Operation
Clean Government's
Second Annual Corruption Forum
The
General Assembly: Private Deal$ and
Public Corruption
Saturday morning, May 10, 2008
Continental breakfast 8:45 AM - 9:30
AM
Forum 9:45 AM to 11:30 AM
Note: change of location
Independence Hall
URI Kingston Campus
60 Upper College Rd.
(Conveniently located and free parking)
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(parking areas are in gray on the map)
$22
per person – Reserve by May
8 by clicking the button below ...
...or
by sending a check, payable to “Operation
Clean Government”
with your address and a contact telephone
number, to:
OCG Breakfast Forum, PO Box 8683, Warwick,
RI 02888
To
make an additional donation, click HERE.
For further information call 861-3900
or e-mail info@ocgri.org
What
is the question you would like to
pose to our panelists listed below
regarding legislative corruption
in Rhode Island? Submit one or several
questions to info@ocgri.org and they
may be included in the audience Q&A
with the panel.
The
Event
Following
a critically acclaimed, standing-room
only forum last year on Rhode Island
corruption, OCG is presenting its Second
Annual Corruption Forum, this year
focusing on the General Assembly. The
lively discussion will include:
- A
review of legislative corruption
and high profile violators.
- Is
our Legislature worse than those
in other states?
- How
corruption affects you.
- Causes
of corruption at the Legislature.
- How
effective are the existing tools
to battle legislative corruption?
- What
else needs to be done to reduce legislative
corruption?
The
forum will feature a dynamic “Q&A” session
between the audience and the panelists.
The
Panel
Moderator:
Dave Layman, former award-winning
Providence news anchor and political
commentator.
Edward
Achorn: The Providence
Journal’s
Deputy Editorial Page Editor and
frequent critic of the state legislature.
Arthur “Chuck” Barton: President
of Operation Clean Government.
Ross
Cheit, JD, PhD: Associate
Professor of Political Science and
Public Policy
at Brown University and a member
of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission.
John
DePetro: WPRO talk show
host, and winner of the 2008
Associated Press Award for Best
Talk Show. He is known for investigating
corruption and scandals in Rhode
Island and consistently breaking
news involving high ranking public
officials.
Kenneth
Payne: Former Senior
Policy Advisor to the Rhode Island
State
Senate and a former Director of the
League of Cities and Towns. He recently
authored a comprehensive five-part
series in the Providence Sunday Journal
examining the history and operations
of the state legislature.
Bill
Rappleye: Long-time
legislative and political reporter
for NBC10
News.
Arlene Violet: Veteran
radio talk show host, political
columnist and
TV commentator. She is a former R.I.
Attorney General and long time advocate
for good government.
If
you want Rhode Island to clean up
its act, you, your family and your
friends
will not want to miss this one-of-its-kind
forum.
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