Ethics, California Style
Will the Golden State provide a lesson in ethics to the Empire State?
Via the L.A. Times, we see there is a new proposal in California to
disallow the use of candidate campaign funds to provide salaries to
spouses and other relatives. Key graf from the article:
More than a dozen state lawmakers, including top legislative leaders,
have paid $1.12 million in campaign cash -- raised from special
interests -- to spouses, sons, daughters and companies that employed
them during the last seven years, records show.
Thank goodness we don't have these kinds of problems in New York.
Labels: general, government ethics
posted by Larry Norden at 12:53 PM 0 comments
Eradicating Barriers to Voting for Young People
Yesterday, the New York Times published an article on lowering the
voting age. Lawmakers in various state and local jurisdictions,
including New York City, have proposed allowing 16-year-olds to vote
in certain elections. Proponents of lowering the voting age assert
that it would create voters for life and improve turnout rates among
the youngest voters.
While the Brennan Center does not take a position on the issue of
voting age, more attention should be paid to our youngest voters, aged
18 to 24. Young voters are often highly mobile, and as a result,
experience legal or administrative barriers to the ballot box. Learn
more about the Brennan Center's work to eradicate these barriers to
student voting here.
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