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The House Ethics Committee met remotely to hit pause on its proceeding against Representative Lindsay after she requested counsel — postponing the evidentiary hearing and clearing the way for legislative-services lawyers to line up an attorney on her behalf.
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·Ethics proceeding — Rep. Lindsay counsel request and postponementKilled
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“So the committee has voted to retain counsel on behalf of Representative Lindsay in this matter. It would be limited to just this ethics proceeding.”
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Order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sander. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Excused. Soper. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Thank you all for attending. We had a update to our proceedings as of this morning, hence the remote participation of this committee's meeting today. We got word that Representative Lindsay was requesting counsel, which we certainly need time to respond to that request. So I wanted to give our folks from Olls a chance to go through what that entails and what we are going to do next. So I'll turn it over to Director Deco when you're ready just to fill us in on some of those details. Thank you. Madam Chair. Ed Deco of the Office of Legislative Legal Services. Yes, After Representative Lindsey made that request and specifically had inquired whether or not it would be possible for the Committee on Legal Services to retain counsel on her behalf before this committee. Just to remind the members that under House Rule 49D, it refers to at this meeting that she's entitled to appear present evidence, cross examine witnesses and be represented by counsel. And so with that in mind, the chair directed us to postpone, obviously,…
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