UPDATE below
The Globe receives unpleasant emails occasionally from people objecting to our coverage of state politics for myriad reasons.
We received an email this week from someone displeased with our recent reporting. “Mike Lunsford” emailed me with some pretty vile words to express his displeasure:
Katy: So you are what happens to ugly, insecure, semiliterate girls who had to *%$! daddy all through high school while mommy watched, huh?
Wow. Nasty message.
The Globe responded with this email reply:
Hello Mike: I’m writing a story on vile comments people post on social media when they don’t know someone personally. I’m going to use your comment. Can you tell me where you live and what you do for a living? Are you educated?
“Mike” responded:
Good luck with that, you nutcase. Ha!! I certainly hope you hit the correct target.
I live in eastern Prussia and I shoe horses for a living. My formal education consisted of a year of tutoring from a French-speaking babushka who hailed from St. Petersburg.
Happy Pride Month, you proud bigot
By the way, why do all the truckers on I-5 say your #@!&* smells like the rotting corpse of a raccoon? That seems odd and potentially unhealthy. Do you not have health insurance? Or dignity?
Yikes. I’m a bigot? Mike sent another email message before I could reply to that breviary of intellectual thought:
By the way, make sure to point out to your wonderful readers that gmail is not “social media.” Most of them no doubt are too stupid to get that on their own, so do them a solid and provide that service.
Have I satisfied your inquiry or do you need more? I can get so much more vile with people like you.
God bless.
And again before I could reply, he sent yet another email message:
Shit. I just realized how powerful and interesting and important you are. My bad.
How about I pay you $300 to forget all this?
I thanked “Mike” for his multiple replies, and said: “I’ll be sure to include your answers.”
And again he replied:
Sounds great. I love that you sent these emails to confirm. Again, make sure you hit the right target.
God bless, and have fun.
Clearly I have annoyed “Mike.”
Perhaps it was my reporting Monday on former Ambassador Richard Grenell, the first openly gay Presidential Cabinet Member who was honored for his accomplishments and stellar career in service to the country, by California Republican lawmakers. This was harshly contrasted by by California’s legislative Democrats in power who only celebrated the LGBTQ like-minded community during PRIDE month, made apparent when Republicans also wanted to honor accomplished gay members of their communities and legislative districts, and were refused by Democrat leaders.
Could that be the offense I’ve committed?
Or was it when I was in the State Senate Monday and I named the Democrat Senators who walked out of the Senate as Ambassador Grenell was introduced?
“Senators Caroline Menjivar (D), Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D), Henry I. Stern (D), Scott D. Wiener (D), and Pro tem Toni G. Atkins (D) specifically walked off the Senate floor when @RichardGrenell was being honored. Ahhh, the tolerant left rides again.”
But Wait! There’s more!
I received yet another email message from Mike titled “Just one more technical thing:”
Don’t mean to bother you more, as I am sure you are extremely busy and/or bored, but can you give me your best guess about when my story might appear?
I ask only because my mom always wanted to see her son in print, and me being quoted by you might give me a bit of relief from her pressure to give her a grandchild. Well, at least for a few days. You know how mothers can be!
Thank you in advance for your consideration, and God bless
Well Mike, please show your mom this article.
“God bless,” indeed.
My coverage of the incessant LGBTQ legislation and policy has solely been about the infringement on parental rights, and the exposure of children to trans ideology and “affirming care” to youth by teachers and school staff. Gender “affirming care” is leftist code for chemical castration through puberty blockers and sex change procedures, and often to minor children who are in no position to make life-altering decisions about their mental health, sexual preferences and gender.
Grenell said Monday at the press conference that anyone over age 18 can do what they want, but children being coerced or forced into gender transitioning need to be protected. “It’s child abuse,” he said, “and a parental rights issue.”
Coverage of Ambassador Grenell is straightforward – his accomplishments and service to the country are exemplary. Who and what people are is not an ideological name tag but materializes in contributions, hard work, diligence, accomplishments, talents and the execution of genius, expertise and skill.
Identity politics is a contagion and infection, and very unhealthy. It is used to unravel the very fabric of the American spirit and American value system. The volume of immigrants to the United States reaffirms just why people flock to this country.
Only a few days away from July 4th, Independence Day, it is notable that the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776, is a testimony to the nation’s ideals of liberty and equality and the basis of American pride. We are all different, hail from many countries, yet come together under one flag, one Constitution, and the values of hard work and achievement, regardless of background, ethnicity, country of origin, gender or socioeconomic status.
So “Mike” may disagree with why I value Richard Grenell and his accomplishments, along with the moms and dads demanding integrity from their school boards, and the female athletes objecting to biological males falsely claiming they are female in order to compete and win in women’s sports, and the parents of school children exposed to highly sexualized school curriculum when they should be reading Where the Wild Things Are and Dr. Seuss.
Mike may want to read these books for some enlightenment and joy – he sounds as if he needs some fun, frivolity, silliness and a few life lessons.
One final note: The motto in the California State Senate in the photo above, SENATORIS EST CIVITATIS LIBERTATEM TUERI, means “It is the duty of a Senator to guard the liberty of the Commonwealth.”
