Complaint Opinion 05-03
- Date
- 04/09/2005
- Number
- 05-03
- Topic
- Failure to respond to constituent - constitutional duty
- Respondent
- Rep. Tami Green
- Question/Complaint
Complaint asserts that legislators have a constitutional duty to respond to constituents and by failing to do so they fail to represent their constituents.
- Summary
RCW 42.52.320 defines the jurisdiction of the Board and the Ethics Act does not address constitutional allegations that a legislator is unresponsive to constituents. Dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
- Document
- ETHICSCOM2005.03 (PDF 37.12 Kilobytes)