Burford Assesses Lavelle: Fake Blonde, Fat, Blowzy and Dumb
Anne McGill Burford, former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, says Rita M. Lavelle, her convicted EPA colleague, is a blowzy peroxided blonde who turned out to be dumber than she originally thought.
Burford, who resigned amid charges of sweetheart deals with industry, talks about Lavelle in her new book on Washington, “Are You Tough Enough?”
“When I first saw Rita Lavelle, I was not favorably impressed,” Burford wrote.
“The woman does not make a favorable physical impression. She is overweight, an unnatural blonde, and her appearance is blowzy.”
But Burford added, “At the time I didn’t think she was as dumb as she turned out to be.”
Lavelle, who headed the EPA’s much criticized Superfund toxic waste cleanup program, was convicted of perjury and released from a California prison in September after serving 4 1/2 months of a six-month sentence. She was specifically accused of lying to two House subcommittees.
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