Lawmakers Won't Reform Ethics, so Public Must

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Legislators' attempts at ethics reform remind me of a trick I used to try to play as a kid. On cold winter nights, I'd try to protect my big, wet, smelly, shaggy dog from having my father put him outside by hiding him under my bed covers. Seems legislators are trying to play similar tricks on the public, thinking we cannot see the obvious.

Legislators are now trying to play the same tricks on us with their talk about ethics reform to pacify the public. For years they have tried to quiet Utahns by making cosmetic changes to ethics reform. But it verges on hypocrisy when they keep calling for the rule of law and more regulations on public agencies, yet they are unable to abide by the basic principles of fairness and honesty taught at our parents' dinner table.

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Lawmakers Won't Reform Ethics, so Public Must

However, they recently got caught by their own moves when they unintentionally banned themselves from taking tickets to sporting and artistic events costing mo...

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