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Conflict of Interest or Expertise?
... focuses on the most basic and, apparently, insoluble ethics problem in New Mexico, whose governor is trying to push through ethics reforms: the fact that state legislators are unpaid "citizen legislators." Legislators on the governor's ethics task force opposed giving themselves even a minimal salary or sizeable ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-01-22 11:01 - 3 comments
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Political Preferential Treatment and Quid Pro Quos
... Two questions arise: is this technically a government ethics issue and, even if not, does it undermine the public's trust in those ... Treatment I don't think this is a government ethics issue. The mayor would receive no benefit were the candidate to drop out ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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"Frivolity" in Kenosha, WI
... is a word that, I believe, has no place in a government ethics program. A look at an attempt to add it to Kenosha's ethics program shows how, well, frivolous the word is. According to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The FOI Alternative to Conflict Disclosure
... foi.jpg Body: In a quality government ethics program, every official and employee involved in a matter publicly ... According to an article in today's New Haven (CT) Register , the Greater New Haven Clergy Association has FOI'ed a list ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Relationships, Relationships, Relationships
... investigations, and now an investigation by the city's ethics board, according to an article in Wednesday's Journal News . Dealing responsibly with relationships is what government ethics all about. You can't deal responsibly with them unless you ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Tilting at Wind Farms in Northern New York State
Body: Ethics in a small town can be very problematic when one large company with ... a new sort of business has been causing local governments ethics problems: wind farm companies. This has been well documented by anti-wind farm groups such as www.windaction.org. It appears that officials in a few small towns ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Can an Assistant County Attorney Sit on the Council of a City in the County?
... a memo stating that he had consulted with the state bar’s ethics counsel (although another article says that it was the assistant attorney who consulted the ethics counsel), and that his assistant's election would create “a conflict ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Class Exception
... No, the class exception does not except classy people from ethics codes. It excepts people from recusing themselves when the interests ... Island. In September, Governor Carcieri wrote the state ethics commission, which has jurisdiction over both state and municipal ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-22 09:15 - 0 comments
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False Statements in Elections
Body: Honesty, although central to ethics, is not central to government ethics. The reason for this is that honesty, or falsity, is so complex, it is ... That's another reason why honesty is not part of government ethics: it's extremely difficult to enforce, and requires an enormous amount ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Solution to the Problem of Government Aides Involved in Political Campaigns
... with a cap. Once this setup has been established, ethics commissions (and prosecutors, where such misconduct is treatly ... There is nothing more damaging to government ethics than for there to be prohibited conduct that is actually the norm, not just in poor ethics environments, but in the ethics environments of most cities and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
