The Connecticut Post Online - News-Vested-interest vote would be blocked by amended ethics bill

The Connecticut Post Online - News: "Vested-interest vote would be blocked by amended ethics bill

HARTFORD (AP) � A top legislator is hoping to amend an ethics reform bill in the final days of the session to prevent his fellow lawmakers from voting on proposals that affect their employers or groups they're directly associated with.
Such a provision has been suggested for years by ethics advocates. But the concept could have more momentum this session, in the wake of the corruption scandal involving former Gov. John G. Rowland and an ongoing federal investigation of Sen. Ernest Newton III, D-Bridgeport.
Dozens of Connecticut legislators are employed by nonprofit agencies or associated with groups that receive millions of dollars in state taxpayer money each year."