Dorothy Burton's Soiled Record at DART

[Updated 4/13/09: Dorothy Burton's personnel file from DART has one key documents out of the dozens I have received: DART reports that she admitted to not only planting one pair of bloody, soiled women's underwear, but two pairs, and then instructed fellow DART co-workers not to remove it from plain sight. And Burton is a "motivational speaker?" She teaches "leadership?" And the voters elected her? What in the world...Later in the personnel files, now available at http://groups.yahoo.com/bestsouthwest she admits that she was wrong for planting them. This brazen act of disgusting "leadership" got her fired. All public record. She tried getting a cease and desist on a former councilwoman for possessing the documents, but she'll have a harder time stopping me, hahaha.]

Duncanville Councilwoman Dorothy Burton's Soiled Record at DART

The Texas Open Records Act is a great tool. Web 2.0 and blogs are even better.

BestSouthwestBlog.com received scores of documents via e-mail on Duncanville at-large Councilwoman Dorothy Burton, who serves as the city's mayor pro-tem, about her past employment past record at Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the taxpayer-funded public transportation agency.

Burton, who is seeking re-election on May 9, was fired for a sexual harassment and hostile environment complaint filed by a co-worker. The allegation(s)? Dorothy Burton, whom Duncanville voters elected in 2003, placed a pair of bloodied, soiled ladies underwear in a filing cabinet in an attempt to force a co-worker to resign.

The details:

Link 1 | Complaint Against Dorothy Burton Page 1

Link 2 | Complaint Against Dorothy Burton Page 2

Burton, who is black, is running against Buck Werner, whose wife is outspoken taxpayer advocate/Duncanville ISD school board trustee Cindy Werner. The quotes attributed to Burton on Page/Link 1 are very disturbing.

Link 3 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton Page 1

Link 4 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton Page 2

Link 5 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton Page 3

Link 6 | Investigation Against Dorothy Burton - Burton's Response Via E-Mail

There are scores and scores of documents that they would be nearly impossible to post here. So, to better have a permanent "archive" on the Web, the documents have been circulated and are available on two Yahoo Discussion Groups (these are free to sign up and users can participate in the discussions via e-mail to the members of the group.)

Yahoo Group 1 | MidlothianTexas.net Yahoo Groups

Yahoo Group 2 | Best Southwest Yahoo Group