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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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The FOI Alternative to Conflict Disclosure
... foi.jpg Body: In a quality government ethics program, every official and employee involved in a matter publicly ... what if a city or county does not have a quality government ethics program? How is the public to know whether conflicts are being handled ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Conflict of Interest
... Comment: The central point of an ethics code is that city officials and employees should not prefer, over the ... come the next election. Often such rules do not appear in ethics codes (often they appear in the city charter), but because they do ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-16 20:59 - 9 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 ... attorney, who has also called for the county code of ethics to be updated and a county board of ethics to be created to oversee a ...
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 ... change how we regulate the insurance industry. Voting on a bill that directly impacts the person or business that is signing your paycheck ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-22 09:15 - 0 comments
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The Obstacles to and Goals of Citizen Participation
... Although citizen participation is not part of government ethics, it's important to keep reminding ourselves that it is central ... Their minds were already made up. When I went up to the "reform" member of the council afterward, he turned his back on me. He refused ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 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
