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Independent Agencies Without Ethics Oversight Can Mean Disaster
... case, the dandelions were extra payments (beyond those due to retirees) made by Detroit's two pension funds, to active employees (54%), ... as saying that the indictment caught Zajac by surprise. How could it have, considering that a lot of the facts were public information ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Is the Camel's Back Truly Broken, or Just More Mayor-Council-Feds Politics in Chicago?
Body: Last week, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune , Chicago Mayor Richard Daley responded ... Michael Marchese. While he's at it, he'll also disclose how many sports jackets (if any, like that yellow one) he's received from ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Top EC Officials' Obligations Relating to Discussions of Their Personnel Matters
... wrote about Honolulu's EC chair resigning in order to be involved in a mayoral candidate's campaign (he had already been involved ... look at what happened a few years ago in Connecticut to see how ugly it can be for an EC to push out its director when he is going after a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A City Where "We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent"
... jobs. The most unfortunate aspect of many laws that try to bring unethical government activities under control is that, when they do ... not applicable here: that the officials were never trained how to follow the Shakman Decree. The lack of ethical training is often a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Gifts with No Financial Value
Body: It's amazing the lengths people will go to when they are accused of bribery. Take Zehy Jereis, a former Yonkers, NY ... moral: criminal proceedings are not a good place to learn how to deal responsibly with conflicts. They are limited to the language of the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Summer Reading: Corruption and American Politics III - John Parrish's Essay
... But Parrish's focus is more on "accepting a shady deal to facilitate one's chances of winning an election with vital public policy ... Institutional Corruption Parrish also notes how this ties in with institutional corruption: "Discriminatory corruption is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Turning a Predicament into a Problem
... a leader of the uncivilization movement, a response to climate change, made me wonder whether it is also important with respect to ... and the pressures placed on government officials, and how they can be dealt with. More than anything, leaders need to talk ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Election Officials and Their Conflicts
... lot. When candidates, their supporters, and others come to hand out their sheets, hold their signs, and talk to voters, they stand on ... very near future. What can be done at the local level? How can ethics codes be written so that they apply to the particular sorts of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-08-01 09:36 - 0 comments
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Should a Local Government Attorney Represent Both the Executive and Legislative Branches?
... and counties, there are several things that can be done to lessen the local government attorney's conflicts. This issue is ... when a personal issue arises, such as alleged bribery) shows how little he truly cares about dealing responsibly with the actual conflicts ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Favoring Friends and Family Catches Up to Baltimore's Mayor
... and family has been brought before a grand jury, according to an article in today's Sun . All sorts of information is coming ... led to the state investigation). You can see clearly how things proceeded from nepotism, to voting for a lover's city work, to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
