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According to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/washington/23justice.html&quot; target="”_blank”">an
article</a> in today's New York <span>Times</span>,
a spokesperson for Christopher Christie, the U.S. Attorney for New
Jersey, spoke in defense of an agreement made with Bristol-Myers Squibb to avoid
its prosecution, which agreement called for the company to endow a

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Last year, soon after I contracted to act as Administrator to the New Haven Democracy Fund, a new public campaign financing program, the Executive Director of Connecticut Common Cause called me (I sat on the board of CT Common Cause). He said that he had been asked to write a report about the Fund for the national office. My response was that I had to write a report to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, so why should he bother to write another? My report could serve both needs. He wanted me to resign from the board, and I thought that was silly. There was no conflict.

Congressmen and -women sometimes act as if they didn't know the first thing about government ethics. Even when their actions are more in the public eye than usual, many of them unnecessarily, and selfishly, do the wrong thing.

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/opinion/07blumenthal.html?_r=1&scp=1&…; target="”_blank”">An op-ed piece</a> by Pollster.com editor Mark Blumenthal, in yesterday’s New York <i>Times</I>, brought up an interesting point about the transparency of political polls. I would like to take his piece a step further.

Good, open government does more than give people reason to trust those who spend their tax dollars. It even gives people a better environment.

See: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-AP-aus-kyoto.htm…;
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the instrument of ratification in his first act after being sworn in this morning.<br>The ratification will come into force in 90 days.</p>

Found this site today:
<br>http://www.governmentdocs.org/ <br>
Their Description: <i>www.governmentdocs.org was created to advance the values of open and accountable government. This site gives the public an unprecedented level of access to government documents by allowing users to browse, search, and review hundreds of thousands of pages acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public disclosure, or “sunshine,” laws.</i>"

From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant"><b>Wikipedia</b…;.

In an article published in the <a href="http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48372">Jacksonville Daily Record</a> on Thursday, Carla Miller revealed her plans as the City's new Ethics Officer: <br><i>'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 the control systems.