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January 08, 2011

Sockpuppet Exposed: Lurleen Blogovitch as Laurel Ramseyer

A puzzling, interesting and to many seemingly psychotic turn of events this past week as ENDAblog alleges malfluence perpetrated by "front page" lgbt blogger, Lurleen, at Pam Spaulding's "Pam's House Blend."  According to Kathy Padilla, her posts were deleted from Pam's House Blend for daring to question Lurleen if a conflict of interest exists that would stifle or delay Transgender Rights in Washington State or nationally.  From ENDAblog and with additional research on ERW's site bios, we find that Lurleen or Lurleen Blogovitch is indeed Laurel Ramseyer, Equal Rights Washington's Communications Director, so there never should have been any issue with "outing" this person.  Some in the Transgender Activist Community see much of Gay Inc as "marriage-centric," placing Trans Rights on the back burner and it appears that this may have been Kathleen's concern with Lurleen.

ENDAblog removed this post yesterday, January 8th, but KnowthyNeighbor.org has re-posted it here. The reason for deletion according to ENDAblog was in response to Lurleen's explanation that she "panicked" when she blocked Kathleen and subsequently accidently removed all of Kathleen's posts from the last 5 years.  The reasons for Lurleen not responding to Kathleen's emails or others comments and posts were never reasonably explained.
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This has become a bit of a personal issue for KnowThyNeighbor as if it is true, and there is no reason to doubt the facts, that Laurel Ramseyer works for Equal Rights Washington then she was indeed acting as a sockpuppet for Josh Friedes at Equal Rights Washington during the Referendum 71 battle which could have redacted by people's amendment the Expanded Domestic Partnership Rights of WA for same gender (and opposite gender couples).   I remember Josh Friedes during that fight calling me to tell me that KnowThyNeighbor via our affiliate WhoSigned.org must not post names of the signers of the anti-gay Referendum 71, that "Lurleen" is working on a piece that would criticize our strategy and he asked me in such a way whether I "knew who Lurleen was?" like she was some sort of force to be reckoned with.  All the while "Lurleen" was Laurel Ramseyer part of Josh's minions and is now ERW's Communications Direction possibly acting in a consultant capacity.
This Lurleen (see PHB), Lurleen Blogovitch (see Facebook), Laurel (see BlueMassGroup.com) and Laurel Ramseyer (see ERW) are all one in the same.  
KnowThyNeighbor.org and WhoSigned.org met the scorn of "Lurleen" but as I said before the surprising thing was that Pam Spaulding was complicit in this. I sent Pam emails asking for an explanation but was not contacted by Pam but instead by Lurleen who bragged that "Blenders" are privy to Pam's emails.  KnowThyNeighbor and WhoSigned.org rose up to push the dialogue in Washington State about the necessity of speaking to those who would sign petitions that would take away one's rights.  This is just not applicable to marriage equality but to any set of rights, including Transgender Rights which might be forced to be defended in a Ballot Initiative.  The Maine Marriage fight and the Washington State Ref 71 were set up to give the illusion of the lgbt response being "homegrown."  It was the furthest from homegrown imaginable--it was a union of Gay Inc with the Netroots Bloggers like Spaulding calling the shots on strategy and online media response.  KnowThyNeighbor.org was told to "stay out" of WA and ME because I was from Massachusetts.  Yet in WA State alone Josh Friedes was from the Massachusetts FTM and part of the MassEquality Coalition, Josh Cohen, ERW/WAFST tech lead/communications heralded from New Jersey, Monies were sent from EQCA by Marc Solomon (though Maine received a substantial amount more), bloggers from around the nation controlled messaging via list serves, and Lurleen made attempts at discrediting KnowthyNeighbor's importance, the least of which was in sending an email calling us "carpetbaggers" while she herself was a MassEquality export and maintained a presence under the pseudonym, Laurel, in the largest liberal Massachusetts blog, BlueMassGroup.com throughout the Ref 71 Campaign.  To this day "Laurel" at BMG tries to influence MA politics.
The fight for Equality will take all of our efforts.  The leading wins that we have had required all strategies, all lgbt, all allies, engagement of the electorate etc.  The Transgender Rights battle with Inclusive ENDA and various statewide Transgender Protection Bills, Marriage Equality and others will require this same strategy--the strategy of "wanting to be treated as Equal Americans."  These sockpuppets, power grads, battles of online prowess directed against our activists have got to stop. People like Lurleen Blogovitch aka Laurel Ramseyer would be a much more effective activist if she came out of her own closet of fear and neuroses. 
 

This Post Doesn’t Exist [UPDATED: Now This Post Exists]

Yet.

Right now, its just a placeholder – for a post about something  that has happened…

something that I saw happen…

something that I have images of…

something that is, well…

totally deranged.

[UPDATE]

Marriage Derangement Syndrome…

Does it cause schizophrenia?

Spontaneous cloning?

