Jason Evers – Who is he?
This past end of 2009, the local rag asked me to write the Top 10 reasons we’re glad Jason Evers is gone. For those of you who don’t much about Jason Evers – here’s some insight.
First, you need to know about the OLCC, which is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, a sort of Gestapo of policing liquor consumption in the state of Oregon. They hand out sanctions according to a 500-page rulebook, most of it written right after prohibition. If you spend much time reading the book, you find that many of the rules are non- sensical and contradict other laws in the book. For the most part, the OLCC inspectors make sure that you aren’t over serving or serving people under age, until Jason Evers came onto the scene. He would camp out in your bar with his OLCC inspectors and start issuing citations for the most bizarre things. Dealing with the OLCC is difficult – as there is not court. If they’ve deemed you should be fined or shut down, for the most part there is little you can do. The best call is to find a very sly lawyer who is willing to fight back on constitutional law or a case of slander.
Last year, the bars and restaurants in Bend were under siege. Evers was doling out fines like they were candy at a Fourth of July parade. Everyone in the restaurant business was perpetually afraid for their lively hood, for at any moment Evers could be at your door trying to close you down for some tiny violation or no violation at all. Finally, enough was enough and the restaurant and bar owners banded together behind a local city council women and the governor of Oregon and they had a formal investigation where they decided that Evers was out of his jurisdiction. He was moved to another OLCC office (where he was promoted!?!?!?!?!?!).
Bend’s been a much happier place since then! So it was only fascinating a couple of days ago when it appeared in the local newspaper that Jason Evers is in jail in Idaho with no bond. It turns out that Jason Evers isn’t Jason Evers – no one knows who he is. He applied for a passport and when they ran the social security number it turns out that his identification had been stolen from a three-year old murder victim from Ohio. You can read the full story here.
Anyhow, I thought it would be a good time to reprint the top ten Top 10 reasons we’re glad Jason Evers is gone.
The Top 10 Reasons We’re Glad Jason Evers is Gone!!!!
10
The servers of Bend can sleep free of nightmares that the OLCC will kidnap and torture them because they forgot to bring their server permit to work
9
Astro Lounge will be open year round
8
The amphitheatre will rage with big shows once again
7
Bend’s restaurants have a better chance of wading out the recession without having to pay fines or lawyer fees on trivial or false allegations
6
Bar managers can stop spending sleepless nights scouring the 500-page OLCC legal code to ensure they know the law better than the “law” knows it
5
Restaurateurs can be relieved that their liquor license no longer changes on a random rotating weekly basis
4
We can work with the OLCC instead of being afraid of it
3
Bend is just a much happier place without him
2
estaurant workers can go back to gossiping about each other rather than having one common enemy
1
Parents can dine with their children again even if there is a bar stool in their peripheral vision
And the new number one –
We’re not glad the real Jason Evers is gone. It is a sad story of a baby being murdered. But whoever this sick shit is that has pretended to be Jason Evers for the past decade – well good riddance. Might you enjoy being dicked around in prison as much as you enjoyed dicking the city of Bend’s bars around for the past couple of years.
- Columbine Quillen I am a mixologist bartender and this is my blog.
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that’s right columbine–this is a great article. love your voice, love that f-you attitude? let’s take new york!