Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain both had famous quotes that essentially said the same thing. A positive way to look at things related to human interaction is to say EVERYONE brings joy--people we like, and also people we dislike. The trope goes like this--"Everyone brings joy--some as they arrive, others when they leave."
Thursday marked the last meeting for one of the Escambia County Commissioners, Doug Underhill.
That brought joy to many. Champaigne corks were popping all over town I am certain.
But his last meeting was uneventful, nobody gave any speeches or accolades, he didn't give a soliloqy, and the meeting ended with very little fanfare. in my 16 years in public office locally watching a lot of last meetings--that really was a first. Most often--in my experience serving for a decade and a half-- when an elected official or long term employee leaves a board or organization after serving multiple terms--there is a strong turnout for the last meeting--with family, anecdotes, standing ovations, and multiple speakers lauding such a person's accomplishment(s). I saw it on the School Board, and we've seen it on the BCC. Not so Thursday.
Commissioner Underhill even had an agenda item to present multiple plaques to all of his board appointees most probably in anticipation of such a sendoff. He only presented one however---because only one appointee showed up. So the rest of his plaques remained stacked in a bag behind the dais. He didn't even think to recognize his most loyal, most ardent supporter and lifelong best friend and ally (and secretary) Jonathan Owens. He must have really been discombobulated due to nobody showing up to his last meeting. But failing to recognize his best buddy and out of town meeting attendee travel companion Jonathan Owens was a spectacular faux-pas.
Why are you always after Doug Underhill some might ask?
Answer--I'm not. I'm just playing defense against this guy and his lies, libels, and slanders hurled my direction over the last 6 years. He not only attacks me, but he lies about my family members to include my wife and slanders and libels her, me, and even my brother. He calls Commissioner Barry a thief, and says the most horrible things online about Commissioner Bender and May as well. Lies, lies, lies. He calls constituents "PuS*y" he calls students "miscreants and insurgents" and he is the commissioner who has had more public records complaints, federal and state lawsuits, ethics violations, and censures than any other commissioner in the history of the county. Now, the Florida commission on ethics have recommended he be fined $35K and REMOVED FROM OFFICE for 5 sustained violations.
So yes, his departure is just in time and brought joy to many. For my part, I actually felt sorry for him in a way. And the day of his last meeting I actually said a prayer for a peaceful day and I prayed for his family.
That was hard for me to do, I admit that, but I did it.
One of his most ardent, loyal, obsequious and vituperative supporters from about 12 that bee-hive online on a facebook chat site few look at even sent an email to me stating her displeasure about some picture she saw online that she felt was "Tacky, unclassy, and embarrasing" --she also included her number which to me illustrated she wanted to discuss it. So I called her back yesterday and explained why so many people were happy--and her response to me was "It's my birthday today-you're not going to ruin it, you are full of SHI#! FU@% you! she screamed as she hung up on me! Then she went online and said I was "stalking her" LOL. And then subsequently only printed a snippet of the email I sent back to her after she attempted to Dog-Cuss me out for having the audicity to return her call and speak truth to her. She posted a snippet--but no mention of her cursing, F-bombs, and histrionics--so it was totally non-contextualized and inaccurate. Not surprising. So I'm going to post my full response to her for posterity, right here. I tell you, some of these Underhill die-hards just can't see the forest for the trees...they would have been among the first to follow Marshall Applewhite on his magic starship meteor journey. But I'll never be anyone's pinata--I'll always defend myself and my actions, even as some may not like this. Too bad. My letter to this individual, after she said to me "You're full of SH!&!!!! FU#K You!!!--is below:
"Your opinion means nothing to me or anyone else. You
are irrelevant. You sent a BS email with an attack and I responded.
Period. Because I’ll always stand up for myself and repel BS attacks from
the likes of you. Remember, what is truly “tacky” and an embarrassment is
someone like you banging away on the keyboard all day long in support of your
God and hero Doug Underhill while lying about the other four of us that do our
jobs and get things done. Remember, your hero Doug has more ethics
complaints, lawsuits (federal and state) and censures than any other
commissioner in the history of the county—and now a non-partisan board of
impartial ethics commissioners has recommended he be removed from office and
fined $35K for 5 violations of ethics statutes. I guess all those folks
just “had it in” for Doug LOL. No, it’s him and his conduct only.
