Sunday, August 26, 2007

APPLICATION OF ETHICS

Ex-Santa Clara Mayor Judy Nadler is now a Senior Fellow of Government Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara.
As Mayor of Santa Clara, she gave Mr. Lik Roper permission to feed illegally displaced ducks in Santa Clara at an October, 3 2000 city council meeting, but repeated attempts to get clarification of this event in writing have gone unanswered.
And since former Santa Clara Mayor Judy Nadler is now a Center senior fellow, with responsibility for programs in government ethics and ethical leadership, shouldn't she be returning his emails? Wouldn't that be the ethical thing to do? Apparently not, because she won't answer back.
As mayor, Nadler worked with the Ethics Center to develop a Code of Ethics and Values for Santa Clara. In 2002, the city received the Helen Putnam Award from the League of California Cities for its program, "Infusing Political Campaigns with Community Ethics and Values." So what happened?
please call ex-Santra Clara Mayor Judy Nadler @ 408-554-7892 and/or email her @ jnadler@scu.edu and tell her to practice what she preaches...
NOTE: The most troubling aspect about all of this is that she is developing an executive program for mayors and other local government officials and is an adjunct faculty member in Santa Clara University's Political Science department!?