{"id":166426,"date":"2026-02-06T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166426\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:56:12","slug":"markkula-center-for-applied-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166426\/","title":{"rendered":"Markkula Center for Applied Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by The Oaklandside.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Corporate money used to pay for Janani Ramachandran\u2019s Diwali party last October raises questions about conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Davina Hurt, director of government ethics, says it\u2019s common for elected officials to sit on the boards of nonprofit organizations, but when an elected official takes on a fundraising roles, it can create problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA business owner might think if I don\u2019t donate, then things may be getting more troubling for me, or I may not get the role I want in the city,\u201d Hurt said. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not the official\u2019s intent, the power imbalance is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by The <a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/02\/03\/oakland-councilmember-asked-city-contractor-to-fund-her-nonprofit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklandside<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by The Oaklandside. Corporate money used to pay for Janani Ramachandran\u2019s Diwali&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-166426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}