And now he is gone and spontaneous celebrations and champagne corks were
popping all over town after his last meeting on the 3rd.
Understand that. Now, run along and post this to ECW so you and about 12
others just like you can have it rattle around your heads. And, remember,
you contacted me with a BS email and your phone number meaning you obviously
wanted a call back—which I did. You just didn’t want to hear the reality
of the situation when I called you.
Jeff Bergosh
Chairman of the Board
& District 1 Commissioner,
Escambia Board of County Commissioners"
Never in my life have I run up against such wretched human beings as the ones who are drawn to actually post on the site, rather than laugh at it for the Bread and Circus entertainment factor.
ReplyDeleteNever in my life--not anywhere, ever--have I met such blackhearted souls as Doug Underhill and Jacqueline Rogers. Their miserable and continual malice is just jaw dropping, with her growing sociopathy being the Missing Piece to the Big O of his Dark Triade of mental pathologies. What a duo. The sad thing is that his mental problems have really fanned her flames, and now when she's bleating out disinformation streams over there, I honestly can't even tell if she's actually aware that she is lying any more. She truly seems to have corrupted her own logic by operating on a level of extreme cognitive dissonance for so long that she has lost touch with reality. And often now it seems to a large degree.
There was no more amusing "after party" to Doug's Last Night In Town than being amused by people who literally have nothing better to do with their lives than hang on a hate site and screed about people raising a toast. And they are so completely detached from any introspection or self-reflection that can't even glimpse that what they did was have a total come apart in front of thousands of views. Proving once for all that they truly have no idea the absolute spectacle they are regarded as throughout the area, by the small percentage of people who pay any attention to them at all.
And then there's Wendy bawling away about all the money they've had to spend defending their family from the chaos that they've sewn. Wanna trade money spent Wendy? (Especially after factoring in you don't pay your bills.) And rolling with the same old conspiracy theory about her kid getting arrested for acting the dangerous jack ass. It's truly frightening that the people who are so shameless as to *still* tie their names and faces to the toxic venture of ECW really do seem to believe whatever phantasmagoria that deadbeat match made in hell spouts. And Joel Cotton claiming he has to keep an eye on my Facebook as "the opposition" in order to "win the battle" or some such idiocy. Good Lord, I mean that is really how deranged these people actually are. I'd love for anybody to point me to *anything* in the last year that Escambia Rose and her deluded minions have gotten accomplished. They actually seem to have convinced themselves that they are "winning" simply by cackling at each other in that echo chamber.
Thanking the heavens above that I don't have to pollute my mind any more charting their disinformation streams. With Doug and Jonathan locked out from County business soon (other than whatever shit they make up), they'll have even less dirt to dredge up content with. Commissioner Elect Mike Kohler has, for the most part, made a wide path over there, although it wasn't a good look that he responded to a tag there from that Nazi sympathizer and raving village idiot Keith Bowe. Hopefully he and Steve Stroberger will stop running around holding court and start figuring out how the County operates soon, as I do hope they have a successful tenure, and am already enjoying letting go of the daily worry of what Doug Underhill Et Al are going to destroy next. Such a blessing after all these years.
Because of your arrogance and irresponsibility Melissa, Chairman Bergosh is having to clean up a mess you helped make. That picture doesn't look good for numerous reasons and should have never been made public.
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ReplyDeleteI was wondering about that presentation. He didn't even mention the board the man was appointed to nor his last name. I thought it was very odd.
ReplyDeleteIt was an event worth celebrating. Good riddance to a clown that did nothing other than making unsubstantiated claims against others and causing nothing other that hate and discontent. 8 years and he accomplished NOTHING.
ReplyDeleteSo much I’d like to say but I’m just happy he’s gone. His trolling tribe will have to search out another clown to rally and worship.
