Saturday, July 4, 2009

Thousands of MS public officials fail to meet ethics filing deadline.

Governor Haley Barbour and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann are among around 1,000 officials who failed to meet a May 1st deadline to file ethics reports relating to sources of income.

From WBCI News:

According to records at the Mississippi Ethics Commission, Barbour and Hosemann are the only two of the eight statewide elected officials to miss the deadline.

Under Mississippi law, public officials are report to file all sources of income of more than $2,500, all stock holdings of more than $5,000 and all official positions in businesses.

Those rules apply for adults living full-time in the household of the public official.


The Ethics Commission will notify by letter the public officials who did not file starting next week.

Link

Opinion piece from the Hattiesburg American.

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