A few months ago I attended the first meeting of of the Vermont Ethics Commission and blogged about it here (incidentally if you know how to locate the Commission’s website, please drop me a line, I haven’t been able to find it). During the course of that meeting I engaged in an exchange with the
The last post had to do with conflicts of interest. This is a follow-up to that but a little but more subtle. There are really three different types of conflicts of interest. Legal conflicts that are clearly defined by ordinance, policy, rule, statute or otherwise. Ethical conflicts, for which there may be no law against,
Last week VT Digger had an interesting story about former Attorney General William Sorrell’s “420” license plate. The story was more or less a puff piece based on the double entendre of the plate number itself. (If you don’t know what 420 means in popular culture you can read up on it here). More