Since you have brought up financial disclosure, I've been curious if any of the Mayor and Council have quit their second jobs since getting the very substantial raise. It's been said for years that it should be treated as a full time job, are they doing that?
Thanks for looking at those stupid disclosure forms that don’t disclose much. When I was a Legislator, I was surprised how little was on that form. Don’t get me started on PDFs. There are far too many governmental websites that depend on PDFs. There should be more downloadable data in Excel. Several years ago, I downloaded and analyzed years of maternal and child health data. When I met with ADHS and showed them my findings, they asked where I got the data. They were surprised to learn I got the data in Excel from their website. I’ve tried to find the more recent years of the same data and can’t. Yes! More transparency in government. Did you ever look at the Legislators’ bios on azleg? Most Republicans don’t provide any personal information or background.
Conflicts of interest are rife in the AZLege. There needs to be a much more stringent conflict of interest recusal policy. I hope that Arizona Democrats will push hard for a much more substantive and enforceable ethics standard in this regard when we take the majority and can write the rules.
What an amazing amount of information you have organized and made available. Thank you for sustaining a focus on state representatives and senators. These people are making decisions and trying to implement policies that affect all of us. It is important that we know how these policies affect them, especially those for whom their work benefits from their legislative actions.
Since you have brought up financial disclosure, I've been curious if any of the Mayor and Council have quit their second jobs since getting the very substantial raise. It's been said for years that it should be treated as a full time job, are they doing that?
Thanks for looking at those stupid disclosure forms that don’t disclose much. When I was a Legislator, I was surprised how little was on that form. Don’t get me started on PDFs. There are far too many governmental websites that depend on PDFs. There should be more downloadable data in Excel. Several years ago, I downloaded and analyzed years of maternal and child health data. When I met with ADHS and showed them my findings, they asked where I got the data. They were surprised to learn I got the data in Excel from their website. I’ve tried to find the more recent years of the same data and can’t. Yes! More transparency in government. Did you ever look at the Legislators’ bios on azleg? Most Republicans don’t provide any personal information or background.
Conflicts of interest are rife in the AZLege. There needs to be a much more stringent conflict of interest recusal policy. I hope that Arizona Democrats will push hard for a much more substantive and enforceable ethics standard in this regard when we take the majority and can write the rules.
What an amazing amount of information you have organized and made available. Thank you for sustaining a focus on state representatives and senators. These people are making decisions and trying to implement policies that affect all of us. It is important that we know how these policies affect them, especially those for whom their work benefits from their legislative actions.