mikkelsen affidavit, catherine bleish

8/9/2019 Mikkelsen Affidavit, Catherine Bleish

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Affidavit of Catherine Bleish

I, Catherine Elizabeth Bleish, I was born on March 26, 1984 in Kansas City, Missouri, and I currently live near Austin,

Texas. I hereby affirm that the following statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and memory:

1. I met Michael Mikkelsen in late 2007 while working on the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign.

2. I personally witnessed the fact that Mikkelsen had changed the background picture of his cell phone, his personal

desktop computer, as well as the desktop computer at the Ron Paul office to pictures of me early in the campaign.

3. Mikkelsen would repeatedly touch me in the Ron Paul headquarters - after grabbing my ass one day I smacked him

and told him not to touch me. He later called and chastised me for talking to him like that in front of other people.

4. Mikkelsen was aware that I was living with my boyfriend at the time and had no interest in dating anyone else.

Regardless, he frequently gave me gifts of diamonds, money, flowers, jewelry, etc. All were returned to him. He gaveme the same diamond necklace multiple times, once even attempting to open my car door to throw it in as I drove away

from the Ron Paul head quarters. To get the necklace giving to stop I told him I would let him know if I ever became

interested by wearing it (I never did). Eventually I mailed it back in an envelope w/o insurance or tracking.

5. In April of 2008 Michael Mikkelsen attended an after party that was held at my house following the Liberty

Restoration Project kickoffmy boyfriend was at work. While at my house, he followed me from couch to chair to

couch as I tried to get away from him. He physically touched me inappropriately repeatedly, and I asked repeatedly to

be left alone and physically moved maybe a dozen times. Deborah Wells got frustrated and asked why none of the men

there were standing up for me and grabbed Mikkelsen by the ear and walked him out the back door.

6. After being escorted out of my house by Deborah Wells, Mikkelsen stood there and cried. Deb told him to go sit inhis car until someone was ready to leave and we'd drive him home or we would call a cab to take him home

immediately, as he was clearly too drunk to drive.

7. Mikkelsen then proceeded walk around my house, looking in windows, calling people that he could see were in the

living room and crying on the phone.

8. At some point he managed to sneak in the back door and tried to make his way into the basement, Deb caught him

and again escorted him out. We locked all the doors and sat there trying to figure out what to do. Eventually Mikkelsen

got quiet and seemed to leave peacefully.

9. The next day when I went outside to my car, I found that literally every item that had been inside my car had been

stolen, including but not limited to: my work items, my school items, my megaphone, many Ron Paul 2008 yard signs,

my road atlas, my ice scrapers, the coolers, the left over food, and a single shoe.

10. I called Mikkelsen to confront him and he admitted to taking my property.

11. Mikkelsen met me at a John McCain rally later that day with all of the property he had stolen stuffed into his car.

He handed me only my megaphone and then drove away with his car busting at the seems with my property.


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12. Mikkelsen finally returned all of my property, but only after weeks of demanding verbally that he return my

property, after members of the KC Ron Paul 2008 movement demanded verbally that he return my property, and after I

wrote a Cease and Desist letter to him.

13. The day after he returned my property was the Congressional District Convention. At the convention, Mikkelsen

introduced a slate of delegates that included himself and myself and I was forced to stand up and explain that I wanted

nothing to do with him or his slate. Days earlier at a meeting to discuss who would go on each slate, Deb Wells read

aloud the Cease and Desist order to our core team. This caused many to resent me, as many assumed that I was

overreacting.

14. After the delegate process was over, I was able to get him to physically stay away from me for some months, except

for when he showed up to our booth at the Revolution March in Washington D.C. and simply stood there for hours

without saying anything. However, within these months he called and texted me hundreds of times. I blocked his phone

calls, but was unable to block texts per T-Mobile.

15. Once the election got closer and new people started becoming involved in the Ron Paul movementin September

and October 2008Mikkelsen began showing up to events again. My friends and I decided not to say anything

publicly or make a scene, because of the rift that such activity had caused in the movement back during the delegate

process.

