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BREAKING: ANC8A Bans Constituent From ANC Meetings: “It has been determined by Phil Mendelson”…

UPDATE: Breaking: ANC8A Never Discussed Banning Constituent with Chairman Mendelson

At the March meeting of ANC8A A newly formed officer (I don’t think there is any bylaw approved for this position) A Seargent at Arms position, Commissioner Laneice Moore reported that “Um, it has been determined by Chairman Phil Middleton and also ANC8A that Mr. Tom Donohue has been disrupting our meetings from this day forward. Mr. Donohue, you are removed and banned from ANC Meetings”

Now for the record, only once did I have literally a few seconds to bring any of the matters of concern up to our ANC before I wad interrupted – so basiclly I’ve never been able to address the ANC with matters of concerns relating to Cmr. Holly Muhammad. The only ‘interruption’ thats possible is whatever I have written in the chat box during our ANC Meetings which typically involved links to supporting documentation that the ANC has refussed to address. I’ve hardly been any disruption. This ANC seems to be hiding something, ever since I have inquired about financials this ANC has been trying to silence me. Not one thing I have asked to address have they allowed to present to my neighbors.

Just days ago Chairman Mendelson said this:

I would like to address this matter in the courts. If anyone themselves or anyone someone knows is an attorney and wish to review and help me pursue these matters legally I’d really love to hear from you. This has got to stop. This ANC can not and should not be able to bully voters from being heard. Contact Tom Donohue at tom@tmdenterprises.us. You can find more about the ANC8A matters at https://www.recallinghollymuhammad.com

March 10, 2023

On March 9, 2023, Declan Falls Chairman Mendelson’s Community Outreach Specialist and I spoke. Declan informed me he was watching the meeting, I shared with him my concerns and he informed me that the ANC has not ever met with the Chairman or spoken to him about banning anyone from ANC meetings and that he does not support such an effort. He informed me that he assumed they must have listened to the above portion of the meeting and determined from that response that they had the right to ban me from the meeting. I informed him I’m not sure how they could have taken that from what the Chairman said however, he told me he had a conversation with one of the ANC Commissioners to inform them the Chairman does not take the position of an ANC commissioner banning any member of the public and that he also had a conversation with the office of the ANC to inform them as well. I told him that I had submitted a complaint to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) on July 14, 2021, when then-Chair Holly Muhammad ejected me from that month’s ANC meeting without cause or discussion and then continued to block my entrance into our meetings for six months. This is the response I got back. Additionally, it appears a similar response was written on Oct 12, 2022 (https://www.open-dc.gov/sites/default/files/Dismissal_OOG-2022-0008-M_ANC_redacted.pdf) for another similar complaint.


ANC8A inappropriately attempted to ban me from their meetings without having to take a vote, have discussions, or place the matter on the agenda which would have afforded me the opportunity to discuss the matter, they just had their newly established (without any changes to our bylaws) Sargent at Arms inform the public during the March 2023 meeting that I was banned. They will need to discuss this come to the May 2023 meeting as the commission has an off month in April. It’s very unfortunate that no member of this commission voiced any concerns publicly however I did find it odd that Commissioner Robin McKinney called me prior to the meeting asking if I was planning on attending the meeting because she didn’t think I should be banned and that I should be able to continue to attend meetings. A part of me wonders if this was a ploy to get me to attend so the commission could embarrass me in front of my neighbors by telling me I was banned. Commissioner McKinney nor my own elected official Commissioner Tanya Clark spoke one word during or after their announcement of my being banned. So, I wonder when this decision was made. It appears some official business was conducted at a time when the public was kept from this discussion.

