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Fenty Team's Stern Stance A New World For Activist
"She's an equal-opportunity attack dog," a former city spokesman said of Dorothy Brizill. In 2004, she challenged the validity of petitions to legalize slots in the District, which led to the downfall of proponents' effort.
(By Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
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With the Fenty administration, Brizill faces a young, dynamic mayor equally determined to create change. She said she found Fenty as a council member "more about PR than substance," and she wonders if as mayor he can handle criticism. She said she has heard that she is on a sort of "enemies list" because she raises so many inconvenient questions.
Nickles, Fenty's general counsel, says there is no such thing.
"That's a lot of baloney," he said last week. "We don't use our valuable time dealing with enemies lists. I'm sure she'd like to believe she's on an enemies list -- it gives her more notoriety. We're going to treat her with respect despite some of these incidents."
Tara Bridgett, the executive assistant who was involved in the June 13 incident, said that Brizill insisted on getting information from her office even after being told repeatedly that, as a news reporter, she had to go to the communications office. Because of DC Watch, Brizill keeps a desk in city hall's newsroom.
"She asked my name, and I said I didn't have to tell her that," Bridgett said in an interview. "She went to grab my ID from my neck, and my shirt as well, and yanked me towards her."
Bridgett, 33, who has worked in the D.C. government for 16 years, said she went to a hospital later to relieve tension in her neck. "I wouldn't say her pulling me injured me. It was the stress," she said.
Brizill, who strongly denies that she touched Bridgett, said she has since taken to wearing a tape recorder around her neck to avoid any future problems sorting out what happened.
"Henceforth, in the Fenty administration, I will be wired," she said. "I am wired for my own protection. That's a horrible thing to say about your government."
