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1. Not Engaging in Our Fathers' Misconduct

   ... employees who learn the ropes from them. If the government's ethics environment is poor, young officials experience intimidation, secrecy, ... And in most cases, these young officials continue the ethics environment. They might have hated the intimidation, resented the ...

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

2. Threats to Officials' Focus on the Public Interest

   ... hard to see what campaign finance has to do with government ethics, that is, conflicts of interest. Campaign finance involves candidates ... campaign finance law has been moving away from government ethics law. Why? Because the First Amendment has had a deleterious effect on ...

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

3. Simultaneous, Political Appointments and the Ethical Culture of an Authority

   ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Ethics Environments Political Activity/Patronage ...

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

4. It Is Honorable for Government to Help People Act More Honorably

   ... However, the decision to regulate, like the decision to pass ethics codes, is to guide people to act more honorably and penalize those who ... to prevent them from harming others or, in the case of ethics, using government for their own benefit. And there is nothing wrong ...

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

5. Disclosure Is A Necessary Part of Recusal

   ... of misconduct. This is because so many people, and even ethics codes, consider it wrong to have a conflict. Actually, recusing oneself ... recusal include disclosure (see §101 of the City Ethics Model Code for disclosure rules). A failure to disclose can undermine ...

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

6. Chicago Alderman Expense Allowances: Conflicts Between Public, Political, and Personal Interests

   ... becomes an issue. More pressure is put on the personal ethics of each alderman by an open-ended expense allowance provision ... This alderman is seeking an opinion from the city's ethics board, but the only legal issue is whether this exclusion applies to a ...

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

7. The Cincinnati Situation IV - Proportionality

   ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Attachment Size mara letter 050810.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...

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8. Dealing with the Conflicts of Winnipeg's Mayor

   ... with conflicts and (2) to help give the city an effective ethics program. The CBC is also at fault here. Polls should not ask ... even when they are outside the boundaries of limited ethics laws. It's not that the province doesn't have an ethics program. ...

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

9. Should Legislator-Lobbyist Communications Be Subject to the Legislative Immunity Privilege?

   ... staff member answers a question, say, about the content of a bill or a deadline for submitting testimony, is this information protected as ... petition for a redress of grievances, see this 2014 City Ethics blog post . A Point of Order Blog post by Michael Stern notes ...

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

10. Redistricting by Elected Officials as Conflict of Interest

    ... of them include elected officials in some capacity. As with ethics, good government advocates agree that elected officials should not be ... interest, which is generally omitted from government ethics, both for constitutional reasons and because elected officials pass ...

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

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