Shelburne Goons deploy civil rights violations on behalf of the Bridge of Flowers Classic

August 2024....Look at this fucking screenshot!.

There’s Chief Bardwell, puffed up in his tactical vest like a steroid-fed mall cop, mouth open, eyes hidden behind those impenetrable mirrored shades, crowding my lens like he’s trying to swallow the truth whole. In the background, Sgt. Kurt Gilmore — glowing like a radioactive traffic cone in his highlighter-yellow vest — is squared up, hands near his belt, actively blocking my camera while the real aggressor walks free. Gilmore doesn’t touch the guy screaming threats at me. No. He shakes the motherfucker’s hand like old golf buddies and sends him on his way.They don’t even realize they are violating my rights. Therein lies the danger… they make their own rules.
Bardwell threatened me with arrest three separate times for the high crime of trying to bring a legitimate grievance to the race director, Mike McCusker — that spandex-wearing prick who shuts down our town every summer under the holy banner of “economic benefit.”
This is the exact pathology of a small-town police department that has completely detached itself from constitutional limits. When these guys step into a scene, they don’t operate on law — they operate on instinct, personal alliances, and pure institutional arrogance.

Hennessey last weekend: "I Just Have to Do Something About It"

THE PATTERN THAT WILL NOT STOP
On Katherine Hennessey, Zachary Livingston, and What “I Just Have to Do Something About It” Means Six Months Into BailBy John F. Sendelbach · May 2026

“When I see something wrong, I just have to do something about it.”
That was the line Katherine Hennessey was heard saying at a gathering approximately five days ago. Five words that illuminate a long-running behavioral pattern.
A credible firsthand source who was present reports that Hennessey was expressing open anger at Zachary Livingston — the man whose sworn statement is now the prosecution’s cleanest independent evidence in Commonwealth v. Hennessey (2641CR000158) and Commonwealth v. Batteau (2641CR000159). She was badmouthing the Commonwealth’s star witness six months after her arraignment.

Decline by Committee: all-white female gender apartheid accusing men of misogyny & racism

The Closed Loop of Civic Influence: Institutional Insulation on the Bridge of FlowersBy John F. Sendelbach · May 2026
I’m out here again in the pouring fucking rain, covered in mud up to my eyeballs, digging dirt like a man possessed to birth a native plant nursery — and those words keep running through my head like a broken record: “You are dead to me. Only when you call my name out, will I reawaken and I promise it will get ugly.”
That was the opening shot. August 26, 2019. More than nine months before the public petition. A 10+ year Bridge of Flowers Committee member, Joanne Soroka, sent me that email. Not a conversation. Not a disagreement worked out like adults. A straight-up threat. A preemptive gag order. A promise of consequences if I ever mentioned her name. She developed a bad taste for me and chose venom instead of dialogue. And it wasn’t long after that the whole committee joined in.
This isn’t about flowers anymore. This is about all-female power structures accusing men of misogyny while maintaining gender apartheid — a sentence so radioactive it should come with a hazmat warning. This is about a civic fiefdom masquerading as a public landmark. This is about a proprietary board that treats taxpayer-funded property like its own private estate. This is about an entrenched oligarchy dressed in pastel cardigans and laminated signage.
Let’s rip the petals off this fragrant little cult and drag the whole operation into the daylight for the autopsy it deserves.