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NCPE in the News: 2008-2010 Political Fundraising: Hosrford returning contributions after criticism of fundraising letter (Las Vegas Review Journal) Senator Steven Horsford's fundraising letter. Assemblyman Morse Arberry Steps Down to Pursue Lobbyist Career (Las Vegas Sun) I-Team: Lawmaker Arbery Resigns, Wants Lobbyist Job (KLAS) Auto Body Shop Bill's Backer Denies Conflict (Las Vegas Sun) With Ethics Commission Challenged, Lawmakers Move to Police themselves (Sun) Chancellor Rogers Enlists Campus Help in Budget Plea (Sun) Click here to view the Saturday, January 10th, 2009, Town Hall Meeting. "Taxpayers Give Money: LVCVA Gers Award" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Casa Rosa's Days Numbered" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Court Hopeful Says Consultant Pitched Deal" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Given $50,000 He Decides to Run" (Las Vegas Sun) Acting President Julie Tousa on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face: Ethics Complaint" Meet the Acting President of NCPE, Julie Tousa "New Watchdog of Public Ethics Continues Enforcing Vital Unwritten Law" (Las Vegas Review Journal) "Partying Away As Taxpayers Pay and Pay" (Las Vegas Sun) Ethics Legislation 2007 NCPE at the 2007 Nevada State Legislature: Summary and Details "Article 6 Commission" to study and recommend improvements in the Nevada judiciary NCPE statement about the danger of big donors contributing to Supreme Court justice election campaigns. Judicial Ethics & the Complaint Processes Craig Walton's letter, to the Las Vegas Business Journal in favor of the new plan for judicial selection
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NCPE 2007 Ethics Legislation Proposals 3. NRS 281.501: Failure of consistency in the language about seeking gifts:: Rationale: NRS 281.481 says, AA public officer shall not seek or accept....@ [emphasis added], but then at 281.501, this time discussing conflicts of interest, it now says, at section 2, (a), Ahis acceptance of a gift....@. First, neither seek nor accept; then, only acceptance is a problem. This inconsistency was probably due to an oversight. Or it might have been due to an effort to allow the seeking of gifts when conflicts of interest are being defined, only punish the accepting. But in either case, the time is ripe to strengthen 281.481 by keeping the language prohibiting the seeking or accepting of gifts at .481, AND to follow this consistently so that under .501, seeking is covered, along with accepting. BDR: Edit so as to retain the meaning of .481 and build on it in .501, by keeping the wording of .481 but then revising .501 to read, at section 2 (a), A...his seeking or acceptance of a gift.....
Continue reading 2007 proposals NRS 218.900-944: NRS 281.561
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