Jonetta Rose Barras: D.C.'s purse-string and personality politics

D.C. Council members are obsessed with process — except when Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi is involved. They like him. Consequently, they ignore his methods and the less-than-stellar results those processes produce.

So, it wasn’t surprising to find legislators passing out accolades earlier this month to Gandhi for producing a “clean’ audit for fiscal 2009 — although beneath the surface of that report there’s sufficient cause for concern.