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1. Do Gifts Establish Subordination?

   ... and less expensive to prove. In an effective government ethics program, they can prevent most of the gifts that could be considered ... relevant section of my free digital book Local Government Ethics Programs. Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. EC Members Aiding or Supporting Political Candidates

   ... blog post this week , the chair of the Honolulu Ethics Commission resigned on April 22. Although his letter of resignation ... mayoral candidate's campaign and did not want to violate the ethics code. However, the blog post provides a great deal of evidence that ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Judicial Dismissal of Toronto's Mayor

   ... but the way the mayor handled it and the way Toronto's ethics laws relating to council members, including Ontario's Municipal ... needy children). Here I would like to focus on the ethics enforcement process that led to the mayor's dismissal by a judge. ... the donations. Or he would have fought the matter before an ethics commission or hearing officer, would have been found to have ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Contract Avoidance Provisions -- Still in Stratford

   ... to have a contract avoidance provision in a local government ethics code. Here is the one in the City Ethics Model Code : Any contract, agreement, or other business ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2009-01-05 14:18 - 0 comments

5. SPIDERWEB

   ...   Ethiopian Proverb www.cityethics.org/SpiderWeb Project launched October 31, 2013   ... based upon the research of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. These materials will be the foundation ...

   cmiller - 2013-10-28 22:15

6. Vive Les Differences!

   ... took a gift in return for certain conduct. In government ethics, taking a gift beyond a certain value is all that needs to be proven to ... and he insists she never told him about it, it's still an ethics violation. What about knowledge concerning the subject of a vote? ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. How Much Needs to Be Disclosed?

   Body:  Maryland has a rule that local ethics ordinances must require the disclosure of all an elected official's real ... County Times , the Mount Airy council keeps passing an ethics ordinance that requires the disclosure only of real property in Mount ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

8. The Cincinnati Situation III - Indefinite Benefits and Proximity

   ... like indirect benefits, are often not dealt with by ethics codes, and this means that they can cause confusion and controversy. ... of benefit, for determining whether a conflict exists, many ethics codes set a specific number of feet from a property or project being ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Budget Games and Gimmicks

   ... for unethical conduct, very little of it dealt with in ethics codes. I raise this issue because of what the Obama Administration ... gimmicks available. I will use my own town, North Haven, CT, as an example. Games with the budget were so bad that the editorial page ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Cleaning Up a Political Culture - Don't Necessarily Do the First Things That Come to Mind

    ... discussed in the most recent blog entry, is not the only ethics case in Massachusetts that has drawn a lot of attention. The result of a ... with an inapt plumbing metaphor in its title, "Drain the Ethics Cesspool." The problem seems to me more that Massachusetts' ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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