Moore announced Friday morning that she withdrew her bill to rewrite the city’s ethics code so that a Councilmember would have to publicly disclose a financial conflict of interest only when discussing or voting on legislation, rather than disclose and recuse themselves from the entire process, as the rules currently state.
The proposal was deeply unpopular with the public. Scores of public commenters showed up to City Council and Seattle Ethics and Election Committee meetings throughout May to voice opposition to the plan and criticize Councilmembers for damaging trust in government at a time when it’s already so low.
Former Councilmember Kshama Sawant and members of her Workers
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