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Campaign Finance & Pay-to-Play September 26, 2007

A Campaign Ethics Pledge

Usually an ethics pledge is something required of a town official or something requested by a good government organization. But sometimes an ethics pledge is an election strategy. This is the case in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the state legislature's Government Administration and Elections co-c…
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September 7, 2007

Why Yet Another Big New Jersey Municipal Scandal ?

My first experience with municipal politics in New Jersey, where I lived for nine years before moving to Connecticut, was accompanying some neighbors to a council meeting, because a couple of them wanted to speak about a change in zoning that affected the street we lived on. A neighbor asked the ma…
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Ethics Codes & Reform September 6, 2007

The Ethics Elephant

From Wikipedia. The story of the blind men and an elephant appears to have originated in India, but its original source is debated. It has been attributed to the Jainists, Buddhists, and sometimes to the Sufis or Hindus, and has been used by all those groups. The best-known version attributed to an…
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September 6, 2007

The Ethics Elephant in the Press !

In an article published in the Jacksonville Daily Record on Thursday, Carla Miller revealed her plans as the City's new Ethics Officer: 'In a very large city like Jacksonville you can't say that every single person who comes into government will be an ethical and honest person, so it comes down to …
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September 5, 2007

The Daily Record: The task at hand: creating a culture

From: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48985 Article published on: September 6, 2007 by Max Marbut Staff Writer Having an effective ethics program in any environment is all about enhancing communication. That’s how Carla Miller, the City’s recently-appointed ethics officer, desc…
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August 29, 2007

Jacksonville Mayor appoints City Ethics' Carla Miller as Ethics Officer

Yesterday in a dramatic speech to the City's Council, Mayor Peyton announced a series of sweeping ethics reforms, foremost of which was his appointment of Carla Miller as the City's Ethics Officer - in his words: "The establishment of a high-level, in-house ethics officer for the city of Jacksonvil…
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Conflicts of Interest August 28, 2007

Mayoral Allowances - An Alternative Solution to Preventing Unethical Conduct

Taiwan has come up with the perfect way to prevent mayors from misusing government funds. Its solution appears to be based on the way parents prevent their children from taking money out of their wallets: give them an allowance to spend any way they please. The mayor of Taipei gets a $62,000 annual…
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August 13, 2007

Another New Orleans Scandal and the Conflict of Interest Behind It

Today's guilty plea by New Orleans' City Council vice president, Oliver Thomas, is on its face about the acceptance of a bribe. But behind that bribe is a serious conflict of interest. Not only was Thomas the council vice president and longest-serving council member, but he was also a member of the…
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Local Government Practice August 4, 2007

Ethical Government and Ethical Conduct: A Statistical Study

It's difficult to show clearly that ethical government correlates with ethical conduct. However, last year Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel came up with a study that does this: They studied parking tickets given to United Nations diplomats in Manhattan. Because, until 2002, there was zero enforceme…
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Conflicts of Interest August 1, 2007

Election Officials and Their Conflicts

Election officials. Who in a democracy should be more above suspicion than election officials? At the place where I vote, the line that is the required number of feet from the voting area is traditionally right along the near side of the sidewalk that runs along the edge of the school parking lot. …
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