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Utahns for Ethical Government: Setting the Record Straight

Utahns for Ethical Government, [UEG] a nonpartisan coalition of Utah citizens committed to legislative ethics reform has begun an effort to get a citizens’ initiative to reform the ethical standards and processes governing the Utah State Legislature onto the 2010 November statewide ballot.

AARP Utah actively supports this initiative.

The initiative would enact a strict code of ethical standards for Utah lawmakers and create an independent ethics commission to apply the code and make enforcement recommendations to the Utah State legislature.

Since public hearings on the initiative began, misinformation about the UEG initiative has been disseminated and in some cases the initiative language has been taken out of context and misquoted. In the interest of accuracy, UEG has prepared a side by side, fiction vs. reality document of corrections to 19 of the erroneous statements that have been circulating statewide, entitled, Setting the Record Straight. It can be found on the UEG website, www.utahethics.org. There you will also find the entire text of the Ballot Initiative as well as the Executive Summary and Frequently Asked Questions about the effort.

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