We need it, but it wouldn’t have done any good?
Senator Gene Abdallah is on Keloland.com today making note that we need a code of ethics. Because it wouldn’t have done a darn thing?
Republican Senator Gene Abdallah of Sioux Falls says, “We have to have a code of ethics like everybody else has a code of ethics, every other department or agency or business.”Senator Gene Abdallah is a member of the executive board. Monday the group is meeting to discuss the page program and other lawmaking issues. But just weeks after a former lawmaker was arrested, two legislative leaders have sent a letter to the board asking them to also appoint a committee to study a code of ethics.
Abdallah says, “But there’s bi-partisan support for a code of ethics and we’ll certainly look into it along with the entire page program.”
And while Abdallah believes lawmakers need a code of ethics, he doesn’t think a code would have stopped the allegations facing former House member Ted Klaudt.
Abdallah says, “What good would the code of ethics have done there. I mean a person doing those kinds of things knows they are going to go to the penitentary. They are certainly not going to be spooked off by a code of ethics, but we still I think need one.”
Read it all here at KELOland.com. Um.. Er…
Someone tell me when this all starts making sense.
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