Simple.
 
An employee complaint was later filed with the City Attorney. He advised the Council that an investigation was necessary and should be done by an outside investigator to prevent a conflict of interest because of his role as the City’s lawyer. An employee complaint can lead to litigation and higher insurance rates for a city should it go to court, so Council did approve the privileged investigation. The City Attorney then hired an investigative lawyer to complete an investigation into the allegations of the employee. Investigations into an employee complaint are meant to protect the employee from retaliation and harassment. Investigations are not trials.
 
I didn’t report information presented in executive sessions. For the remainder of her tenure as mayor, I reported on the many rules, and procedures that Simmons violated, her failure to work with or even speak to other members on council, and the pocket sale of her home and move to the Wilsonville area five months before resigning. Staying at a friend’s house isn’t residency and when you move away from a town you are no longer eligible to hold office.
 
Contrary to Stone’s post, the report of the investigation has never been released to anyone and isn’t ever going to be. When the attorney asked for a privileged investigation before Council voted to approve, it made the contents confidential. It doesn’t matter if Simmons now approves of its release. It’s a privileged report and was before any investigation began.
 
Stone’s summation of what Simmons did or didn’t do, who filed the complaint and why, relies on a baseless narrative one can only assume came from Simmons. Innuendo and hearsay aren’t facts.
 
Stone, Kugler, and Swanson filed a lawsuit to release the report of the investigation. As a former City Manager, Kugler should know the City Attorney won’t and can’t release a privileged report and he knows that’s why both the DA and the judge denied their request. Why continue to ask for something you know you won’t get? Stone’s post shows how using the specter of a report that will never be released feeds the conspiracy minded. Council can’t suppress a report they don’t have access to. The City Attorney maintains the report’s confidentiality to prevent future litigation against the city.
 
Our Council and Mayor are all volunteers. They aren’t paid for their time or service. Often, the people willing to do the job run unopposed like Simmons. You can’t really claim a mandate if nobody ran against you. I believe the volunteers on Council and the Planning Commission do their best to make good decisions for town even if I don’t always agree with them. In a representative democracy we vote for the people we want to represent our interests. There are always people complaining loudly about government who are unwilling or unable to run for office. They’re usually the same people who choose to remain ignorant about what the rules and processes of civic engagement are.
 
On March 5 at the Council Meeting the City Attorney gave an informative presentation explaining how things unfolded and why.

Kim Rosenberg

https://youtu.be/M_FNs60R-AI  

And it looks to me that MAGA was MEGA fooled by Don the Con. Was it worth the gamble? In my view, the last four years were so utterly vile in every way, my answer remains yes.

The likelihood of Trump murdering Iranians for Israel once he got into office was pointed out by many: Does he look to end the Ukraine war (too late! They’re all dead…and he already declared his intention to steal billions of their minerals for the tech bros that put him in power and supported this war, many of whom are gay with no children, and I think the ‘no children’ part is important) only to let the Zionist Jews (as opposed to everyday Jewish folks) who run our wars and rape children (boys and girls) with Epstein (and Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner and Kevin Spacey and Ehud Barak, etc etc.) attack Iran?

Much like how Biden was allowed to end the Afghan War once he was willing to help the military-industrial-complex commit mass-murder in Ukraine and Gaza??? Gotta be dropping bombs on children somewhere…

And yes, Elon and Bezos and Zuckerberg helped put Trump into power once they realized they needed someone to get the MAGA folks to support getting rid of cash, accept nationwide digital ID (via ‘border security’), shoot Ellison’s mRNA ‘anti-cancer’ (yeah right) ‘vaccines’ for BIg Farma’s total immune-system control, and accept total global surveillance via satellite, now being set-up by Elon AND Peter Thiel (pay-pal mafia), the latter of whom is the one who brought ‘bomb Iran’ JD Vance to Mar a Lago.

IRAN DOESN’T WANT WAR and that should be obvious to every American, even the Christo-fascists.

Below is my anti-war film dealing with Iran.

The film was made because Chuck McLaughlin of this website brought David Barsamian to the Hoffman Center, where I met David and decided to make the film, which was financed primarily by an Egyptian guy, but also supported by wine-Dixie and Gary who’s last name I can’t remember, so if you like it, buy some wine from Dixie and tell Gary thanks! (they may not agree with much of what I write here, so please save your ire for me alone, not two local folks who were simply supporting an anti-war film at the time.)

