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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 ... Attachment Size Baltimore State's Response to Motion to Dismiss 092109.pdf 0 bytes ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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Declaration of Policy, Purpose, and Obligations
... is the place to comment on, discuss, and share alternative content and language relating to the declarations of policy that can usually be ... Wechsler says: Wed, 2008-07-23 17:13 Permalink ...
Robert Wechsler - 2006-11-30 14:53 - 1 comment
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Indirect Conflicts Involving Appointments
... Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott. According to an article in the Naples (FL) News , there is reason to believe ... a mayoral candidate, the candidate was elected, and the term of an EC member's term had come to an end, the mayor should either renew ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Lobbyist-Oriented Ethics Reform in Chicago
Body: Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues to make small government ethics improvements in Chicago. Yesterday, according to a city press release , the council passed five ethics reforms, all but one ... now an ordinance. As usual, reform is both limited and content- rather than process-oriented. Let's hope these partial reforms are ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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"Interest" vs. "Benefit"
... concept of an "interest" is for most people. I would like to discuss this problem further, because I think it is the cause of much ... Another advantage of "benefit" is that using this term makes it clear why gifts are conflicts of interest. In fact, many ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Hiring Experts and Giving Ethics Waivers: The Henry Paulson, Jr. Story
... of interest matter provides valuable material relevant to local government ethics. This time it's former Treasury Secretary Henry M. ... Technical Ethics Violations But since no one knows the content of Paulson's conversations, no one knows whether he was already in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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D.C. Council Inappropriately Overrides EC Advisory Opinion
... illustrative scenarios, the opinion essentially defined the term "usual and customary constituent services," which is an exception to the ... in the council's code of conduct. The opinion was made in response to a matter that had arisen with respect to a particular council ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Officials Accepting Tickets to Events Where They Have a Ceremonial Function
... defined except, occasionally, in advisory opinions. The term is generally used to exclude certain gifts from being either disclosed or considered gifts at ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Elected Officials and Ethics Commissions -- What Tension Between Them Can Lead To
Body: What just happened in San Diego, according to an article in yesterday's Union-Tribune , is a lesson for local ... EC independence is. Three EC members were up for term renewal, and two of them were renewed by the mayor. The one that wasn't ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Paper Tigers
... in the area of enforcement. "Window dressing" is one term for such reforms. " Paper tiger " is another. And that's the term ... hiatus, allows citizens to file ethics complaints against House members. But is this right to file a complaint real or just on ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
