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If you want to prevent skin cancer, you don’t get to the beach. And if you want to avoid corruption, you don’t go to Vegas, right?
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But head to Sin City next month and you may just bump into a conference titled “All Things Ethical,” which might strike you as everything oxymoronical.
As it did last year, Campaigns & Elections magazine is hosting a two-day conference there with such bigwig lobbyists as Patton Boggs’ Ben Ginsberg. And, in between turns at the blackjack table, attendees can brush up on how to artfully dodge the law: Panels include, “Direct Mail: How Far Can You Go?”, “Using Phones Ethically” and “The Ethics of Deception — What is The Whole Truth And When Is It Required?” You can find out all about when “ ‘spin’ and misdirection become unethical — or even illegal. That includes religious, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation & other ‘Don’ts.’ ”
At night, lobbyists will surely discover that taking money away from Vegas is a lot harder than doing so here in D.C.
