1312014 Despite a Gag Order SF Blogger David Nahmod Continues to Write About Surprise Couple He Claims Brainwashed His Ex-Boyfriend

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Despite a Gag Order SF Blogger David NahmodContinues to Write About Surprise Couple HeClaims Brainwashed His Ex-BoyfriendBy Niki DAndrea Mon Sep 22 2008 at 652 PM Write Comment

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By Niki DrsquoAndrea

Despite getting served with a gag order and an Injunction of Harassment San Francisco-

based blogger David Nahmod continues to post blogs about a couple in Surprise Arizona

he claims ldquobrainwashedrdquo his ex-boyfriend into leaving him Hersquoll participate in a Maricopa

County Justice Court hearing via phone on Thursday September 25 to request that the

gag order be removed

As we reported last month in the Valley Fever blog titled ldquoArizona Couple Gets Judge to

Gag SF Bloggerrdquo Nahmod was ordered to stop doing anything that encourages others to

harass the couple including posting information about them on the Internet Nahmod

had written extensively about the couple Stephen Polich and Kathryn Rock of Surprise

Arizona at the sites davidsopenforumblogspotcom and wwwlavenderliberalcom and

also shared his story with reporter Lauren Smiley at our sister publication the SF Weekly

(click here to read that story)

In his writings Nahmod alleges that Rock in particular destroyed his relationship with

Beecher Goodwin by ldquobrainwashingrdquo Goodwin whom he claims has bi-polar disorder

(which Nahmod says he also has) Nahmod claims Rock has been tampering with

Goodwinrsquos mail (on Nahmods blog hes posted a photo of a letter from Beecher saying I

need to get my mail along with an envelope addressed to Nahmod with Kathryn Rock as

the sender) falsifying documents and forcing Goodwin (whom Nahmod says ldquois barely

literate and doesnrsquot know how to use a computerrdquo) to sign them and causing him

mysterious headaches ldquoWhat Kathryn Rock did constitutes nothing less than a gay

bashingrdquo Nahmod wrote in his June 1 2008 blog

Nahmodrsquos tirade against Rock led her and her husband to seek the restraining order

against him in July An Arizona judge issued the gag order in August Since then Nahmod

has continued to regularly blog about his failed relationship with Goodwin and the hand he

feels Rock played in his relationshiprsquos demise

ldquoI have stopped mentioning her last name and the city of Surprise on all blog posts since

the judgersquos orderrdquo says Nahmod who wanted it noted in this blog that New Times

contacted him for this story not vice versa ldquoI donrsquot want the judge to think Irsquom trying to

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draw more attention to this whole thing I am obeying the judgersquos order but Irsquom still

talking about this issuerdquo

Goodwin has been living with Stephen Polich and Kathryn Rock since the fall of 2005 He

says he has never read any of Nahmodrsquos blogs but that he does have a computer and uses

it a couple of times a day

ldquo[Davidrsquos] delusionalrdquo Goodwin says ldquoThis has been going on ever since I left him Itrsquos

been three and a half years and hersquos still carrying on He blames Kathryn for me leaving

him but the breakdown was due to him not Kathryn or Stephen The reason for my

leaving was because I was being ignoredrdquo

Nahmod says hersquos going to ask the judge on Thursday to remove his gag order because he

feels the whole story touches upon gay rights issues (ldquoIf Beecher and I had been able to

marry back in 2005 there wouldrsquove been a divorce hearing and Kathryn wouldnrsquot have

been able to do what she didrdquo he says) and mental health issues (ldquo[Kathryn] used our

disabilities to get us raging against each otherrdquo he says) He also alleges that Rock has left

more than 20 vitriolic comments on his blog under various pseudonyms

Kathryn Rock has denied leaving any comments on Nahmodrsquos blogs but shes aware that

ldquohersquos written severalrdquo blogs about her since the gag order was issued Reached by phone

Rock seemed reticent to discuss specific aspects of the issue and had only one comment

about Nahmod ldquoI am sorry hersquos so miserable and he has so much hate I hope someday he

is able to see past the hate and love himself and somebody else againrdquo

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