We'll see if this works; here (hopefully) is the link to the NW Dive Club's website/forum/thread where "Biodiversity Guy" (AKA Commissioner Dave Jennings) actively solicited support for his own (late) proposed rule changes:
http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10360 This type of action should have disqualified him immediately from making any decisions on closures in that area and possibly terminated his involvement with the commission completely!
Fishy
I specifically raised that issue at a commission meeting, and handed out a page from this pdf.
Ethics pamphlet Page 5 of the “Ethics Handbook for Washington Board and Commission Members gives an overview on objectivity. In that handbook it states:
•A conflict of interest occurs when you have a private interest that may benefit from your actions, or when a private interest could interfere with official duties.
•An interest need not be financial to create a conflict of interest.
•Most conflicts result from the exercise of discretionary authority.That halted the meeting for about a half hour while they confered with the State attorney general's representative. The attorney came over to me and tried to explain to me why is wasn't. I told him bullsh!t. I don't need to have someone define what the meaning of the word "is" is. The fact that they literally had to stop the meeting to confer over the issue I was bringing up shows that they knew it was an ethics violation right then and there.
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