December 29, 2008
Which Side Their Bacon's Buttered On
Justin Katz
I've been meaning to make sure y'all are aware of a newly available resource for transparency in state government:
For the first time, the commission has posted online the latest financial disclosure statement filed by each of the state's general officers - the governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general - and every current state legislator.The filings can be found under the heading "financial disclosure'' on the Ethics Commission's web page: http://www.ethics.ri.gov/disclosure/
Our judiciary can declare legislators' votes to be sacrosanct, but if voters have the right information and someday manage to gather the will to deny lawmakers' political checkmate they can punish the appearance of impropriety.
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