Inability to behave professionally. It's no secret that she would rather see The Advoc8te go away (permanently) but she can't set aside (or at least hide) her contempt for the purpose of community progress. Whenever anyone talks who she doesn't like (or whom hasn't recieved the Mary Cuthbert seal of approval) she cuts them off constantly and repeatedly (as she did with me last night). She is antagonistic just to be antagonistic. It doesn't matter if the points someone is making are valid or are even in line with her views- if she doesn't like you then she doesn't want you to participate - period. That is what makes her small minded and petty and that is one of the reasons she has earned the title Mary "Cut-throat" Cuthbert. She is a tyrant and an inefficient and outdated tyrant at that. Who but a small minded person would rebuke a neighborhood (this case Oakwood St) for taking the steps to make a busy intersection safe by installing much needed stop signs? Only a petty, vengeful person gets in the way for community progress for personal reasons. FYI - the lone person who complained about the stop signs was one of Commissioner Cuthberts long time friends who wants the stop sign removed so she can continue to park her car at the corner. What kind of stupidity is this? Last year during an ANC meeting The Advoc8te brought up the need for either speed bumps or a stop sign at that same intersection (after nearly being run over in the crosswwalk by a driver racing through the intersection) and Commissioner Cuthbert's own words were "You need to talk to your Single Member District Commissioner about that - this isn't the place [ANC mtng]besides you are never going to get it anyway". Well we got it and it's staying!

At the 2:15 mark Commissioner Cuthbert sees that someone in the audience is quietly and unobtrusively video taping the meeting from their seat. Commissioner Cuthbert came over and told the person they could NOT video tape the meeting without getting her permission. You can hear the discussion back and forth were Commissioner Cuthbert was informed respectfully and repeatedly that she was mistaken that under DCs Open Meeting Statue, public meetings CAN be audio and video taped recorded as long as they are not intrusive to the meeting. Commissioner Cuthbert was offered to view a video tape of Simon Gottlieb meeting with ANC 2C last year (who had similar issues) instructing them that audio and video tape could NOT be banned. Open meetings such as ANC meetings are for the community and as such can be recorded. Not only what Commissioner Cuthbert was trying to do illegal but it highlighted her continued hypocrisies. Not but 2 minutes later were pictures taken by a reporter of the entire meeting - with her blessing. The Advoc8te suspects if the reporter was not in the audience there would have been a bigger scene regarding the video recording - which by the way was done at the request of a fellow Commissioner. Commissioner Jordan who would like to provide his constituents with an additional opportunity to view the ANC meetings if they are unable to attend. The Advoc8te invites the community to draw their own conclusions as to why Commissioner Cuthbert would not want an open meeting to be recorded - not the audience, just the board procedings.

5:29 mark Commissioner Jordan votes to not approve the last meetings minutes because the Feb rescheduled meeting was not held according to the ANC bylaws. There was no executive meeting and there was no approval of that agenda or that rescheduled meeting. As usual everything was run Commissioner Cuthbert's way with Commissioner William Ellis along for the ride.

124.10 mark it ALL BREAKS LOOSE when the question was asked of the Commission about ANC 8C fiscal responsibility. Commissioner Cuthbert went batsh*t and did not want to answer any of those questions and was royally pissed off that the questions were being asked. She kept cutting the question taker off and speaking over them and the other commissioners. As she said " I filed 3 of the quarterly reports". Ever notice there are never any "we"s coming out of her mouth? Very rarely. It's all "I". Sounds corny but there is no "I" in "Team" which is why up until this point ANC meetings have been FAILING (which by the way does have an "I"). Once the mention of the issue of the office rent came up she really lost it. Commissioner Cuthbert did not want to discuss it and to be honest the Advoc8te was extremely disturbed by the lack of immediate concern and action by the fellow commissioners. To be fair, there was some lip service and some vague promises for changes "in the future" but there appeared to be no immediate concerns for how 30,000 from 2005 - 2007 was just wasted for shared office space that no one uses;Mary Cuthbert is the only one with the key; is not held for meetings; and according to the DC Auditor costs anywhere from $900 a month to $1400 a month depending on the financial quarter.