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The Legislative Ethics Commission costs taxpayers $500,000 a year and has dismissed 20 of 21 complaints in the last decade. In current budget crisis this is a good place to start cutting.

By Stan

By LawReader  Senior Editor Stan Billingsley        March 7, 2011   The existing Legislative Ethics Commission (LEC) costs taxpayers $238,095 per complaint.  An average of two ethics complaints a year have been filed against legislators since 2000.  Over the last decade the one complaint upheld resulted in a $500 fine.  Since all other complaints were dismissed [...]

Full post as published by LawReader on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).