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Some DeKalb County, Ga., School Board Members Hire Campaign Contributors.

By Jen Sansbury, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 23--Some DeKalb County school board members have ignored a strict, long-standing ethics policy by hiring companies that contributed to their election campaigns.

There is no indication any contracts have been awarded illegally. Board attorney Gary Sams said he's not sure how enforceable the ethics policy is.

But where issues of ethics and political influence are concerned, board members should always remember that "perception is reality," Lynn Cherry Grant said.

"Perception feeds all the rumor mills," she said. "Caesar's wife has to be above reproach." The policy, ...

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