Letter to Chair White Insisting ANC8A Find a Vacancy in ANC8A03 After Evidence Show Cmr Holly Muhammad Does Not Live at Property Owned by Friend & Fellow ANC8A Cmr Barbra Clark

Letter to Chair White Insisting ANC8A Find a Vacancy in ANC8A03 After Evidence Show Cmr Holly Muhammad Does Not Live at Property Owned by Friend & Fellow ANC8A Cmr Barbra Clark

Mendelson:  ANC’s DO NOT HAVE RIGHT TO BAN Constituents From Attending ANC Meetings

​During the February Meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) ANC8A Meeting, a motion was made to ban Tom Donohue a 9 year resident of Ward 8 and small business owner after Tom attempted to discuss matters the ANC has refused to address such as, ANC Commissioner Holly Muhammad’s use of fellow ANC8A Commissioner Barbara Clark’s physical address. (Ms. Clark owns two properties in Ward 8)  Ms. Muhammad uses Ms. Clark’s address as her own in order to be able to run for public office.  After nearly ten attempts to serve a civil complaint upon Ms. Muhammad three attempts by MPD and seven attempts by a private process server (one during a regular meeting of the ANC) All attempts failed as Ms. Muhammad was not home. The process server in court documents swore that neighbors told them that no one by that name even lives there. (see attached affidavits) 

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During the February 28, 2023 Meet up with Mendelson, Phil Mendelson Chairman  of  Washington DC City Council said “An ANC does not have the right to ban somebody”

Reasoning for the commission wanting to ban Donohue is because Donohue has had multiple matters including whether Muhammad lives where she does along with quarterly financial reports for two years not being signed or discussed during any ANC Meetings from being submittted to the ANC.  Donohue has submitted multiple FOIA requests to the OANC and to Chairwoman White of which have been ignored. Tom has proof that two very different QFR for same periods of time have been submitted to the OANC none of which show any signatures and there is no evidence of any minutues taken of any of these meetings to show that the QFR were brought before the commission during an open meeting for approval.

With Donohue attempting to bring these matters before via the chat messaging feature of Zoom, Commissioners proceeded to make a motion to Ban Donohue from futyure meetings. Chairwoman White moved away from. A FOIA request along with a sunpoena from Superior Court have not resulted in a recording from the ANC being turned over to Tom Donohue as of the time of publishing.

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Commissioner Holly Muhammad Does NOT LIVE At Commissioner Barbra Clark’s Address – She Illegally Ran For Office. Here’s The Proof

Commissioner Holly Muhammad Does NOT LIVE At Commissioner Barbra Clark’s Address – She Illegally Ran For Office. Here’s The Proof

Tonight, Feb 7, 2023, a licensed process server made an attempt to serve Commissioner Holly Muhammad during her ANC Meeting where you’d expect her to be during a virtual meeting and the server got no response.

MPD also attempted three different attempts to serve Commissioner Muhammad with no success.

Here is what a professionally hired process server said about her attempts to serve Holly Muhammad. When will our Commissioners actually take action against Holly Muhammad?

What more is needed? Holly ran for office while saying she was living at a property owned by fellow ANC Commissioner Barbra Clark. Commissioner Muhammad and Clark should be investigated for election law violations. Remember she ran against someone who actually lives in that single member district.

ANC 8A03 Commissioner Holly Muhammad Being Sued For $25,000 After Falsely Claiming Constituent is Racist & Bully in BOE Filings. He’s Seeking a Restraining Order

Former ANC Constituent files $25,000 law suit against ANC Commissioner Holly Muhammad for libel & slander vows to donate 100% to organizations support todays youth to become future Ward 8 leaders

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Contact: Tom Donohue
Office: 202-525-4390 x102
Email: tom@tmdenterprises.us

ANC 8A03 Commissioner Holly Muhammad Being Sued For $25,000 After Falsely Claiming Constituent is Racist & Bully in BOE Filings. He’s Seeking a Restraining Order

Washington, DC, January 10, 2023: Nine-year southeast DC resident, Tom Donohue has filed a $25,000 personal tort lawsuit against his former Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Holly Muhammad for libel and slander. In filings with the Superior Court Donohue says that in Board of Elections filings and during recent ANC meetings Commissioner Muhammad calls him a racist and claims that he hates black women and Muslims. Donohue claims Muhammad is also responsible for circulating a flyer throughout his Fairlawn neighborhood claiming he is a Scammer & bullies females which is a similar claim Muhammad makes in her response to Donohue’s Recall petition filed last year with the Board of Elections.

In his suit against Muhammad, Donohue requests a restraining order preventing Muhammad from coming around him. During the ANC swearing-in last week, Holly aggressively accosted him in the lobby making a scene. She was so aggressive that the Chairwoman of 8A, Jamila White had to physically pull Holly away from Tom as he backed up from her being in his face. Tom is also requesting that Holly be prevented from making false claims about him publicly while executing her duties as an ANC Commissioner.

“Holly is a tyrant, not once have I attached her personally, yet she wants to attack me with disgusting claims that she has never tried to explain or prove. Holly must look from within to help her self-identify what a bully is. Until the Commissioner self-identifies as a bully herself, she will continue to mislabel good neighbors as one.”

Tom Donohue

Donohue who is also a small business owner in Ward 8 has been bullied by Holly’s tactics since before he first filed an intent to recall her last year. Holly responded to the Board of Elections with these claims knowing he would have to present her claims to voters while asking them to support his recall. Holly formerly represented Donohue as his ANC Commissioner until last week’s swearing-in. In March of last year, Donohue reported to the ANC & Board of Elections that she moved. He was following up on a lead reported to him by a fellow constituent & neighbor. He confirmed the lead by her former landlord. Once her move was made public, Muhammad changed her address with the OANC to a PO Box mysteriously hiding her physical address from constituents. Upon further review, Donohue found out Muhammad changed her physical address to the address of her fellow ANC Commissioner Barbra Clark’s second property she owns. Donohue stands firm claiming neighbors of Barbra Clark, whom Holly use to represent have not seen Holly at Commissioner Clark’s address. Tom’s complaint & motion requesting a restraining order has been attempted to be served twice by MPD to Barbra Clark’s second address However those answering the door claim she lives there but not at home.

In his written statement, Donohue says, “I’m no longer accepting Holly’s behavior. I’m asking the courts to intervene and find her guilty of libel and slander. HOLLY IS AN ELECTED MEMBER OF THE DC GOVERNMENT. She can’t go around making false claims about constituents because she feels challenged. I do not believe Holly lives at Commissioner Clark’s address and when that is proven, Holly will be forced to defend the use of Barbra Clark’s address to run for the open seat a seat taken from Bobby Williams who lost to Holly in November’s election.” Donohue continues,

“Holly’s days as an ANC Commissioner are numbered. Holly’s actions as an elected member of the DC Government must be investigated, and the two years of unsigned questionable, never discussed financial reports turned into the OANC while Holly was Chairwoman must be explained by Holly.”

Tom Donohue

Tom notes that should he be successful with his libel suit against Holly that 100% of the monies rewarded will be donated to Ward 8 non-profits specifically those who work with youth – to help keep them on track to being future leaders of Ward 8.

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View complaint below:

BREAKING: Office of Finance and Revenue withholding of all ANC 8A allotments

What in the world is going on with ANC 8A Finances? Why does the OANC have so many questions yet nothing with any urgency or substance has happened. Why hasn’t matters with this ANC been referred to outside agencies.

New Director of OANC Kent Boese responded to ANC 8A01 resident, Tom Donohue’s below letter with the following:

This is to advise you that the OANC has posed the same questions to ANC 8A.  The answers would ordinarily be found in the statutorily required quarterly financial reports (QFRs) and minutes.  Unfortunately, for various reasons, ANC 8A has continuously failed to submit signed QFRs and minutes for at least two (2) years.  

