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NCPE Town Hall Meeting Join us on June 28, 2008 for the Third NCPE Town Hall Meeting. NCPE in the News: 2008 "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 at NV Legislature February 26, 2007 TO: Senator and Chair Barbara Cegavske and Committee Members, Dear Senator Cegavske; Concerning SJR 1, we speak in support and shall come to the hearing if the Sawyer Bldg. videoconferencing is available. Our Comment: We support SJR 1 in order to bring the petition and initiative processes into agreement with the freedom of speech ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court. We also note that abuses of these processes have been occurring, and that SJR 1 – understandably – is not designed to address any of those abuses. We shall look for anti-fraud legislation to give the Secretary of State the tools and the enforcement authority – perhaps in partnership with the Attorney General – to punish fraudulent signatures, wordings, or other deceptions which competent Nevada oversight would reveal to be abuses of these processes. They need to be open and accountable processes, in which the initiative process states a clear and unambiguous public purpose, and in which the allowed methods of signature gathering are clearly open and honest so that Nevadans voting ‘yes’ or ‘no’ shall not have been deceived by what was presented to them. Thank you for your consideration. FROM: Dr. Craig Walton, President, and Members, Nevada Center for Public Ethics
Go to other 2007 testimonies AB 80, to require Limited Liability Corporations (LLC’s) to report contributions. As to the relationship to NCPE's 11 proposals, AB 80, is close to NCPE's proposal on p. 1 of our doc. AB 109, - allows leftover campaign monies to go to a public-purpose Trust Fund. AB 143, - changes the NV. Commission on Ethics deadline for completing an inquiry from 45 days to 1 year, and also allows the complainee to be told what is happening to his or her complaint. SJR 1 - removes the requirement that affidavits be provided with ballot initiative petitions. SB 79 - brings our statutes into line with a court ruling that the affidavit requirement for ballot petitions is a violation of the First Amendment. SB 144, to require Limited Liability Corporations (LLC's) to report contributions. AB 142, to require ethics instruction and lobbyists to the Executive Dept. to register and report expenditures. AB 335 - dealing with campaign disclosure SB 425 - to new detail on political contributions, and to include legal defense funds in that category. AB 312, dealing with campaign disclosure AB 605 requires ethics training for new public officers and also for lobbyists, forbids the use of one’s office staff or equipment for campaign purposes, and doubles the three levels of penalties for violating ethics laws. SB 495 provides a one-year cooling off period for persons leaving the Public Utilities Commission, the Gaming Control Board, or “former public officers or employees”. SB 494 - dealing with primary, general, and municipal elections, SB 494 changes the filing deadline for campaign contribution reports.
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