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Constituent Services and Preferential Treatment Provisions
Body: On April 30, the D.C. ethics board reached a settlement with a council member ... coverage is too broad, the language provides insufficient guidance and, due to its vagueness, it can be used as a blunt weapon against ... Size DC const service settlement 0413.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics in Congress VI - Quotations and Ideas (Summer Reading)
... of interesting quotes and valuable ideas. Study on the Effect of Allegations on Voting: "Campaign and conflict of interest violations produced losses [for ... of interest merely reveals a problem without providing any guidance for resolving it.” Robert Wechsler Director of ...
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A Big-City EC That Won't Meet or Stay Out of Politics
... leaving only three members. But that's only the icing on the cake. Normally, this would create a serious quorum problem for the ... so that no chair can drop the ball and so that members have guidance in such things as political involvement. Robert Wechsler ...
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Zygmunt Bauman on Responsibility, Trust, Self-Deception, and More
... in government ethics. The idea of calculating risk depends on whose risks are being calculated, although in many cases jeopardy to public ... information, but there is not more professional ethics guidance. And ethics training, when it exists, is still very limited. So there ...
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How to Deal Responsibly With a Conflict That Falls Between City and State Ethics Codes
... projects" along its track. According to an article on the Publicola website , the council member's firm owns $50 million in ... mean the conduct is ethical, but it at least provides some guidance. It's another thing when a city's ethics code does prohibit certain ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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D.C. Ethics Board's Flawed Recommendations for Reform
... forum seeking recommendations for ethics reform. On April 17, the ethics board published a report that makes recommendations ... for providing advice, but it does not provide sufficient guidance to be fairly enforced. The ethics board opposes a waiver process ...
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Rationalization and Initiative in the Ethics Sphere
... that matter? Greed, power, ego, loyalty? I'd put my money on (or against) rationalization, the ability of people to justify what they do ... without ethical leadership from the top. There's no guidance, the commission members are not part of an ethics community, and ...
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Time and the Drafting of Conflict of Interest Provisions
... unsecured loan to an institute, to be spent apparently on building and design. One of the DDA board members heads a company that does ... not have participated in the October discussion and vote on the loan. The board member says he has no contract to work for the ... conflict provisions do not provide as much guidance as benefit-oriented conflict provisions. Robert Wechsler ...
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Criminal vs. Ethics Enforcement of Lobbying Laws: A Case in Massachusetts
... The result in this case is that the AG is seen as being soft on lobbyists when she made what might otherwise have been considered a ... an arrangement. This is irresponsible, provides no clear guidance to other lobbyists, and is harmful to future prosecutions of the ...
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School District Lobbying: Defining, Disclosing, Penalizing
... them to do so. Repeated noncompliance could lead to a ban on conducting business with the school district for up to three years. But ... theoretical definition, which will not provide anyone with guidance. There is nothing about benefits, relationships, or obligations. The ...
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