DeWeese proposes "ethics training"
Philadelphia Inquirer on how Bill DeWeese plans to "clean up" Harrisburg in the wake of the Attorney General's investigation of his office in the Bonus-Gate scandal (among other things):
The new rules for House Democratic staffers - from a stricter code of conduct to mandatory ethics training - come from recommendations by a "risk management" consultant hired in March amid public criticism that the caucus awarded $1.9 million in bonuses last year to 678 caucus workers.Here is some FREE ethics advice: Don't spend taxpayer money on consultants to clean up your image.
DeWeese (D., Greene) brought in Chadwick Associates, a Washington-based consulting firm, before State Attorney General Tom Corbett launched a grand jury probe to examine whether government bonuses were handed out to legislative aides from both parties last year as a reward for off-the-books campaign work.
Through the end of August, DeWeese has paid the consulting firm $180,000 from a state discretionary account he controls.
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In most cases hiring consultants is nothing more then leveraging the ability to shift the blame to some third party. The claim of some lawmakers is "we pay our legislators what we do because they could take their talent elsewhere and where would we be without them". Somehow ethics was not covered in this statement. In the corporate world they would find the lack of ethics in most cases would become time at the penitentiary rather then in Harrisburg.
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