Quote of the Day

"The worst thing you can do is read the [ethics] law like a lawyer and look for loopholes."

—Richard H. A. Washburn, training manager with the New York State Commission on Public Integrity in a training session with St. Lawrence County's new ethics board and other officials, according to an article in this week's Watertown Daily Times.

Washburn also told the reporter, "I tried to instill to them that it's to their benefit to have someone objective to ask and get an honest answer."