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Senate Ethics Committee adopts report, adds finding that witnesses were credible
Summary
The Senate Ethics Committee voted to adopt a finalized findings-of-fact report with a new sentence stating that witnesses at the adjudicative hearing were credible, approved conceptual edits and directed staff to produce a clean copy for signatures.
The Senate Ethics Committee voted to adopt a revised findings-of-fact report and added a sentence concluding that witnesses who testified at the adjudicative hearing were credible.
The change, proposed and moved during the committee’s meeting, was part of several edits staff had prepared. Committee members debated whether paragraphs in the draft risked crossing from factual findings into legal conclusions; they consolidated and tightened language, directed staff to add citations (including a Secretary of State filing identified as Exhibit 35), and approved the report as amended.
The motion to add an explicit credibility finding was offered by Senator Joe Pope, who told the committee that “I think it would be helpful … that the committee hereby adopts this testimony as…
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