Imagine that you're a county supervisor with a $92,000 salary and,
despite the salary, you're allowed to hold an outside job (because
the county supervisors before you gave you, and themselves, this opportunity). With a
sizeable salary, there would appear to be no reason to work in any
field that would create an appearance of impropriety.<br>
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Here are three instances of ethics reform that, I hope,
would not happen if someone involved had read the chapter on ethics reform in my
<a href="http://www.cityethics.org/ethics%20book&quot; target="”_blank”">Local Government Ethics Program book</a>.<br>
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<br><br>The book I've been working on for what seems like ages is finally
available! With the exciting title <a href="http://www.cityethics.org/ethics%20book&quot; target="”_blank”"><b>Local Government Ethics Programs</b></a>,
this is the first comprehensive resource book on the subject. The
subtitle subtly hints at the audience for this book:  <b>A
Resource for Ethics Commission Members, Ethics Reformers,

<br><h1 class="auto-style1">Local Government Ethics Programs 2.0:</h1>
<h2>A Resource for Ethics Commission Members, Local Officials,<br>
Attorneys, Journalists, and Students,<br>
And a Manual for Ethics Reform</h2>
<h4>by <strong>Robert Wechsler</strong>, Director of Research-Retired
at City Ethics</h4></p>
<h2>The second edition of this comprehensive book about local<br>government ethics programs. <b>And it's free!</b></h2>

<a href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/mayor/Press%20Room/…; target="”_blank”">The

A few issues arise in the case of a Pennsylvania state senator who
reached a settlement this week with the state's ethics commission
that included a fine of $21,000, according to <a href="http://www.timesherald.com/article/20120426/NEWS03/120429615/-1/news&qu…; target="”_blank”">an
article in yesterday's Montgomery County <i>Times Herald</i></a>.<br>
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Well worth reading, as a encapsulated version of what is essential

Although in 2008, Orange County, Florida's Ethics and Campaign
Finance Reform Task Force recommended (report attached; see below)
that the county have an ethics board selected by a variety of
community organizations, following the model of Miami/Dade County,
and Section 2-457 of the <a href="http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=10182&quot; target="”_blank”">county
ordinances</a> did provide for (with liberal use of the magic word

University of Maryland Law School professor Deborah Hellman recently
put the draft of her law review article, "<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021188&quot; target="”_blank”">Defining
Corruption and Constitutionalizing Democracy</a>" (forth. Mich. L.
Rev (Vol. 111)), on SSRN. The core argument of her paper is that
defining legislative corruption requires a theory of the