There is no greater pleasure for some people than accusing ethics
professionals and ethics commission members of unethical behavior. That
is why ethics professionals and ethics commission members have to be
extra careful about what they do, and why individuals who have not
dealt responsibly with conflicts of interest, at least in the recent
past, should not accept a nomination to an ethics commission.
What no one wants to read is what is being written about the current
chair of the Florida Commission on Ethics, which has jurisdiction over
local government officials and employees.
This week, New Times blogger Bob Norman wrote that the EC chair,
appointed in 2007, had no-bid work orders from the then Broward
assistant school superintendent from 2004-2006 totaling $75,000, marked
with "bid waiver," although there was allegedly no formal approval from
the school board.