Gary M. O'Neal, Jr.

Keeping it real, since 1979...

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Julie - the story doesn’t touch on the seemingly duplicative legal situation in NOLA with many more judges, courts and staff compared to any other municipality in the state.

It only indicates that the state reduced the number of judges. To the reader, it would seem this effort occurred in a vacuum or was unwarranted or simply happened due solely to partisanship.

Wouldn’t appropriate journalism at least explore what that reduction was based on? Whether it seemed NOLA’s additional judges and support staff were actually doing less with more so to speak? Or the same with more perhaps?

Suggesting to your readership that articles which contain rather large doughnut holes which should be filled with contextually important facts are, “good” is something I struggle with.

At best, Mr. Bridges’ story is incomplete. It lacks critical context and background that would truly educate the reader. It appears to paint one side as an antagonist. Rather than pointing the reader to perhaps ask why a potentially bloated local judiciary was never scrutinized as a potential area to improve efficiency or reduce costs to a municipality and region sorely in need of both.

Why are you and Mr. Bridges content with not telling the entire story? Honest question…

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@bjeansonne @YammerTime01 This from the guy who told us Trump had no chance at being elected President.

Give us the Powerball Numbers, Nostrajeansonne…

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Hey @Avis I rented a car at the counter at DFW two weeks ago. Your 800# customer service says I can only get a receipt from the desk.

They don’t answer and let it roll to the 800#. I can’t get the receipt for my rental which did not get sent to my email.

What do you want me to do?

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@bjeansonne @PeterDiamandis So lawn equipment, printers, etc aren’t, “real,” equipment? Based on you being the arbiter of “realness.” Got it.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

So now it’s “real equipment.” Thanks for moving those goalposts.

You can buy a lawnmower, weedeater and start an LLC for less than $500. Same for a pressure washer. There are lots of ways you can start earning money and run a legitimate business in the process and scale through hard work.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Started my Notary company for less than that. Used library printers for my closings before paying back the cost of creating an LLC and the expense of the class and registering for the test. Google let me list my # for free to advertise along with social media. The only reason I never scaled it was becoming a consultant in the private sector.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Hi there @Delta! I gladly invest more of my time and money to fly with you. I’ve had consistently above average experiences with your airline for almost a decade.

The customer service experience with your cabin crew on today’s flight from BTR>ATL has been a poor reflection of your customer service standards.

How can I interact with your customer service and investor relations groups to appropriately relay the experience on our flight this morning (which by the way hasn’t even taxi’d away form the gate yet if that’s any indication of the disappointment)?

Thanks and Happy Sunday!

DM’s are open.

#Delta #FlyDelta #CustomerService

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@bjeansonne @pmarca Using that logic we’d have given up after the Model T because it wasn’t a McLaren…

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Hey @DFWAirport…what’s the issue with your rental shuttle? We’re out here waiting. One pulls up, won’t let anyone board, then takes off…and now we’re just sitting here.

We’re like a Jerry Jeff Walker lyric…desperadoes waiting on a train…

#DFWAirport #DFW

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

It's easy to determine who are Team Doctors and our Team's ortho is. I will say they are as talented as there are in the region. The entire clinic is comprised of fellowship trained specialists in each body part...and I'm not paid to say that nor am I employed there (nor is a spouse or any family member).

They are highly qualified. It's evidently a miss. A big miss. How we would've solved for it medically I'm not sure. Is a simple surgery something that catches this? Is it an outpatient procedure? I'm not a doctor. No matter what the issue is, having had family members treated by the folks associated with the team doctors, I can say they are very, very talented. But we are all human.

Just hate it for the kid.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@DerekPonamsky @JordyCulotta Can’t lie…Big Lebowski quotes in the 104.5 app, free beer Fridays and Jimmy Chesthair at the helm for Cullotta and the Prince were Halcyon Days…

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@galleywinter Kacey recorded a cover of Neon Moon with Brooks and Dunn on their Rebooted album a few years back. It’s fantastic.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Julie - There are some mean spirited and rude comments being made since I began poking a round a bit in the information @ByPiperHutch posted. I want you all to know that while I perceive potential bias and a potential double standard, I’ve tried to do so respectfully.

Having said that, the criticism from my direction came in publicly signaling the virtue of y’all’s donor list when it appears several entities who do donate to help compensate you for your work are designed to hide the names of the actual donors.

Can you address why you don’t find that-at a minimum-highly ironic that your friend posted this information while suing for transparency from another institution?

Why not list all of the donors of the entities that are donating to you? Why is it laughable to think the public might ask questions about the anonymity of donations to your work using entities designed to obscure donor names?

I’m genuinely curious why you’re laughing at the public.

Again, hoping we can gave a productive dialogue and apologies for anyone disrespecting yall.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@JSODonoghue @LAGovJeffLandry Where is your disagreement? @ByPiperHutch shared the list about a week ago? Is it that you aren’t commenting or that the entities listed as donors are not designed to hide the identities of their donors?

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@kenPOPtweets @JSODonoghue @ByPiperHutch @ChrisNakamoto Please let me know which businesses I owe money to? I’m not familiar with any.

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@ByPiperHutch @JSODonoghue When will you address the lack of transparency demonstrated by accepting donations from entities designed to hide the identities of their own donors of your work?

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

Do you plan to address the groups funding your work which are designed to conceal their donor’s names? I’ve asked you, @JSODonoghue and @ChrisNakamoto several times re: the curiously ambiguous entities which have donated to your journalism work which seem to be designed to hide the actual names of your donors.

Do you not sense and feel this could be construed as a double standard and call your journalistic integrity into question?

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

@chrisnakamoto do you have any comment on @IlluminatorLA’s writers being paid by organizations who are designed to obscure their donor’s names and identities?

Do you have an opinion on how the public might feel about journalists who accept being paid by organizations who obscure their own donors identities suing to obtain information about who is being paid by an organization like the one you’re filing suit against for the reasons you’re listing?

Do you disagree that this raises serious questions that deserve thoughtful answers? Or is transparency not needed on the part of your co-plaintiffs? Only by those they seek to use the law to enforce transparency in regards to?

[Gary M. O'Neal, Jr. @gary_oneal]

You left off part of the FAQ: If you are successful, will you redact the names, genders and/or sports of athletes? You say this is about governance and leveling the playing field. You act as if you’re worried about LSU potentially operating at a competitive disadvantage. Yet your lawsuit is the very lever that will create the disadvantage you hypothesize about.

Parties to your lawsuit are openly linking to their fundraising pages asking for donations. They’re literally making money off of the lawsuit and the publicity it’s generating. Or at least attempting to.

All of this while the LA Illuminator’s involvement reveals that their donor list which helps pay for their, “journalism,” includes multiple entities designed to obscure the names and identities of donors.

You have someone suing for transparency while being funded by groups designed to create a lack of transparency.

The amount of irony and hypocrisy involved in this entire exercise is really eye-opening.

You should ask you and your co-plaintiffs to disclose the names of their donors fully and completely and address Personally Identifiable Information (PII) concerns raised here.