“Who is the National Legal and Policy Center?”
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group that monitors and reports on the ethics of public officials, supporters of liberal causes, and labor unions in the United States. Among the NLPC’s more high-profile targets have been Reverend Al Sharpton, Reverend Jesse Jackson, U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY), U.S. Representative John Murtha (D-PA), U.S. Representative Alan Mollohan (D-WV), Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) (while she was First Lady), Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). The Center files complaints with government agencies, legally challenges what they view as abuse and corruption, and publishes reports. For its efforts, the NLPC has been praised by such media personalities as Rush Limbaugh. The current president is Peter Flaherty. The NLPC is described as conservative in nature.[1]
According to the Center’s mission statement, it:
“promotes a single standard of ethics in public life through research, education and legal action. We do not believe that ethics are advanced through more laws or ‘better guidelines,’ even as existing ones are ignored. We don’t believe the problem is with too few laws, or with too much freedom, but with men and women. We believe the missing ingredients are character, morality and common sense. We recognize that the bigger the government, the more opportunities for corruption; and the more intervention in the economy, the more reason for special interests to seek influence. We believe that the best way to promote ethics is to reduce the size of government.”[2]
The NLPC was founded in 1991 “to promote ethics, and to give the Code [of Ethics for Government] the visibility it deserves.” It currently operates four projects: the Government Integrity Project, the Legal Services Accountability Project, the Organized Labor Accountability Project, and the Corporate Integrity Project.
(Wikipedia)
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