Matt Bramanti spots an interesting post about the excellent (albeit brief) D.C. adventure of Doctor-former-Congresswoman Shelley Sekula Gibbs on Politico’s Shenanigan’s blog. This part amused us:
Here’s a nice example of Gibbs’ style: She left a message for a staffer to return the call of “Doctor Councilwoman Congresswoman Shelley Sekula Gibbs.”
“Few Members of Congress, over the course of long careers, have been able to completely alienate their colleagues and to absolutely make a mockery of their own service, something she accomplished in a couple of weeks,” riffed the insider.
Here on the little blog, we started referring to her with the title “Doctor-[Political Office]” some time ago, as a way of gently mocking the fact that she frequently liked to remind Council colleagues of her medical degree with public putdowns such as, “Well, you didn’t go to medical school, so you might not know [details about some topic].”
We think maybe she didn’t understand that the multiple titles were meant as a joke.
