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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The difference between Evans's job and Cheh's is that a law firm is likely to represent clients with DC contracts; a professor does not have that problem.  If you Google, you immediately find possible conflicts involving hotel and gaming interests, for example.[/quote]
This view is too simplistic.  Cheh is a tenured professor at GWU, which has numerous issues before city agencies from its campus plans (in Foggy Bottom and Foxhall Road) to its hospital.  GW is also one of the city's largest employers.  There are lots of potenial conflicts of interest resulting from Cheh's work for the university and the council.  Hopefully she manages it by recusal in appropriate cases.  My point is, it's no more of less than Evans' potential conflicts, just different.[/quote]
A professor is paid to teach, not to represent the University's interests.  I concede that any outside job has the potential of conflict, and I support making the Council being a full time position, but I still maintain that being paid specifically to represent the interests of those who have financial dealings with the District is qualitatively different from other outside jobs.[/quote]

Professors are greatly impacted by, and involved in, campus planning issues.  And Cheh is just as close to her provost as Evans is to some other attorney in his firm who might have business in front of the district.[/quote]

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