County Executive Ed FitzGerald brought Cuyahoga County workers together Monday for ethics training courtesy of the Ohio Ethics Commission. Gee, wonder what that’s all about. Convening the meeting is much about PR as it is about actual training, but when bribes and ice-makers and keys to covert love-shack apartments have been passed around the halls of your government for ten-plus years, it’s just something you have to do.
According to WTAM, FitzGerald said: “We’re trying to make sure we establish a new ethical culture within county government.”
This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.
