Follow the Money: The Receipts Are Right There
Apparently, there’s some scuttlebutt floating around the socials that the legal expenses WTCMUD No. 1 has paid to sue residents are not what MUDucation says they are.
Oh, dear.
Before anyone gets too excited, let’s try something radical:
The amounts reported by MUDucation are not pulled from a hat, whispered to us by a mysterious accountant, or divined from the moon.
They are verifiable in the District’s own bookkeeper reports—reports the MUD posts on its own website.
So, yes. Those numbers are public.
But here’s where it gets interesting.
The bookkeeper’s report tells you how much was paid.
The invoices tell you what you paid for.
And that, apparently, is where transparency gets a little uncomfortable.
MUDucation has published the invoices because we believe taxpayers deserve more than a nice, tidy number sitting in a spreadsheet with no context.
Follow the money. Read the invoices. Decide for yourself.
You can find them on MUDucation.org, Board Meeting packets where apparently the documents are allowed to speak for themselves.
And while you’re there, take note of something else:
August and September 2026 aren't even in the final tally yet.
Why?
Because those bills haven't arrived in the numbers we are currently reporting.
And those months include the appeals ordered by Beth Jones and Hanoi Avila, the legal committee.
So the legal meter is still running.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
Paid with taxpayer dollars, of course.
Which brings us back to that pesky little question:
Exactly how much is this litigation costing the people who didn't file it?
Fortunately, we don't have to answer that with rumor.
We have invoices.
And if someone thinks MUDucation got the numbers wrong, there's a remarkably simple solution:
Show us the invoice.
Not the summary.
Not the talking points.
Not the “trust us.”
The receipt.
Because when it comes to spending public money, transparency shouldn't mean “here's a number—please don't ask inconvenient questions.”
It should mean:
Here's what we paid.Here's who we paid.Here's what they billed us for.And here's the document to prove it.
Funny how much clearer government gets when you turn on the light.
MUDucation.org — because transparency works better when the receipts are actually visible.
