The World's Worst PR Guy

     [UPDATE 9/21/20: Just when I thought we were done with this whole ridiculous saga forever, tonight my family's been treated to no less than 20 harassing phone calls from this joker or one of his Cleveland-area associates demanding some post of mine, likely this one from three years ago, be taken down. As it turns out, however, harassing people I care about is not only not likely to get me to take the post down, but is also likely to get this post bumped up to the top of the blog. Don't ya kinda wish you would have just let this one lie?]

     [UPDATE: 9/22/20, 1:15: Over 100 calls and counting, as recently as two minutes ago. Apparently he's following the updates on here as well.]

     Once again, I really hoped I was done with the scandal involving our favorite ex-representative.

     But unfortunately, a consultant for his mistress's campaign decided to bring it back into the public eye, and drag us back into it.

     So, here we go again.

     The state police report came out a few weeks back regarding the investigation into the alleged "blackmail" over Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat's affair. And the results came out that Gamrat's husband was the one that sent the texts to Courser, who naturally went on to accuse the "bastards"... er, his ex-employees, of being in on the plot, which has yet to be proven. Of course, this is the same guy who told the police that Detroit News reporter Chad Livengood was the blackmailer, so take that as you will. Naturally, he wasn't happy when I called him out on that.

     After that, Lapeer prosecutor Tim Turkelson decided that Joe Gamrat's attempt to end his wife's affair did not rise to the level of criminal blackmail, so no charges were ever filed. One would think that would be the end, but if you think that, you haven't been paying much attention.

     Enter John E. Pavlish, owner of a "reputation management firm" out of the Cleveland area (what, was there nobody in Michigan who would take up this case?), who decided he was going to clear the "good" names of Courser and Gamrat. A few weeks ago, friend requests started going out to members of the various anti-Courser and Gamrat groups on Facebook from the aforementioned Pavlish, I didn't think much of it at the time, until sponsored posts from his consulting business started coming across my news feed, including one where he attacked Detroit News editor Nolan Finley as a "dirtbag' for having written an article blasting Courser and Gamrat. And any dissenting opinion on Pavlish's page was met thusly:

     You read that right; John Pavlish will send drones to spy on you and your family if you post anything he doesn't like on his company's page or say anything he doesn't like anywhere about his clients. This is where I come in.

     Apparently the "half-naked picture" John refers to was a picture the Toddmeister posted on his public state rep page of his son, gun in hand, about how he's training up his kids for... something. Probably to fight the "liberal on slot," whatever the hell that is. I'm not exactly sure who "everyone else" is that he wanted to get online to see him being the bully he claims to fight against, but once again we see Pavlish's main tactic, that being to threaten to expose "everything you've done since you were potty trained." Because clearly I have so much to hide on my public Facebook page and public blog, via which I've engaged publicly with Pavlish's clients. (Until they delete and block me, anyway.) As you're about to see, though, clearly he didn't do his job half as well as he said he would, as he gets several basic details about my life hilariously wrong.

     "National media show," eh? So far, the only people to give this loser any air time have been "Trucker Randy" Bishop and Brian Sommerfield of WYPV in Onaway, a far-right talk station in northern Michigan with so few listeners that one needs an electron microscope to find their ratings.

     So, apparently Pavlish has decided he no longer wants to have this conversation on record, which is most unfortunate for him, as I have no intention of calling his office so he can make his threats against me via phone. And as it turns out, I'm also an unemployed drug addict that's too spineless to not have his words be on public record. Which seems the exact opposite of spineless to me, but what do I know?

     And as it turns out, I was right; he deleted my last comment so that he would, in fact, have the last word. Later, he'd delete all of my comments, prompting someone else to suggest that I deleted my comments to make him look foolish, when in reality, he would have looked every bit as much so by leaving them intact.

     Because why would a public business, particularly one in the business of public relations and reputation management, care about it's reputation or the public's opinion of it? And if calling people "spineless cowards" and "dumb shits" was part of a "well thought out plan," then I'm forced to question how well thought out the plan was in the first place. Now, mind you, this report of his was supposed to finally drop last Monday, and so far, as of nearly a week later... crickets.

     

     The rest of his comments were telling posters that he'd never want to take them on as clients, which doesn't sound like so much a threat as a promise that most would be glad to have him uphold. From there, it would appear Pavlish almost realized the error of his ways and started removing posts, but at this point, the good stuff is already archived, including the time where he threatened to out another critic's MLive username, among other things, despite the fact that she'd never posted on that website. And, of course, the time he promised to go easy on a well known Michigan progressive blogger if he left one of the anti-Courser Facebook groups, while being completely unaware of the site said blogger ran.

     So, if you're still out there, John, I'm curious as to what dirt you think you've got on me or any other Gamrat critic that might be worthy of making it into this alleged report of yours. You have all my pertinent contact information, and if this radio show of yours does indeed exist (which I highly doubt), I'm more than happy to be a guest in studio at any time. Just remember that the internet does indeed go both ways, and the harassment done on your behalf is doing your client no favors.

     But it would appear that's a lesson you learned far too late.