Wasn't she on PEPCO's Board of Directors?  And didn't she receive a $55,000 salary?  Isn't it also true that she has absolutely zero experience in energy related matters?

It's a stretch, but I guess you could call that an accomplishment. 

I see that Susan Allen is on the Board of the National Capital Area Red Cross. She isn't listed on the Board for PHI. Does PEPCO have another Board, separate from that of the parent company? When did she serve?

Are you suggesting that Susan Allen's position on the Board of Directors at PEPCO came to her solely because of her husband's influence in government? That would be interesting news, if substantiated.

Mrs. Allen was also on the board of Dominion Power while her husband was a Senator.

To read the entire statement, see here.

Today’s nomination of Susan Allen, the wife of U.S. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), to the Dominion Resources’ board of directors presents an unacceptable conflict of interest. Sen. Allen’s campaign and personal finance connections to Dominion Resources now make it difficult to ensure that the public’s interest – rather than his personal financial interest – will be served. Public Citizen therefore urges Mrs. Allen to decline the directorship. If she does not, Sen. Allen should recuse himself from voting on any legislation that would have a significant impact on Dominion Resources.

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Mrs. Allen herself lacks expertise in the energy sector, and her close relationship to Congress would consistently undermine her duty of scrutinizing Dominion’s activities for shareholders. Mrs. Allen’s compensation for her year-long term would be about $55,000. This could call into question the objectivity of her decisions, and her appointment suggests political payback. Her familial conflicts should compel her to decline this position and take a step toward ending the uncomfortably close relationship between Congress and corporate America.

Since she's chosen to enter the public arena through these advertisements, Susan Allen is fair game for serious inquiry.

I'm looking at the Board of Directors listed for Dominion Resources (Dominion Virginia Power), and she's not on it.

Board of Directors 
Brown, M.D., Peter W. Kington, Mark J.
Calise, Ronald J. Lambert, III, Benjamin J.
Capps, Thos E. Leatherwood, Richard L.
Davidson, Jr., George A. McKenna, Margaret A.
Farrell, II, Thomas F. Royal, Frank S.
Harris, John W. Simmons, S. Dallas
Jepson, Jr., Robert S. Wollard, David A.

I think that her presence on that board would make her complicit in a conflict of interest for Senator Allen, even if she was only there for a short time.

 

Washington Dateline (interestingly, a Media General news service):

The Virginia Republican's wife, Susan B. Allen, sits on the Dominion Resources Inc. board of directors. Her appointment in 2003 drew criticism from good-government advocates who believed the utility was trying to gain favor with the senator.

A director gets at least $55,000 annually from the company, according to its proxy statement.

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Susan Allen has been a director of Dominion Resources since April 2003. Her current term began in April of this year. Dominion board members were to receive annual compensation of $55,000 in cash and stock for 2004, plus $2,000 per board meeting attended and additional cash for committee meetings attended, according to the company's proxy statement. In 2003, the board met eight times.

While George was raking in lots of dough from the gas and oil industry Susan Allen was on Virginia's regulatory board for utilities in our state....you won't find Susan Allen on the side of the consumer vs. Big Oil and Big Gas...Not a peep from her about the need to continue to regulate monopoly utility companies.

Instead...Virginia is going to go the route that ENRON has created....deregulation.  This really wiped out California consumers with lots of illegal ways to achieve an extra high profit....Maryland is going that way too,

Hopefully, Kaine and the dems will start reversing the ENRON rules and put the government regulation back so that government can watchdog the monopolies as they should do.

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