Category: Diary of a Wooley kid

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  • I’ve been moody

    Unless it was to gather evidence for their lawyers, I can’t imagine any of my haters making the effort to click on any of my banners shared on Facebook or NextDoor. But if you are not fond of my BS, and you followed this link out of morbid curiosity, You’re in for a treat!


    I am currently extra challenged

    As many of you know, and some of you like to announce publicly, I’ve been struggling to find a job since the casino laid me off from their marketing department. It’s not easy out there for a graphic artist anymore. My decades of experience and growth in my field have been replaced by AI. Now every $25 flyer I could sling is produced in 30 seconds with a prompt. Even freelancing is off the table. Since my final unemployment check is next week, I’m a little stressed about money, and no factories or fast food joints want a 49-year-old with a broken back.


    Then there’s Amy…

    My 1980 C20 Camper Special, which I named Air Force Amy has been struggling. After replacing the carb, intake, radiator, and distributor, the transmission decided it needed some attention. A first for me, I dropped the transmission in my driveway to replace the torque converter with lots of advice from YouTube and my big brain mechanic friend LaGrande up the road.

    After a week of swimming in automatic transmission fluid, I had everything reconnected, and even found those two missing bolts that kept me up at night. I finally climbed into the cab and cranked it up. I was warming it up to finish filling the ATF. Suddenly, I realized the ATF was all over my driveway. A tranny line was apparently cut then spliced by the last owner, and the redneck engineering had failed, making Amy squirt all over the pavement.

    I got some new flexible transmission lines that I will install shortly after I’m done with this blog post. Hopefully after this, I will be mobile again!


    My dad is really stressing me out

    Every other week, I’m getting a call from my dad saying his time is up. 80-years-old, living in Florida, he has end-stage kidney failure and on daily dialysis.

    Since Dad had an episode in the dialysis clinic, where he blacked out and ripped out the tube, leading to what sounds like a bloody horror scene for all to experience that day, he’s been blackballed at the clinics. His only option was being locked down inside a nursing home. In response, he decided he would go off dialysis, which would kill him in a few days. I had to sit down with each of my kids and his ex wife [my mom] to hear them all cry at the news.

    3 days later: NEVER MIND! I guess Dad cut a deal with the hospital to let him have some days at home, and now he can bring in his HAM radio stuff. Also, he met someone’s grandma down the hall he likes, and he’s gotta take his shot. So he got back on dialysis, and decided to live.

    A few days after that: NEVER MIND! A series of heart attacks occurred, and now dad was headed for possible open-heart surgery. I got another phone call, where I hear my dad explain this was likely his departure time. Thankfully, it ended up being heart stents, and surgery went well – despite the hurricane that was landing on their heads at the time [true Wooley style]. Last time I talked to Dad, he sounded great.


    The worst kind of tragedy

    Last week, while my wife and I were having our evening show and cocktail, her phone rang with my son’s friend on the caller ID. Confused, she answered.

    Emilio and my son were best friends for most of their life, ever since Riverview Elementary School. When my boy moved out, they were each other’s first roomates, although that would change later as my son got married and got his own place.

    I liked Emilio. Growing up, he was always quiet and respectful whenever he was here. Having lost both parents, he lived with his grandpa and sister. While I don’t know all the details of his background, I hear Emilio’s life was full of hard times early on.

    I watched Lisa’s face express deep concern as she talked to Emilio that night on the phone. She was so sweet, asking him if he’s OK, and trying to comfort him as he was very drunk and upset. “I’ll never get the sound of his voice out of my mind,” she would tell me the next day.

    Emilio killed himself shortly after that phone call. He did other things too, but I won’t get into that here. Alcohol was a major factor, and was apparently a growing issue leading up to that point.

    Just like with my own kids, anyone I watch grow up, will always be that little kid to me. I’m still wiping tears from my eyes as I type this. Life shit on this kid hard, and the bottle made it worse. He deserved better than this.

    Considering the events that took place right before Emilio took his life, I expected to see something on local news, but they never wrote anything. All I could find online, were a couple posts from Riverview Elementary from back in the day.

    My heart breaks all over again, seeing my son suffer the stages of grief, which include all the “what if” questions. They had a falling out before Emilio spiraled, and I know that weighs heavily on him. Even when he’s smiling, I can see it in his soul.

    The only silver lining to this absolute tragedy, is that Emilio was an organ donor. While we lost him, he ensured others would live. For this, I will forever honor him as a hero.


  • Election 2026: School Board

    About an hour and a half into the September Lyon County School Board of Trustees meeting, Agenda Item #14 was presented by Trustee Day for a second reading. The subject was a revision to the school board’s evaluation system, which would include an opt-in survey from students and parents to hold the board accountable and provide better feedback.

