Advocacy groups vocal over Fenty’s Dubai trip

Government reform and Israeli rights advocates lined up Tuesday to ask D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty what he was thinking when he accepted a junket from the government of the United Arab Emirates.

“It raises at least the appearance of corruption, of conflict of interest,” said Gary Imhoff, co-founder of D.C. Watch, a nonprofit local government reform group. “If the mayor were to accept a physical gift of several thousand dollars from a foreign country, he wouldn’t keep it.”