Do lobbyists have too much influence on Georgia’s legislature?
Ethics advocates say a state agency doesn’t have enough money to really answer the question. That’s why they called on state lawmakers today beef up funding.
The Georgia Alliance for Ethics Reform says the State Ethics Commission had 3 investigators and 3 auditors in 2008 to look into ethics complaints. The Alliance says cases were resolved that year. Since then, the Commission got a new name. But the Alliance says the group also lost man power. With 1 staff attorney and 1 auditor, it has a backlog of 135 cases.
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