Bay Area Houston

You just can’t make this stuff up.

League City Council voted to disband their Ethics Review Board. They should soon update their website to reflect this. Last month they were considering gutting their Code of Ethics including removing “Conducting themselves with integrity”. You can see the red lines here but here are a few tidbits:

• Removes section titled “Rules of ethical conduct”.
• Removes limitation on gifts to city officials
• Removes the entire complaint process against city officials.
• Removes the ethics review panel

League City will now resort to using the services of the Texas Ethics Commission which only addresses violations of campaign finance law like padding your campaign finance reports with fake loans. Other violations could be addressed by the County District Attorney but they only pursue criminal offenses.

I’m sure they justified this as a way to save money.

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