Wendy Aaronson

Meanwhile, GL Homes employed Aaronson's daughter-in-law Wendy as a work-at-home color consultant.
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Much was made of Wendy Aaronson's working for GL Homes, especially during Burt Aaronson's 2004 reelection campaign.

Aaronson's daughter-in-law, Wendy Aaronson, is an employee of GL Homes, a Coral Springs firm that two years ago won County Commission approval to build 1,500 homes in the Agricultural Reserve in the southwestern section of the county.Aaronson backed the project; McCarty opposed it.
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Aaronson said he has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to discuss the matter further.

"It's all political," said Aaronson, 76, who has feuded with McCarty, a Republican stalwart, since the November 2000 election.
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Even as Aaronson heatedly denied charges that he should have long ago made public his daughter-in-law's seven-year employment with GL Homes, new signs reading "Indict Burt" in red block letters sprouted along roadsides in the heart of the feisty commissioner's south county district west of Boca Raton.Most of the signs were quickly removed from Palmetto Park Road and surrounding streets.There was no indication on the signs who paid for them or who placed them.

"Whoever is doing it doesn't even have the courage to say who they are," Aaronson said."Nothing surprises me with the opposition and what they're capable of doing, and people are sick and tired of it.What do they want to indict me on?"

Aaronson said he's gotten reports of the "Indict Burt" signs for the past three months, but has not taken any of them down.He said his constituents have told him they would remove the signs.

Signs other than campaign signs are prohibited in the public right of way, Verdenia Baker, deputy county administrator, said.

Campaign signs need to be removed by a certain date, she said, and noncampaign signs are removed by county code-enforcement personnel.
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On Friday, Aaronson provided reporters with a written statement he said he wrote months ago, anticipating that his daughter-in-law's job would be used by his opponents.In the statement, which is undated, Aaronson said he was assured verbally by Assistant County Attorney Leonard Berger that Wendy Aaronson's job posed no conflict.

Wendy Aaronson is married to the commissioner's son, Daniel, a lawyer.She is a market researcher for GL Homes and works only in Broward County, the commissioner said.
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Nieman said Wendy Aaronson is not an officer of GL Homes, and does not profit from Burt Aaronson's votes.
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Given the county attorney's opinion, Aaronson said, he didn't see the need to discuss her job before his GL Homes votes.

"I don't have to get up and make a public announcement where my daughter-in-law works," Aaronson said Friday."It's my private business."