Commissioner Muhammad filed a response to my petition to recall. Its d
Commissioner Muhammad filed a response to my petition to recall. Its disgusting, without any merit, it speaks to her character and its only because she’s mad I’m standing up to her.
Click the text above to read her entire response which she submitted and will be printed on my Recall Ballot.
Her lies. Her antics must stop. An eleced official should never attack a voter in such a disgusting way.
This flyer was distributed over a few block radius to Tom’s neighbors
(flyer was distributed along a several block radius of Tom’s address to all his neighbors – a misc police report was filed)
I have two options:
Accept the petition I submitted to the Board of elections with Holly’s lies and inflammatory remarks meant to pit my neighbors against me
or…
I decline the petition and the petition dies. Ultimately allowing Holly to continue knowing she will not represent me as an individual or a small Ward 8 business owner.
Since the Board of Elections will allow a response on a petition to read anything the respondent wants it to say. Someone could literally say anything – like he’s a murderer and they say they’d still publish it. I’m stuck with having to accept Holly’s disgusting response no matter what ramifications her words could cause me whether short or long term. Those are my only two options.
Holly expects me to reject it, so my petition goes away. It seems she’ll do it at any cost. However she also knows that by her calling me a racist, by her saying I hate black woman and Muslims not only is she potentially putting my safety in jeopardy when I walk to peoples doors asking for signatures but she is defaming my name via the Board of Elections who will print this false information and force me to walk around to my neighbors asking my neighbors to sign in support of Holly to being recalled from office. Rather than defending her job-related reasons (nothing personal) I’ve listed, Holly wants to attack me personally with lies in hopes she can influence our neighbors. I am not an elected official I should not have to defend myself personally I’d be fine with defending my reasons if that was the case. The elected official should not be able to attack the citizen personally.
To address the other things she mentions, I have only been in her physical prescience I think twice. All communication has been virtual or via email. I have never been ‘aggressive’ I’ve never thought we was weak or any of that. I do have cameras on the outside of my building. They capture only public areas – no areas where there is no expectation to privacy. These cameras have captured violent crime such as the killing of Mr. David Farewell when he was intentionally struck and ran over left to die on 22nd Street SE or when one of our neighbors were robbed at gunpoint, two instances where it was the right thing to do for all of us to provide video to the authorities. Everything else is all about Holly’s vendetta towards me for my attempts to recall her.
Yes, she is right regarding one thing… I was hoping and expecting her fellow ANC Commissioners to step up and stop her from keeping me from entering ANC Meetings for six months. I stand by my words that their lack of any action should be known and would be included in any report to news outlets. It’s a shame they just watched each month as she refused me access month over month, I had expected the Commissioners to strip Ms. Muhammad from her leadership role. However, they stood by and simply allowed Ms. Muhammad to continue to grant me access or return any of my FOIA requests, to this day she has completely ignored my request.
So, It’s truly disgusting that the Board of Elections feels they must allow these falsehoods to be printed and distributed by them. Only other option is to drop it and have it go away leaving her to continue her unethical ways. I have no choice but to allow the Board of Elections to print and publish my petition which will include her response. I will walk around asking people to support me in having her recalled and hope they will look at what she wrote and see her words are just as good as her job performance as ANC – lacking anything really.
I want to make it clear I have no intentions of filling her seat if she is recalled or running for her seat. I do want to make it clear that our ANC should be ran and respected and that can only happen if Holly is no longer part of our commission.