Monday, August 17th, 2009
One of the principal reasons I have devoted myself to local government
ethics is that the ethical habits of government officials and politicians are usually formed at the local level.
Politicians who become accustomed to a poor local ethics environment
bring their values to state and federal government.
The saddest side of this is that many politicians learn at the local
level that running on an anti-corruption platform is a good way to get
elected, but that once elected, ethics...