I agree with the newspaper editorial series “Access to Power” that the General Assembly should adopt the following reforms:
♦ Legislators may not accept any gift worth more than $50 in value from registered lobbyists.
♦ Lobbyists must disclose the value of all goods and services offered to individual legislators or groups of lawmakers, including meals, tickets to sporting and entertainment events, or other gifts.
♦ Legislators may not accept gifts, including payment of travel-related expenses, from businesses, organizations or individuals that do business with the state.
♦ Legislators may not accept meals, tickets to athletic games or other events, or any other gift valued at more than $50 from state universities or colleges.
♦ Former legislators may not work as registered lobbyists until one year after they leave office.
♦ When a lawmaker votes for a law to be passed, they must publish via newspapers and other media of how much total money, including the cost of material gifts each lawmaker received from the lobbyist involved with the law they are voting yes on.
Gary W. Brower Sr.
Anderson
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Letter: Legislature should adopt reforms
Legislators should not accept any gift worth more than $50
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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