Ludington City Manager Equivocatin' Kaitlyn, Dishonest and Power-Hungry

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The city manager of Ludington, Kaitlyn Aldrich, has been caught in several massive lies which should have any critical thinking individual calling for her immediate resignation or at least contact their ward's city councilor in order to have her fired.  These frauds are fully documented and incontrovertible and will continue to haunt her career here until that day she finally finds the door out.

Honesty, honor, knowing your job duties are all important for anybody who wants to succeed as a public servant.  Deceit is never a good quality in an employee (outside of the lawyer profession, naturally) and embracing unlawful power that diminishes everyone's rights should never be ignored when committed by a public official.  This is serious abuse of reality and of authority, which is why I have taken a couple of paragraphs up front to highlight the sins of our city's chief executive.

The acorn behind this giant oak of a problem started with the erection of a host of "no fishing" signs down at the city marina before Independence Day, first discussed here in terms of who had the authority to do such a thing.  We determined that the signs were unlawful, if not by state laws protecting fishing on public land, then by a city code which described a process which was not followed.

After getting mostly ignored at a council meeting, sending a complaint to the DNR and getting a disappointing phone call back, and then receiving an email from Ludington City Manager Kaitlyn Aldrich making a lot of claims I did a follow up piece relating these citizen-unfriendly events.  Our readers noticed I had a pending public records request based on the response I received from Aldrich, pictured below:

This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request I sent was addressed to City Attorney/FOIA Coordinator Ross "Sewage" Hammersley and carbon copied to three officials that would be most likely to have relevant records:  Aldrich, Marina Manager Jim Christensen, and LPD Thief Chief Christopher Jones.  

The response to this was received by email just before the Ludington City Council meeting on July 28th, and it consisted of-- wait for it-- one police report which consisted of a complaint filed at the police station back in May with only one name mentioned in the full length of the report, the complainant, zero pictures, zero videos, zero trespass orders, etc.  

Before we compare this single responsive document with what Equivocatin' Kaitlyn wrote in an official email, let's look at the scene of the incident that happened.  Using data from the report, we infer that the picnicking family was at the table seen below and that the complainant moored his boat in slip F24, the unoccupied armpit of dock space observed in the photo taken earlier today.

Aurelio Henry Zamarron wasn't flashy, the report says his boat was a R14 Sea Nymph boat, the officer likely meant a 14R boat (pictured below), which is a 14 foot boat with the basics for a day of fishing.  Unlike many of the boats on F dock, his doesn't appear to be a charter boat, nor does his name show up anywhere as being a charter boat captain.  

Zamarron says a youth had his line/lure hit his motor twice, so one would think that the boat went into the slip fore (front) first on May 25 as it was pointed towards open waters, meaning that when he had motor issues the next day and theorized that one of the large picnicking adults was at fault for pouring mustard into his fuel tank, we are to presume that the adult went out on dock F, went out on the finger pier to get near the engine, got on the boat, opened and poured mustard in Zamarron's tank.  Why would they risk such action when Zamarron admittedly did nothing to provoke them?  

Regardless, as the only documented event that was responsive to my broad FOIA request received before the meeting of July 28th, it blew a hole not only into her narrative expressed in the email but what she said at the meeting (2:09:10 into it) where the city manager tries to explain to all why "no fishing" signs were placed in the marina area:

Equivocatin' Kaitlyn:  "... the residents who live in the condos there who were upset, there was families visiting the park who were upset, it wasn't just the damage to the boats, families with their kids and the language which was used, it was the destroying of landscaping, it was leaving bikes and scooters in the middle of the sidewalk and tripping hazards, if someone confronted this group and asked them to remove a barrier, it was a very strong aggressive language, and just a lot of strong interactions down at the park.  And it was not going well, so my first response was to talk with these kids by our police department and that's what they did, the next was to trespass them for a month-- and at that time a month would have allowed these individuals to come back for the Fourth of July, so they would have been trespassed for the month of June.  And then I felt hopefully that I had got the message across and they would come back to enjoy the festivities of the Fourth.  But then, what would you say chief?  Second week of June, getting close to the third week in June?  (Chief:  "Yeah middle of June") 

I want to say a condiment of some kind, mustard or something was poured in a boat owner's engine and it just continued to escalate, despite those tactics... and that's why we ordered the signs before the Fourth of July."

Accomplished liars, like Kaitlyn and the current police chief, should get better at their prevarications.  The record, or lack thereof of any names, trespass letters, incident reports, etc. signal that they are lying, here's a list of the lies in her July 18th email:

"Over the past several months, the City has experienced repeated incidents involving a specific group of individuals, primarily youth, who were fishing in the park and engaging in inappropriate and damaging behavior."  One incident report without any names or even a description of anyone beyond the word "large" contradicts this comment multiple times.

"This included damage to both City property and private property nearby." No report of damage to any city property exists, no solid link to a group damaging private property.

"Our Marina staff, the Marina Manager, police officers, and even our Police Captain personally engaged with this group on multiple occasions to address their conduct and provide opportunities to correct it."  No evidence of any engagement, which should be in the FOIA response if documented in any way.  

