The City Charter says the Ethics Commission has to conduct a hearing and make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors whenever an elected official is suspended from office for misconduct. But, there is no formal process in the charter that dictates how to conduct such a hearing.
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Standard & Poor’s announcement downgrading the United States’ credit rating claimed “the political brinkmanship of recent months” shows “America’s governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable.”
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It took Washington’s professional politicians about two seconds to begin issuing accusatory statements in response to Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Predictably, those statements sought to shift the blame to somebody else. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed Republicans for refusing to consider tax hikes as part of the debt-ceiling deal.
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