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1. Why Local Party Leaders Should Be Part of a Local Ethics Program

   ... develop affordable housing in Brooklyn, Lopez secured vacant sites for the RBSCC, making it almost impossible for anyone else to ... Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City (U. of Chicago, 2007). The Harmfulness of a World of Mutual Favors There is ...

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

2. Very Problematic Fort Worth Ethics Reform Proposals

   ... get a zoning permit. The city attorney says he can. Someone files a complaint, and the official has the defense that he followed the city ... that is, the council. They are hardly going to take her to task for giving them advice that is personally helpful. Five, Fort Worth ...

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

3. A Very Short Rant on Financial Disclosure and Ethics Self-Regulation

   ... a businessperson or professional who knows how to keep files and how to work with an accountant. If they can't even be honest about ...

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

4. A Miscellany

   ... Lo and behold, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune this week , these reforms passed the Board's finance ... he wants to pay to play) can give the maximum amount ($2,500) to each of the accounts, at once. And that's not all. What ...

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

5. Council Ethics Committees

   ... the city's ethics program, perhaps after the ethics board files its annual report. It could hold an annual training session. It could award employees who ...

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

6. A Miscellany

   ... an argument why it can release a preliminary investigation report to the legislature. Not to the public, mind you, but the ... only prosecutors have a right to see an investigation report. But even this is too much for the governor, who is now arguing that the ... content rules for comments on council members' sites or blogs, and letting the public know that what they write is open ...

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

7. Blagojevich's Realtor Wife and Lobbyist Tipper

   Body:  I was in Chicago for the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws annual conference for a ... and the tales of selling a Senate seat and blackmailing the Chicago Tribune are old news now. But there are a couple of interesting ... support when he ran for governor. According to the Chicago Tribune : A Tribune investigation revealed she earned more ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

8. A Cook County Ethics Reform Proposal

   ... Body:  According to an article in yesterday's Chicago Daily Observer , Cook County commissioner Tony Peraica has ... as a lobbyist for any entity other than Cook County. (Sec. 2-573) No Cook County elected official or employee may sell property ...

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

9. An Ethics Board Chair Who Should Not Have Been on the Board Refuses to Discuss His Own Conflict

   ... of the newly elected assessor, Joseph Berrios, by WGN-TV, Chicago magazine and the Better Government Association (BGA), one of ... (IL) ethics board chair about? According to the WGN report, over the last two decades, the law firm in which the ethics board ...

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

10. The Effect of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Open Meetings Decision on Local Government Ethics

    ... unanimous. The one council member who opposed the contract files a complaint with the city's ethics commission, and the council president ...

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

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