Dear MRAK, Where did Westchester Goon, the vicious Twitter political pundit, go? He’s not on Twitter anymore and his account is erased. Signed, Sorry to See Him Go
Dear Sorry,
We’re glad you asked. In fact, the question came first from former reporter/editor/photographer and itinerate political junkie Matt Tunseth who wondered aloud on Twitter as to where the prolific Twitter troll who goes by the name of “Westchester Goon” went suddenly last week.
Mr. Goon’s page on Twitter went dark. His troll friends miss him and were worried for his well being.
Never fear. We found him. His name is Barry Piser and for the past couple of years he has been sending snarling invectives, nastygrams, and snide vilification about Alaska conservatives.
We have the receipts to show that Piser has been sending hundreds of these unpleasant Twitter messages about people like Mayor Dave Bronson, his staff, and others in the political sphere. And it appears from the time stamps that he has been doing so from his desk at Chugach Electric, where he works for Julie Hasquet, the communications director, former spokeswoman for Sen. Mark Begich.
Evidently word got back to Hasquet that Piser had been “outed” and his identity was now known to a few caring folks. This is a very poor look for Chugach Electric to have a political operative pounding away on the keyboard while billing his hours to Anchorage ratepayers. It’s especially unfortunate that the board of Anchorage’s only electric company has a special meeting set for Friday — about unrelated personnel matters.
Piser’s Twitter account went “poof,” erased overnight last week.
That means the troll tribe will no longer see his well-designed fake news releases using Municipal letterhead that looked very real, and posting them accompanied by breathless commentary, such as this:
Piser not only has the aka of “Westchester Goon,” a pun on Westchester Lagoon, the body of water near his home in Anchorage, but he also has gone by another handle, “@bpfromnp,” meaning Barry Piser from North Pole, one of his hometowns.
We are in possession of dozens upon dozens of his tweets, many of which are quite elaborate and all of which appear to be posted during working hours, raising the question of what exactly are Chugach Electric Cooperative ratepayers getting for their money. Here is a slideshow of just a few:
Piser-Goon’s followers on Twitter include the entire press corps in Alaska, including the editor of the Anchorage Daily News and the reporting staff, most of the bloggers and other media personalities, such as Nat Herz, Liz Ruskin, Matt Buxton, as well as hundreds of leftists in the political realm on Alaska: Assemblyman Chris Constant, Assemblyman Daniel Volland, Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson, Rep. Andrew Gray, Rep. Maxine Dilbert, Sen. Forrest Dunbar, Jason Grenn of Ballot Measure 2, the Blue Alaskan (Matt Beck), 907 Initiative, the Alaska Center for the Environment and more on the list of more than 700 who have consumed Piser-Goon’s attacks on the mayor and his staff.
Goon used to work for the municipality as a public information officer for the Health Department, but now he’s parked at the power company, working for Hasquet, who can be none-too-happy that he has been discovered to be a political operative who is apparently not working on behalf of ratepayers, but on behalf of the Alaska Democratic Party. On the other hand, with her background, she may have been in on it all along. This is, after all, how the Deep State operates in 2023 — hand-in-hand with the media.
But a word to Piser — you should not only have erased your Twitter account, but also your Amazon wish list … Spicy!
Signed,
MRAK Cares
