[Transcript]
Erin Purchase: I am please asking you to remove the article about me. I did not do anything to you to stir up. This hate that you have towards me. I don’t even know you. My business did not do anything wrong to you. If you have a problem with Brandon, I am no longer with him and I have not been with him for over four years. I do not even talk to him and if you have an issue with him I am unaware of it and unaffiliated.
I would like to please ask you to consider deleting all of the things regarding me that you recently posted so that I can turn around and delete any of the comments that I have posted.
Let’s clear this air and just go about our separate ways because we don’t know each other and we didn’t need this type of tension between the two of us
James Tibbets: Comments about me? Hmmm … you must have finally gotten around to calling the police? Ok … The comments … I can label them as my opinion. The article? I ran a video presentation of yours through some transcription software so if you’d like some credit, you did write most of it … so that we really can’t change unless you can reasonably prove that you lied somewhere in your presentation that was published nearly three years ago, not 13 like you claim …
Purchase: No I just don’t understand why you hate me so bad. I thought maybe you’d be interested in just deleting it all and you can go about your life. I understand your struggles
I personally did nothing to become involved in any of this so I would think that you would just delete it because there’s no reason to Target me the way that you have
And yes I did contact the police and they told me to be very careful because you are dangerous and I would really appreciate you taking all of that off and just leaving me alone
I don’t have anything against you. I don’t even know you. It’s completely weird to me that you even roped me into all of this
I’m also totally unaffiliated with the city. I’ve never taken a grant not even when I owned a downtown location. I opened that business all on my own with my own money. I’ve never been to a city council meeting since we opened the dispensary. I’m not a good old boy or anything of the sort so please reconsider your attachment to me to this issue
My daughter told me that Brandon was at the meeting where they discussed your ability to go into the meetings. She told me that yesterday. I was wondering if maybe he did something to you at that meeting to stir this up. Maybe you didn’t know that I left him in early 2021. I don’t have even a friendship with him. Anything that he does is completely unaffiliated with me. He also does not own the dispensary anymore and is unaffiliated with that
Tibbets: Dude … wow. So it’s my business telling yours no. If I got anything wrong then I don’t want to get sued for libel. What part of I don’t agree with you don’t you understand? It’s America, I’m allowed to disagree with you, I am forbidden from lying about you. Maybe it would be fair for you to meet me in a public place so we can talk about why me disagreeing with you is so wrong? I’ll have the notepad and it’ll all be about your side of the story? But no firearms … Bring a friend or two and film the interview …
Purchase: I am not meeting you in any public place
You actually do scare me because there’s no reason to even have an opinion about me
I did nothing to you to stir this up or to even have an opinion about me
Tibbets: Okay, we can talk on the phone … But you operate a dispensary in Pendleton, you are a business owner and I think you have demonstrated that you are profiteering off of what could be termed child abuse. So I quoted you.
Purchase: My dispensary has nothing to do with my child
I have been in the cannabis industry since before she had cancer. I opened that dispensary just like I have the right to open any other business
And nothing could be considered child abuse that I did for my daughter
She had a state legal medical marijuana card and her oncologist at Randall children’s hospital worked with me with cannabinoid treatments to come up with a protocol that incorporated them into her treatments
I got no legal trouble. I never had CPS called on me and she completed her therapy through the hospital. That is not abuse sir
And I’m sorry but I did not need to talk on the phone or in person. Everything can be documented via a portal like this. I am not interested in meeting you in person
Tibbets: Okay … well at any rate, I think that the events of 2012 were wrong. I’m not going to argue with you anymore. We’re going to agree to disagree. But now you have lied to me so I’m going to have to ask that the next contact with me or the Pendletonian Times from you or your business be through an attorney, else I’ll have to let dispatch know that I’m being harassed by a lunatic with a gun …
Purchase: I have not lied to you at all and the entire town thinks that you have lost your mind. So please go forth show them these messages and report me for nothing. I have stated multiple times in here that I would not meet with you in person or talk to you in person because you scare me. I have no interest in ever seeing you in person
Honestly just thought I would try civilly again to say hey. I wasn’t involved in any of this. I think you are mistaken. You obviously have deep down feelings about something that you really shouldn’t have because you’re not involved. I wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors
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