coltswalker

Erik Holt is a U.S. Army veteran of the Irag War and a career public servant with more than twenty years in the fire service, including a federal firefighting career and service as Fire Chief of the Florissant Fire Protection District in Colorado. He is the founder of Justice For Holt, a public accountability platform followed by tens of thousands. He lives in California, where he continues to serve in executive leadership. He is, first and last, Kailyn and Aubrey's dad. On May 2, a023, Fire Chief Erik Holt's station served as a polling place for a small Colorado mountain community. When voters reported troubling conduct at the polls, Holt faced the choice that defines this book: look away and keep the life he had built, or pall the surveillance footage and accept everything that came with knowing He looked. Forty hours of video sent him to law enforcement. Six weeks later, the people caught on camera were his bosses - and his career was over. Then came the bill. A for-cause termination that followed him onto every job application. The savings, drained. The house, gone. A winter with no health insurance and no propane, warmed by space heaters and a father's refisal to let his daughters see him quit. A Sos,ooo ultimatum from his own attorneys. A move west with a family's whole life packed into a truck. And then came the answer. A man who had never written a legal brief tanghe himself appellate law at his kitchen table, carried his own case through the federal courts to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and built Justice For Holt - a public record of the evidence that tens of thousands would follow, one backyard video and podcast at a time. This is Erik Holt's fall accounting: what the truth cost, what it could never buy back, and what was still standing when everything for sale was gone. He wrote it for the two readers who matter most - his daughters. amazon.com/Free-Speech-Retal… @JusticeForHolt