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Scientology Attempting to Revise Clearwater History

October 26, 2019 By Mike Rinder 38 Comments

After Tracey McManus' bombshell article dropped on 20 October, scientology immediately began their efforts to revise history. The next day, Freedom magazines started popping up all over the city. I wrote an article addressing some of the falsehoods Scientology BS Grows Deeper Then they began trying to make a dent in the social media world to cast the article as a bigoted assault on scientology and highlight the wonderful contributions they make to Clearwater. Freedom magazine has a twitter account @Freedommag and on October 21 they began sending out tweets. This is the tweet that is pinned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Church of Scientology, Clearwater Florida, CNN, David Miscavige, Flag Service Organization, public relations, Scientology, ScientologyTV, Smerconish, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Scientology BS Grows Deeper

October 22, 2019 By Mike Rinder 69 Comments

Scientology had this 116 page "rebuttal" magazine ready to distribute in Clearwater on Sunday immediately after the Tampa Bay Times bombshell dropped. It had been prepared and printed well in advance, with staged photo shoots and 116 pages of PR fluffery and outright bs ready to drop without the inconvenience of having read the article. In fact, it arrived in Clearwater mailboxes Monday morning, so it was mailed even before the article was published. A large percentage of the magazine consists of flowery pages of "I am a Scientologist" stuff. This is basically a rehash of what is shown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, David Miscavige Tagged With: Clearwater Aquarium, David Miscavige, David Yates, Economic Impact Study, Freedom Magazine, FSU, John Sugg, L. Ron Hubbard, public relations, Scientology, tampa bay times, The Aftermath, Tracey McManus, Trish Duggan

Clearwater Politicians Weigh In

October 21, 2019 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

An interesting follow up piece by Tracey McManus quoting reaction from members of the Clearwater City Government to her bombshell expose from yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the Clearwater politicos don't have much to offer in terms of how this happened to their city, what they think it means or more importantly, what they are going to do about it. They have been overwhelmed by a far more sophisticated and well-funded opponent that doesn’t care whether they hurt anyone’s feelings as long as they get their way.  Politicians in Clearwater in the last couple of decades have been more concerned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, David Miscavige Tagged With: Bob Cundiff, Church of Scientology, Clearwater City Council, Clearwater Florida, David Allbritton, David Miscavige, George Cretekos, Hoyt Hamilton, Jay Polglaze, Mark Bunker, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Scientology Has Bought Clearwater

October 20, 2019 By Mike Rinder 35 Comments

Tracey McManus' meticulously researched article dominating the front page of this morning's Tampa Bay Times is a bombshell. I doubt many people in Clearwater realized just how complete scientology's takeover of the downtown is.   This is why I have been supporting and promoting Mark Bunker for the city council. Scientology ALWAYS Comes First Why Elect Mark Bunker? And the urgency of this is further highlighted by a passage in the article. For the non-residents of Clearwater let me give you a little background that is explained in the article. It concerns the dispute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, David Miscavige Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, Mark Bunker, Office of Special Affairs, public relations, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Why Elect Mark Bunker?

October 2, 2019 By Mike Rinder 34 Comments

Tracey McManus article on the Downtown Development Board should be sounding alarms for the citizens of Clearwater. She explains: Three of the five candidates running for three seats in the Oct. 8 election are downtown business owners who are also Scientology parishioners. Three of the seven current board members are also parishioners: Stu Sjouwerman, founder of cyber security firm KnowBe4, whose term ends this year and who is not running for re-election; Ray Cassano, owner of Station Square Realty, whose term ends in 2021; and Paris Morfopoulos, owner of One Stoppe Shoppe, who is running for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Church of Scientology, Clearwater, Clearwater City Commission, Mark Bunker, public relations, Scientology, Tracey McManus

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