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Ethics and Politics Intertwined in Putnam Valley
To the Editor:
In Putnam Valley, both supervisor candidates have ethics as their major campaign theme, and each sports a member of the Ethics Board as a member of their political team.
In consideration of this, and the 2-year-impact of the Ethics Board on local politics, I have some open questions to the candidates and the opiners in the press.
What would be the basic qualifications for a member of the Ethics Board?
What would be the place of the Ethics Board in general, and members of that Board specifically, in politics?
Is there some confusion in Putnam Valley between psychology, religion, law, politics, and the discipline of ethics as it applies to government?
And is there any way at all that Putnam Valley could be said to have a separation of church and state (and ethics and politics) when politics, ethics, religion, and legislation are so strongly intertwined?
And if we reject in totality, the concept of legal and ethical, do we have any basis at all for ethics, morality, law, or government?
Dawn Powell Putnam Valley
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