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Posted: 5:15 PM Jan 9, 2009
Beshear Expands Ethics Disclosure Rules for Aides
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is expanding the ethics disclosure rules for his top aides, a move he says will bring more openness to state government.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is expanding the ethics disclosure rules for his top aides, a move he says will bring more openness to state government.
Beshear, a Democrat, says his general counsel will begin scrutinizing all financial disclosure forms that top government officials must file each year. Beshear also says officials must now list all people who have ownership stakes in their outside business ventures.
The changes come after a personal business relationship was disclosed earlier this week between Adam Edelen, Beshear's chief of staff, and a Frankfort lobbyist. Edelen was business partners in Chartwell Land Co. with lobbyist Bob Babbage and Beshear appointee Ralph Coldiron.
Edelen and Babbage say they have dissolved the company. Now, Edelen says he's also asking an Executive Branch Ethics Commission for guidance on how to divest his interest in a Lexington office condo he owns with Babbage.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Posted by: lee
on Jan 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM
beshear ia a greedy, ruthless poor excuse for a governor who wants nothing but whats in our pockets.
Posted by: ky
on Jan 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM
i dont see how politicians can make policies on ethics,seeing so few know what ethics,honesty,integrity are!we can tell by the way working and productive people are taxed!!!
Posted by: james
on Jan 11, 2009 at 07:59 AM
I think if he really wanted to do some good, he would down size the government or drop thier pay to minimum wadge. No one in political office any where at this time deserve a raise of any kind, and with the state of our economy they should get a pay cut. why should taxe payers keep footing the bill for everything?
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