Georgia’s ethics commission went with an unusual pick for the outsider who will help oversee the troubled agency’s operations: a 66-year-old insider with decades of experience as a lobbyist and attorney who is comfortable in the state’s corridors of power.
Robert Constantine must now try to resuscitate an ethics department mired in so much turmoil that its five-member board took the unprecedented step of seeking his outside help to mediate, oversee and even referee rampant infighting amid a growing federal investigation.
He said in an interview Friday his goal is to “help them get to a point where the agency is functioning properly,” which suggests the board charged with overseeing lobbyist issues and campaign complaints is mired in dysfunction.
“I need to find a way to help them go back to doing their job,” Constantine said. “Basically, my job is to go down there and figure out what’s going wrong and fix it.”
via Ethics board adviser: ‘Ship needs to be righted’ | www.myajc.com.
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