“I don’t like it. It’s not right,” World War II veteran Vern Otterson said. “We were fighting against the Nazis. They were horrible. Why should anyone be running around selling Nazi stuff?”
The central concern voiced by Dina Butcher and Ellen Chaffee, president and vice president of North Dakotans for Public Integrity, is that campaign donations would not be considered a "significant financial interest" that could affect an official's judgment under the Ethics Commission's proposed rules.
We're lucky that the current commissioners have acted with principle, diligence, and restraint, but we shouldn't have to rely on their forbearance in the face of caterwauling from the "grandmas" who want the commission to be their tool in sensationalist gotcha campaigns.
We're lucky that the current commissioners have acted with principle, diligence, and restraint, but we shouldn't have to rely on their forbearance in the face of caterwauling from the "grandmas" who want the commission to be their tool in sensationalist gotcha campaigns.
We're lucky that the current commissioners have acted with principle, diligence, and restraint, but we shouldn't have to rely on their forbearance in the face of caterwauling from the "grandmas" who want the commission to be their tool in sensationalist gotcha campaigns.