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The Next Stage in the Baltimore Legislative Immunity Case
... to the grand jury that, as careful as he was to limit the content, could be considered, in a stretch, to be related to legislative ... wants to make, and it might very well be accepted. That is how our legal system works. Our government ethics system is different. She ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Summer Reading: Richard Painter on Ethics Reform III
Body: This is the third of three posts on how Richard W. Painter's recommendations for federal ethics reform in his book, Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference (Oxford U.P., 2009), may be applied ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: Switch VI - Mindsets, Free Space, Humor, and Failure
... You Can't Teach Ethics In their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010), Chip and Dan Heath ... it is important to show elected officials especially how poor everyone is at evaluating their own conflict situations. The way they ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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The Powerlessness of the Powerful
Body: It's amazing how powerless powerful politicians can be. Take New Jersey state senate ... is that union lobbyists don't need to try to win him over or buy him out. The bad news is that he is trying to do three important jobs all ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Hiring Experts and Giving Ethics Waivers: The Henry Paulson, Jr. Story
... Technical Ethics Violations But since no one knows the content of Paulson's conversations, no one knows whether he was already in ... a government official makes a private phone call. But how could the former head of Goldman Sachs have expected to talk with ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Summer Reading: Richard Painter on Ethics Reform I
... W. Painter's Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference (Oxford U.P., 2009) may be about ... focusing on Painter's recommendations for ethics reform and how they could be applied to local government ethics programs. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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What to Say Instead of "I Can't Be Bought"
... costs money. Even if no money exchanges hands, lobbyists "buy" officials in a way that an ordinary citizen does not. But it's still just ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Charitable Fundraising as an End Run Around Ethics Laws
... used to be run by the legislators, but since lobbyists would buy lots of tickets, it was turned over to a panel of former legislators. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Conference Attachments...
... As we present at various conferences, we are always creating content that people may wish to have access to later, via the website. So this ...
donmc - 2015-05-15 14:26
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donmc - 2018-01-31 19:02
