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The Conviction Of Alabama House Speaker Michael Hubbard, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
The Conviction Of Alabama House Speaker Michael Hubbard, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Hubbard is the former speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives. First elected in 1998, he represented Auburn in the state legislature and served as House Minority leader from 2004 to 2010. As chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, Hubbard spearheaded his party’s successful effort to win control of both chambers of the state legislature for the first time in 136 years. In 2010, he was unanimously elected speaker and helped pass ethics laws considered among the nation’s strictest.
An Honest Day's Work: Regulating State Lawmakers' Outside Income, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
An Honest Day's Work: Regulating State Lawmakers' Outside Income, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
The practice of permitting legislators to earn outside income, income apart from compensation for service in office, is a frequent battlefield in the fight against legislative corruption in the United States. Critics of the practice argue that such income creates potential conflicts of interest, pitting legislators’ personal pecuniary interests against the public interest. As public servants, legislators should not be accountable to other paymasters and should not use their legislative positions to enrich themselves beyond their official salary. On the other hand, legislators point out that their positions are generally low-paid and part-time, and that they have the right—perhaps …