Jim Scarantino is writing a very detailed analysis of the proposed legislation that would create an ethics commission.
As a huge fan of an ethics commission, I find his analysis disheartening. He points to a number of flies in the ointment. link.
The terms of public service are the prerogative of the public. Fundamental among those terms; public servants are accountable to the public, and to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, at least for the eight measly hours a day that we have to "trust" them with the control over our power and our resources.
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