Portsmouth mayor fined for using assistant for personal tasks


	Portsmouth mayor fined for using assistant for personal tasks

dewitte

8-8-2009 12:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/afcb462a-1a75-488e-a377-263c1091cd52/9DADC05C-B4B1-4BF6-B535-B22D5F065340/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks" href="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks" style="font-size: 11px;">hamptonroads.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><P>Mayor James Holley's secretary has been busy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/hamptonroads.com/img/0F73CE4C-BC53-4175-9B00-46DE13D73226" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><P>She's surfed the Internet for a Taser gun to repel geese at Holley's home, and she's called T.J. Maxx stores across Virginia to find medium-size wooden shoe trees.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><P>She's made hair and nail appointments with Mrs. Erma at Camelot Beauty Salon and at Foxy Nails and asked the city's information technology department to cancel Holley's subscription to Playboy. The Web site is typically off-limits to city employees.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><P>Lorraine Stokes was so busy performing personal tasks for the 82-year-old mayor that they interfered with her job responsibilities, she said. So she took a list of her concerns, including 44 personal tasks the mayor wanted, to her supervisor and the City Council.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/portsmouth-mayor-fined-using-assistant-personal-tasks"><P>Council members have fined Holley $2,500 for an ongoing pattern of using his city assistants to perform personal chores. 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