The botched nomination of Robert Mallett to the three-member Board of Elections and Ethics shouldn’t be confused with the series of scandalous personnel problems that have plagued Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration since January. For one thing, Mallett would not have received one of those exorbitant salaries the mayor has passed around like water. The former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce would have been an unpaid chairman of the BOEE. Not unlike others before him, Mallett’s reward would have been long hours, tons of criticism and meager accolades.
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