Metro Labor Applauds Council Members' Commitment to Table Woodson Nomination

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Following a day of intense lobbying by labor and community activists, Metro Council President Jos Williams released a letter yesterday applauding the resulting commitment by seven DC City Councilmembers -- Jack Evans, Kenyan McDuffie, Tommy Wells, Yvette Alexander, Michael Brown, Vincent Orange and Interim Chair Phil Mendelson – to vote to table the nomination of Roderic L. Woodson to the DC Water Board of Directors at today’s Council meeting. “Your vote is courageous,” Williams said in his letter, noting that “over the coming months and years the Authority will award hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to upgrade and modernize the city’s water and sewer system, and it’s more important than ever for the Council to avoid even the appearance of a possible conflict of interest.” Williams called the Councilmember’s commitment to vote to table the Woodson nomination “the appropriate and wise thing to do at this time, demonstrating that this Council will go the extra mile to insure the confidence of the public.”