THE BIG LIE PART 3

232. Hello everyone. Like Ed Sullivan used to say, "We have a really big show tonight". Yes, I know I'm dating myself. I want to start off with a recap of the Blog 17 and 18 timelines.

233. I didn’t have much sleep that night. I knew there was something very corrupt, dirty, nefarious, (call it what you want) going on here. As I said before, all the stuff (emails, Facebook Messages, texts) that you have been reading in all the blogs were unknown to us. I didn’t know any of this until this year. All I had at that time was a hunch that Melissa Hyatt was somehow involved in this. So, below, is the email that sealed the deal. It came from my lawyer.

Parrish J. Jones

To:brian noel 

Fri, May 27, 2022 at 7:47 AM

I spoke with Frog yesterday. The city wants the license and aren’t interested in a compromise agreement. We need to decide whether to fight them on the 8th, or surrender and revamp the operations with an eye toward applying for a new license under Jordan’s name. I’m in Florida right now, but I’ll be checking my email periodically. 

Parrish 

My lawyer is referring to city council meeting on June 8, 2022 and the potential sale of the company to Jordan. 

234. My thoughts on May 27,2022



Coming off May 26, which I thought was the worst day of my career, this happens. I just kept asking myself “how can this happen”, “how can this happen in America”. Within 36 hours of a shooting that didn’t even happen on my property, the Mayor has stolen my business. I use the word stolen because I think what he did was criminal. I wanted to call 911. My whole body was just shutting down mentally and physically. I felt hopeless and helpless. What do I do. Where do I go for help. The press was going nuts with everything Palace. People wouldn't stop calling or wanting to talk to me about the situation. It was bad, really bad. The Mayor was playing judge, jury and executioner. This can’t be legal. That’s part of what I remember that day.

235. My thoughts on September 14, 2023

Over a year after the Mayor’s infamous letter to us on April 12, 2022 (see BLOG 1, point 12), emotionally, not a lot has changed. It has been very difficult to come to terms with the fact that the man who is supposed to be protecting us from bad guys, is himself a bad guy. I probably spend about .01% of my time thinking of the criminals that were involved in the first and only shooting on March 18, 2022 and the brain dead bozo from Blaine,Mn, the idiot from the non-shooting-shooting on May 26, 2022. But I do think about the Mayor 99.99% of the time. As crazy as this sounds, I expect the criminals to commit crimes. That’s what they do. And when they do, it’s not much of a surprise. That’s their “job”. But when the mayor of a city engages in what I believe is, illegal activity and abuses his power, that is surprising to me. To sum it up, since April 12, 2022 we stopped living and began exsisting. We are not the same people we were before this Mayor, a man we have never met, got involved in our lives. Below is part of an article I read and sums up how I feel about things.

236. My plea to city council

Based on all the facts I have presented to all of you over the last 18 blogs, and now with this, blog #19, I think it’s time for a call to action. Mayor Paine, in my opinion is a danger to this city and community. His lack of leadership, common sense and disregard of the law needs to come to an end. If you think what you have read over the past blogs is bad, it only gets worse. I have about 700 pages of documents to go through and this story only gets worse.



So, at the same time I post this blog today, I am sending city council the following email. (see below)

Open letter to city council

Hello everyone,

My name is Brian Noel. I am the owner of the Palace Bar. Ever since The Palace closed, I have been trying to figure out how this all transpired. On April 28, 2023, I started a blog called palacebartruth.com. The purpose of this blog is to explain truthfully the events that lead us to where we are now. Emphasis on the word truthfully.

I won't get into all the details in this email, but suffice to say, my research didn't lead me to a lot of truth. In my opinion, it is a story of a mayor (Jim Paine), who abused his power, to do a favor for a constituent (Melissa Hyatt). That favor was to close the Palace Bar. And he did. Frog Prell will say "well, they surrendered their license". But he knows better. All the details surrounding the chain of the events have been and will be explained in the blogs.

So far, my research suggests that city council has, for the most part, been kept in the dark about what was going on behind the scenes.

The purpose of this letter is that I am asking City Council to start an investigation into Mayor Paine with the possibility of impeachment. Another investigation into other city officials should be done as well.

I did not include the Mayor and his wife, Jenny Van Sickle in this email. It's not because I am trying to hide it from them. I believe it is a conflict of interest. In fact, I would suggest you read the blog, show them the email and ask him questions.

I will be posting this email in the newest Blog (#19).

If you have any questions you would like to ask or discuss with me, you can contact me through the Blog. I am the only one who has access to it.

