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1. Big Questions Arise from Cook County Assessor's Refusal to Abide by Campaign Finance Ordinance

   ... matters and make at least $10,000 a year doing so (see the ethics board's brochure on this; the ordinance is nowhere to be ... I thought that they should be leading the way toward making government worthy of the public's trust. I must be wrong. I suppose they should ...

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

2. Working Definitions

   ... tune, (in collective sense) law; akin to lay, lie] ETHICS Ethics is a major branch of philosophy that involves analysis of ... forbid transactions that could compromise the integrity of government. Because of a high tendency of those regulated to evade the spirit ...

   donmc - 2015-05-15 14:30

3. Georgia Attempts to Require Local Ethics Enforcement

   ... local governing body (including school boards) to create an ethics panel to hear complaints regarding at least members of the local ... over other officials and employees would be up to each local government. The very people subject to the ethics panels would be the ones who ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2010-10-22 18:18 - 0 comments

4. Winter Reading: Zephyr Teachout's "The Forgotten Law of Lobbying"

   ... relationship, an ongoing reciprocal relationship, in which a government official gives special access and engages in conduct in return for ... and government, but the central concept in government ethics. What may first appear as a goody-goody way of looking at lobbying ...

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

5. A New Sort of Regional EC in Utah

   ... In early 2009, I started out a blog post , "Type 'ethics' into the search line at utah.gov, and all that comes up is Archery ... Entering into an interlocal agreement with "another" local government to establish an EC, pursuant to the state's Interlocal Cooperation ...

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

6. Duty Does Not Equal Right, Duty Does Not Equal Right . . .

   ... attorney in representing and advising the El Paso County ethics commission, which was established in 2009. The county attorney ... from duty to right. It's also a wonder that any government office would respond to a request written by the very individual ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 3 comments

7. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind VII: Moral Foundations

   ... four of the five other foundations, and how they relate to government ethics. Loyalty/Betrayal Haidt cites studies that have shown that ...

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

8. Congress Makes a Pitch for Poor Ethics

   ... sometimes act as if they didn't know the first thing about government ethics. Even when their actions are more in the public eye than usual, many of ...

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

9. Legal Defense Funds as Misuse of Office and Gifts

   ... concerning Gov. Sarah Palin again, but the report on an ethics complaint against her, regarding the fund created to pay the legal ... below) deals with two provisions that appear in most local government ethics codes:  misuse of office and gifts. The report's author, ...

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

10. The Perception of Improper Ethics Reform

    Body:  The passing of new ethics code provisions in Anoka, MN (pop. 18,000) provides a fine case study of how to try to pass off useless ethics code reform as something valuable. According to an article in the ... out of the cabinet and putting them on-line. In an era of government transparency and digital technology, a reference to cabinets is hard ...

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

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