Ethics Commission v. Keating

¶ 1 The court holds today that when the Governor uses a publicly funded state vehicle to travel to a partisan political fund raiser, he does not violate Ethics Commission [Commission] Rule 10-l-8(a), which proscribes the use of public funds, property, and time to participate in fund raising events for political campaigns or in races of candidates for state office.1 The opinion’s rationale rests upon the authority conferred by 47 O.S.1991 § 2-101(b).2 In my view, the pronouncement clearly is contrary to the explicit mandate of Rule 10-1-3 and to the constitutional under*1266pinnings on which it…