Thank you,

Brian Noel

During my research, I have discovered that impeachments and recalls are fairly common across America. They happen at all levels of governments. From small towns to the federal government, from mayors, police, clerks and more, there are hundreds of people serving jail time all across this country. People who were entrusted by you and me to work for the betterment of our cities, states and country, that somewhere down the line lost their moral compass. I really hope that the Superior City Council takes my request seriously, give the 

Mayor a fair hearing (something he never gave us) and then decide his fate. I found this statement from a  Superior Council Member from several years ago online. (see below)

“The City Council has the authority to vote to remove the mayor from office”

Below are three articles I found that I found interesting and I would like to share them with you.

AP

Superior mayor faces likely recall

Apr 16, 2000

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Superior Mayor Margaret Ciccone, right, gets a word of encouragement from friend and supporter Al Pomeroy after a press conference Friday in Superior. Ciccone defended her record in light of a recent recall campaign against her. Calling Mayor Margaret Ciccone ineffective, a group of residents says it has collected enough signatures to force a recall election.

Dennis Lathrop, a leader of the recall effort, said that as of the middle of last week, recall organizers had collected about 3,300 signatures. The group only needed 2,908 votes — the number equal to 25 percent of Superior's voter turnout in the 1996 presidential election.

"We want to hit the 4,000 to 5,000 mark," Lathrop said. "This is one of the most grassroots efforts there is. We're working the Nikes and pit sweat off people."

Ciccone shot back at her opponents Friday, calling them "a community cancer." "When I came into office, I had a physical cancer. Today we have a mental cancer in our community," she said.

"If you look back on the record, when I started, there was a $50,000 deficit," Ciccone said, referring to the city budget. "Today we have no deficit. Our bond rating has been improving every year since I have been in office. We have the appropriate amount of money set aside for disasters."

The statement calling for Ciccone's recall cites the mayor's "inefficacious approach for leadership, her ineffective approach over department heads, her misfeasance concerning the rights of the common citizen."

Another leader of the recall movement is Richard Van Rossem, who lost to Ciccone in last year's mayor race and just lost re-election to the city council. Van Rossem said he would run for mayor if the recall goes forward.



"This shows a broad range of expressed disgruntlement with city government," he said. "That is why this campaign has been so successful. It comes down to a struggle between the corking class and aristocracy." Ciccone responded by saying Van Rossem is using the recall effort to bolster his own ambitions. "He is exploiting people who are discontent and using them for his own gain," she said. "He has been lying to the community a long time."

Dick Palmer: Superior recall showed people's clout

By Duluth Budgeteer

August 23, 2002 at 2:19 PM

Like it or not, 55 percent of Superior voters turned out on July 18 to end the term of Mayor Margaret Ciccone. The results of that recall election have been heralded and condemned by a wide range of Superior residents. It is apparent the Wisconsin Legislature may be asked to get involved in amending the current statute. No one knows for sure, but it is obvious a serious look at the mechanics of Wisconsin's current recall format may be needed. However, eliminating the procedure would be a mistake.

The vote was close, the interest was intense, and in the final chapter, the citizens of Superior took charge of city government and ousted Ciccone. It was a strong statement, and that, in itself, suggests a positive community awareness, something that is in sharp contrast to most local elections, especially special elections. With a 55 percent turnout, apathy certainly didn't influence the final results.

Our perception of Superior doesn't coincide with the mood of the majority of voters. We see a remarkable growing retail presence on Tower Avenue, and suggest the present city administration has been doing its homework in an attempt to turn the economy of Superior around. Most Duluthians feel Superior, in recent years, has all but succumbed, but the inner-workings of this community have never rolled over and exhaled a final gasp of breath.

Superior, like Duluth, has seen its industrial base erode through the years, and, in a negative vein, Superior has generally been perceived as the poor cousin of its sister city across the bay. The truth is, with recent retail growth and a maturing potential for educational and medical advancement, Superior, like it or not, is becoming a brighter star. It will only advance the potential of a developing Twin Ports market, coupled with renewed cultural, educational and medical excellence.

This is a plus for the entire area. Just south of here, about 160 miles, the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul feed on each other to provide a strong metropolitan base. There are well over 2 million people who support that base on a daily basis. Oh sure, there is competition, but in the long run, the Twin Cities image far exceeds the individual cities involved. 

By contrast, the Twin Ports seems to be regarded as a geographic image rather than the unified community that it should be. We have the Duluth/Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Duluth/Superior Dukes, but we wonder if just the name is enough to tie our two cities together in a number of important issues. There is a growing challenge to this. We wonder, would it make any sense to schedule a joint Duluth/Superior City Council meeting once or twice a year just to share ideas, discuss mutual interests, and seek regional solutions for potential growth? Maybe this is a dumb idea, but even dumb ideas can trigger comment and reaction.

Dick Palmer is the former editor and publisher of the Budgeteer

Even here in Nevada, we are having problems with some our politicians

VICTOR JOECKS COMMENTARY

DEMOCRATS love to use isolated incidents to paint America as systemically racist. They’re much less interested in rooting out the systemic corruption plaguing Nevada Democrats.

