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1. Situational Ethics Is Inappropriate in a Government Ethics Context

   ... adapt their views to the situation and their current needs, how much disclosure a politician favors is less important than how he or she approaches the campaign finance laws that exist today. Many show ...

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

2. Apology Revisited

   ... serious mistakes that have recently been made and discuss how to prevent such mistakes in the future. The goal is to stop working around ... sorry I hurt you, and what can I do to make things better?' How often do government officials say this? The most important point made ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-28 13:37 - 0 comments

3. Starving Ethics Commissions of Resources - The Situation in Oklahoma

   ... At budget time, government ethics commissions, no matter how independent, often become just another political football. This seems ... employee with this money. The legislature cannot tell the EC how to spend its money, but it must authorize new hiring. The EC wants $238,000 ...

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

4. Moral Clarity VII - Confidential Information

   ... of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in a particular area. We tend to think ... before them, many officials hardly listen, because they know how ignorant the citizens are. Special knowledge can be one more way to justify ...

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

5. Waivers and Exclusions

   ... this, as well as their experiences with the approaches: how successful they've been, how they've been enforced, etc. 210. Waivers. 1. Upon written ... in an attempt to determine a candidate's viewpoints or how the candidate plans to act in the future, if such communication results in ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-17 09:11 - 0 comments

6. The Fiduciary Duty of an Appointing Official

   ... what’s right for the elected officials.” In other words, how appointing officials and their appointees act after the appointment is a ... Court of Appeals [NY State's highest court] and tell them how to decide a case? The same should be true of the MTA. These are independent ...

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

7. COGEL Talk on Legislative Immunity: Same Goals As Government Ethics, and Not Absolute

   ... together a lot of information, but also adds a section on how much of a misnomer "absolute" legislative immunity is. Until 2007, ... of "absolute" legislative immunity. See the next section for how unabsolute "absolute" really is. The other group of decisions deal ...

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

8. Spring Reading: The Day of Judgment

   ... making no response to [his mother] when she called him, but how could he avoid responding to the demands of others, which are constant, ... look for bread made from better things than wheat." This is how local officials and attorneys often seem to feel about looking elsewhere ...

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

9. The Ethics of Municipal Pension Plans Revisited

   ... actuaries use, where it is assumed that all bumps, no matter how big, will be smoothed out over time (and that the plan will never go ... themselves, of course) happy without letting the public know how much it will cost them in the long run. It is, in other words, a way of ...

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

10. Perks for Public Officials -- Transparency and Accountability

    ... the budget and into law what the majority of voters desired. How naive of me! Not only is it a conflict of interest to give oneself ... responsible budgeting. The Democrats can’t even determine how many people are on the senate payroll. New York Democrats are ...

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

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