Self-Regulation

I recently wrote <a href="http://www.cityethics.org/content/false-statements-elections&quot; target="”_blank”">a
blog post about a false statements in elections law</a> in Ohio, and
the problems with enforcing such laws. I have often written about the
problems with self-enforcement of ethics laws. In the Wisconsin case of
a state supreme court justice's misrepresentations in an election ad, the two

Government officials should, I think, focus more on what their actions
teach Americans. In effect, each of them is teaching an ongoing civics
course.<br>
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For many years, Congress have been giving us a course on how
self-regulation in the ethics sphere simply doesn't work.<br>
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Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been <a href="http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/nys/usbruno12309ind.html&quot; target="”_blank”">indicted</a>
by a federal grand jury, but his biggest crime was not taking millions
of dollars in so-called consulting fees. His biggest crime was standing
in the way of any meaningful ethics reform in New York State.<br>