Corporate ethics rules often say “avoid even the appearance of any impropriety.” Apparently local government doesn’t do this. They fight the ‘outside’ evils by writing small-town legislation on renter’s rights or human rights or e-bikes or…
Fighting the evil ‘outside’ is always easier than looking-within, but the inside is what needs cleaning. The soft-corruption inside local government has been ignored for too long. Some say manipulation is a regular order of business.
Here is the Other Side of the Story of July31st:
Soft-Corruption in Local Politics?