Connolly's Job with Tysons Corporation Provokes Criticism
"Totally inappropriate" is how one of Gerald E. Connolly's fellow Democrats, McLean Citizen's association vice president Susan Turner, describes the Board of Supervisors chairman's work for SAIC, the area's fourth largest employer and major stake holder in decisions affecting land use and transportation issues in Tysons Corner.
But Turner and other critics of Connolly's position with the company have not been able to cite any violation of the state's conflict of interest laws and the chairman says he has done everything above board, including recusing himself from votes that directly affect SAIC property.
This article from yesterday's front page details Connolly's defense of his "other" job in the face of what some say is at least "a problem of appearances."
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July 9, 2007; 10:50 AM ET
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Posted by: eandab2003 | July 10, 2007 1:02 PM
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Sent to the ombudsman:
I'm fairly new to Fairfax County, but I can't imagine what Connolly has done to deserve the hatchet job printed on Sunday's page one. Only one person went on record with any criticism -- and even that was mild -- printed almost halfway through the article. There was nothing from the supposed "critics" that make any sort of case that he's done anything wrong. But the inneundo in was sickeningly thick. It reads like a attack ad, not a news article. What was the point?
This is the kind of slimy guilt-by-association and yellow journalism that I expect from the other major Washington daily, not the Post.