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Monday, 23 January 2012 09:12

Martinez Proposes Anti-Corruption Legislation Featured

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Governor Martinez is proposing what she calls significant anti-corruption legislation. Some of the reforms she wants lawmakers to enact include requiring legislators to go through a "cooling-off" period after leaving office before becoming lobbyists. With bipartisan support at a news conference yesterday, she said she also wants public officials who are convicted of corruption immediately removed from office and and stripped of their pension. A conviction would also lead to a ban on doing business with the state. And Martinez wants to prevent taxpayers from paying a public official's legal bills when the state is seeking restitution for corrupt behavior.

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