Rumors coming out of Duncanville say that incumbent Councilwoman Dorothy Burton, the city's mayor pro-tem, is set to drop out of the race due to the embarrassing personnel file records from her employment at Dallas Area Rapid Transit that came to light this week on The Ellis County Observer and BestSouthwestBlog.com.
In case readers are new to the blogs, or don't know about Burton's firing at DART, here is what we have so far:
[Updated 4/13/09: Dorothy Burton's personnel file from DART has one key documents out of the dozens I have received: DART reports that she admitted to not only planting one pair of bloody, soiled women's underwear, but two pairs, and then instructed fellow DART co-workers not to remove it from plain sight. And Burton is a "motivational speaker?" She teaches "leadership?" And the voters elected her? What in the world...Later in the personnel files, now available at http://groups.yahoo.com/bestsouthwest she admits that she was wrong for planting them. This brazen act of disgusting "leadership" got her fired. All public record. She tried getting a cease and desist on a former councilwoman for possessing the documents, but she'll have a harder time stopping me, hahaha.]
The Texas Open Records Act is a great tool. Web 2.0 and blogs are even better.
BestSouthwestBlog.com and The Ellis County Observer received scores of documents via e-mail on Duncanville at-large Councilwoman Dorothy Burton, who serves as the city's mayor pro-tem, about her past record of employment at Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the taxpayer-funded public transportation agency.
Burton, who is seeking re-election on May 9, was fired for a sexual harassment and hostile environment complaint filed by a co-worker. The allegation(s)? Dorothy Burton, whom Duncanville voters elected in 2003, placed a pair of bloodied, soiled ladies underwear in a filing cabinet in an attempt to force a co-worker to resign and embarrass her.
The details:
Burton, who is black, is running against Buck Werner, whose wife is outspoken taxpayer advocate/Duncanville ISD school board trustee Cindy Werner. The quotes attributed to Burton on Page/Link 1 are very disturbing.
Link 4 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton Page 2
Link 5 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton Page 3
Link 6 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton - Burton's Response Via E-Mail
There are scores and scores of documents that they would be nearly impossible to post here. So, to better have a permanent "archive" on the Web, the documents have been circulated and are available on two Yahoo Discussion Groups (these are free to sign up and users can participate in the discussions via e-mail to the members of the group.)
Yahoo Group 1 | MidlothianTexas.net Yahoo Groups Yahoo Group 2 | Best Southwest Yahoo Group
