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Professor Orentlicher Discusses Lobbyist's Employment in Associated Press News Story
11/03/2016
Indiana’s only Washington lobbyist is still on the state’s payroll to the tune of $23,000 a month, while he’s also working in a paid capacity with the Republican presidential campaign. Professor David Orentlicher, himself a former state legislator, discussed the matter in a story by the Associated Press.
“I think you have to get an advisory opinion,” Professor Orentlicher said in the story. “If we’re going to grant you the ambiguity, the way to resolve that is to get clearance, not to just go forward in the face of that kind of uncertainty.” Professor Orentlicher said Indiana’s ethics law was worded clumsily, but that the lobbyist should be included in its restrictions.
Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes in health care law and ethics.
