NEW: Common Cause Launches Website to Reverse Ethics Bill Decision
Monday, March 18, 2013
Government watchdog group asks viewers to contact Gordon Fox, ask him to reinstate House Judiciary's motion.
The government watchdog announced today that it has created the site www.ethicsheldhostage.com to “commemorate this unprecedented seizure of the House and its Committee process by Speaker Fox and to call for a reversal of the nullification of the Committee vote on H 5498.”
“The people of Rhode Island have twice been let down by the House leadership in this instance,” said John Marion, Executive Director of Common Cause, “First, when the leadership nullified the vote in unprecedented fashion, and next when it bottled up this legislation in committee indefinitely. If the House leadership can order a vote to disappear, then it can just as easily reinstate it.”
Currently, the site has a clock counting the minutes since Fox's decision last week under the banner "Ethics in Rhode Island have been held hostage for the last..." and a number of links for viewers to contact Fox's office by phone, by Twitter and through email.
For more information, visit the site at http://ethicsheldhostage.com/.
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Comments:
Charles Marsh
8:56pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Give our lawmakers a break. How are they going to make a living if they are ethical?
Todd Sandahl
12:41pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Speaker of the House does not want the people to decide who has ethics jurisdiction over him. How does that even pass the most basic smell test for anyone? He has now proven that he is not fit for the task. It's time for the House to vote for his removal.