During this time, ANC 8A repeatedly cited a failure to have a quorum at meetings and the lack of a secretary.  Therefore, in accordance with its responsibilities in this area, the OANC recommended to the Office of Finance and Revenue – and was granted thereby – the withholding of all ANC 8A allotments until it properly complies with the ANC law and supplies the OANC with all previously unsubmitted QFRs and minutes.

Kent C. Boese
Executive Director – Office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions

All of the quarterly financial reports can be found below:

Where is ANC 8A01 Commissioner Holly Muhammad Really Living?

Commissioner Holly Muhammad’s hate towards people makes her unable to represent them. Holly’s reign of any political position shall come to an end.

In March 2022 Holly moved from her residence however never let anyone know
until Tom got a lead from someone who told him she had moved out of ANC 8A01.  Tom researched this lead, found it to be 100% credible and informed the
Board of Elections. When word got to Holly, she immediately submitted a change of address with the BOE and posted a PO Box, making her the only ANC
Commissioner to refuse to make public her physical address by filing a PO Box.

Tom requested the listing of registered voters in DC and within
held Holly Muhammad’s new physical address its located-on Minnesota Avenue in SE DC. Upon further review in My Tax DC, this property is co-owner by Commissioner Barbara J. Clark that’s right Holly’s ally Commissioner in the
same Commission just a different single member district.

Lets Recap!

1. Holly over looks notifying anyone of her move for months

2. Once it was known she moved, she filed an change of address with the BOE

3. She becomes the only Commissioner who chooses to list her PO Box as her address as a public ANC Commissioner

4. Holly’s listed’s physical address is listed as that owned by her fellow Commissioner Barbra J. Clark

How did we get here?

Holly removed Tom Donohue from an ANC virtual meeting after Tom types note encouraging her to move on from an argument between her and another commissioner (again he only supported other neighbors who started telling them to move on and again this was only a text message in the chat)

Holly then blocked Tom from attending six months’ worth of ANC Meetings

She refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act Requests, which remain outstanding.

Holly has someone circulate a flyer with Toms picture on it to all his neighbors with in a several block radius

In retaliation to a warranted recall Holly has printed on the recall petition that Tom is a racist, that he hates black women and Muslims.

Commission leadership allows Holly to personally attack Tom during a public ANC Meeting and prevents Tom from representing the recall petition to the entire ANC meeting (See https://recallinghollymuhammad.com/2022/05/04/racist/)

Just as Commissioner Muhammad has been steadfast towards tarnishing my reputation, I will double down in assuming she will lose her ANC election no matter where she ‘says’ she lives.

Ms. Muhammad is full of hate, as a gay male myself I know firsthand that hate never wins the only thing I can hope for is that Holly finds love within her to accept and love others, I am confident my neighbors in Ward 8 will find Holly’s hate and desire to tarnish others for her gain has no room in Ward 8 politics. The days of her demands and her treating people with disrespect are coming to an end. I will do everything within my ability to inform my neighbors of her actions, make her accountable for them and see she will never have an elected role within DC government again.

I call upon the Democratic party to denounce Holly’s behavior and ask they not support Holly’s election. They have sat by too long watching her represent the democratic party with disgust.

Tom Donohue
ANC 8A01 Resident, Small Business Owner

Recalling Holly Muhammad has Turned to Finding Her Replacement

Tom Donohue turns his signature collection efforts into identifying someone who will run against Ms. Muhammad.

