{"id":2909,"date":"2021-11-23T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:13:58","slug":"bike-lane-advocates-distort-civic-indignation-in-twitter-storm-after-walking-tour-of-ddots-17th-st-bike-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/2909","title":{"rendered":"Bike Lane Advocates Distort Civic Indignation in Twitter Storm After Walking Tour of DDOTs 17th St. Bike Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Release: Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact:<\/span><\/b><\/span>\u202fNick\u00a0DelleDonne,\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

delledonne.n@comcast.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u202f, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

703 929 6656<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bike Lane Advocates Distort Civic Indignation in Twitter Storm <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

After Walking Tour of DDOTs 17th St. Bike Plan<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A video clip\u00a0from our recent\u00a0walking tour of 17th St.\u00a0with staff from the\u00a0Mayor\u2019s office\u00a0and DDOT, an event\u00a0organized by Dupont East Civic Action Association\u00a0(DECAA),\u00a0has received wide circulation on Twitter. It is a doctored video that distorts what happened and defames our civic organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The DECAA Board apologizes for\u00a0the\u00a0intemperate volley of indignation Nick DelleDonne used at the event.\u00a0\u00a0But Nick was addressing adults. We assure you the children <\/span>had already walked by<\/span>. DelleDonne\u2019s indignation was directed at Dan Adler, Ward 2 representative of the\u00a0Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA). He advocates Protected Bike Lanes (PBL)\u00a0where\u00a0DECAA\u00a0and our\u00a0Coalition on DDOT Bike Plans\u00a0have sometimes opposed them,\u00a0including 17th<\/sup>\u00a0St. You cannot see Adler in the Tweet, so attached is a photo of him at our Oct. 1\u00a0rally, \u201cDangerous by Design.\u201d\u00a0It\u00a0shows him\u00a0wrestling DelleDonne for our mic to sabotage our protected\u00a0rights\u00a0of assembly and speech. (Photo attached of Adler.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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We welcome constructive dialogue, including disagreement, but Adler and others who provoke DECAA and sabotage its efforts to express its views must be confronted and stopped.\u00a0Adler and Greg Wahl, a PBL supporter,\u00a0have repeatedly engaged in a disruptive pattern of conduct in an attempt to undermine DECAAs free-speech rights,\u00a0and their actions on Nov. 18 were just another incident.\u00a0 For example: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Adler and Wahl disrupted our petition signing at the Safeway by\u00a0shouting\u00a0as we tried to speak with people.\u00a0We twice had to call the police. Four MPD police officers arrived responding to our calls.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Earlier this year when we tried to film a Safeway delivery truck <\/span>having trouble <\/span>backing\u00a0into the loading dock, Wahl jumped into the camera\u00a0trying to stop us from filming. (Video attached of Wahl.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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We will not be intimidated by Adler, Wahl or WABA.\u00a0 We will continue advocating the rights of the disabled. We believe that DDOT\u2019s Bike Plans violate the Americans with Disabilities Act<\/b>, and we will continue standing up and saying so despite the attempted intimidation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Board of Directors<\/span><\/p>\n

Dupont East Civic Action Association<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Release: Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021\u00a0 Contact:\u202fNick\u00a0DelleDonne,\u202f\u202f delledonne.n@comcast.net\u202f, 703 929 6656\u00a0 \u00a0 Bike Lane Advocates Distort Civic Indignation in Twitter Storm After Walking Tour of DDOTs 17th St. Bike Plan \u00a0 A video clip\u00a0from our recent\u00a0walking tour of 17th St.\u00a0with staff from the\u00a0Mayor\u2019s office\u00a0and DDOT, an event\u00a0organized by Dupont East Civic Action Association\u00a0(DECAA),\u00a0has received wide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}