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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn’t she have lived in DC, DC proper with a high salary, I believe $150k which I’m guessing she should have been making. [/quote]

Lol. There is no enforcement on this. [/quote]

That's because as a civil servant you don't have to. You only have to live in DC if you are a Director of Agency or appointed to your position.[/quote]

No, if you are a staff member who makes more than $150,000, you are supposed to live in the District. This includes unappointed positions like CAO, etc.

The reason there is no enforcement is because OTR interprets tax information as only disclosable to OTR employees, despite the law being clear that residency information shown on tax forms can be disclosed to ANY District official operating in their official capacity. So, if, for example, the Mayor appointed a Maryland resident to a deputy mayor position and that deputy mayor asserted to Council that they live in DC, the AG or Councilmember should be able to ask OTR for that information and OTR should respond. Because OTR does not interpret the law correctly, that is a major avenue of enforcement foreclosed.

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In a town full of lawyers, it is amazing that so many bad ones end up in DC government. [/quote]

The really good ones are in Big Law making $$$$$ or in the federal government working for high-prestige agencies (DoJ, State, well-paid FIRREA agencies) or the White House.

Similarly, the Hatch Act prevents very smart and ethical federal employees from running for DC city council.

So DC government gets the leftovers, mainly a group of entitled, mediocre, and provincial "Natives" to the region to whom its more important where you went to high school. [/quote]

Oh hon, you are misinformed.  I was formerly an attorney in DC government and now work for the feds.  The attorneys I worked with and for in District government are heads above the attorneys I work with now in a highly ranked federal agency. Just like the feds, in DC everything is agency dependent.  There are plenty of brilliant, hardworking attorneys in DC government, from many of the senior attorneys at OAG to the “old heads” who stand up the general counsel offices at agencies. I am very sorry you don’t know any them.

If the right opportunity presented itself, I would return to District government in a heartbeat.  And just fyi, there is quite a revolving door of attorneys who leave the District for the feds and then return to the District. Also, the pay for District attorneys is on par with and oftentimes higher than that in the feds.  And to your point re: high schools, I have never ever heard/seen anyone brag about what high school they went to. Most attorneys who work for DC government are not from the District. I have met two who were from DC in the 15 years I was there.  [/quote]

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