Even his tribe should raise a toast since he wasn’t tar-and-feathered which would have been much more appropriate.
As you I will seek to forgive and forget. - Already Gone
Mike
Anonymous 7, I would never dream of posting any photo on public social media without asking all of the participants if it was okay to do so. The only mess that needs cleaning up is ECW, and that ain't ever gonna happen.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I would so enjoy seeing Arduini get slapped with a suit on his mal-information that Lumon May was on that boat rather than a football field. Along with his lie that Mollye Barrows is still working for Levin Pap, and that she is not a journalist. Then we'll see where he tried to go with it if Lutimothy has to respond to a negligent homicide investigation as a result of all of their disinformation smoke and mirrors on a horrible drowning tragedy they are disgustingly trying to use for the twisted retribution schemes.
Are we still within the statute of limitations on that? Man, you really gotta be dumb to try to swing that in the direction of Commissioner May while claiming you're a friend of the good pastor.
Maybe when you guys are done with the last wave of making absolute fools of yourselves, you can try to get the DIB members prosecuted for open container next:
https://www.facebook.com/DogHouseDeliDowntown/posts/pfbid0PHYhjTU2RBoi2SyFvQNyYrCqjk6oBsyNFNAvZ4irfLLFMTDKa9pw2KbKii6mdrHUl
And then move on to everybody in this photo. Oh, earth to ECW--this is what joy looks like:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221066433586114&set=a.1009495793277
It's Charles Samson Jr that shared it and people aren't smart enough to know the difference between Lu Timothy and Lu mon.
ReplyDeleteIt's gossip. I wish it would be shut down.
Melissa, I don't know why you brought Arduini, May, that story, or ECW. I read it when it first came out and it is sad but other than that I have no opinion. Having permission to post a photo doesn't make it responsible. You nor I nor anyone else can tell anything from that photo downtown. I don't know what is in those glasses but the picture from Thursday evening shows an open bottle of Chandon plus you stated each of had a drink. That's minor in comparison to the interactions between you and the Chairman and you said jokingly at the podium you had champagne waiting in your Jeep. Then there is that terrible project just outside your front door that now the county will spend tons of money to repair. Looks like favoritism to me. Celebrate if you must. Take pictures to preserve the memory. Just don't post them online.
ReplyDeleteThe favoritism of JAR and PMs they won't release costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars in federal court is on display.
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So what about the photo. Obviously Bergosh is favored by many. He made a few enemies along the way too. Because he calls them out. So what.
And yes the shell project is a failure that why it is being removed.
Anonymous 2:24 PM,
ReplyDeleteYour detective work with your QAnon bread crumb system is truly amazing. How on EARTH did you string all of that together? What keen apprehension...my word, what eagle eyes and depths of acuity you have displayed in ferreting to the bottom of this conspiracy.
I brought up Charles Sansom and Alex Arduini's revolting libel on Commissioner May, along with Jacqueline's goading of that libel while trafficking on that tragic death again for her perverted retribution, because anyone aware of how that twisted forum works has seen the nexus of the usual suspects rapid-fire posting of toxic dreck in order to smokescreen his slinking back into the bog he and Wendy crawled out of when they resurfaced in Pensacola.
We christened the tactic Samson employed to re-OP that tragic story, and his mendacious slander tying Commissioner May to the drowning, "necro posting" many moons ago. And what all you lunkheads Jacqueline has twisted around her little finger to do her bidding apparently don't see--"People need to file police reports!" "All of you can go over to Bergosh's blog it's beneath me though!" "Oh I think that libel on Commissioner May was the ERROR OF THE OP"--Wendy has already warned them about: the worse they get with their outright lies, the closer they come to being sued for libel.
As Arduini is keenly aware, watching his response to a Levin lawyer come onto that string and point out his defamation.
Bloop, bloop, bloop go his comments, with Jacqueline doing her "**EDIT**" tactic into an existing comment--while not removing the post altogether of course--and allowing Samson's original libel to sit up top even after a lawyer's warning.