Effective August 1, 2022, Tom Donohue will cease his signature collecting efforts and will submit a petition which will consist of one signature, his own. This way not to identify potential supporters publicly this approach will allow him to take steps against the Board of Elections which prevented Mr. Donohue from fairly collecting signatures. Mr. Donohue will turn all of his efforts into identifying candidates who will run against Ms. Muhammad in the November election. Mr. Donohue’s signature collection was hampered by several actions taken by the Board of Elections for which he plans to act against once his recall petition has been acted on for lack of signatures. Mr. Donohue, an eight-year resident of his southeast neighborhood, small business owner and invested member of the ANC8A01 community assures Ms. Muhammad that her potential run for Commissioner will not happen unopposed.  If after an exhaustive outreach to identify a candidate fails, Mr. Donohue commits to running against Ms. Muhammad.  If no other candidate declares Commissioner Muhammad will face Mr. Donohue and be forced to explain her actions and lies levied against Mr. Donohue. Ms. Muhammad has provided zero support that Mr. Donohue is a racist, that he hates women and Muslims.  This approach by Ms. Muhammad should bring concern to every member of each of those communities.  Instead of launching a sincere response to Mr. Donohue’s claims she’d rather use race, gender identity and religion falsely to hide behind her behavior and hope that her community would simply accept her claims.  Without any evidence of such claims Ms. Muhammad should face each of those communities for using them for political gain, its frankly disgusting.  Her false claims should have consequences.
I am confident that my neighbors will dismiss Ms. Muhammad’s false claims against me.   With no evidence of her claims, I hope this backfires against her and that my neighbors will see her attempt to discredit me a disgrace.   It’s disgusting for Ms. Muhammad to use the black community, females and her Muslim communities as a  distraction from her own actions and behaviors all of which are well documented.  How ironic would it be if each of the communities she attempted to use to discredit me is credited to bringing her reign of Commissioner to an end” says Tom Donohue.
He anticipates he will identify someone within ANC8A01 who will want to bring positive change and who will be electable and will not need to run, however he makes that commitment to his neighbors that she will not run unopposed. He looks forward to the Democratic Party supporting a candidate who listens, acts responsibility and can represent ANC 8A01 with dignity. Anyone interested in learning more about being an ANC Commissioner or who would like Mr. Donohue’s support for their candidacy is encouraged to contact him at tom@tmdenterprises.us.

ANC8A01 Commissioner Holly Muhammad Has Mislead Constituents & May No Longer Live in ANC8A01

ANC8A01 Commissioner Holly Muhammad Has Mislead Constituents & May No Longer Live in ANC8A01

In a letter to the Board of Elections and the Office of ANC , Tom Donohue ANC8A01 resident and small business owner informs both agencies, “of a potential vacancy for Commissioner in the ANC08A single member district” he continues, “It has been brought to my attention and confirmed with the property owner of record at 1936 Naylor Road, SE #102, Mr. Wills that ANC08A, Commissioner, Holly Muhammad no longer resides at her listed address of 1936 Naylor Road, SE #102 as of March 2022.”

Holly Muhammad no longer resides at her listed address of 1936 Naylor Road, SE #102 as of March 2022.

Tom Donohue

Tom adds that VoteUSA lists Ms. Muhammad’s address as 1926 17th Street, SE and DC would seem to indicate that Ms. Muhammad no longer resides in the single member district she represents and therefore creates a vacancy.

Her DC Voter Registration as of last week still lists Ms. Muhammad residency still on Naylor Road.

In his letter he requests that this matter be clarified as my recall efforts in collecting signatures may no longer be necessary.

Tom wishes to stress he has no interest in running for or ever being ANC8A01 Commissionor he just wishes to be represented by someone worthy, professional and dignified to hold a postion in which the elected official will represent all and not lower themselves by attacking the public. He reminds folks of his petition currently in circulation for signatures:

Ms. Muhammad only knows how to attack people not represent them. Do you ever See Tom disrespect or attack Ms. Muhammad personally? Never.

Elected Official from DC Calls her Constituent a Racist during meeting says he Hates Women and Muslims

Commissioner Holly Muhammad Claims in open meeting her constitutent is racist, hates women and Muslims. None of which is true

Commissioner Holly Muhammad flat out lies during a meeting of ANC08 calling her constitutent racist, that he hates women and Muslims. Yet she has nothing to support her claim. This sounds along the same lines as this mysterious flyer that someone had placed in a several block radius. Tom filed a police report that evening.