Dorothy Burton's Emotional Strategy Won't Work This Time Around

Councilwoman Dorothy Burton, the mayor pro-tem, won't be able to use her emotional pull the way she did in 2007's election:

“My parents abandoned me when I was 6-months-old, I was sexually abused as a girl and sexually assaulted at 16. I decided to work my way and go to school, some days I didn't even know where I was going to stay or what I was going to have to eat, but I didn't quit. And I'm asking you not to quit on me. We've come too far, and we have too far to go.”

This is sad, but unfortunately this has no bearing on how a councilperson or a taxpayer-funded public servant should act. The disgusting act of Burton placing soiled, bloodied women's underwear for co-workers to see when she was at DART isn't going to fly.


And neither will Burton's emotional problems.