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Troubling conflicts of interest
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Every legislator has a conflict of interest. Not every legislator lies about it. Tilton has flat out lied about it, then when he is finally ready to admit it he comes up with some key stone cop ridiculous excuse that is as bad as Al Gore's "no legal controlling authority" crud.
Tilton is flat out wrong and has completely abused his trust. Every legislator has a conflict, very few lie about it and go out of their way to benefit from it.
And speaking of teachers likely the best example of handling a conflict of interest is former Rep Dave Cox, a teacher. He refused to sit on either the Ed standing or Ed appropriations committee so that he would not be involved in drafting either legislation or budgets that would directly benefit him. He did run legislation on education though was perfectly clear about how it would impact him. And he was the one who ran the bill that has allowed people to split Jordan.
Tilton needs to resign!
I'm looking forward to the hardball editorial that makes more specific suggestions, that demands some ethical leadership from leadership.
Your editorial could have suggested that leadership immediately remove those guys from committees on which they have a conflict.
Leadership has a responsibility in this----and it is facilitating the conflict----probably deliberately.
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We should replace them with public school teachers who have absolutely no conflicts of interest.