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1. A Public Interest That Is Personal and Material

   ... Everyone looks out for their own. That’s the way it is in Washington. It’s the way it is at City Hall. It’s the way every company’s ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Problems with the "Throw the Bums Out" Approach

   ... last two years in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's Most Corrupt list , only 11 were either not re-elected or ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Conflicts of Interest and the Founding Fathers

   ... of gentility, the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Franklin and Washington, who lacked college educations, compensated by relentless ... to have the founding fathers as role models, even if few of us are like them. What is important is that we aspire to the best of their ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Is a Council Member Who Runs a Local Charity Giving Back to the Community?

   ... especially sub-prime lenders, including Countrywide and Washington Mutual. Joe Baca chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus 2007 to ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. Is Benefitting Constituents Representing Them or Benefitting Oneself?

   ... right place early on. But the problem is not just in Washington. Alaska's political elite is so closed and tightly tied to oil that ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. Ethics Recidivism After Getting Off Easy

   ... denied doing. The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington followed with a complaint to the IRS. Maybe Miller shouldn't ... It invites attempts to seduce, and punishes the one who usually gains the least. Had Miller been fined and had a public ethics ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

7. Public Virtue: Some Nice Quotes

   ... as there is any virtue in the body of the people.' --George Washington "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-16 12:21 - 0 comments

8. D.C. Mayor Is Burned by a Contractor's Participation in His Election

   ... he raised an interesting issue in an interview with the Washington Post . According to a Post editorial last week , an ... Attachment Size US v Thompson.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Back to Eastern Oregon, Where Local Government Is Working Again ... Transparently

   ... what everyone else is doing? 'I’m sure many of us have gone through the exercise in middle school of sitting in a circle with ... past 15 years, except for six months in which I resided in Washington. It is amazing how quickly gossip flies, and changes along the way ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Ethics Advice and the Importance of Being a Daddy's Boy

    ... on, Bopp put it different: "You have to hire a big-time Washington lawyer, or a big-time Terre Haute lawyer [which is what he is], and ... to talk about the government." How is having candidates use their power and position to raise money for what are supposedly independent ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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