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The ongoing saga of the abrupt eviction of the Recreation Wish List Committee, run by Cora Masters Barry, from the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center keeps attracting more and more big guns. D.C. Wire updates today that none other than Maya Angelou and Dorothy Height were trying to get a meeting with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty this past week to discuss the matter. And to make matters worse, sources are telling the Post that Fenty canceled not one, but two meetings with the women. And just when you thought Fenty's office couldn't appear to be any more callous on this issue. But wait! What's that you say, @MayorFenty?
Missed meeting with Dr. Maya Angelou & Dorothy Height was due to scheduling conflicts and not disrespect :-)Emoticon aside, this recent Tweet is at least a step in the right direction toward using the Mayoral Twitter Feed for something less stupid. And it looks like the folks who are writing it are now trying to figure out exactly what the MayorFenty feed should be. Message @MayorFenty to let the EOM know what you find valuable about being able to communicate with your leaders via Twitter.
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I heard he also called Mother Teresa "a ho."
It's Mommy Dearest to you, buster!
Get back on the Wire Hanger Liz.
Please. If I was supposed to meet her, I'd blow her off too. She's way overrated, and her delivery is really annoying.
I agree :-)
If only I could be a fly on the wall for that meeting.
"Mayor Fenty, do you know why the caged bird sings?"
"That's a question about my bird, and I'm not going to answer it."
Man, Fenty really has it in for poets laureate. This is, after all, the man who punched Gwendolyn Brooks in the box and donkeypunched Robert Penn Warren in the taint. Sure the dude peaked with "All the King's Men" but he was 84, for god's sake.
Pssst...
I heard from an anonymous source that he even peed on Robert Frost's headstone...
The man's got a grudge!
Did Dr. Angelou travel to meet the mayor? And he stood her up twice? If yes, it's disrespectful and unprofessional, dude.
Oh, let me add an emoticon to make this less critical of hizzoner: @>--}--
He found out that she was going to ask him about his kids.
Check out the first tweet in Fenty's feed:
Mayor Adrian M Fenty's Twitter Page Built by the 2009 Summer Youth Employment Program IT participants as part of the DC DOES SYEP. Lets talk
Translation: Fenty is not writing this stuff. High school students are.
Speaking of insults, just last week, Mayor Fenty teabagged Sinclair Skinner and failed to thank him afterward.