Fare the well, for now.

This will be the last you hear from Tidings for a while.  The facebook page will continue, but for Dave Happe's stalkers, haters and critics know that he will not be the people behind the keyboard of the Facebook page (so commissioner, you'll have to tag someone else in your screeds in support of the mainstream media).  The facebook page will continue "under new ownership." The same is true for all of the community centric FB pages I helped build. That ownership will likely be anonymous, because nobody wants to deal with what I have dealt with from insiders and opponents.  I even had some nutjob threaten to send a claymore to my house which resulted in Sheriff's intervention.  Pinellas is a swing county, and the GOP machine and Dems play for keeps in this town.  For me, there was never a motivation other than betterment of the community.  

To you loyal readers, thank you for your words of support over the years.  As I go off to pursue my non-political interests, I want you to know that your support over the years has been significant and the fuel that kept us going.  You will see me working in our community on positive initiatives that are Jesus centered and eternal.  There will be opportunities to join me in that work down the road for a select and well vetted few.  If you are one of the few, you already know it.

For the few true patriots in the Tampa Bay area which are more of a remnant than a majority, they need you to undergird them.  It's not enough to send private messages from behind the scenes while people are taking arrows.  They really need your public support and participation.

The upcoming school board elections are vital.  You need to back financially and publicly Danielle Marolf, Erika Picard, and especially Stacy Geier (who is running against a deceptive trojan horse hard core liberal).  Vote for Vince Nowicki for county commission, and continue to pray for Berny Jacques and Anna Paulina Luna (and all of your government "leaders" whether we agree with them or not).  

I am heading back to the true private sector not due to the liberals (who I have literally met in court over their stalking and happily defeated at every turn) but due to repulsive, repetitive friendly fire from "friends" that kills momentum and movements.  There's no upside for me to continue this.  You know who you are out there, and with this loss that many will feel of local journalism, hopefully the stories will get out about who you are and how you operate.  The swamp is alive and well in Pinellas County.  It's just nothing that I personally need to deal with.  I can't unsee the things I have seen.  Life was better for many of us before we understood who "they" really were (and I am not talking about the Dems.  I am talking about the machine.)  

I am looking forward, not backward.  Taking the best of those I have met along the way with me, so privately that won't change.  As I shut down this page for now, I will still be there rooting for the real America first patriots.  People like Anna Paulina Luna are the hope for the next generation, and I leave this chapter not with regrets but with appreciation for all that I have met on this journey.

And to my intellectual property thief, Tidings Media is STILL a registered trademark.  

We were the news.

Dave