City Council on Monday is set to decide whether the mayor’s removal of chair John Guio from the Plan Commission for an ethics violation is proper. You’ll have to excuse me for not believing the party line here. IMO this was a move based on politics, not ethics. Consider: — Another Plan Commission member, Vince…
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Ethics & the Plan Commission
DeKalb’s Plan Commission has a Code of Ethics (PDF pp. 1-2). It’s flawed, but there you go. My emphasis added. d) Code of Ethics. Plan Commission members shall abide by a code of ethics as follows: (03-18) 1. Members shall exercise impartial and independent judgment in their roles as advisors to the City Council. 2.…
A Discussion of Ethics
Lately I’ve been pondering questions of conflicts of interest in political life and recently declared (elsewhere) that since a certain act of omission by a certain politician made me trust him less, I knew he had made the wrong decision. I was mocked for it, I suppose because it sounds simplistic. Short rebuttal: It is…