“They're screwing us, Alabama. And telling us to like it.” - John Archibald

The Alabama Ethics Commission has become the facilitator for corruption in the state, they now want to expand on their role. They want to change existing Ethics laws which would allow things, illegal today, to become legal, all because of the Mike Hubbard conviction.

These changes send us backwards and turn a blind eye to elected officials using their elected office for personal gain. What is sad is who the sponsors of these changes are.

Please read the article linked and the links in the article. The Ethics Commission has held no one in Baldwin County accountable, despite the fact that dozens of complaints have been filed through the years. If the changes suggested to the Ethics law are approved then filing a legitimate complaint will be moot.

Fighting corruption in Alabama is painful; just ask this guy

Fighting corruption in Alabama is painful; just ask this guy

It’s about to get worse.

Source: www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/03/fighting_corruption_in_alabama.html

HB317: The ethics bill that just won’t die

HB317: The ethics bill that just won’t die

It’s the bad ethics bill that just won’t die. For most of the 2018 Legislative session, HB317 — a bill that would implant a broad exception into Alabama’s ethics laws to allow fulltime and part-time economic development professionals to not register as lobbyists — has been pushed down the throats of wary lawmakers. And it’s […]

Source: www.alreporter.com/2018/03/21/hb317-the-ethics-bill-that-just-wont-die/