New Castle County Council member Lisa Diller charged the administration of County Executive Tom Gordon with waging “a war on women.”
The issue surrounds an incident that occurred at a September 10th council meeting in which Diller raised her voice, angrily telling the County Attorney who is black to brief the council about a lawsuit involving the county and developers.
Gordon sent an email to her saying that her comments were part of a pattern of demeaning behavior and condescension by council members toward his aides.
Last week the local branch of the NAACP also got involved when the group’s president Richard Smith wrote Diller a letter calling her behavior a “verbal assault and insult of an NAACP member.”
Diller told the Wilmington News Journal this week that a male council member would not have been admonished in expressing frustration with someone’s performance.