Or just conflicts of interest?

Yes Monty, it would be door number three!  Now, granted, one can be forgiven for mistaking door number three for door number two:

Of course, you could also be forgiven for getting confused as to whether you’re watching ABC or CBS.  You see, I have been using Let’s Make a Dealallusions, but one to The Price is Right is appropos as well – given that if your guess as to the price of your Showcase is close enough to its actual retail price, then you get both Showcases.

And…

When your conflict of interest appears to be creating a fake online identity to mask your involvement (under what one would presume is your real name) with (and what would presume is a vested interest in promoting) same-sex-marriage-primacy when you participate, in a quasi-official capacity, in threads in which you pimp the discredited notion that pushing same-sex-marriage helps trans people as individual trans personsAND using that quasi-official capacity to boot a dissenter who did notactually publish personal information about you but merely publicly inquired as to whether an unidentified someone with certain qualifications ‘A’ might have a conflict of interest by acting in certain capacity ‘B’…

then one can understand why doors two and three might be applicable.

Having said that, I might suggest not asking to see what Jay Stewart has in his box when next he walks down the aisle.  My buddy Kathleen mysteriously disappeared. 

Words that she had already utttered were un-uttered – but not by her.

Yes, her voice just drifted off into the night…

I’ve still had not even a notice that my account was deleted or a response to my emails asking for info.

…and who knows where her cyber remains might turn up.  Perhaps right here at ENDABlog!

She wants to be out about being [Capacity 'B'] & about being the Communications Director working mostly on marriage online have others no be permitted  speak of this public info. While at the same time have the ability to link the two publicly for her benefit – but punish others for even questioning whether disclosure is warranted.

Yep…

That Marriage Derangement Syndrome thing is pretty nasty.

Well, I know what people with Marriage Derangement Syndrome don’t give a rat’s ass about: compromise on anything other than trans rights. 

And at least one of them doesn’t really seem to get if you out yourself, then when someone else copies or points to what you outed yourself with, then that second personn really isn’t outing you about what you were initially ‘in’ about…

…and, instead, what you’re being outed about is having a major conflict of interest.

And I’m outing her here as having committed an egregious act of transphobic cyber-bullying by (apparently) unilaterally booting Kathleen off of a major LGBT blog after having outed herself via her own references to Equal Rights Washington – which are only one google-laden mouse click away from http://neworganizing.com given that a nice chunk of the bio there is identical to the one at ERW – and her involvement in it and having done so in a forum that anyone could read and multiple-google-click away from.  Has she now committed this cyber hate crime against Kathleen because she realized she actually outed herself and erasing Kathleen’s existence at that blog is the only way that she can come close to un-outing herself?

Do a text search on the page from which I took the ERW image snap.  The name of the blog in question appears in only one of the bios.  If “Lurleen” didn’t out herself in that reply to Kathleen, then she apparently outed some other “front page blogger” at that blog – in which case, it is Lurleen and not Kathleen whose existence should be erased from that blog.

But, that’s not the case.

Look at the photos.

“Lurleen” outed herself – and she apparently not only wants to make Kathleen pay for it but feels that she is so much better than us scummy trans scum that she doesn’t even need to directly inform Kathleen of what she is asserting to be the reason that Kathleen’s existence was erased from that blog.

[S]he acted as the judge in her own complaint? Sweet deal! Very fair.

But, that’s par for the course.

Trans people have been paying the price for the indulgences of people afflicted with Marriage Derangement Syndrome for many years now.

Why should 2011 be any different?

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19 Responses to This Post Doesn’t Exist [UPDATED: Now This Post Exists]

  1. TransGriot says:

    To channel Arsenio Hall…things that make you go hmmm.

  2. [...] it was with much, much, much amusement that I read THIS PIECE at ENDAblog by Katrina Rose.  The gist of this is that one of PHB’s front page contributors [...]

  3. Lurlottagall says:

    Seriously? She posted her own letters as Laurel on this issue and didn’t disclose she was…..posting her own letters under her pseudonym of Lurleen?

    That’s all folks – game over.

  4. Kathleen says:

    sounds sorta like this guy:

    “Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”

    though you need to exclude the properly reached part as well.

  5. Hmmm…never once thought that the agenda of Gay Inc. would impose itself on the blogosphere by trying to silence a transgender person’s voice. I am shocked and awed!
    Add to the fact that Laurel Ramseyer is a communications director is just as shocking!

    Does Pam of Pam’s House Blend condone this behavior of one of her front page bloggers? Inquiring minds want to know. Transphobia is still transphobia, regardless of the guise.

    • Kathleen says:

      I emailed Pam & Autumn to ask what happened on Saturday. Autumn said she would get back to me in her response of the same day, Pam has not replied to my email.

      Even if they agree with the action – (notice & a warning is indicated by the PHB terms of service – with deletion of that comment) – and I dispute the validity as I redacted Laurel’s name – a response is surely appropriate.

