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• Tremendous reporting.

• Gezzes lol. Your math skills are undeniable. You make reading about shit heads fun

• I had been friends with Bill Margold for many years, so when he praised Phyllisha Ann to me, I just automatically accepted his praise of her as gospel. At first, Phyllisha said all the right things to me that sounded good when she invited me to be on the board, and offered to even post our hotline on her union's website. I then told her of all of the benefits we could offer union members - such as I've got scholarships available to anyone who needs drug treatment to programs I know have ex-porn performers on staff, some even have directors who used to be in porn, so I know they're effective and non-judgmental about the work. I've got access to all kinds of benefits should you find yourself arrested on a prostitution charge so you can avoid jail time, or work off community service hours. I've got a database full of attorneys who offer pro bono services to performers, along with scholarships for college even if you're in the industry. She interviewed me for her podcast and I saw the referral go up on her site, so I assumed everything was going to move forward. Only I started asking her about some outreach projects, and I kept getting blown off. I started hearing our name getting thrown around to give her credibility, but when I asked to see the new members' list so I could let them know of the benefits I could offer them through the group I run, she also was blowing me off.more hard questions I started asking her, the more she would just blow me off. Soon emails weren't getting answered, nor were calls. Well if I"m not able to get a call back, what about members who needed help? I don't like to attach my name to bs, so I became concerned and demanded we have a sit down - which was also ignored because she was "getting ready for her daughter's wedding". Then I saw her site basically abandoned, I wasn't getting any calls back or emails answered - so I just assumed she'd gone belly up at that point, Until a few months ago when I get an invite to "attend a board meeting". Oh now I"m a board member? I went to this meeting to see what was going on to now almost FIVE YEARS LATER to be hearing from her again. She tells me there's a lawsuit, and she needs to have two people approve something, of which I"m the second person. She asked me to basically sign my name to her lawsuit. I asked to see this lawsuit, a request she couldn't answer me. I then laid it out on the line - if I can't see papers like her tax returns, legal incorporation papers, membership documentation, and see what on earth I'm having my name attached to - then I wanted it removed. She continued to send me invites to her "board meetings" where one other person showed up I'm going to assume is another "friend" of hers, but yet all of my requests for hard answers and paperwork was just ignored. I finally just told her to remove my name from anything to do with her or this "union" that clearly isn't a union in my definition of the word. I'm not "breaking any confidences" here when this woman didn't ask me for any, and I feel I got sucked into something under false pretenses. Back when I first met her and this started, I understood her stories of "persecution". I've since learned the difference between someone who is being persecuted for trying to help someone who is being exploited, and when someone is playing the victim to gain your sympathy. Clearly, I was being played on to get my sympathy. Since all of my requests to her to get a formal confirmation my name has been removed from anything to do with her "Union" have gone unanswered, I just want to make it clear - I have NOTHING to do with this woman or her "union". What's a shame is that I agreed to get involved because I really do have a lot of resources that are very useful to someone in the adult industry. Resources I had agreed to join her board because I wanted to see them made available to performers - and instead it was all just wasted time and energy - and what's worse is that performers STILL done know that I have many useful resources for them because all of my attempts to coordinate any type of outreach with her with just ignored and played off. Leading me to believe anyone who gave her "union dues" was being ripped off clearly. Experiences like this have really taught me not to just take someone at face value simply because they're in this industry. Oh well. You live and learn right?