What principles should guide our elected officials?
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Legislative leaders created a $14 million slush fund so they can dole out monies for special pet projects, the state auditor is moonlighting, and a legislative aide was paid by a gaming company to “monitor” the lottery bill. These questionable actions indicate that our elected officials need a ‘code of ethics’ to guide their actions. Let’s write one for them. What principles do you think should guide our elected officials?
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September 15th, 2005 at 10:53 am
Principles, schminciples: whatever oligarchs decide & can get away with.
It’s only money (taxpayers’ at that) & our state’s reputation
September 16th, 2005 at 10:09 am
When your on-line poll shows that 55% of respondants think it’s OK for the General Assembly leadership to operate a slush fund (as of 11:20 on the 16th) no wonder the left has no ideas for a code of ethics. It didn’t used to be like this–I remember when the left usually held the moral high ground. But at least since the Clinton years, “liberal ethics” has been a virtual oxymoron.
September 20th, 2005 at 9:12 am
transparency and accountability should be the guiding principles. Both seem to be in short supply these days in Raleigh’s bureaucratic hiearchies. After all, FEMA and the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board arent the only government agencies nationawide riddled with political hacks and incompetents.
Taxpayers/citizens should look a little closer to home to see what the seer Lawrence J. Peter described in the “The Peter Principle” and “The Peter Pyramid” and why we all are the victims of astoundingly large-scale incompetence.