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Maryland Prosecutor Concedes Council Members' Legislative Immunity in Non-Criminal Ethics Proceedings
Body: Once again, it has been proven that placing ethics in the hands of prosecutors can be damaging to the cause of government ethics. The proof this time is in the state prosecutor's opposition to the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2009-05-28 11:48 - 0 comments
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Nevada Commission on Ethics Appeals Ruling re Its Jurisdiction Over State Legislators
... Appeal , the Nevada Commission on Ethics has appealed the district court decision which removed its ... authority over them in many past cases. There is a bill before the legislature to create a legislative ethics commission (sorry, I haven't been able to find it, so no link ...
Robert Wechsler - 2009-01-11 09:41 - 0 comments
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Editorial on ethics reforms in Jacksonville, FL
... editorial 11/13/2010 Body: Update: The bill (2010-616) was passed unanimously by the Finance Committee on Tuesday, ... Council. It is designed to expand the powers of the city's Ethics Commission and to centralize the ethics office function for all of the ...
donmc - 2010-11-18 13:36
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Hubris, Nemesis, and Government Ethics
... be "comeuppance." This sounds like something out of an ethics scandal. Local boy moves from the council into the mayor's office, with ... and the bigger they are, the harder they fall. In ethics scandals, it is often the politician's indignation at perceived ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... there are no complaints to or advisory opinions by their ethics commissions, their town or city government does not have ethics problems. Actually, it's the other way around. Local governments with ... ethics. May Ballot Fatigue Be Deadly to Ethics Reform? Just what local government ethics reform needs is a new ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Kingdom of Individuals IV: Ethics and Power
... to bear on their situation arise from their local code of ethics or their spiritual or philosophical beliefs. But, as Bailey points ... many times in order for the other team to win. Then the ethics laws change a bit, and new varieties of preferential treatment become ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Dealing Responsibly with Business Relationships
... less expensive than the alternative. Respect for the Ethics Process There are two problems here. The council member, and other Alexandria officials, probably lost respect for the ethics process in Louisiana. It didn't feel right or fair to them. And two, the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ways Not to Select the Members of an Ethics Commission
... There are many right and wrong ways to select an ethics commission. The rightest ways take the selection process out of the ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Office of Congressional Ethics Leaves Its Barn and the Congressional Black Caucus Tries to Rein It In
... vacation, the new, quasi-independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) was in the news a lot. Going Outside of Congress First, ... Sending its report to an entity other than the House Ethics Committee is the only way it can do anything but acquiesce in the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18
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How a Huge Corporation's Political Spending Can Change a City's Ethics Environment
... one of the biggest topics in the general area of government ethics, including campaign finance, lobbying, and transparency, has been the ... becomes the central emotion in local politics. The city's ethics environment therefore becomes similar to a city where there is a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