16. After a day of canvassing, a bunch of people including Mikkelsen came over to my house for drinks. At some point

late in the night, several of us fell asleep in my living room. I was asleep on my couch. I awoke some time later to find

Mikkelsen with his hand touching my genitals while I slept. I was terrified and ran to my room and slammed the door.

He was gone in the morning.

17. Mikkelsen began consistently mailing me gifts, stopping by my house uninvited and unannounced, and generally

harassing me (including texts at 3am to let me know that he just drove by and could tell I was home alone) to the point

where I felt compelled to move.

18. At some point, Mikkelsen's mother and brother asked for my help in convincing him to attend court-ordered

therapy for issues involving the physical molestation of women at a bar in downtown Kansas City. This was late

2008/early 2009.

19. I was unsuccessful in convincing Mikkelsen to attend therapy, and later, when he discovered my new address

despite considerable effort on my part to keep it secret, he resumed mailing gifts to me.

20. In Spring of 2009, Mikkelsen starting soliciting donations in the name of the organization I was executive director

ofthe Liberty Restoration Project(LRP)to his home address. At this point, for my own safety as well as the

insistence of my friends in LRP I decided to attempt to acquire an order of protection against him. Unfortunately, the

Sheriff's department was not able to serve him the papers due to his living arrangements. After each order expired, I

re-filed the paperwork 4 times, each time he was not served. I went so far as to try to have him served at his work, also

unsuccessfully.

21. After I filed the first order of protection, his family discontinued communicating with me, and he only sent more

and more gifts.

22. Three days after the last temporary order of protection expired, I attended Porcfest in New Hampshire. Mikkelsen

also attended, and abruptly approached me at my campsite while I was alone. I was terrified. My friend Tracy Ward


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was camping with me, but we were both terrified and didn't know who to turn to for any measure of protection from

Mikkelsen. Eventually, after Mikkelsen approached me multiple times and refused to leave when asked, some men

camping nearby ran him off.

23. Soon after Porcfest, I decided to move to St. Louis. The decision to do so was heavily influenced by my fear of

Mikkelsen. After I moved, Mikkelsen showed up to a Tea Party event in St. Charles, Missouri, that I was speaking at.

24. In December 2009, I flew to Pheonix for the Freedom Summit. When I landed in Phoenix, Mikkelsen was waiting

for me outside my airport gate and had secured the exact same person to give him a ride into town as I - the people who

had come to pick me up thought I was crazy when I refused to get in the car with him and they had to send Kokesh and

Handcock to pick him up.

25. I moved to Texas in early 2010 and Mikkelsen did not appear at any events I was at until the Nullify Now event

mid 2011.

26. Mikkelsen came to my work while I was working alone but left when asked to do so, which is was the first time he

had respected such a request.

27. After Mikkelsen molested women and got violent with men at Porcfest 2011, a working group was put together to

talk about how to deal with him. At this time I checked my google voicemail that is attached to the number he calls

and texts constantly - there were multiple voice mails during and after Porcfest 2011 of him simply breathing into the

phone.

28. Also, in late 2009, one of the LRP Webmasters found that Mikkelsen had set up an email forward that would send

a copy of every single email sent to any @libertyrestorationproject.orgemail address to his personal email. He had

access to every correspondence for months if not years before the hack was found.

I, Catherine Elizabeth Bleish, solemnly affirm and verify that I have read the foregoing, and know its contents to betrue to the best of my knowledge, except as to the matters which are therein stated on my information or belief, and as

to those matters, I believe them to be true.

by:___________________________

State of Xxxxxxx

County of Xxxxxxx

On this day came before me the Affiant, a living flesh and blood man/woman to oath and attest and affirm the signature

is true, complete, and correct on the foregoing affidavit. Catherine Elizabeth Bleish, the above signed, who is

personally known by me or upon proper oath and identification, personally came before me, the subscriber, a notary

public in and for said County and State, and Duly Affirmed the truth of the foregoing Affidavit in my presence. The

Affiant also acknowledged the signing thereof to be his own voluntary act and deed, signing the within instrument in

my presence and for the purpose therein stated.

Date: _________________________

My commission expires__________________________________


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