Pam's Mad.......Too Bad

Clerk Pam Childers fired off an angry round of emails this afternoon, directed at me.

She is angry that I told the truth in this blog and dang-it---she doesn't like that.

After I was completely exonerated of the ridiculous "crimes" the D2 commissioner and his secretary had baselessly and inaccurately accused me of, I requested the proof of the vindication so I could publish it.

The clerk could have (and should have) sent it immediately.  

It was the right thing to do.  

Nope--she instead wanted me to twist in the wind and wait through the long holiday weekend to get it the following Tuesday.

Thankfully------The State Attorney's Office provided the document that same Friday afternoon (just like Pam could have and should have done) so I could publish it that Friday Afternoon.

Pam didn't like the fact that I published the truth.  The truth is she and her attorney would not release it Friday--telling our attorney they "couldn't" release it.  Which is/was a garbage, BS Lie.  They didn't want me to have a win going into the weekend so they withheld this one document they could have easily released.

When they lie, I tell the truth.   

Pam didn't like that........so she dumped this garbage email into my inbox late this afternoon:

"Commissioner Bergosh,

It was brought to my attention last week that you have made some false, defamatory and damaging statements on your blog about abut me as the Clerk and my General Counsel Codey Leigh as it relates to the Grand Jury and your request for information.  I thought about asking you about this while at our most recent Board of County Commission meetings but thought I would give you the opportunity to address this via email.

 Your printed statement “… I have requested this public record from the clerk and she and her attorney have refused to send a signed copy of it to me”.

 Sir, I have not heard from you in many months if not years.  I have not received a request from you in writing, via text or a phone call to me or my general counsel regarding a record of the Grand Jury.  I have also asked my Public Records Center to look for such a request but there was none.  To write a blatant lie is disrespectful of a sitting county commissioner that should act in the most upstanding behavior both verbally and in writing.  It is my request that you remove this statement from your blog. 

PAM CHILDERS

Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller

First Judicial Circuit, Escambia County"

To which I simply replied:

"I made the request through our attorney, Alison Rogers, and she informed me that your office on that Friday afternoon refused to provide it.  So we got an unsigned copy directly from Greg Marcile.

 That’s what happened"

To which She came back and said.....

"To state “YOU requested and I refused” is a blatant lie and you know it.  So the County Attorney requested it on your behalf, an email sent and received Friday afternoon of Memorial Day.  Proper procedures were followed and the document was released Tuesday morning following the Monday holiday…. this is within 8 business hours.  This is a typical turnaround time for a court document due to statutes/court rules that must be followed, not to mention this type of document is not electronic but is a lock and key situation.  The request made had information appended to it that was not consistent with the document that we had in our files.    Once protocols were followed as to grand juror names, County Attorney Rogers was given the document…and she thanked us for it.  There was no emergency nor a request on your behalf. 

 Remove the language in your blog.  I’m sure you can spin up something else to write.  This is why I do not read blogs or free newspapers.  It’s a spin of the facts.

 Pam"

To which I replied (and recieved NO RESPONSE.....)

"I requested it through the attorney, not a lie.  It is a fact of reality.

 You don’t make demands of me, and you are not my editor.  The language is accurate as of when I wrote it that Friday.  Thankfully, Greg stepped up and did what you should have done on the spot because he knew it was the right thing to do.  I was exonerated and I wanted to publish the no true bill.

 I’ll tell you what Pam, return the unredacted backup of my iPhone you possess illegally, the one you bragged about having to staff at the SAO, and then we can move forward with a mature conversation about how your feathers are somehow ruffled over semantics.

 You might be the clerk, but you do not have permission nor do you have authorization to have the personal identification information on my children and other citizens  in those unredacted files you possess illegally.  Who all did you give them to, anyway?

 We requested you return them (through an email Alison sent some time ago) and you blew the request off…….."