Georgia Ranks Dead Last in State-by-State Ethics Study: The View from Both Sides

On Monday March 19th, the Center for Public Integrity released a state-by-state ranking of ethics laws and enforcement.  The report was a joint project of CPI, Public Radio International, and Global Integrity.  In the overall ranking, Georgia placed dead last.  WABE’s Denis O’Hayer got in-depth reviews of the report from both sides:  in conversations with Jim Walls, the Atlanta-based journalist who compiled the Georgia report, and with Rick Thompson, a former executive secretary of the State Ethics Commission, who disagrees with Walls’s conclusions and the low ranking for Georgia.