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1. The Statistical Projections Game - The Cards Go Out on the Table

   ... no funds from City Ethics. But it may seem like that from how perfectly today's front-page New York Times article follows up on the ... there is a clear appearance of conflict of interest, but how could he be shocked? The only thing shocking here is that this is being ...

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

2. Allegations Based on Unenforceably Vague Standards

   ... and campaign workers. We'll have to wait and see how broadly this term is defined. Following Formal Procedures Most ... guidance, and people are known to be poor judges of how their conduct appears to others. It is impossible for officials to be sure ...

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

3. False Statements in Elections

   ... or represent. What is clever about the Ohio statute is how carefully it sets out particular instances of false statement, including ... for just such nuanced, complicated, and disputed facts. How can each citizen be expected to determine such facts? Needless to say, the ...

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

4. New Cuyahoga County Executive Puts a New Ethics Policy First

   ... county website's link page. It will be interesting to see how the county executive's ethics reforms will be integrated with the state ... access to the manual on-line. It will be interesting to see how county ethics reforms will be integrated with personnel policies. The ...

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

5. Two Complex Conflict Situations in Montpelier, VT

   ... to the city manager, wrote, “I would like to know 1) how Gwen manages to run her non-profit and pursue this initiative while maintaining her obligation to the City; and 2) how this campaign is consistent with the City’s economic development policies ...

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

6. Horse and Carriage, or Love and Marriage?

   ... and the board also decided to spell out, step-by-step, how a commission recommendation might factor in the final decision to set fees ... this problem. What interested me in this situation was how far the situation had to go for conflicts to be recognized. In this case, ...

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

7. Proximity Rules

   ... that he didn't know the distance or didn't know the rule. How many rules can anyone remember? How much grunt work must one do to be ethical? And yet everyone knows that ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

8. Carrigan and an Obligation to Seek Ethics Advice

   ... raises far more interesting and important issues than how the First Amendment applies to government ethics. First, let me ... are necessarily vague. With vague terms such as these, how can a local government official get due process? If there was nothing but ...

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

9. An Aussie Editorial on Insider Lobbyists

   ... minister has said lobbyists should not hold party office. How many elected officials in the U.S. have said this? Waterford notes ... of the intensity of the lobbying of O'Farrell (and how close it came to be successful), ... I am no longer so sure the system had ...

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

10. An Advisory Opinion Concerning Constituent Services

    ... services is that a legislator often does not know how legitimate a constituents' claims are. Legislators have an obligation to ... seven pages of scenarios, which provide concrete pictures of how elected officials should handle particular constituent service situations. ...

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

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