Comments on: Board Members ‘Dismayed’ at Garvey’s Allegations

By: OL

OL — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:00:16 +0000

Kudos to you Libby! Zimmerman is a blatant crook, and that the others on the board would act to denounce you bringing a completely valid point to light is shameful and casts doubt on their agenda. No wonder Virginia is 4th in corruption! Keep fighting for us Libby!

By: LyonParkVoter

LyonParkVoter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:57:41 +0000

Earlier this year, the Center for Public Integrity ranked Virginia as the fourth-worst state in the country regarding open government and anti-corruption laws and practices — receiving, along the way, failing grades in public access to information and ethics enforcement.

By: southarlington

southarlington — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:13:20 +0000

What do you except from voters that only care about a D by their name ….and do not really care about the issues …

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:58:53 +0000

He voted. Who is taking bets on the unsolicited bid for the streetcar arriving in the very near future. Slimey.

By: drax

drax — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:55:26 +0000

Nobody actually watches or goes to the meetings. They come here, read the headline and half the first sentence, and assume the rest of the facts and inner thoughts of everyone involved, and then post accordingly.

By: John S

John S — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:51:08 +0000

OMG are you watching the meeting? Hynes is a B.S. artist!!

By: Another voter

Another voter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:23:50 +0000

Yeah, let’s see what other letters Ms. Garvey can come up to cast doubt on the reputations of her other colleagues. Ok, enough of this for me.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:03:20 +0000

He’s still collecting a check from the company, whether it’s for work in Montreal or not. Money is fungible. This is a potential conflict of interest, and he should recuse himself. I now wonder how isolated a situation this is?

By: southarlington

southarlington — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:20:02 +0000

“The Board is set to vote Monday on adoption of Virginia’s Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA), which would allow the county to seek a public-private partnership for its streetcar project. Garvey asked whether Zimmerman should recuse himself, since he recently started doing consulting work for AECOM, a large planning, design and construction conglomerate that has worked on numerous streetcar and light rail project.

Hynes, Fisette and Tejada say that Zimmerman properly disclosed his work, and that Garvey’s “allegation that Mr. Zimmerman has a conflict of interest… has no basis in Virginia law.”

Here is what has been said about Zimmerman and as you can see he is voting tonigt unless he recuses himself but in previous story on here he said” he will not because he does not see a issue with woring for them “

By: LyonParkVoter

LyonParkVoter — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:19:55 +0000

Drax. It is worse than I recalled. Zimmerman apparently he is on the record multiple times saying he would NOT recuse himself.

See, for example:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Conflict-of-Interest-Accusation-Divides-Arlington-Board-182729071.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/arlington-board-publicly-rejects-conflict-of-interest-charge-by-fellow-member/2012/12/08/15c8ea16-4165-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

http://wamu.org/news/12/12/10/conflict_arises_over_virginias_public_private_transportation_act