Let's get right to it: Now who do you think this might be fair warning for elected and salaried officials here for what's called frequently called "The Mesa Way" ???????
Read this first:
Legislators in Many States Can Push Bills They’d Profit From
The laws vary by state. In some, lawmakers are told to recuse themselves from votes that could create even the “appearance of impropriety.” In others, overlapping interests are seen as “almost inevitable.”
"It’s a fundamental part of representative government in democracies: Politicians are elected to advocate for their constituents, and not their own interests.
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Or in another example of politics overlapping with "friends-and-family" and undisclosed connections, here is the current District 4 Councilmember Chris Glover endorsing his own second cousin, Jake Brown, saying,
"I am passionate about Mesa's future. In keeping with that spirit I am proud to endorse
Jake Brown for District 4.
Jake is the right person to serve the people of Mesa . . ."
It's common knowledge, and not new information to anyone, that Jake Brown "is involved in real estate", holding a job as prosecutor with the Office of the Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery.
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Some people say that all's fair in love, war, and politics but there are rules.
Here's an example in the report from South Carolina:
"State Rep. Jim Merrill was earning money through his public relations company but did not have to disclose who was paying him. In December 2016, a grand jury investigation into corruption in the statehouse indicted Merrill on 30 charges of ethics violations.
Merrill was accused of using his company to accept more than $1 million from groups with interests in state legislation. In 2017, he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as they continued their investigation, pleading guilty to one charge of misconduct in office. By May 2017, four South Carolina lawmakers had been indicted as part of the probe.
But in many states, laws and ethics rules allow representatives to advance bills that would benefit their own financial interests, as well . . "
Here in Mesa, except for the mayor who is paid a full-time salary of approximately $75,000 (plus a generous benefit package), all the other six elected members on the Mesa Council earn a part-time salary about half of that.
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One lawmaker supported a bill that would help his brother, who owns truck stop casinos. Another, a lawyer who represents physicians, sponsored a bill that helps doctors under investigation by the state medical board.
Legislators own everything from gas stations to nursing homes, yet they rarely recuse themselves on bills that directly affect them.
One state senator earned $836,000 in legal fees representing a sheriff. The amount he disclosed: $13,328. “The notion that you could get public money and not report it in our flim-flammery of an ethics system is ridiculous,” an ethics expert says.