In short, the OEP pledge is merely about providing a healthy political campaign environment wherein all Ogden Municipal Election candidates will be able to cooperatively and uniformly adhere to the highest possible ethical standards, and to thus avoid any potential appearances of impropriety
We're pleased to shine the spotlight this morning on the Standard-Examiner's editorial page guest commentary, wherein regular WCF contributor and Ogden Ethics Project (OEP) Director Dan Schroeder responds to one Ogden mayoral candidate's highly public refusal to sign aboard the OEP's 2011 Ogden Muni Elections pledge to forswear campaign contributions from "corporations, other business entities, or unions." Dr. Schroeder's well-crafted essay speaks for itself, as it methodically sets forth some of the potential ethical pitfalls involved when campaign donations are paid over to the same public officials who award and administer public contracts and regulate local businesses. So we'll resist cluttering up the discussion with our own long-winded commentary, but instead merely recommend that you go directly to the source, and check out this highly informative brief essay itself:
In short, the OEP pledge is merely about providing a healthy political campaign environment wherein all Ogden Municipal Election candidates will be able to cooperatively and uniformly adhere to the highest possible ethical standards, and to thus avoid any potential appearances of impropriety. We're thus scratching our head wondering how it's possible that even one mayoral candidate refuses to jump aboard the OEP pledge bandwagon with both feet; and by the same token we're also wondering whether a Boss Godfrey-weary Ogden City electorate will settle for anything less.
