I'VE NEVER HAD a personal issue with Steve Homan.
Until now.
Homan regularly spews noise at city council meetings and fancies himself as a hero in the MAGA world, a man of the people exposing government fraud and waste. Apparently he has a podcast. He's quite the dashing figure and has a lot of Facebook friends.
I make a habit of ignoring him, and ignoring people like Steve Homan makes them upset.
Sunday, at Pride in the Park at Clat Adams Park, Homan went on Facebook and live-streamed from a parking lot across the street. He had running commentary about the people coming and going to the event. He didn't like it. He called the people in the park "idiots."
Pride in the Park is an LGBTQ event and started maybe four years ago. I've played at it every year. The first time was when Cori Powell-Green asked me to play at it with her. I loved it from the start - the whole park is filled with joy and acceptance, not judgment and vitriol. So call me an ally. And there's other very personal reasons for doing it, but I wouldn't expect you to do your homework, Steve.
A friend sent a short video clip from Homan's live-stream. I'm not going to post a link or show it. It's just not worth it.
It shows my vehicle leaving the parking lot. "Rodney Hart, just leaving there," Homan intones with authority. "He was their entertainment for 15 minutes or whatever. Rodney Hart is a big leftist liberal in Quincy that promotes all this nonsense, driving away right there."
First of all, work on the shaky hand holding your phone, Steve. I got a little motion sickness watching my nice Jeep leave the parking lot.
Secondly, what kind of person does something like this? How full of hatred and ignorance do you have to be? And ... is it just creepy? Or is this what you do now in our social media world?
Steve is not that bad of a guy, really. It's not like he's ever been in trouble with the law, or tried to run for office but had a small clerical issue, or has a section devoted just to him at Muddy River News called "Steve Homan Archives." Nah. Not that bad at all.
Steve, you were half right about the length of my performance, which is twice as right as normal. It was 30 minutes. And I was one of several musical acts. Just so you know.
Leftist liberal? Well, I've been called much worse. But I've never been a member of either party, and have no plans to do so. Ever. I've voted for Republicans and for Democrats. I don't like our president, though I think some of his ideas are not bad. I keep politics off my social media and I try not to get sucked into all the crap going on in this wretched world.
You might be surprised to hear some of my very conservative social and political views, and, gasp, we might actually agree on some things, Steve. Not that I'll ever bother to share them with you.
Here's the difference between you and me, Steve. I'm not consumed. I don't feel the need to point out how awful certain people of certain political or sexual persuasions are. I'm a live and let live kind of guy, Steve. Maybe you should try it.
I actually think what you did recently in organizing the Charlie Kirk vigil in Washington Park was fine. I wasn't there and I don't know that much about Charlie Kirk. I do know violence of any kind is not the answer and his murder was a terrible thing. And I'm not comparing your vigil to Pride, other than they were both peaceful gatherings.
Then again, I wasn't standing at Fifth and Maine live-streaming everybody coming and going.
No doubt Steve's ears are steaming now, since I'm sure he'll be reading this. In case you want to dig up dirt on me, go right ahead. There's stuff out there and sure you can find it. I've flunked out in life many times.
Here's the last thing, Steve. You will go ballistic when reading this, and say all kinds of nasty things about me.
I. Don't. Care.
Live and let live, Steve. It's the way to go. Not that you'll ever do it.
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