Comments on: . . . But The Parks Are Nice http://lawdork.net/2009/03/20/but-the-parks-are-nice/ Same dork, new year! Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:38:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: crgeidner http://lawdork.net/2009/03/20/but-the-parks-are-nice/#comment-100 crgeidner Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:59:44 +0000 http://lawdork.wordpress.com/?p=582#comment-100 You're right as to my usage (although, here, it may have both been inappropriate <i>and</i> improper). You’re right as to my usage (although, here, it may have both been inappropriate and improper).

]]> By: PG http://lawdork.net/2009/03/20/but-the-parks-are-nice/#comment-99 PG Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:25:03 +0000 http://lawdork.wordpress.com/?p=582#comment-99 "improper use of funds recovered in state settlements is one of the top ways that the Chamber of Commerce likes to attack consumer-activist attorneys general. Bad use of settlement funds is a great way for the Chamber to try and further limit the ability of consumers to have their rights vindicated. " Good point. Dave Barry has a long-running joke about how some of the tobacco settlement money went to subsidizing tobacco farmers. Although I think the better word here is "inappropriate," not "improper" -- if a state legislature wants to spend money a certain way, that's not improper (assuming no laws or ethical requirements are broken) but it might be an inappropriate expenditure of money from a particular source. People just don't think of money as wholly fungible. “improper use of funds recovered in state settlements is one of the top ways that the Chamber of Commerce likes to attack consumer-activist attorneys general. Bad use of settlement funds is a great way for the Chamber to try and further limit the ability of consumers to have their rights vindicated. ”

Good point. Dave Barry has a long-running joke about how some of the tobacco settlement money went to subsidizing tobacco farmers. Although I think the better word here is “inappropriate,” not “improper” — if a state legislature wants to spend money a certain way, that’s not improper (assuming no laws or ethical requirements are broken) but it might be an inappropriate expenditure of money from a particular source. People just don’t think of money as wholly fungible.

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