"Unfortunately, despite these efforts, the problematic behavior continued."  No evidence, no names.

"As a result, I issued trespass orders to several individuals from Waterfront Park." Aldrich believes falsely that the east side of the marina is part of Waterfront Park (see city code above), but trespass orders are documents and coincide with reports saying why they were issued and none exist according to the response.

"Even with those actions, the issues persisted, and we continued to receive complaints from condo owners, marina slip holders, visitors to the park, and others."  Zero documentation.

"The common thread in these complaints was that the individuals involved were coming to the park with their fishing gear."  This may be the least lie amongst these, since there was no documented complaints, they had everything as a common thread by default.  

"Under Section 38-63 of the Ludington City Code, the City Manager is authorized to establish additional rules and regulations necessary to protect public property and to safeguard the safety, health, and welfare of the public."  That section only applies to city parks, not marinas.

"After over a month of attempts to resolve these issues through education and enforcement, I made the decision to expand the "no fishing" area within Waterfront Park, limiting fishing access to only the furthest west strip of the park."  No signs of education, enforcement actions, once again, she confuses marina territory as a park area. 

Her statement at the meeting is totally unsupported by the record, many of the things stated would be documented as a matter of preserving the record.  It's disgusting that no other official will tell her that the marina is not part of Waterfront Park.  One can say that her attempt to wrest the perimeter of the marina into the Waterfront Park is done out of her sheer ignorance, this being her first year, but she should recognize that she has very limited authority in the two public city marinas and should acknowledge that at later dates so that she will only be remembered as a serial liar and not a power-hungry authoritarian who claims powers that do not belong to her.

It's definitely an unforgiveable amount of dishonesty to say what she did at the meeting even after the pertinent records were given out and found wanting for a scapegoat to blame the "no fishing" edict for.  If you want to assign blame to anyone, give it away to Ludington City Manager Kaitlyn Aldrich and her supporting cuckolds, LPD Thief Christopher Jones, who nodded along with everything she said at the meeting, and Mayor Mark "of the beast" Barnett, who not only defended her lies but used me as a whipping boy in his statement made at the meeting shortly after hers:

Barnett:  "This is not the first time the city has done this.  I don't want to sound like some geezer, but I remember years ago when the skate plaza was put in.  It was a beautiful facility, but there were kids that were damaging it and doing things that made it unusable for other kids.  And so the point is we taped it off and had kids come in and clean it up.  It's just a matter of the city holding kids, in some cases the parents can affect behavior change, requiring the city to step in and get them to do the right thing for the majority of the population.  I think to characterize this thing as a city doing this terrible thing to kids and present this overbearing sort of a picture is not accurate.  I think that the person that did that knows it's not accurate... I think to use this as another stick, another rock to throw by an individual at a public meeting is ridiculous (glaring in my direction)"

Sticks and stones may break my bones, your majesty, but the truth will set us citizens free from tyranny based on nothing but lies.  Let the children fish on public land, they are hurting no one, as witnessed by the lack of any documentation in support for the city manager's actions.

[Daniel Jensen]

For those who are chained to the whipping post before the kings court. Outside the gate of tyranny lies an answer to the Corporations Maritime Law, that awaits the one who dares not cross over. 4 sentences that will loose those chains.

"let the record show, Im here by special appearance, not general appearance."

"I move to dismiss for lack of firsthand knowledge and move this court to stop council from testifying on this matter."

"I move to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction."

"Objection: the judge is practicing law from the bench, assisting the prosecution - this is judicial misconduct."

For those who dare, your freedom awaits!

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You know, the last time that I challenged the jurisdiction of a Mason County judge was back in 2009 with Probate Court Judge Mark Raven, the dishonorable.  Even though I was shown to be correct in a later hearing before Judge Wadel, that did not prevent me from serving three days in the Mason County Jail for civil contempt when Raven failed to produce any evidence of his jurisdiction in the district court on the day he ruled against me (or the week thereafter) for the infamous time I was on my bicycle and failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign before I crossed through an empty intersection.  

That episode strengthened my character and my resolve to devote my life towards fighting against tyranny and corrupt officials in this community.  For Judge Raven, he would not seek reelection at the tender age of 60 in 2012 without offering any reason why to the media.  I honestly think it was because he knew I would be bringing his iniquity in this case and another one where he lacked judicial temperament to wide attention. 

Every time since when we meet incidentally in public, he has been a shrinking violet, even when I don't point out to my companion(s) who he is and what terrible things he has done.  When he dies, he will go to his eternal reward (or punishment) knowing that he put someone else in jail to cover up his own unlawful behavior.  That's a large burden to bear if you are an honorable person like you or I, or at one point in your life thought you were a fair judge.  Then you were found wanting when it came time to weigh your ego against justice and chose ego.

Unfortunately, this 2013 article has lost most of its links to a court transcript and other pics, but it gives a fresher version of the story.

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The Strawman Separation:
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From Outside the Gates of Tyranny:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16kGABMGD8/

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Military Tribunals Await:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FpoDQycvm/

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Part 2: The Strawman / From Outside The Gates Of Tyranny / Military Tribunals Await.

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