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In this July 21 2015 file photo San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo center attends a conference on Modern Slavery and Climate Change at the Vatican

In this July 21 2015 file photo San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo center attends a conference on Modern Slavery and Climate Change at the Vatican

San Jose Mayor Travels to France on Environmental Group’s Dime

 John Pelissero, senior scholar at The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted in San Jose Spotlight.

“There’s nothing necessarily unethical about that,” John Pelissero, a senior scholar at The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, told San José Spotlight. “But the problem is really one of perception. What will the public think about him accepting a trip, all expenses paid, in the months after he lent his support to get their proposal passed by the city government?”

John Pelissero, senior scholar at The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted in San Jose Spotlight. 

Jul 19, 2022
Ethics
media,government

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