      • Kath, call me tomorrow if you get a chance. I am fuming over the fact that a paid staffer of an organization is spewing transphobic remarks under a pseudonym and then gets you banned for calling her out on it.
        It’s not like she is in the closet and you outed her. You outed her for who she really is. A transphobic bigot, posing as an activist! Screw her and any blogger who allows this to happen.

      • Katrina Rose says:

        Ethan:

        In one of the posts she asserts that she is not a paid staffer.

        I have no knowledge of whether she actually is or is not – but (1) a lot of people who have damaged our political viability over the years have not actually been paid staffers of any gay org, and (2) we should not give her a ready-made nugget that she can accurately point to and say ‘See! They’re wrong about that, so they must be wrong about everything!’

    • Tom Lang says:

      I sent this over to Bil Browning at Bilerico because his site is one of the key places Lurleen and her codependent, Joe Mirabella, uses to cement their deceit,lies and control into the blogosphere. Browning knows how prevalent they are as posters and commenters and I told him that what happened to Kathleen is a major issue here.

      Browning wrote back, ” Sorry. None of my concern. That’s PHB drama and not mine.”

      So folks…stop being so dramatic…trans rights, trans people questioning…all drama…

  6. catkisser says:

    I look forward to Sandeen being erased from Pam’s in all fairness since Sandeen published my full name AND a copyright protected picture of me a couple of years ago when I was on Pam’s under a nick name. This was part of a character assassination of me by Sandeen at the time for being a feminist.

    But I won’t hold my breath.

  7. [...] I heard that “Kathleen” over at Pam’s House Blend was banned for outing an anonymous blogger that just happened to be affiliated with GayINC, I was shocked… for all of about thirty [...]

  8. Tom Lang says:

    And this same Lurleen who worked on Ref 71 in Washington State caused HUGE problems with KnowThyNeighbor when we announced we would be posting names of signers of that antigay petition. This Lurleen living in Washington State called KnowThyNeighbor a carpetbagger while she maintained her presence on the liberal Massachusetts blog BlueMassGroup as another entity “Laurel” trying to influence our politics.
    So glad to know this mediocre psycho from MA Gay Inc has finally been outed. I am sorry that trans rights are suffering because of her neuroses. And there seem to be many of them

    • Katrina Rose says:

      Wow…

      Thank you for your input. I’m happy to know that word is getting around about this.

    • Kathleen says:

      Why am I not surprised?

      So – she has a history of abusing her pseudo anonymity to misrepresent her relationships to orgs?

      I can’t speak for Kat – but reposting some of this on your own blog might be something to consider. And if you’d like to get in touch – just ask.

      • Katrina Rose says:

        You and others should feel free to repost all or part of this ENDABlog post (in context, of course, and preferably with proper attribution.)

  9. Tom Lang says:

    When Lurleen was crazed against KnowThyNeighbor in 2009/10 I contacted Pam Spaulding on her email. Lurleen, not Pam emailed me back immediately telling me that all the Blenders see emails to Pam and how dare I take this up with Pam.
    Pam Spaulding NEVER emailed me back on any of this and there were multiple emails to her. When I brought this duel personality bit up with The owner of BluMassGroup in MA and told him what was going on, he told me the emails are “off the record” and yet he denied knowing anything. When I told him I wanted to be on the record, he told me if that is indeed my choice he would be forced to go to the parties involved ie Lurleen/Laurel and I assume Pam.
    What you are exposing here, I believe is alpha netroots and how it tries to control the strategy, the online presence and altering the history of our movement.

  10. Kathleen says:

    While it is not alleged she is being paid by EQWA – others (Autumn – all the guest posters brought in) – disclose their leadership roles in orgs – compensated or not. I don’t believe Autumn is paid for being on the Get Equal Board.

    But – not being paid by EQWA – isn’t the superset of all places one could receive compensation from.

    Given the astroturfing-sockpuppetting that seems to be going on, I emailed Mr. Lang offline to confirm he’s indeed Mr. Lang.

  11. Katrina Rose says:

    But – not being paid by EQWA – isn’t the superset of all places one could receive compensation from.

    Indeed. I believe George Washington put forth a magnanimous image in having served as general without a salary – but his expenses, which he did require compensation for, rivaled that of royalty.

  12. Brian Murphy (WhoSigned.org) says:

    It’s especially interesting to note that at the same time her alternate identity “Lurleen” was writing some pretty strong condemnations of the work that WhoSigned.org and KnowThyNeighbor.org were talking about during the Ref 71 campaign, work that ERW opposed, “Laurel Ramseyer” was actually on the technology committee of the ERW created Ref 71 campaign.

    Now, what appeared to be an independent blogger expressing their own opinion was actually a member of the campaign? This means every statement by “Lurleen” in WA and “Laurel” in MA needs to be re-evaluated in the light of her multiple identities and non-disclosure.


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