Mercedes Schneider reports that Louisiana State Superintendent John White has a problem. He is married to a woman who is Relay “Graduate School of Education” director of policy and government affairs. The state Department of Education does business with Relay, a trusted source of inexperienced leaders.
Does he have a conflict of interest?
What do you think?
See what the Louisiana Board of “Ethics” ruled.
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He and his wife are prohibited from participating in or entering any negotiations or contracts between between the state, public school districts, and Relay. That means that they cannot fully execute the duties of their jobs without violating laws. It’s like the Senate Arms Committee chair marrying a top executive of Halliburton. Any Halliburton contract would have to be awarded without the chair. Strange stuff.
We need a complete overhaul of our ethics rules on both the state and national levels. No longer can we rely on any semblance of propriety or honor on the part of public employees. The kleptocrats and their henchmen are taking us to the cleaners. These so-called private-public partnerships promote not only conflicts of interests, but endless opportunities for profiteering at the expense of taxpayers.
As a former New Orleanian (which is different from a Louisianan), I can tell you that “ethics” is not a word in the Louisiana political lexicon. Remember the state’s political motto: We don’t tolerate corruption, we demand it!
Ignoring the Constitution and having a conflict of interest seems to be the illegal, traitorous rule of greed is great, greed is a god, when the Republican Party rules all branches of the federal government.
The president, his family and most of his cabinet all conflict’s of interest.
The GOP just passed a tax scam that is a giant conflict of interest.
The state of Louisiana has, in many ways in this century, demonstrated a conflict of interest with public education.