Bob McDonnell’s Apalling Lack of Ethics
By Joel McDonald • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Related News & Events
I can understand that any executive-elect would seek out the best for administration appointments. That makes sense. You want to enlist the expertise of experienced, successful, people to help you govern. I think everyone can understand this logic.
However, what Governor-Elect Bob McDonnell is allowing with his nomination of Robert Sledd as Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade is apalling. Sledd, a former businessman who serves on three corporate boards, will be allowed to continue serving on those boards while on McDonnell’s cabinet.
This brazen disregard for ethics and ignorance of possible conflicts of interest is banned by the federal government and illegal in several states!
But Bob McDonnell doesn’t seem to care, and has decided on a blanket policy of allowing all his cabinet members to serve on corporate boards while serving in his administration.
Come on McDonnell, even members of the Bush administration had the decency of seperating themselves from their respective corporations.
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Joel McDonald has been following Virginia politics since February 2008, starting with the Democratic Presidential Primary. Since then, he has been the primary new media contact for progressive district and statewide campaigns.
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Of course, perhaps what McDonnell is doing is spitting in the face of those on the far Left who will attack on the merest appearance of impropriety, rather than any actual impropriety. Sadly, given the predilections of the so-called “mainstream” media, he will probably not succeed in raising the standard.