Riley-Appointed Highway Director Stresses Accountability and Ethics

This article in the Birmingham News provides encouraging news about one Riley appointee and ethics in the administration. In order to help make the highway department respond quickly and apolitically to Alabama's transportation needs, Transportation Director Joe McInnes instituted an ethics policy that prohibits department employees from accepting anything of value over $25 and has told legislators that there would be no road projects for political favors. He says that when he first took office, "I had offers to fly out of the country on expense-paid trips, to go to the Final Four in basketball. Everybody was trying to get my attention." Other members of the Governor's cabinet, and the Governor himself, have adopted McInnes's policy.

You have to say one thing about this Governor...he's an honest man and demands it of those who work for him.