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Top 10 Ethics Issues for 2006
... selected what we consider takes the cake for 2006 in terms of Ethics Issues covered by the media... Number Ten ' Iraq Oversight ... Fla. 18,000 votes gone missing ' Democracy at Risk In Florida's 13th Congressional District Vern Buchanan, the Republican candidate ...
steiner - 2015-05-15 13:23 - 0 comments
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How Candidates Should Deal Responsibly with Conflicts
... Law Blog raises an interesting issue about the situation of a local government candidate who has an interest in a contract with the ... Last year, I wrote about a situation involving a Florida gubernatorial candidate whose company was likely to be investigated ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Occasion for Compassion and Respect
... this week from Largo (not Key Largo, but a West Coast town), Florida has a little bit of everything in it. I don't think any ethics code would deal with what ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Can a Postage Stamp Be a Bribe?
... talk about gifts to politicians, we often talk about gifts of nominal value being okay. Buy a politician a coffee, what’s wrong with ... article in yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel , Republican Florida legislative candidate Sean Campbell (there's a special election) sent ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Fine Art of Fining
... have been two newspaper articles featuring opposite ends of the fine spectrum. Few Fines in California An L.A. Times ... commissions in the state, as there increasingly are in Florida, as well). Although the number of findings of a violation doubled ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Crowdfunding a Local Government Ethics Program
Body: Crowdfunding is a 21st-century way of funding projects that are not being funded by the government, the stock ... Diego, in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties in Florida, and in Rhode Island). Voters supported these referendums, often by ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Tallahassee, FL Passes Ethics Reform Referendum
... citizen groups from right to left. I worked on the drafting of the referendum language. Here is today's press release from Represent.US: On Nov. 4th, 2014, voters in Tallahassee, Florida, made history by approving the first city Anti-Corruption Act in the ...
cmiller - 2015-04-27 10:14 - 0 comments
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Thumbs Up and Down Today
Body: Thumbs up for the Virginia House of Delegates General Laws Committee. According to an editorial in today's ... having a conflict of interest, counsel suggested asking the Florida Ethics Commission. The tourist authority chair responded by saying he ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Local Ethics Reform in Massachusetts
Body: Because Massachusetts has one of the better state ethics programs with jurisdiction over local officials, ... very few local ethics programs, unlike the situation in Florida, California, or Texas, for example. But there have been some ... our internal policies and procedures." The four EC members include Boston's corporation counsel, a lawyer specializing in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Will New Jersey Improve Its Local Government Ethics Program?
... several states, including Massachusetts, California, and Florida, a state ethics program has jurisdiction over local officials. But ... a good state ethics program. State Integrity's recent report card on all 50 states put New Jersey No. 1. If the state ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
