{"id":9798,"date":"2022-03-04T19:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/04\/charleston-mayors-real-estate-connections-spawn-heated-ethics-debate\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:44","slug":"charleston-mayors-real-estate-connections-spawn-heated-ethics-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/charleston-mayors-real-estate-connections-spawn-heated-ethics-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston mayor\u2019s real estate connections spawn heated ethics debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Glen Halva-Neubauer weighed in on a piece appearing in The Post and Courier about how elected officials separate their personal, professional and public lives. In a hotly contested back-and-forth between Charleston City Council and Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg over a real estate deal, Halva-Neubauer, a politics and international affairs professor who specializes in state and local government, said, \u201cIt\u2019s an age-old question. Is the appearance of impropriety equal to impropriety itself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing the mayor&#8217;s decision not to recuse himself in a real estate transaction that might impact the mayor&#8217;s family, Halva-Neubauer said, \u201cThere\u2019s old adage in politics, \u2018If you are explaining, you\u2019re losing.\u2019 And I think here there is a lot of explaining that you have to do when a recusal isn\u2019t legally necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/charleston-mayors-real-estate-connections-spawn-heated-ethics-debate\/article_bd657174-95af-11ec-8466-fbf22d29dfa8.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong>. A subscription may be required to view the content. Furman ID holders may access the article through databases at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Glen Halva-Neubauer weighed in on a piece appearing in The Post and Courier about how elected officials separate their personal, professional and public lives. In a hotly contested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,52,32,80],"tags":[1357,1358,1359,1360],"class_list":["post-9798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-urban-studies","tag-charleston","tag-ethics-in-politics","tag-real-estate","tag-recusal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}