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Abramoff on Lobbying, Gifts, and Campaign Contributions
... abramoff.jpg Body: A good followup to my last blog post , on Lawrence Lessig's book, is what Jack Abramoff ... he gave 80% of his earnings to charity. It is amazing how often charitable donations are part of government corruption, one way or ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Drastic Proposals to Disassemble the Dream Machine
... investigations, but now local officials are starting to get creative in response to the most creatively imagined city in the U.S. Solution 1: Constitutional Amendment According to an article in yesterday's Los Angeles Times , Los Angeles ... the city of Vernon. It certainly deserves this, but how is it done? The answer is surprising. According to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Quid Pro Quo of Social Relationships
... by the federal Office of Governmental Ethics (OGE) to limit two exceptions to the prohibition on accepting gifts from lobbyists: ... commenting on the issue of special relationships and how they give rise to appearances of impropriety, this and other lobbyists ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Applicant Disclosure, and the Difference It Makes
... disclosure would have made a difference. According to an article in Saturday's Los Angeles Times , the L.A. mayor asked ... to say they didn't know about the relationship, no matter how well they might know the agent. You can know a person and not know everyone ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The EC Selection Process and Recusal
... is always best for everyone when those officials had nothing to do with the selection of the ethics commission's members or its staff. In ... the governor. It is also arguable that, considering how the personnel decision looks to the public, that the EC chair should have ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Government Ethics Is Not About Character, But About Making Decisions in a Professional Manner
Body: One thing I've failed to do in this blog is sufficiently emphasize that making ethical decisions in ... As I recently wrote , "with effective training, in an ethical environment, government ethics should be just another professional ... But this sort of change is an uphill battle, no matter how reasonable it may appear. I'm Not a Professional, I'm a Good Person ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Ethics Challenge and a Unusual Approach to Pay-to-Play
Body: Some news in Greensboro, NC led me to a blog post on old news in Greenburgh, NY, so here's the new news and the ... an applicant-to-be. So there is no guidance in the law about how this part of the scheme can be followed or enforced. There are two ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A New Local Government Ethics Term
Body: Kudos to the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for inventing a new local government ethics term in an editorial yesterday . The term is "dyscronia." Unfortunately, ... with "dysaffinia," and define it as the inability to see how damaging one's relationships, and alternate hats, can be to the public's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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The Holiday Spirit and the Spirit of Ethics Laws
... or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the ... of the difference between ethics and law, and to think about how the two can best be reconciled, as they must be in a world of lawyers, for ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Winter Reading: Robert Dahl's "Who Governs?"
... an Urban Politics course forty years ago. The book happens to focus on New Haven, the city in whose suburbs I live and whose ... of ethical misconduct involved a minor subleader who showed how influential he was by "fixing" parking tickets. When this practice was ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
