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Voting with a Conflict of Interest Is Not Always Illegal, But It's Never Good for Democracy
... attempting to overturn a censure determination by the Nevada Ethics Commission, quoted in today's Reno Gazette-Journal . The ... though the relationship did not clearly violate the state ethics code. Think how it looks: What better way to get a council member's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Massachusetts EC Fixes a Poor Conflict Provision with an Exemption
Body: Ethics commissions are often stuck with one or more ethics provisions that they are know are, in some ways, irresponsible. They can ... like this is that it goes into more detail than most ethics codes with respect to the responsible handling of a pre-existing ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Separating the Personal from the Public: Two Examples
... aspects of this aside, there are two important government ethics issues here, one involving preferential treatment and the other involving the core government ethics issue, the confusion of self and office. When you enter into high ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Citizens to Redistrict Austin Council
... similarities with the involvement of officials in selecting ethics commission members and enforcing government ethics laws. According to an article in the Austin Statesman ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Making the Private Misconduct of Public Servants Public
... made public? This doesn't make sense. The Case with Ethics Allegations To hide allegations of ethical misconduct from the ... than hiding allegations of a domestic dispute, because an ethics violation is misconduct at the public's expense and a domestic dispute ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Labor Peace Through Unethical Conduct
Body: Rarely does an ethics commission get a clear chance to show it has no favoritism. The Nevada Commission on Ethics will soon get that chance. The Nevada senator who raised a ... (ABC), a nonunion contractors association. Now an ethics complaint has been filed against a Las Vegas council member due to his ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Vendor Codes of Conduct Sound Better Than They Are
... has good provisions, but nothing regarding government ethics. West Virginia's vendor code of conduct consists mostly of ethics provisions. However, as good as they are, they do not provide very clear ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Vernon, the Dragons, and the Knights
... and girls, it's time for another episode of every government ethics lover's favorite tale, Vernon and the Dragons. In the last episode, back ... attorney general John Van de Kamp, to be the city's Ethics Advisor for the next year, not as an official, mind you, but on an ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Theories of a Legislator's Role That Lie Beneath Definitions of Corruption
... Deformation of Judgment. We see this theory in the common ethics code phrase, "impairment of an official's judgment." The unspoken theory ... involves an impairment of the legislator's judgment. An ethics codes deals only with certain of these influences, and it takes the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Miscellany of a Hundred Eyes
... Not Drink to It Yes, it has happened. Local government ethics has been compared to Prohibition. According to an article in the ... was create more problems.” The occasion was a draft ethics ordinance for the county. A county council member gave his opinion on ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
