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Resignation Due to a Conflict of Interest
... to an article in the MetroWest Daily News , the Massachusetts state ethics commission advised that a recently appointed ... the contract and the position. Therefore, I think the Massachusetts position, as stated in the article, is questionable. But then ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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How to Handle Misrepresentations of Ethics Advice
... he likes. This situation was answered skillfully by the Massachusetts Ethics Commission this morning. According to an article today ... cases, the matter would have stopped there. But the Massachusetts EC instead drafted a press release (attached; see below) "to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Personal Fundraising by Elected Officials
Body: Here's a more interesting story out of Massachusetts, this one from the state Senate. Former state senator Dianne ... Columbus Center project in Boston that would span the Massachusetts Turnpike, according to two people who were told about ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment
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The Virtuous Circle of Ethics Laws and Legislative Immunity -- And the Legislators Who Stand Outside of It
... record dealing with their members' misconduct. The U.S. Congress is only the best-known example. Self-regulation of ethics not ... of facts, what has really been going on in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Nevada is that legislators there do not want to be seen as ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The People's Pledge in Mayoral Races
... Warren and Scott Brown signed a People's Pledge in their U.S. senatorial race in Massachusetts. The candidates agreed to donate to a charity of the other ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Mother Helping Her Son, and Government "Ethics"
... the Eagle Tribune last week , a hearing was held by the Massachusetts ethics commission regarding a complaint against a member of the ... much government ethics training local police officers get in Massachusetts, or anywhere. One also wonders about the town government's ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Double-Dipping: Two Ways It Works ... and Hurts the Public
... will be higher. Here's a March 15, 2007 press release from Massachusetts, which speaks for itself. The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission's Enforcement Division issued an Order to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Legislative Immunity in Rhode Island -- A New Court Decision
... Island "Speech in Debate Clause" is very similar to the U.S. Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause: "For any speech in debate ... This situation is very different from what is happening in Massachusetts, as discussed in my last two blog entries. There, the speaker of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Conflicts Involving Reputation and Government Positions
... an earlier blog post , where I showed the limitations of a Massachusetts ethics provision, which applies to local officials. The San ... deals expressly with this issue, as in San Francisco and Massachusetts. Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Launching of a Collaborative Government Ethics Website
... City, California, Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, and Iowa. The group is informal, but confers ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
