The House Committee on Ethics met to adopt procedural rules and set a schedule for the formal ethics hearing regarding Representative Weinberg, following a probable cause finding on March 4 on allegations of inappropriate sexual comments and unauthorized use of a master key.
Representative Mabrey raised that there are other articles where Representative Weinberg is accused of doing and saying things similar to one of the allegations on which probable cause was found, and asked whether that could be relevant as character evidence. Representative Woodrow countered that the committee should make its best efforts to stick within the scope of the probable cause findings, and urged the chair to rule evidence of other alleged incidents as not germane to the proceeding. The chair verbally agreed with Woodrow's position; no formal resolution was stated.
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“Weinberg that these hearings are happening. Committee any input on that? Okay, we'll just go on to scope. Scope, we talked about this the last do you want to say something, Mr. Decco? Thank you, Madam Chair. Ed Deco, Office of Legislative Legal Services. And just to remind the committee, as it says at the top of the appendix, this was we went through and consolidated and reorganized a little bit in a way that made sense, our recommendations. But just to remind you that in the memo itself, we tried to also”
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Sign in to subscribeFix will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representative Garcia Sander. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Excused. Soper. Here. Here. All right. We called this meeting to order, to talk about next steps and as permitted by House Rule 49D, when we found probable cause that violations may have occurred on March 4th and then, well, on March 4th, Rep. Weinberg requested a hearing, and he did so in a timely manner. And under the rule, he's entitled to appear, present evidence, cross examine witnesses, and be represented by counsel at the hearing. House 49D also specifies that the committee may take testimony under oath and may issue subpoenas to compel witnesses to appear and produce evidence, and directs that we must commence the hearing within 14 days after that hearing request, which means the formal hearing must begin by March 18th. And I want to make it clear that today's meeting is not commencement of the formal hearing process. So before we can commence that hearing, we have to adopt some rules of procedure as permitted under House Rule 49I. So the purpose of today's meeting is to do just that. What our procedures are going to…
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