None of you are fooling anybody; it's all part of the same game. Please do keep at it, and perhaps it will result in Jacqueline getting her ass sued off for allowing participants of that forum to constantly libel the targets of their online harassment, as what she doesn't seem to understand is that, as administrator (yes we know she changed the look and feel of administration to make her *family* legally liable on paper, because that's how low she goes), she is legally responsible for allowing that content to stand.
Jacqueline, there's no reason to tell people to pray for your husband. People have been wondering what kind of a schmuck would constantly let you put your family at legal risk in service of your delusional ego for a long time. Just like Doug and Wendy using their own son for their attempted political assassinations backfired on them all badly, at some point you having your family members' accounts assigned to administering and moderating that forum could boomerang back on them if anyone you and your forum are slandering decides to sue your lights out. And just as Lutimothy could end up feeling the legal boomerang of your forum putting all that up in lights ago.
So have at it; do your worst. Because unbeknownst to you, your results are most likely to get visited on your own back yard as a natural consequence of your downright evil ways.
What are you talking about Melissa? Qanon, conspiracies, Arduini, Samson, and ECW. I think I made it clear I’m not involved in any conversations regarding the May family. I haven’t even read anything about that incident since the story was published this past summer and have zero clue as to what you're yapping about. Not only are you chasing rabbits but you are chasing imaginary ones. I simply pointed out it was a bad idea to post that photo online and you’re off on one of many tirades looking for someone you can tie a rope around the ankles and drag through the mud behind a truck. You have a serious problem with staying focused on the topic and hand. May I suggest you turn off CNN and MSNBC and seek help. Chairman Bergosh consider putting a double arms distance between you two.
ReplyDeleteK Uncle Q. Or should I say "Isaac Des Nuts" of "Edgewater." Nice tell on that puerile addition of drunk driving on your fake Nextdoor account. You've got quite a persistent associative logic with vehicular crimes and homicial racism. Just like that fine Sunday afternoon you informed Kevin and I that "darkies" didn't used to be allowed to pass the line from Beach Haven to Navy Point after dark, your voice dripping with nostalgia.
ReplyDeleteAnyone familiar with your special bent of sea lioning will recognize in a heartbeat the tired trope of avuncular concern, tut tutting people to stay on topic when they've just hit the nail on the head. Must be a dozen instances from just the last month dropped in your fevered quest to re-establish the Malcolm Thomas status quo on the School Board and in the Superintendent's office.
All you've made clear, in fact, is that you're a coward and a liar, just like the rest of the rabble you're scrabbling over to achieve disinformation dominance. And just like all the rest of the societal outcasts who have relished the fleeting status of It Boy on Jacqueline's board, albeit the degree of bigotry and lunacy in her coddled ones is growing apace.
My apologies Chairman Bergosh. I didn't mean to hog up all your blog space but watching Melissa chase phantom rabbits is both sad and funny. She calls ECW a hateful bunch but here she is trashing who she thinks I might be and is so far off I just can't help but to poke fun at her. Associating with the likes of her can't be good for anyone's political career.
ReplyDeleteThanks Commissioner Bergosh for posting the entire response. So Jann said F#@k you on the phone to a commissioner,after writing and leaving her phone number and Jaqueline won't post this blog over there.Jann was probably drinking on her Birthday after acting pissed that yall toasted the last meeting. Sounds about right. Lol.
ReplyDeleteSo Bowe has made his debut here.
Arduini still trying to say Levin law firm is a vendor and the 401a is wrong. Haha.
Mel stop,looking at it.. Note to self also. It wasn't actually a necro post though.
Wonder if Ron DeSanctimonius will win today. Most likely..
Yes, an HCP, a narcissistic and a sociopath walk into a bar.... then post on facebook.
ReplyDelete244 must be new around here as far as paying attention.
ReplyDeletePretty smug know it all attitude.
Start reading back to about 2017 for context.
"If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names."
ReplyDelete~ Oscar Wilde
"Si vous ne pouvez pas dire quelque chose de gentil, dis-le dans Français"
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