Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Conflicts of interest are not always positive, any more than
relationships are always positive. And conflicts are based on
relationships.
We tend to think of an official using his position to help a family
member or business associate. But sometimes officials use their
position to harm someone with whom they have a negative
relationship, anyone from a former in-law (the bum who dumped my
sister) or current in-law (that woman who's driving my brother
crazy) to a former business...