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Municipal Campaign Disclosure Laws, Budgets, and Priorities
... the Rocky Mountain News , 'In all the campaigns that I've acted as treasurer, I've never received an audit request from the clerk ... clerk said that she didn't know candidates were failing to report as required until told that by the newspaper. Perhaps newspapers too are ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-03-30 10:12 - 1 comment
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Participating with a Conflict
... would fight them." The city council hired a lawyer to report on the mayor's conflicts, and although the lawyer found substance to ... a showing of intentionality. Neither has any place, I feel, in a conflict of interest matter. Robert Wechsler Director of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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The Latest on Placement Agents
Body: It's been a year since I last wrote about placement agents, so it's time for an update, based on ... the investment of their funds. It took a state auditor's report to bring transparency to this relationship. Some board members do, ... requiring placement agents to register as lobbyists, attend ethics training, and not take finder's fees from money managers. Some agents ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Election Official's Political Activity in Philadelphia
... board's investigation of her, the deputy city commissioner, second-in-charge of the city's elections, reporting directly to her mother's ... groups are demanding is that election officials no longer report to partisan officials. They most certainly should not be reporting to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Officials' Personal Opinions and the Separation of Aspirational and Enforceable Ethics Provisions
... of the council or speaking in an official capacity, so I don't think he has violated any policy." One big problem is that the ... volunteer has violated this Code of Ethics and Conduct shall report the allegation to the proper agency. According to the Signal , ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Waivers by a Legislative Body
Body: I am a proponent of ethics waivers. But only if they are provided by an independent ethics ... this month, the county's charter revision commission filed a report calling for "a comprehensive review and revision" of the code of ethics, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Including Subcontract Lobbyists in a Lobbying Code
Body: One of the areas where government ethics laws are weakest is the indirect relationship, such as when a gift is ... another lobbyist. In addition, the contract lobbyist must report the same income, given to a subcontractor, in an addendum to his annual ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Council Ethics Committees
Body: Many local legislative bodies have ethics committees, even where there is an ethics commission. The reason for ... program, perhaps after the ethics board files its annual report. It could hold an annual training session. It could award employees who ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Intoxication of Gifts and Fellowship
... participants, "it was not expensive enough that we had to report it" (the bottom limit was $200). What did the liquor distributor ... we're human and that, because of this, there have to be good ethics laws to prevent our humanness from being tested. Robert Wechsler ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Telling Local Government Officials About Honest Services Fraud
... to bribery what manslaughter is to murder. Sort of. By this I mean that many officials accused of bribery plead down to honest services ... fraud provision). * Sorich v. U.S . is a case where Chicago employees were found to have engaged in fraudulent political-patronage ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
