{"id":454,"date":"2008-12-07T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2008-12-07T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:34:43","slug":"ethics-problem-what-ethics-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/ethics-problem-what-ethics-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics Problem?  What Ethics Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State House continues to underestimate the depth of its ethical quagmire.\u00c2\u00a0 A few of the current problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2008\/07\/sen_marzilli_in.html\">Two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2008\/11\/wilkerson_forma.html\">Sentators<\/a> indicted this year<\/li>\n<li>House Speaker DiMasi who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2008\/11\/08\/dimasi_case_casts_pall_over_state_representatives\/\">won&#8217;t turn over documents<\/a> to the Ethics Commission<\/li>\n<li>Waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/News\/70932-FBI-nabs-Wilkerson\/\">one or more State Representatives<\/a> to be indicted in the Dejavu affair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week the state held an orientation for the newly-elected state reps and senators.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1136356\">Ethical content: one hour<\/a>, with zero reference to the current ethical controversies.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one interpretation: they don&#8217;t think there is an ethical problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State House continues to underestimate the depth of its ethical quagmire.\u00c2\u00a0 A few of the current problems: Two Sentators indicted this year House Speaker DiMasi who won&#8217;t turn over documents to the Ethics Commission Waiting for one or more State Representatives to be indicted in the Dejavu affair Last week the state held an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}