Time for ethics overhaul.(Editorials)(Rules are needed on gifts and junkets)(Editorial)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | December 23, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: The Register Guard

Oregon relies mainly upon disclosure to ensure that public officials don't abuse their offices for private gain. Seven state legislators who went to Hawaii courtesy of the Oregon Beer & Wine Distributors Association, for instance, got in trouble recently for failing to report the gifts, not for having accepted the $2,000 trips. It's time Oregonians gave their ethics rules, and the systems for tracking and enforcing them, a good shake-up.

A number of key officials agree. In 2003, Gov. Ted Kulongoski asked the Oregon Law Commission - a bipartisan ...

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