Just before we left Los Angeles after nearly two months there covering the Danny Masterson retrial, we thought we’d check in with Mark Bunker to see what’s been going on over on the other end of the country.
Clearwater’s vice mayor has a number of updates for us, including his heartfelt thoughts for Mike Rinder, a man he once was pitted against as a member of the Lisa McPherson Trust while Mike was still the head of Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs.
Bunker was also concerned about yet another way that Scientology is infiltrating and co-opting organizations in Clearwater, including Amplify Clearwater, the new name for the Chamber of Commerce there.
He also brought up those concerns to the city council, and sent along this video documenting it…
(In the thumbnail photo, Bunker is giving the side-eye to the table of Scientologists at a recent Amplify Clearwater event.)
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