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Mame Reiley

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

MWAA: Reiley to Leave Advisory Position

Former board member will leave in October; MWAA also announces travel, transparency changes.

Mame Reiley, adviser to the chief executive of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) will leave her post at the beginning of October, MWAA officials announced and The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The move was one of several actions the board announced Wednesday as part of an effort to salvage an image recently marred by reports of lavish travel,  and contracting practices. Reiley was a longtime member of the board before resigning last February for health reasons. She was reportedly paid $180,000 for her advisory role. Reiley, a Virginia Democrat representative to the board, was a proponent of Metro's Silver Line rail to Dulles project. Her hiring as an adviser was controversial, though. Read about that in this …

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Virginia Democrats Prepare to 'Guard the Change'

State party convention drew more than 2,000 to the city of Fairfax this weekend.

FAIRFAX — Perhaps U.S. Sen. Mark Warner put it best: "In 2008, we changed the guard. In 2012, we need to guard the change." More than 2,000 Democrats from across the commonwealth descended on George Mason University this weekend for the Democratic Party of Virginia's State Convention. The gathering served as part pep rally, part organizational meeting as activists mobilize for November. Party leaders had similar messages, previewing what they will try to hammer home while Virginia is in the national spotlight as a battleground state for the U.S. presidency. That message, they say, is that the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party has made this country, and this state, unrecognizable and infringes on the rights of gays, women and …

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9:10 am on Tuesday, June 5, 2012

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