    Since her appointment to fill a resigned seat, Kallie Day has proven to be extremely competent, hitting the ground running as if she’d served in that seat for years. Noticeably, a couple of her fellow trustees have been resistant to her every move, as their financial supporter / phantom menace has other butts planned for that seat. Hendrix and Parsons are suspiciously pushing back really hard against the proposed measure to allow students and parents to hold them accountable.

    I encourage you all to take a moment to watch the above video, which is roughly set to the appropriate time to hear them debate the survey Day is proposing.


    The Phantom Menace

    Greg Clausen, seen here waiting to speak to Trustee Parsons during a 2024 Lyon County School Board of Trustees meeting, filed many frivolous reports to the AG and provided talking points to both public commenters from Calvary Chapel, and often to Trustee Tom Hendrix himself. He was also the author of the “Save Lyon Schools” facebook page that targeted specific trustees and the superintendent.
    Tens of thousands of dollars were spent by Clausen to place the holy thruple’s election signs all over Lyon County.

    School Board Trustees Hendrix, Parsons, Carson, and Whisler are all there, in part, from the support of a man named Greg Clausen, as is Trustee Hendrix’s wife, County Commissioner Tammy Hendrix. Clausen was also the brain behind the infamous the ‘Save Lyon Schools’ facebook page, in which he tried to turn the parents of students against specific board members and the superintendent.

    During Clausen’s reign of terror against the schools, many frivolous complaints to the AG were filed against his targets, knowing the answer wouldn’t come until after the election. And of course, they were all dismissed for the BS they were. Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley participated in the theatrics by pushing their flock to attend school board meetings to help demonize Clausen’s targeted board members.

    Trustee Hendrix asks the Human Resources director why 10% of the teachers don’t feel safe in schools. The answer: school shootings. Meanwhile, incoming Trustee Whisler looks on from the audience.

    The geriatric California transplants of Calvary Chapel showed up in numbers, posing as parents of students. They read Clausen’s scripts in public comments. A few of them stood out. One jolly fellow was always in the front row, filming board members in every meeting. Jim Davis and his wife Deanne were regular commenters during the months of Clausen’s attack. Both are leaders of Calvary’s Community Impact Team – a political faction of the so-called church, which has been working for years to fill county seats with their approved Evangelicals. Also starring from CCDV, was their secretary Sandy, and a new guy who seems like he would tell the Starbucks barista about his multiple PHDs, Dr. Eric Nelson. These people are currently showing up to argue against Day’s proposed accountability measure.


    Now let’s go back to church!

    During the last election cycle, I was famously walked out of the side door of Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley as soon as I walked in. The armed men who quickly surrounded me, told me I was not allowed to attend the public candidate meet and greet, where candidates for school board were set up with tables, and would be taking the stage for a show. The Calvary staff as apparently not happy about me shining a spotlight on their operation in progress, to run out certain trustees and replace them with Evangelicals.

    Former Candidate’s signs were vandalized during the 2024 race for school board. This one, across the street from one of the many Calvary Chapel church-owned properties, there they display their endorsed candidates and questions on the ballot.

    So far in this cycle, while I haven’t heard Clausen’s name mentioned. I also see the Vince Spoon and Michael Moore’s campaign expense reports don’t math, when I look at the number of expensive 4×8 signs posted all over Lyon County. Methinks someone is being secretive with their involvement after I made him locally famous last time.

    One of the non-cult backed trustees, Darin Farr, lost to Calvary’s guy in the primary, so now their pick Michael Moore is running against Pete Chapin.

    Kallie Day is defending her appointed seat against Vince Spoon, who relies heavily on his time in the US Marines and his church connections to win a seat on the school board. Unlike Spoon, Day is a lifelong resident of the area, even having graduated from Dayton High School. Her education and background make her a perfect fit for this nonpartisan position.

    I’m all for Trustee Day keeping this seat. The ex Marine with a mullet, screaming he’s a Republican in front of American flags [for this nonpartisan position], who seems to have zero qualifying experience to be on any school board, doesn’t impress me. It seems like the cult could have done better than him!

    Kallie Day’s campaign site

    Vince Spoon’s campaign site

    If you watched the video provided at the beginning of this article, you may have noticed Jim Davis in the public comments, desperately trying to convince the board to vote against Trustee Day’s accountability survey. In the video below, we see him host the show for this year at Calvary Chapel. While I am still banned from their church grounds for publicly disagreeing with their political endorsements on Facebook, I still enjoy watching the YouTube. In this one, Jim wrote questions to the candidates that singled out Trustee Day’s survey, purposefully confusing it with a separate agenda item that was also a survey. Kallie Day handled herself like a champ, pointing out Jim’s deception while on stage. Bravo!

    One of the attendees of the 2026 Calvary Chapel “public” (not you, Phil) candidate meet and greet took a photo of the program they provided, complete with ads from the cult on how to vote.