As Capitol lawmakers are supposed to keep in mind, “laws made in our Legislature can have an effect on the liberty guaranteed to all Californians.”
UPDATE: “Mike” again emailed Wednesday morning with this message for me, following publication of this article:
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I stumbled upon your website about a year ago and have been delighted to share your reporting with others.
You are a light in a dark place. May you feel the grace, peace and blessings in your day.
Media deregulation, via the 1996 Telecommunications Act, allowed bankers to consolidate ownership of nearly every media company in this country. It has been a disaster for independent reporting, including the day-to-day reporting from our state capitol. You provide a basic service that Californians, the people who voted in favor of Proposition 187 & 8 and many others subsequently "overturned" through hi-jinks in state court, hunger for. "Mike" is evidence you are having an impact.
Based on his vile emails to Katy Grimes, Mike Lunsford appears to be another unhinged member of the alphabet groomer mafia who practices the satanic rainbow religion?
The alphabet groomer mafia includes some 250 woke Hollywood celebrities from movies, TV and music have signed their names to an open letter urging big tech companies to crack down on anyone who doesn’t fall into line with the trans agenda, including advocating life changing gender surgeries on children. The letter was sent to the CEOs of Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and was signed by hundreds of famous names including Amy Schumer, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judd Apatow, Patrick Stewart and many more. (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/250-hollywood-celebrities-sign-letter-demanding-big-tech-censor-anyone-who-opposes-trans)
You forgot about George Soros and the ghost of FDR, my bigoted, cowardly, moronic and paranoid little friend. They are all out to get you. Boo!
Sounds like the old bitter gay Nazi queen is triggered? Go wrap creepy groomer self in that weird rainbow flag and ask for satan's help by doing some spirit cooking?
Satan loved you, kid 😈😈🇱🇸🇻🇳🇨🇬🤣
John or whatever his name has probably abused drugs, is on HIV meds and has probably gotten the experimental mRNA shots/boosters along with the monkeypox shots. His mind is gone. He probably won't be around much longer. Don't bother with demented trolls like him.
Ms. Katy Grimes handled this situation beautifully. I would like to express my kudos to an amazing writer and human being. 👏🏽
At they would say in the South, "Bless your heart"..!!!
As they would say in my family: Anyone who hates gay and transgender people are either hopeless cowards or ashamed of their own nature. How far in the closet are you, kid?
So, questioning my sexuality, right.? sorry, but proudly heterosexual and married for 34 years. Was able to escape the cesspool of California over two years ago.!! I don't hate gays and transsexuals as I know people on both sides, including family members. If you would change your attitude on your posts, and try to have civil discussions, you might find some better responses. Until then, bye bye Karen..!!
I always wonder if nasty little gremlins like our "Mike" realize how transparent they are. Oh well, maybe they are past caring. Seems like a pointless endeavor but I guess everyone needs a "hobby."
Agree with a previous commenter that in these difficult times Katy Grimes and The California Globe consistently give us solid, well-researched, fact-based news and a welcome perspective that so many many of us hunger for, are even starved for, in the vast journalistic wasteland this state has become over the years. We do see a handful of other bright spots, to be fair, but only a few.
Once again Katy Grimes has taken a pile of moldy, rat-infested straw and spun it into gold. Grateful to her and to The Globe.
Who is willing to brave the rainbow mob and advertise with the Globe?
Presently the mob controls the messaging with indoctrinated liberal arts children from elite universities.
These young social justice warriors are in control of the messaging.
Thank you Lord for the Globe and their staff!
Cry for me more, little wimp.
The left always accuses their opponents of what they are guilty of. So John, look in the mirror and cry a little more.
It really doesn't matter whether we live under one flag or one Constitution, we don't -- that is, the U.S. Government certainly doesn't -- or that we work hard and value achievement. The fact of the matter is that the government takes any amount of money from us each year and spends it on anything it wants, and all we have is the vote, which doesn't do a damn bit of good to change anything. This fact alone means we are not free. We are slaves. Hello?
Jesus fucking Christ you fearful, crazy little bigots are so damn stupid. How many other silly moral panics have y’all fallen for? You will soon be, as St. Ronnie said about the Soviets, on the ash heap of history. Count on that, especially given that most of you are dying off, and the younger folks are so much smarter and tolerant than you assholes are.
John Ekonumou's attacks on Globe readers and his reference to St Ronnie in his email reveals that he's an old bitter gay Nazi queen who probably suffers from a combination of AIDS dementia, mental illness, years of recreational drug abuse, and years of brainwashing by his Democrat propagandist masters? He'll find out soon what it will be like to be on the ash heap of history?
Mike Lunsford sounds suspiciously like John Ekonomou?
No kidding. Hope he doesn't think he's fooling anybody.
T.J I think you are right! It must be Mike.
ugly, insecure, semiliterate
Thanks for the tip-off, TJ.
Bless your heart..!!!
Two comments :
1) The title should be "California Globe... not Californian Globe"
2) Bless your heart, John Ekonumou... your Mom must be SO proud of the way you comport yourself publicly....