Fiona Greig

The City Paper’s Loose Lips reported this afternoon that newly minted Ward 2 D.C. Council candidate Fiona Greig may have suffered her first stumble in her campaign to unseat Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2).

In submitting a list of donors to her exploratory committee to the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance, she also mistakenly handed in a list of possible donors, which was subsequently posted online. (Potential donors of note included the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and current At-Large candidate Sekou Biddle.) Each name included internal identifiers that would help her identify them, and many were perfectly innocent and innocuous — spare “Homosexual McKinsey.”

McKinsey is the firm where Greig works, and homosexual, well, that was simply the way she chose to identify the potential donor to her campaign.

Greig was quick to apologize, saying:

“I convey my deepest and most sincere apologies for anyone who might take offense,” Greig says, adding that the word is “no longer in my vocabulary” and that she’s an active supporter of gay rights. “I have family members who are gay,” she says.

In the grand scheme of scandals, this hardly ranks. For many, personal notes like these aren’t ever meant to make it into the public realm, so a little leeway may be due. For others, though, it may say something that Greig’s campaign chose to identify one of her co-workers by their sexual orientation.