ANC2C02 Forum

So not only is the Chair mentally incapable she is also physically incapable.

Dear Lord:

Saint Doris Brooks is filled with the devil and might requires an exorcism. I pray Lord that she is eventually forgiven for her evil ways and makes amends for following the devil when he pulled her puppet strings and did what he told her to do. Thank you Lord. Amen.

REPENT DORIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!

Your brother in Christ,

Dorrell Proctor

Pray, jes pray, chil'ren. An' ax da good lawd for helf and stremf tru dis dawk hour.

I feel compelled to say that I think making fun of someone for being sick is pretty mean. And I think that posting the picture like that is also mean. What if that was you? It doesn't really matter how much you disagree with the person or dislike her. Just my opinion.

was she still mean?

Abby

I do not know if you are addressing your remarks to me or to the other individuals who left comments; however, I will address the photo that was posted of Commissioner Brooks - that photo is a video still of the beginning of the video that was posted and was not intended to make fun of Ms. Brooks. Because I am a firm believer in freedom of speech, I allow inividuals to make less-than-flattering comments about others and and about me as long as they identify themselves. But I do agree with you that it is not nice to make fun of someone for being sick.

-Kevin

In an August 17 letter to the Auditor's office in which she stated that the ECCA computers had been made available to public, Doris Brooks lied that she had cc'd the commissioners. The computers are not publicly available, so she was compounding the basic lie that the computers are publicly available.

The Auditor caught her in a lie when commissioners began asking the Auditor's office for copies of the letter that they were cc'd on. The Auditor ordered her to send another letter signed by all of the commissioners, and that until then the ANC non compliant with DC code and will therefore have funding cut off by the DC government.

October 11 is the deadline that the DC Auditor's office has set for the ANC to work with the ECCA. Without Barbara Curtis there in that meeting, Brooks was checkmated. She wouldn't even have been able to employ her trick of repeating votes until Curtis votes her way. Commissioners Chapple and Padro can correct me if I am wrong, but I do not imagine that either of them would have certified that those computers are publicly available.

Had that meeting gone ahead it would have culminated in an ignominious defeat for Brooks.

Leroy Thorpe can make the whole matter go away by donating those computers to Scott Montgomery Elementary School. If he did that, everybody would be happy. The money spent by the ANC on these computers would be benefitting the community rather than a select few individuals. Instead he puts the ANC Chair he is meant to be assisting through this.

Readers can draw their own conclusions about why the meeting ended the way that it did.

It's not a laughing matter. The only thing done here was a documentation of our poor beloved Chair falling ill and bringing yet another community business meeting to a halt. And that's a terrible pity for her and for all of us because there are a lot of issues to be addressed in our community and a mountain of things to be done — as even someone sitting on the side lines can tell.

I'll personally deliver flowers and cards to Ms Brooks myself if anyone cares to send them. I occassionally go to UHOP for for the Thursday night band performances that are really great actually. I played jazz trombone myself in an award winning band in HS. And it's refreshing to see the young people pouring their hearts into the music and working together.

It's also fantastic to see how excited some of the young students at SME are about reading and it's worth getting up at the crack if only to do a small part to work with them on the few computers they have if it helps to insulate them from the distractions of the gun/drug and gang boys who menace our community.

See ya'll at the next ECCA meeting.

Commissioner Chapple have you heard how Commissioner Brooks is doing?

No I haven't heard how Commissioner Brooks is doing

I had a brief chat with her earlier this afternoon. She told me that she's feeling much better today, despite some minor aches and pains.

Praises.

Cwalker, even after the computer issue is resolved, everybody still will not be happy. Maybe some happiness will happened when a certain individual cease and desist from ANC business. The idea that the gentileman suggested placing the computers at Scott is a great idea. I imagine and hope that the ECCA is holding out until the last minute, but ultimately doing the right thing.

Thanks for the clarification on the picture Kevin. And I agree with everything you said re: free speech. I value this blog as a resource where everyone can voice their opinion and don't always have to agree on everything(as opposed to other groups in our neighborhood). Keep up the good work!

I, too applaud Kevin for his comments about the post of the events of the last ANC meeting. Sometimes in the heat of conflict, we use the vehicle of free speech to say what we want, and sometimes not thinking things through for the immediate betterment. That's ok with me, but when the tables are turned, please say it's free speech when it comes to saying things about others of the community. I just wish that things are worked out in our ANC. It really benefits none of us the way things are going. The Honorable Mr Padro did a great sevice of carrying on the mmeting the other night, however, he cut some citzens off at the junction, and not let them speak. Reminds you of anyone ? I wished that Kevin would have taken more of a lead, since this was his neck of the woods, but, it is what it is. I heard a rumor that a neighbor from from a nearby ANC will be running against Jack -in - Box Evans. A friend of mine in Anacostia mentioned to me that SHAW has a lot of drama's going on. Without sharing my opinion, I just said "you're right".
Let's get it together people !! Ms. Lillian Gordon may give us her wisdom lectures of getting along, I am beginning to wonder how can this be accomplished ? I know that I have set myself up for the stakes, but bring it, I'm ready.

I think Alex Padro ran the meeting in a fair way. A chairperson who is fair will let everybody speak, but will also insist that people get to the point and be concise, so that they do not monopolize the discussion. If people are allowed to go on forever, it is not fair to others who might want to say something. Ms Mumin's monologue went on for quite some time, so I would say that Mr Padro was way more than fair to her. It would have been more fair to the rest of us if he had given her a time limit.

I would like to see a future ANC2C chair let everybody speak, stick to the agenda, have time limits for people making comments, and - this is important - to enforce those time limits uniformly. It's the fair way to do it.

Our current ANC2C chair has sat idly by while her friends monopolize the discussion, while not allowing others - even other commissioners - to speak at all. I don't think it's fair to say that for Alex Padro to limit the length of somebody's comments is comparable to the current chair's tactics of silencing dissent.

I would also like to see a future ANC2C chair strictly enforce a ban on people making threats of physical violence. I believe it was in the January ANC meeting when someone threatened to hit a commissioner, while our current chair just sat there and let it happen without uttering a peep. The chair should absolutely not tolerate such behavior.

there should be an MPD officer at every ANC meeting to ensure there are no acts of threats or intimidation. however this is PSA 308 where police leadership is the worst so i expect no leadership from Lt. Neal