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1. A Crippling Case of Ethics Self-Enforcement

   ... invites future judicial candidates to push and distort the content of advertising in judicial campaigns as far past truthful communication ... trust, the entire state judiciary loses the public trust. How could this possibly be good for either the judiciary or the public? Why ...

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

2. Logical Fallacies III - The Straw Man Wears Camouflage

   ... to three towns about our size in our state, and showed how our spending in several areas was out-of-line with these other towns. I ... residential neighborhoods were to be protected. The actual content of the Master Plan and the details of the vision it puts forward then ...

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

3. Cases from the Salkin Roundup I

   ... ethics of land use . Her focus is on cases that have gone to court. I will be discussing a few of the cases in this and further blog ... schedule a public hearing, which had nothing to do with the content of the matter. But the town charter requires disclosure of a conflict ...

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

4. F. G. Bailey's The Prevalence of Deceit

   ... it and accept its decisions. This is a basic lie, no matter how much we believe it. And we contend to get people to accept it as the truth. ... of why I keep comming back to read your excellent quality content that is forever updated. Thank you! Log ...

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

5. Winter Reading: Rick Hasen's "Lobbying, Rent-Seeking, and the Constitution"

   ... " 64 Stanford Law Review 191 (2011), is a good complement to the Teachout essay I recently wrote about . Besides its valuable look at ... it's the language of the news media, which is closer to how ordinary people think about these issues. Hasen also feels it's language ...

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

6. Local Government Dependency on Drug Asset Forfeiture in Texas

   ... on the money that comes from asset forfeitures related to the drug trade. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars. Click ... Not only does such dependency lead to abuses in how the money is spent, as discussed in a recent Economist article, but ...

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7. Being Wrong II (Summer Reading)

   ... in the Margin of Error (2010), as it applies to local government ethics. This post focuses on how to deal responsibly with one's mistakes, and to the extent possible prevent ...

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8. Not Much to Get Excited About in Baltimore's Ethics Reforms

   ... too is considering ethics reforms, but it's in response to a scandal involving its past mayor rather than in response to the work of a ... this itself. Finally, the ethics board must now submit an annual report. A good thing. As a whole, the ethics board bill raises ... by its elected officials, who seem perfectly content arguing over whether the mayor should get two or three ethics ...

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

9. DeKalb County (GA) Grand Jury Report on Procurement-Related Misconduct

   ... a Fats, Oil & Grease inspector back in November 2010. It led to an 83-page grand jury report in August 2013 , which set out the ... project." For any government wondering how to better control such a program, this report contains some good ... The sole purpose of this position and department will be to establish and enforce new ethical guidelines for employees, vendors and elected ...

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

10. Legislative Immunity, Local Government Attorneys, and Bell, California

    ... uninvolved citizenry. Well, guess what. According to an article in Friday's Los Angeles Times , a Los Angeles County judge ... is that state EC decisions are usually not about the content of a vote, such as the amount of an official's salary, but rather about ...

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

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