Maybe something good can come from all this ugliness and greed in Trenton. Maybe reform will finally end up on the agenda — like those ordered for independent authorities by Gov. Corzine or proposed by legislative Republicans (a mixed-bag of the good and the politically expededient, but a proposal nonetheless worth a discussion).
Here, according to the AP, is what the GOP is proposing:
The Republican-supported bills, among other things, propose barring public officials from holding more than one elected office, prohibiting public officials from receiving late-career salary increases that boost taxpayer-funded pensions, expanding a state anti-nepotism law, requiring unpaid suspensions of indicted public officials and mandatory jail time and full pension forfeiture for public officials convicted of corruption.
The Corzine executive order:
requires state authorities to establish bidding procedures, award most contracts to the low bidder, boost financial reporting, publicly advertise all contracts and work with state economic growth officials to coordinate spending.
A first step? I hope so.
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Hank Kalet 