    Is it even legal/moral for any church to endorse candidates and questions on a ballot?

  • Question 6

    Nevada Question 6, the Right to Abortion Initiative

    A “yes” vote supports providing for a state constitutional right to an abortion, providing for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, except where medically indicated to “protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.”

    A “no” vote opposes providing for a state constitutional right to an abortion, providing for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, except where medically indicated to “protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.”

    In Nevada, initiated constitutional amendments need to be approved in two even-numbered election years, meaning that Question 6 needs to be approved in 2024 and 2026 to amend the Nevada Constitution. As Question 6 was approved in 2024, a second vote will be held on November 3, 2026.

    Source: Ballotopedia

    Who be spittin’ lies?

    In the many Facebook and NextDoor arguments I’m reading for and against Question 6 on the ballot this year, I keep seeing the claims this measure would allow anyone to perform abortions, and that parents will be blocked from access to their minor children who seek abortions. I did a little research and found a trail of bullshit that led to a man named Jason Guinasso.

    Source: defeatsix.com

    Attorney Jason Guinasso serves as the primary registering attorney, legal counsel, and strategic advisor for the Protect Our Girls PAC


    Hey, I know that name!

    Jason Guinasso’s name still gives me a little twitch when I hear or read it anywhere. He and I met on the battlefield when he was leading an army of misinformed church Karens to storm the gates of legal brothels, where I happened to be clocking in every morning.

    The first time we met, I was sitting in a pew at Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, holding my phone high to record and broadcast the “town hall meeting” as it was advertised. My then boss, the late Dennis Hof mentioned it to me that day, saying maybe I should check it out on the way home from work, so I did.

    Upon arrival, they had a woman at a table to greet us at the entrance. To gain access to the show, we had to sign something that looked an awful lot like a petition. When asked, the nice lady assured me it wasn’t that, so I scribbled “Your Mom,” or something like that, and made my way in.

    The main host of the presentation at Calvary Chapel was a lawyer named Jason Guinasso.

    The “town hall” started off with some speeches from the lead pastor about the evils of brothels and falsely connected them to human trafficking. Then the following speech was from the now former sheriff who shared a story about how he hated brothels because his wife ran off to an illegal one when he was in the Marines. A woman, who I cannot remember the name of now, made a speech about her experience with human trafficking, which also had no connection to anything going on in Mound House.

    I put on my keyboard warrior battle armor and looked up this Guinasso guy. He was active on Twitter. He had previously run for Assembly, just as my boss was doing at this time. He was also a preacher. I found trolling him on social media to be quite amusing. By the time we finally met in person at a County Commissioner meeting, he saw my face and greeted me by name.

    Guinasso’s No Little Girl campaign flopped. Nobody bought the lies that regulated legal brothels were connected to human trafficking, or that any of my coworkers were “modern-day slaves”. The sheriff also lost his job for his involvement.

    I still think the only reason Guinasso showed up with the referendum, was because his boss had some buddies in Nye County who weren’t happy about Dennis Hof running for Assembly down there, so they targeted his businesses. I’m sure the fact Hof died the night of his birthday party (also down there) right after winning the primary, had nothing to do with any of that.


    He’s baaack!

    Guinasso’s PAC, The Coalition for Parents and Children PAC was formed specifically to fight Question 6. He’s arguing that because the ballot text does not explicitly restrict the definition to licensed doctors, it opens the door for non-physicians, even chiropractors or nurses, to legally perform abortions in Nevada.

    The truth: Only professionals explicitly licensed and authorized by the state to provide reproductive care can do so. Question 6 does not grant general medical professionals the right to perform procedures outside their narrow, state-regulated licensing.

    Guinasso also came up with the argument that a fundamental constitutional right to reproductive freedom would strip parents of their rights, claiming the amendment would nullify any ability for the state to enforce parental notification or consent laws, which would let minors get abortions in secret.

    The truth: Nevada has a parental notification law on the books from 1985, but it has been blocked by a federal court injunction for decades and is completely unenforceable under current law. Therefore, Question 6 does not strip away an active parental notification requirement, because none currently exists in practice.

    Under constitutional law, states can still enforce reasonable regulations regarding minors (such as parental involvement) even when a constitutional right exists, provided the regulation does not impose an “undue burden.”
    – Source: The Nevada Independent

    So once again, Jason Guinasso is showing up to stir up the churches gullible enough to participate, spreading misinformation for the purpose of advancing Evangelical ideology into our government. To his credit, I really do believe he cares about victims of human trafficking and sex crimes, and I’m sure he’s done some real good in that field. I certainly don’t hate him, nor do I think he is a bad person. That being said, he is a liar. He lied to go after Hof, just like he’s lying to get people to vote no on Question 6.