Got some of the clarification this afternoon I couldn't get up against deadline Thursday night when it comes to the city's new Ethics Board.
The bill Joe Grace speaks of in today's Metro story about the Ethics Board is 060629, which Mayor Street signed Nov. 16, the same day his board appointments were approved by Council. The bill gives the ethics board the broad authority to enforce the entire campaign finance law, rather than just the disclosure process.
That bill also established the definition of who's a candidate and added the so-called "millionaires' ammendment," which doubles the contribution limits anytime a self-financed candidate (read: Tom Knox) enters a race and starts throwing around his millions.
Also, the board wasn't created entirely by scratch, says interim executive director J. Shane Creamer Jr. The ethics advisory board was reestablished by Street in 2004 and, with Creamer in the director role, started the process of building some of the infrastructure now in place.
And, one correction, the board doesn't have the authority to review the finances of judges. 'Tis a state responsibility.
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