Ethics schmethics
The honorables are spending a good part of the slow start-up period getting up to speed on new ethics laws. Of course, after listening to a couple hours of this Tuesday, I'm pretty sure that speed doesn't involve anything over of second gear.
The honorables still have a lot of questions, some of them silly, some of them not. A few examples:
- Rep. Earl Jones had a question related to the ACC, the answer to which elucidates one of the points of the new law that is at once simple and complex.
- Rep. Maggie Jeffus asks about giving gifts to legislative staffers. Personal money is okay, campaign money is not. And then it gets weird. Rep. Pricey Harrison asks about nonprofits on the same clip.
- And again, Jones had a question about frivolous ethics complaints.
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