The film is shadow-banned, blocked by CIA-run YouTube, had the audio corrupted once, is almost impossible to find on one’s own – and all this after I was followed around – Glock on my hip for weeks – in-person by some middle-eastern piece of intel sh*t as I was trying to set up distribution for the film.

Feel free to spread this as far and as wide as possible, good luck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAP74hAOx10

And Elon had already proven himself a liar well before he was us over alongside Trump, back when liberals were SO HAPPY about buying Teslas (which were mega-subsidized by Democrats to save the polar bears!). Yup, Dems subsidized the richest man in the world. Hey Elon, where’s the light shining on your Tesla/Space X grift in all of this DOGE stuff?? You got billions of our taxpayer dollars (from Dems to fight climate change! hahahahahah!) ‘Climate change’ is another scam from this crowd.

And, Elon/Don, instead of firing folks at Hanford, how about using your Mars-smarts to clean-up the radiation from The Hanford Nuclear Reservation that is presently spilling into Che’Wanna (The Columbia River)? IF IT DOESN’T GET CLEANED, and the BIG ONE (earthquake) finally hits the Cascadian Subduction Zone, THE NORTH COAST (TILLAMOOK/MANZANITA/ASTORIA) WILL BE AWASH WITH RADIATION AND WILL NOT BE HABITABLE.

Forget about surviving the earthquake on higher ground, your home will be contaminated with the radiation that we have been letting burn in cement casks at Hanford for decades. Will Elon and Trump work to clean Hanford? Doubtful. They have money to make and countries to overthrow.

Elon was so happy when his CIA buddies overthrew Ecuador, killing and torturing, just so he could get his Tesla minerals for 25% cheaper. (and this made YOUR Tesla cheaper, rich guys and rich gals.) What a sociopath. Ain’t no Mars work happening either, it’s all cover for his intel work, dropping satellites for childless-Peter Theil’s/CIA’s global surveillance network through Palantir.

And there is this: Are Elon and Trump readying to hurt poor kids and retarded kids at Neahkanie High School?

www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news/neah-kah-nie-superintendent-talks-budget-crunch/article_33eb4e52-f60d-11ef-bb6d-cbab6e5318da.html

If this goes though, I will also be done with this admin. We shall soon see. And we all know the execs at Seattle-based Weyerhauser (old east coast Yale Skull and Bones family btw) are not going to let the loggers or school kids get any more money out of our OUR TREES (research Railroad Land Grants), and there just ain’t many trees left (after Portland’s recent ‘green’ development hell of the last five years) in the Oregonian-owned forests to pay for food for poor Tillamook students and poor kids’ special needs programs.

It ain’t looking good for America right now, we are BACK IN DISTRESS, and not because of trannies or illegals being exalted over the rest of us in a divide and conquer operation, but because Elon and Drumf are on the same hell-bound road as the Biden-era. The Deep State appears to be getting even deeper.

Attack Iran and The Don will instantly be worse than Biden, proven to be a liar once and for all.
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Trump the Israel-loving anti-Christ?

We’ll see.

MAGA needs to wake up and not give this NYC liberal/billionaire-communist (communism for the rich, capitalism for the poor) Israel-loving Muslim-child-killing Trump and our DOGE master anymore leeway.

It’s time for MAGA to lead an ACTUAL REVOLUTION, cuz you know the Democrats NEVER WILL.

www.infowars.com/posts/watch-trump-make-nightmare-announcement-war-with-iran-is-imminent-the-clock-is-winding-down-to-the-final-seconds-before-a-major-israeli-strike-with-nuclear-weapons

Andy,
Wheeler

The very long and detailed article in the link below showed up right on cue, after “how to stay informed while avoiding manipulation” appeared for us BBQers.
There is plenty of opportunity to apply the six strategies:
1- Recognize the influence of algorithms
2- Understand the economics of corporate news
3- Focus on source evaluation and verification
4- Examine your emotional reactions
5- Guard against propaganda
6- Stay engaged

www.sott.net/article/498300-Reality-Engineering-How-performative-activism-enabled-mass-persecution