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Steve Flowers on Alabama Ethics Laws

Campaign finance laws and ethics forms for political campaigns and office holders were enacted throughout the entire country in the 1970s, mostly in reaction to the public outcry for ethics reform after Watergate corruption. Alabama had a lot of crafty legislators, like Rankin Fite, who simply ignored the national trends. They had no intentions of passing ethics laws...

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