NCPE Town Hall Meeting

Join us on June 28, 2008 for the Third NCPE Town Hall Meeting.

NCPE in the News: 2008

"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
See Dr. Craig Walton's summary of May Meeting

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

Candidate Pledge

Email NCPE Treasurer

Town Hall Meeting

Letter to the Editor of the Review-Journal in Response to August 20, 2006 article

Subject: Town Hall on 'Who Gets Represented?'
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:53 -0700
From: Craig Walton <cwalton@unlv.nevada.edu>
Organization: Nevada Center for Public Ethics
To: letters@reviewjournal.com

Dear RJ,

Lawrence Mower's story (RJ, Aug. 20, 2006) touched on most of the vital
aspects of NCPE's first Town Hall meeting. Four legislators answered
questions from Mitch Fox of Channel 10, and from the citizens who came;
the meeting was spsirited and went on for about 100 minutes.

One problem is that the lead on his story ("Lawmakers say Lobbyists are
important to political process") might lead a reader to the view that
the lawmakers simply defended lobbyists. In fact they much about the
citizens in their districts, and three things about lobbyists: [1]
they are an important source of information; [2] most issues have
lobbyists on two or more sides of the issue, so usually there is no one
side backed by all lobbyists; and [3] that they do not vote for the
loudest olr richest lobbyist but for the best draft of a bill they can
produce.

This does not mean that all Nevada legislators treat all lobbyists with
a healthy dose of scepticism. For our view on lobbyists and civics,
please see our paper under 'news & reports' at www.nevada-ethics.org.
But it is fair to say that the four who came to our Town Hall made these
three points.

Respectfully,

Craig Walton