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My view: Bernick article light on research, heavy on innuendo
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If the legislature wants to appear clean then don't sponsor a bill related to your work field. Simple as that.
Used to be that the legislature worked in anonymity. Not any more. The good old boys are being watched and watched closely.
Time to clean up the act or get out.
Please folks, vote 'em both out of office at the earliest opportunity.
Sen. Greiner wants more criminal laws on the books to grow the budget and power of his police department.
Public choice economics explains that things other than personal compensation can act as political and bureaucratic incentives.
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Well, yes we are dealing with expertise here. Does that change that there is a conflict of interest?
I remember back in the good old days where legislators with conflicts like the Police chiefs would ask another legislator to run the bill for them. Legislators would swap bills around to simply put one more layer between themselves and an open conflict. Seems petty and small but it worked. Sometimes you are too close to the trees to see a forest. And another legislators just as dedicated to an issue may see it more clearly due to their lack of a conflict of interest.
That simple method is no longer done.
What Bernick should focus more on is the profiteering bills. True most bills like the Police Chiefs are not going to make someone rich. What about the legislators that push bills on charter schools, then turn around and reap larger lease or rent checks. I heard a story of one charter school that saw a legislator who sponsored a bill increasing funding to charter schools, turn around and increase the lease on that charter school to a penny the legislative increase.
Any problems there?