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1. Fall Reading: Out of Character

   ... about character. However, there is another approach to government ethics that is sometimes referred to as "the character approach." ... of us the potential to lie, cheat, steal, and sin, no matter how good a person we believe ourselves to be." They see character as a ...

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

2. Chicago Task Force Second Report III — Ethics Program Independence

   ... gives them a great deal of leverage and allows them to prevent an ethics program from working effectively. How can this be done? I discuss the ways in detail in my book Local ...

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

3. Indirect Benefits, Expertise, and the Responsibility for Poor Ethics Advice

   ... of time volunteers have able to spend, without having deep content expertise and knowledge – is a bad model." A better model, and a ... to give up the expertise of people like this. The issue is how best to employ this expertise, while not creating perceptions of ...

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

4. Using Local Government Employees for Private Purposes

   ... in this case subordinates who are not in a position to say no. Coercion and intimidation rarely occur outside of a poor ethical ... after the contract was awarded. Here's a link to a page on how to detect change order abuse . The superintendent's contract ...

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

5. A New Local Ethics Program's First Matter Raises Some Important Issues

   ... were who passed it (the current common council) or how it is that there is no place for questioning the people on the ethics board ... to explain their reasoning, show their work. All seem to be content to point out the problems and offer nothing to solve them. ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 4 comments

6. What Is Free Speech?

   Body:  In a letter to the editor in yesterday's New York Times , two lawyers who represent ... it to government ethics. Is Government Ethics an Unconstitutional Dystopia of Limited Speech? Government ethics ... the airwaves with mean-spirited ads that contain little content of value to voters? Is there anything more dystopic than many of our ...

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

7. Louisiana Legislators Sue Ethics Board - Including Dialogue with One of the Legislators

   ... their self-interest ahead of the public interest? Just think how it would be if the representative had been conscientious and felt it was in ... does not apply to Rep. Arnold's situation. It is not the content of the legislator's speech that ethics laws are concerned with (and ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-29 08:24 - 5 comments

8. DENVER, CO

   ... Denver entered the political arena fairly quickly to its founding in 1858 , and incorporation in 1861 . The city was named ... impropriety or the appearance of impropriety... " How to Contact the Commission Physical Address: Denver Board of ...

   donmc - 2006-08-22 20:46

9. Top 10 Ethics Issues for 2006

   ... R-Maine, and Russ Feingold, D-Wis. have introduced a measure to restore the office until a date 10 months after 80 percent of Iraq ... Morales denies the existence of an under-the-table deal. 'How can I be in a secret deal when I went and testified before the entire city ...

   steiner - 2015-05-15 13:23 - 0 comments

10. New Orleans Mayor's Indictment Shows Weakness of the City's Ethics Program

    Body:  The FBI had to work hard for years to get a grand jury indictment of former New Orleans ... because simple ethics reforms were not instituted and an ethics commission did not do its job. When I read about the indictment ... why a poorly written gift provision provides guidance not in how to act responsibly, but in how to act irresponsibly. Instead of a quick ...

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

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