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Libby Garvey is a municipal politician in Virginia, currently serving as a member of the Arlington County Board of Supervisors.〔 For fifteen years she was a Fairfax County school trustee.〔 In 2011 she ran for a seat in the Virginia State Senate.〔 In 2012 Garvey ran in a by-election for a recently vacated seat on the five member Arlington County Board in 2012.〔 In December 2012 Garvey suggested Board Member Chris Zimmerman was in a conflict of interest on transit issues.〔 Garvey opposes a building a streetcar line on Columbia Pike, connecting The Pentagon district to a large mall in Fairfax County.〔 In April 2013 Garvey chose to quote criticism of streetcars from Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Quoting Ford caused local papers to call her judgment into question, as Ford had committed a series of embarrassing gaffes, including being filmed highly intoxicated, smoking crack, and uttering racist and homophobic slurs. Her quote of Ford attracted the curious attention of Toronto journalists, who characterized her as a ''"rogue member of local government"'' and ''"Virginia's Rob Ford"''. In April 2014, Garvey faced expulsion from her local branch of the Democratic Party, when she endorsed a Republican candidate for County Board.〔 Patricia Sullivan, of the ''"Washington Post"'', quoted County Chairman Kip Malinowsky, who said he had received numerous complaints of Garvey's vocal support of Republican John Vihstadt in his successful campaign to defeat Democrat Alan Howse. Sullivan reported that Garvie had not only verbally supported Vihstadt, but that she had raised money for his campaign. Garvey defended her support of Vihstadt because he share her views on the Columbia Pike Streetcar project.〔 She said she would defend her actions before an upcoming closed door meeting of the County Democratic Committee executive. Mary Ann Barton, of the ''Arlington Patch'', reported that her colleagues expected to be called upon to vote to expel Garvey, and were pleasantly surprised that, after she outlined her position, she resigned.〔 Garvey said that she felt her responsibility to the voters who elected her outweighed her obligations to the local Democratic machinery.〔 She predicted her decision might cost her re-election. The streetcar program was cancelled in November 2014.〔 Eric Jaffe, writing in ''City Lab'', characterized the cancellation as ''"abrupt"'' and acrimonious. According to Jaffe, the alternate plan under consideration would follow the same route as the streetcar plan, would stop at the same locations, and would use similar stations, all door boarding, and fare pre-payment, like the streetcar plan, except it would use buses rather than streetcars. Jaffe reported that after the cancellation vote ''"Jay Fisette, chair of the five-person county board and a strong streetcar advocate, refused to shake hands with fellow board member Libby Garvey, who's been an outspoken opponent."''〔 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Libby Garvey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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