An interesting occurrence in Tennessee where the head of General Services seems to have commandeered an accessible bathroom in a state building for her personal space.

The Channel 4 I-Team, in Nashville, investigated the situation after getting a tip from a wheelchair user and bathroom user wannabe. According to The Channel 4 I-Team in Nashville, the commissioner with a penchant for privacy who dead-bolted and locked down the bathroom is Gwen Davis, head of General Services, a department responsible for managing every state building in Tennessee. The bathroom in question is the only accessible bathroom on the building level.

Not satisfied with mere exclusivity, the commissioner took things one step further in creating her cozy space by adding some personal touches:

“There was a huge bureau, chest of drawers in there that I couldn’t turn my wheelchair around, so even getting into the restroom, it wasn’t accessible once I got in there,” Adams said. “It appeared that the bathroom was being used as a personal restroom. There was a Ziploc bag of make-up on the bureau.”

The commissioner’s solution to this was no more politically correct than the infraction itself:

A month later, the I-Team went back to the 24th floor with a man named Dylan Brown. The door was still locked, but there was now a sign on the front that said, “For a key, please see Cathy Chapman,” who is the commissioner’s assistant.

The Commissioner’s spin on this:

She said she had the deadbolt installed in 2008 but that it wasn’t for her benefit. She said people were smoking in the bathroom and leaving it a mess.

Hey, some people just don’t get it.

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