@ Chronic: Slusher Speaks
Is Daryl Slusher benefiting from a revolving-door arrangement down at City Hall?
By Wells Dunbar, Fri., July 20, 2007
"I knew the Statesman would bring it up, but it's a legitimate question [they] ask; it was in the first article they did when I got the job. It's still a legit question. I expected that kind of thing to happen that's fine," Slusher says. "I thought about all that stuff before I took the job. I talked to Toby about it, pointed it out [to her], thought all that through. I came to the decision that I was very well suited to the job; it's a continuation of what I've been doing most of my adult life: working to protect the environment," he continues. "It allows me to keep working [where I'm most effective] I balanced all that out and decided to keep the job."
While saying he feels the Statesman treated him fairly in his time on the council, he wonders if the attention from the daily is overdue payback from his Chronicle days, when he would mercilessly needle then-Statesman Editor Roger Kintzel for his conflict of interest. "I would repeat that over and over again in my columns: 'Did I mention that Roger Kintzel is chairman of both the Austin Chamber of Commerce and publisher of the Statesman?' That's a pretty serious conflict of interest."
Posted Monday, July 16, to Chronic; read more at austinchronicle.com/chronic.
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