Enough Is Enough, Paul Sessions of Seven Points

Enough is enough, Paul.

I was not planning on writing anything else about the March 24 meeting. The budget passed. The council did its job. The story was told. I was ready to move on.

Then Paul Sessions, a city council candidate in the May 2026 election, decided the most important thing to focus on after one of the most productive meetings in recent Seven Points history was posting a selectively edited video clip targeting LaJohnna Wells in the "Seven Points After Dark" Facebook group. His caption read: "(((AGAIN, Somebody is out of control)))."

I am tired. I am so tired of this.

This city just accomplished something it could not do for 170 days. The council sat down, went line by line through a broken budget, fixed it, and passed it unanimously. Every person in that room should have walked out proud of what happened. Instead, a man running for city council decided the takeaway was a clip of one council member leaving the room in tears, stripped of every piece of context that explains why she was upset in the first place.

Paul, you were at that meeting. You saw what happened. You heard a citizen stand at the podium and tear three women apart in front of a packed room. You heard the one-sided retelling of the January gavel incident that left out the part where the mayor put the gavel in her face first. You watched LaJohnna absorb all of that and break. And your takeaway was to post a clip that makes her look bad.

That is not coverage. That is not transparency. That is a targeted attack on a public servant who showed up to do her job during one of the hardest periods of her personal life, and you know it.

I called him out in the comments. I asked why he only posts clips designed to bash LaJohnna and never the full meetings. I asked why he did not post the part where Kevin Reynolds admitted on the record that he cursed at me unprovoked. I asked why, if he is "exposing" one council member, he does not expose all of them equally. He had no answer. He responded with "Freedom of speech and videos. If you want the whole video, video it yourself and post it."

That is not an answer. That is a deflection from a man who got caught being unfair and does not want to admit it.

Then something else happened. His post disappeared.

I have the screenshots. I have the original post. I have every comment in the thread. So when it vanished, I posted the receipts and asked him directly: Paul, what happened to this post?

His response: "You stir a pot of lies. I deleted nothing."

Paul, I have the screenshots.

Dwight Callaway Sr. called it exactly right in the comments: "He won't come out and say someone else did, he just wants to give that impression." Dwight asked Justin Shaffer, the group admin, to weigh in. And Shaffer did. He confirmed what anyone who understands Facebook already knows: "Posts don't get deleted unless Facebook Deletes them or the author does."

So either Paul Sessions deleted his own post and then lied about it, or he is accusing an admin of deleting it for him, which the admin just told everyone does not happen. Pick one, Paul.

Mary Wennerstrom posted a response that night that everyone should read. She laid out what Paul's clip left out: that LaJohnna is going through one of the most difficult periods of her life, having lost her husband and then her mother in less than six months. That she showed up to the meeting anyway because she cares about getting this city's budget passed. That the gavel incident in January started with the mayor putting the gavel in LaJohnna's face, not with her response. That for almost two years, certain council members have endured "tons of hateful and disparaging remarks both publicly and non publicly, in the most disrespectful manner from employees, their friends and family, and other public officials including the current mayor." That none of this context was even being considered. Only one side.

Mary is right. The video Paul posted did not show where I walked outside and found LaJohnna completely broken down. It did not show the people who followed her out and stood by her side. It did not show her pulling herself together and walking back into that room to finish the job. It showed none of that. Because showing that would have required Paul to be fair, and being fair is apparently not what he is interested in.

This Is Not New

This is not the first time Paul Sessions has gone out of his way to stir things up.

At the January council meeting, I was standing outside having a conversation with two Seven Points residents. We were talking about city business, who the local officials are, who was in attendance. Normal conversation. Paul Sessions walked over and joined in. He stood there like he was part of it. Then one of the residents I was speaking with mentioned a specific name. Nothing negative. Just a name that came up in the course of a conversation about local government.

Paul walked off shortly after. About thirty seconds later, a woman came over to us, frustrated, raising her voice, telling us to "keep her name out of it."

I was appalled. Someone had taken a harmless piece of a private conversation and run it straight to that person, twisting it into something it was not. The only person who had walked away from our group in that window was Paul Sessions. If you want to know who the individual was, you can ask him. I am not going to identify her because it does not matter. What matters is the pattern: Paul Sessions inserts himself into a conversation, grabs the first thing he can use to create conflict, and walks it over to someone else to light a fuse.

That is what he did in January. That is what he did after the March 24 meeting. He does not contribute. He does not build. He finds the nearest piece of information he can weaponize and uses it to cause drama. Every single time.

Withdraw

I want to be very clear about something. If this is what Paul Sessions focuses on as a council candidate, if this is how he plans to contribute to Seven Points governance, if his instinct after a historic budget vote is to post a gotcha clip targeting one woman, then he has no business sitting on that dais. None.

A council member who cannot see the full picture has no place making decisions for this city. A council member who posts biased clips, deletes them when confronted, and then denies deleting them is not someone the citizens of Seven Points can trust. A council member who cannot even apologize to LaJohnna for this clear mistake lacks what it takes to sit up there and represent this community.

Paul, if you cannot bring yourself to apologize to LaJohnna Wells for this, you should withdraw from the race. Save everyone the headache of dealing with your biased and unfair antics any further. Because if you get elected and this is how you operate, you are going to make a difficult situation in this city even worse. And Seven Points does not need that. Not after everything it just went through to get a budget passed.

The personal attacks in this city have to stop. From the podium, from social media, from council candidates who should know better. This is how we end it: by calling the nonsense out for exactly what it is, every single time, until people either stop doing it or stop pretending they did not.

The truth will set Seven Points free. But only if people stop running from it.