Little hope for true ethics reform despite recent bribery claims
Posted By JM Bell on October 9, 2008
SURPRISE! Well, never mind.
From John Daley @ KSL:
The allegation that one Utah state legislator “propositioned” another with $50,000 in campaign money to switch positions on school vouchers has sparked the strongest push for ethics reform in Utah in years. But ethics proposals in recent decades have typically gone nowhere.
The former Republican lawmaker whose letter sparked this week’s ethics hearings says she hopes change is coming. “I think the way this has panned out and the publicity that it’s had, I think it will be very difficult for legislators to sweep this kind of legislation under the rug,” Susan Lawrence said.
Ethics measures typically go nowhere. Leadership keeps them bottled up in committee; often there’s never a vote.
That’s what happened to Democrat Roz McGee’s proposal to create an independent ethics commission. “[It] didn’t go anywhere! And I’ll tell you, if we had the provisions of that bill in place, we would not be in the tit-for-tat mess we’re in now,” McGee said.
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Can I steal that “RepublICan” image?
Love the image… Do I get a t-shirt now?