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My sweet boy Carter is 6 today! Time flies. Everyday is like a birthday for this spoiled boy ❤️

Kevin Bloom is running in the August 11 Democratic primary for Chittenden County Sheriff. Their campaign runs an open Discord for volunteers. These screenshots are from it. Feel free to join the Discord yourself here before the campaign takes it down. All you need is a Discord account.

The testimonial in question comes from their opponent's website. The person, identified as Cherie R., describes losing her husband of 15 years in 2015, then losing her housing, and says the deputy who served her eviction treated her decently.

On July 4, Bloom posted the testimonial in the Discord with the caption "psychotic fake quote." Seventeen minutes later they posted a voter-file search: "no cherie r lives in btv."

On July 17 they returned to it. "this one is my favorite lie (i looked at voter data- this person doesn't exist, or is using a pseudonym...not sketchy at all lol)." Then: "it's so obv this story doesn't make sense," "there's no one of this name in the entire county in the voter data," "i tried alternative first names cheryl etc.

Cherie is real. She has told her story herself, on video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1By71z3YMz/

In the same thread, a volunteer named Clayton Dykstra ("dykstracd") posted "def call bullshit on this testimonial," then spent three paragraphs on Cherie personally - imagining a deputy telling her to "pack up her shit and leave," and concluding that her "expectation of others is so abysmally low that a cordial conversation with someone can make them favor someone for the rest of their life." Later that night, another volunteer named "tes" posted an invented quote in her voice, mocking the way Cherie described being treated like a human being.

Bloom's contribution to that thread, eight hours in, was "oh cherie."

This communication shows us who Kevin Bloom really is. Kevin Bloom doesn't care about people. Kevin Bloom doesn't care about showing compassion. Kevin Bloom cares about being the next Hunter S. Thompson.

Moreover, querying voter rolls proves literally nothing. Instead, it shows how ignorant and out of touch Kevin really is. A name missing from the voter file means someone isn't currently registered under that name at that address. It does not mean they don't exist. People who lose their housing are among the likeliest people in the state to fall off the rolls. Bloom searched, found nothing, and went straight to belittling a private citizen, who had a positive experience with the police.

Bloom's central argument for this office is that they would bring more humanity to evictions than a 45-year deputy would. However, this is what that looked like when a woman, who experienced housing insecurity, said something inconvenient.

What a great show these guys put on at SPAC tonight