August 1, 2012 ETHICS WINS BIG – 82% VOTE ‘YES’ Lobbyist Gift Limits and Pledge Supporting Candidates pull off huge victories Atlanta, GA – August 1, 2012 – With the dust still settling early this morning, it seems primary voters overwhelmingly support an end to unlimited lobbyist gift giving to legislators and a handful of …
Read More →By JOSH MCKOON — Special to the Ledger-Enquirer So why is Question Two for ethics reform important? The answer may be boiled down into four words: integrity matters; trust matters. Regardless of your political ideology, you likely agree that at every level government is broken. It is more difficult than ever for elected officials to …
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Read More →By Aaron Gould Sheinin and Kristina Torres Several dozen candidates and elected officials who have signed a pledge to limit lobbyist gifts to lawmakers have either filed required ethics reports late or have outstanding fines for doing so. But several of those accused of being hypocrites in the list released this week by House Ethics …
Read More →By: Rachel Brown rachelbrown@daltoncitizen.com The Dalton Daily Citizen Why do Georgia’s lawmakers need to accept expensive gifts from lobbyists while the Legislature is in session? League of Women Voters Dalton President Helen Crawford thinks the obvious answer is that they don’t, and she joined with about a dozen people who stopped in Dalton on Tuesday to …
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