Three weeks ago, few people knew of Assemblywoman Michelle Gore-low. She’s a three-term Democrat representing the southwest part of the valley. Then the Review-Journal exposed a major scandal. A last-minute amendment directed $250,000 of tax money to The Arc of Nevada, a small nonprofit. Shortly after session, Gorelow became the group’s executive director.

After the public learned of this, Gorelow announced that she wouldn’t be running for re-election. In political terms, that’s essentially an admission of guilt. But Gorelow isn’t alone.

Assemblywoman Tracy Brown May, another Las Vegas-area Democrat, is the chief administrative officer of Opportunity Village. The last-minute amendment that gave $250,000 to Gorelow’s group also directed $250,000 to. Opportunity Village. The amendment stripped funding from the Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation. That group probably would have fared better if one of its top officials served in the Assembly.

Moves like this stink of corruption, even if they are technically legal. Adding to the stench: Brown-May is on the board ofThe Arc of Nevada.



There’s more. The Review-Journal recently exposed that Assemblyman Cameron “C.H.” Miller, a Democrat from North Las Vegas, pulled a similar stunt. Miller is the president and CEO of the Urban Chamber of Commerce. Sure enough, the Legislature then approved $100,000 for — you guessed it — the Urban Chamber. Miller initially noted his role and abstained from voting on the bill in committee. After receiving questionable legal advice from the Legislative Counsel Bureau, he voted for the bill.

But wait, there’s even more. Assemblywoman Venicia Considine, another Las Vegas-area Democrat, is the director of development and community relations for the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. Considine supported two bills that gave the group $4.5 million, including $4 million for a capital improvement project. Considine said she didn’t advocate for the funding and stands by her vote.

Notice the larger pattern here too. Recall all the Democrats who’ve been engulfed in scandal in just the past decade. In April, a federal magistrate judge issued a scathing order sanctioning Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones. He inappropriately deleted text messages in an attempt to cover up an apparent quid pro quo scheme. The scandal implicated former Gov. Steve Sisolak too. His fellow Democrats on the commission barely gave him a wrist slap.

In 2021, Alexander Assefa resigned his Assembly seat over allegations of misusing campaign funds. He later pleaded no contest to theft charges and received probation. In 2019, former Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson went to jail for abusing campaign funds. Among other inappropriate expenses, prosecutors said he spent at least $100,000 in campaign funds to repay personal credit cards.

There’s not space to detail the sexual harassment scandals that forced Ruben Kihuen, Mark Manendo and Mike Sprinkle out of the public spotlight.

At this point, it’s hard to argue these are isolated incidents. In a country of 335 million people, a few examples of bad behavior don’t prove much about the system. But there were only 28 Assembly Democrats during the session. At least four have engaged in behavior that looks corrupt amid a backdrop of scandalous behavior among Democrat politicians.

Nevada Democrats are systemically corrupt. Because they won’t clean house, voters should do it for them.

238. I want to switch gears here and bring you some news that I only found out about a few days ago. It involves Officer Jago and (good grief), Melissa Hyatt. Let me start with Officer Jago. He really was not on my radar until a few weeks ago but now he’s front and center. My first recollection, (which I covered in Blog 2, point 78 and Blog 3 point 81) of him was at that meeting in March, 2021 (the date here is very important). That is a full year before the ONLY shooting at the Palace. The focus here is Blog 3 point 81, when we spoke about Melissa Hyatt. This is an excerpt of that Blog. 

“When the cops told me about Melissa Hyatt complaining to the Mayor and Chief, I was totally surprised. I had seen her before, but I never met her and I didn't even know her name. I then asked the cops if they knew that her and her partner(now deceased) were interested in buying the Palace before I was in the picture and they didn't. I think they were surprised. So I guess we surprised each other that day.” 



When I got home, I told my wife that he had a weird reaction to the part when I told him she was trying to buy the Palace. It wasn't bad or good. I guess I was expecting something different. Anyway, I never really thought about his reaction after that. But a couple of days ago I received a thread from him and her that goes back to 2021. And then I thought, maybe that explains it. See the thread below.

239. As far as the thread goes, it’s the same old, same old. I think she has more videos than Blockbuster had, She’s getting more cameras, her furniture is vibrating, sleeping concerns, out of her head, taking videos, sending videos and light bulbs that she said city attorney Frog Prell. said “that there is nothing they are going to do”. If that’s true, what in hell is he doing chiming in about light bulbs. So, I will address the great light bulb scandal. We had plenty of lighting and one of them was not working. One of my staff informed me about it and I got them on it and it was replaced.

Nobody from the city or Melissa ever asked or informed us about it. Scandal resolved.

240. I do have some very serious concerns with Officer Jago as well as the SPD that will be addressed in the next Blog. I hope you enjoyed the Blog and I’ll see you soon.

Brian