[SmithL]

Harold Ford, Jr. the wannabe Senator, has skipped the mandatory training for lobbyists in Tennessee.

The Tennessean is a Gannett paper, so we can't even excerpt. Click here for the story: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NEWS0201/802120363

[SmithL]

Harold doesn’t need ethics, not with his family.

[Ron in Acreage]

Ethical lobbyist is an oxymoron.

[onedoug]

Reeducation camp.

[jmaroneps37]

Whitey Ford, ethics training? Please just thinking he would show up is foolish.

[purpleraine]

Reminds me of when Willie Brown required all of the legislators in Sacramento to attend an ethics class. Afterwards the Sac BEE printed a quote of State Senator, now Congresswoman, Diane Watson. The class doesn't apply to us, we don't have ethics like regular people. I think that's an exact quote. And of course she was right.

One more. I was in management training for the Cal Youth Authority when the speaker suggested we have ethics classes for managers. I ask if it wouldn't be easier to just promote ethical people since we were hiring in-house and already knew the work of the applicants. Oh well, we try.