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Rationalization and Initiative in the Ethics Sphere
... to win a contract to build engines for a foreign airline." How often does a press release like this come from a mayor's or city manager's office? And how often does one come from an ethics commission or ethics officer? It's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Rhode Island Oral Arguments: On Inherent Conflicts in the Ethics Process
... charged former State Senate presdient said as an example of how the Speech in Debate Clause works, “A legislator can be convicted ... taking money for a vote without being able to tell the jury how the official voted? When the vote's protected, so is the bribery, in most ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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D.C. Ethics Board's Opinion Needs a Rewrite
... are not based in common sense, nor are they easily followed. How can an official know what conduct may or may not adversely affect the ... the gotcha! board every official fears. I don't see how the necessary ethics reforms can proceed without the mistakes in this ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: Rick Hasen's "Lobbying, Rent-Seeking, and the Constitution"
... it's the language of the news media, which is closer to how ordinary people think about these issues. Hasen also feels it's language ... limits on lobbyist contributions, but it's not clear yet how much further regulation of lobbyists can be done in a post- Citizens ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Cure for Transparency Problems: A Model Website and Blog
... government finally put the budget up on its website. That is how immediately effective a website can be for transparency. Sometimes just the ... closed down the blog. But it remains there as an example of how a blog like this works. If your town or city has a transparency ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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[CityEthics] A Citizen Transparency Initiative
... government finally put the budget up on its website. That is how immediately effective a website can be for transparency. Sometimes just the ... closed down the blog. But it remains there as an example of how a blog like this works. If your town or city has a transparency ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Misuse of the Baltimore City Foundation
... about it: city officials. Here are three examples of how the foundation has been cleverly misused, according to the Sun . ... the board decided to conduct a review, it would be unclear how much it could do, since it has only one staff member." What better ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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D.C. Council Inappropriately Overrides EC Advisory Opinion
... with an EC interpretation, they should explain in detail how they differ — the way I myself did — and try to see if they can find ... if they have made a public and good faith effort to show how the EC's interpretation is damaging to the community, that the EC won't ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Judicial Decision on Restricting Local Official Political Activity
... be liberating. Many local government officials have told me how much of a pain it is to have to keep making campaign contributions when ... no longer exist, that the machine era is in the past. But how can this be proven, especially if the ban itself was one of the reasons ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Ethical Responsibility of a Local Party Committee
... officers. But only party officers. The oath part emphasizes how much the ethical requirements do not apply to officials and candidates ... horrible is likely to be dumped because he might lose. But how often is an unethical candidate who could win ever dumped by his party? ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
