Herndon Official in Hot Water
Rental Violated Zoning Law
By David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 12, 2005; Page B05
Barely four months into her first term, Herndon Town Council member Ann V. Null set off an uproar by writing disparagingly about immigrants in a community newspaper, characterizing them as "cooks, maids, janitors and gardeners."
The council responded last fall with its first censure in 16 years, calling her remarks "discriminatory, offensive and disrespectful of the office she holds." But some residents unhappy over the rapid influx of immigrants into Herndon spoke out in her defense.
Now Null is in the thick of another immigrant-related controversy. As it turns out, she rented a room to an immigrant family for about a year in violation of town ordinances against overcrowding of homes -- laws that she campaigned for and voted to approve last year, according to town documents and officials...
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