Croft was impressed, and he asked her to join him in another ethics fight -this time, a conflict of interest complaint against the state's Republican attorney general.
Abramoff is also a close friend of Tom DeLay's, and Democrats are now alleging Abramoff's lobbying firm worked with another key Republican: Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings.
After two investigative reports on May 15, Donovan's and another by the state ethics board, Democrats focused their public criticism on Vito Lopez, the assemblyman accused of harassment.
But picking Hastings would send another interesting message regarding ethics, given the fact that when he was a federal judge in the late 1980s, Hastings was impeached and removed from office (by a Democratic Congress) over a bribery charge.
He recalls how Palin quit over the ethics violations of another commissioner, a man who also happened to be the chair of the state Republican Party.
Laying out an agenda for changing ethics laws following another Albany corruption scandal, Republican mayoral contender Joseph Lhota on Sunday took aim at the Democratic front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
The goals of maximizing profit and fulfilling a moral agenda conflict more often than they complement one another, and investors who want to put ethics first have turned out to be relatively few.
George McDonald, another candidate for mayor, also outlined a series of ethics proposals Sunday.
In another case, and one that proves Republicans have no monopoly on ethics problems, a former top aide to Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) has pleaded guilty to charges and is cooperating with prosecutors.
Thus, apart from the direct ethics of suffering, justice and equality, there is another reason to support all reasonable means of poverty reduction: this is the only way to secure the ability of ordinary people to participate in debates about culture within their own communities.
Every year, another Republican quality was tainted: managerial competence, fiscal discipline and personal ethics.
Another undesirable legacy of the Berlusconi government is a devaluation of civic and public ethics.
What we do know is that Goldman must have really, really cared about the ethics of political journalism to pursue it, considering he already had another major.
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Two investigations came to differing conclusions about her actions: One found she violated state ethics law by using state employees to put pressure on her former in-law, another found she had stayed within the law and little evidence she knew of the actions of her subordinates.
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