EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Holmes Norton explains botched parking job

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[Impala64ssa]

WASHINGTON - D.C.'s delegate to Congress is making news for her parking skills. Video published by Roll Call shows Eleanor Holmes Norton awkwardly trying to wedge her car between two cars parked in angled spaces near the Capitol earlier this week. You could say that didn't go well.

The video was shot Wednesday along New Jersey Avenue Southeast, between the Longworth and Cannon House Office buildings, according to Roll Call. Norton, 77, is seen trying to squeeze her silver, four-door sedan in between two other cars that are parked in angled spots. The only problem? Norton is trying to park straight.

In a story about what they're calling the "worst parking job ever," Roll Call reports they got the video from a tipster. Posted on their YouTube channel, it offers running commentary by the mystery guys behind the camera, who clearly can't believe what they're seeing out the window.

According to the video's narrators, Norton hit the red SUV on the right "repeatedly."

"If she parks like that, she should not be a member of Congress anymore," one of them says on the video.

[Impala64ssa]

Video at link. One of these things is not like the others...

Isn't it interesting how the safest drivers on the roads are those who own classic cars? My 64 like most cars from that era, even with new ball joints, shocks and a disc brake conversion still handles like a cement truck compared to the new cars like the one Rep Norton clearly is incapable of driving properly, yet, as anyone in the auto insurance business can verify, we're the ones LEAST likely to cause an accident. As we can see, the problem never was high performance cars, it's low performance drivers.

[moovova]

She needed extra room to get her fat O*O out of the car.

[Gaffer]

Well....cut the affirmative action witch some slack....She's just a ‘token’ member of Congress with no voting privileges. Besides, she's been around since dirt was invented - what do you expect?

Ain't no Alzheimer's here dude.

[SMARTY]

I hope her insurance agent saw THIS. :)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Drunks park like that.

[Red Badger]

Looks like she came in from the wrong direction in the first place...................

[kosciusko51]

What amazed me is that her staffer did seem to think much of it, or try to help her.

[Red Badger]

I drive a huge Lincoln Town Car and I could park it in that space no problem....................

[kosciusko51]

What amazed me is that her staffer did not seem to think much of it, or try to help her.

[CriticalJ]

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[exit82]

That struck me too as well. The staffer was so deferential to her, a white guy too.

Why he didn’t just say, gimme the keys, I’ll pfix it is beyond me. He acted completely oblivious to the situation as if he dare not even acknowledge the obvious in your face screw-up.

I want to know how the red vehicle to the right was even able to leave after that parking job.

[sheana]

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Holmes Norton explains botched parking job

I didn’t see anywhere in the article where she tried to explain anything.

[Gaffer]

I had an uncle who at the near end of his life still drove. I watched him at a gas stop trying to maneuver his car to get the gas door by the pump. Over and over a couple of times and he couldn’t figure out the problem.

I finally helped him gas it up by putting the car in the right position and then told him to drive his car home - I’d go get whatever he needed.

The way she did this shows me she’s lost her faculties.

[nascarnation]

Seems like pretty shabby wheels for somebody making $175 grand with a $1.4m office budget.

Wonder if the Caddy was in the shop and she took the grandkids car?

[Gaffer]

I bet that car was bought and paid for - not by her.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe the staffer was more concerned about keeping his own job than about damage to some stranger’s car.

[sphinx]

Drunks park like that.

I've never heard a whisper about Eleanor in that regard, though it's always possible. But I would guess that the explanation is age.

[nascarnation]

That may well be, but why a roller skate? If she’s got a Ford connection, how ‘bout a Lincoln?

[exit82]

I think you nailed it.

We used to call people like that brownnosers.

[Gaffer]

I’m guessing she’s keeping the cash somewhere else. Trying to appear she’s “down with the stuggle” instead of “down with the payoff”...

A thoroughly reprehensible human being who doesn’t give a crap about those that put her where she is time after time (Cindy Lauper)