connaughton

In a telephone interview today Virginia secretary of transportation Sean T Connaughton said he's impatient to move major road improvement projects forward and that toll revenues will be essential to this.

Mary Z Connaughton board member of the just disbanded Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and a Republican is running for the elected position of state auditor against incumbent Democrat Joe DeNucci.  The election is Nov 2010.

Smart, informed, curious, hardworking, fearless, a good speaker and a quick writer, Mary Z Connaughton is the kind of board member every public toll authority could use. An accounting teacher, she is also a partner in a business development firm. Here's her explanation of how the Massachusetts Turnpike got into a financial mess with "swaptions" - an edited version of a piece she did for a blog at the Boston Herald - full version here: