The Senate ‘Ethics’ Committee ended a second day of secret deliberations immediately about what’s believed to be a evaluate of alleged expense account dishonest. No bulletins had been made,

There is likely to be advance discover if the committee convenes in public. There may not. The general public is likely to be knowledgeable of the allegations and protection. It may not. Pope Kim Hammer, committee chair, is setting the principles as he goes they usually favor his buddies, not the general public.

There’s a pervasive perception that some legislators abuse per diem and journey reimbursements to make sufficient cash to keep away from working for a residing. Sunshine is the one treatment for this.

I’ve discovered immediately that complaints have been despatched to prosecutors concerning the allegation of expense account thievery and concerning the unlawful job Sen. Trent Garner took as a public defender. Each situations is likely to be tough to research and prosecute however a evaluate would at the very least present data, open beneath the FOI when a probe is accomplished, about circumstances the clubby Senate prefers to maintain secret.

What income a principled particular person to go together with the coddling senators give to sleazy colleagues that they’d by no means give a poor SOB dealing with a $5 sizzling verify cost and escalating courtroom prices.